The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-16
GEORGE C. GORHAM ON BLAINE.
The Maine Leader False to Party,
Country and President.
From Belford's Magazine.

Country anu IFSSlQ0uU.
From Belford's Magazine.
His leadership during the administration
of Garfield is history. He was false to coun-
try, to party and to the President. He
hartered with southern democratic senators
for. their votes in the Senate to secure the
poItical destruction of Roscoe Conkling,
md delivered republican Virginia back to
democracy as the consideration, thus
making the south again solid. He bred the
disturbances which uns tiled the weak head
of the half-breed Guiteau, who assassinated
the President, after praising him in writing
for his treatment of Conkling. After he
wa dismissed from office by President
Arthur he became the pet of large ele
msnt among the southern democrats. and
during the summer of 1882 the word was
uassed among them that he would do for
Them, None knew better than they; aud
Jim Blai is good enough for me-" was
a famliar form of greeting among them.
In 1884 he and his crew in New York
broke down the Republican party and gave
the state to Cleveland The party never
rallied from this, and never will under the
lead of those who then struck it down. The
Democratic party had then no further use
for Mr.. Biaine's services, for they could
win without his assistance.
In 1884, after he had destroyed the party
and made the election of any candidate i'm
nos ible, he sought and obtained the privi-
lege of going down with captains uniform
on his back, on the quarterback of the ship
lie had scuttled. He then gave a hoarse
] owl at Augusta against the SOUTH whose
instrument he had SO often been and sub
sided.
Painful and laborious efforts were made
during the last year by all who wanted him
in Office for their own purposes to make
him appear popular candidate. But, like
Alfred Jingles "Brummagem buttons
they were mo 60" He wanted a nomina-
nation, yet he feared it. He declined it in
advance, and then intrigued for it. Iimid,
weak and vacillating, his ambition I'M
slaked, but the road to its qualification
beset with horrid Gorgeous his record had
evoked, he had drifted in and out of the
political current as caprice and the con-
dition of his health and spirits have die
tated. The real Blaine shouters having held
him up at Chicago and had him slaughtered,
now with equal want of sense haul him
about the country as rare show, remind
ing one of nothing SO much as the crier out
side the door of the show in the play of
''Belphegor, the Mountebank," who mono
tonously shouts into the ears OF passers by,
with deafening hasa drum accompani-
ment by himself Come and see Belshaz
Ear Belphegor, the greatest necromancer
alive! alivel! alive!!w
The idea of advertising him all summer
as the guest and chum OF Mr.. Carnegie, the
head of the offensive iron and STEEL trust,
riding through Scotland on his tallyho, and
being entertained by him at Cluny Castle,
and then attempting to make him the trust
defending hero of a campaign in which
Carnegie's workingmen are asked to vote
for Blaine for Secretary of State and high
wages for themselves, just after they have
been locked out by their greedy employers
in an effort to make them submit to a re-
duction of 10 per cent on their miserable
starvation wages-is it not the ecstacy of
folly2
That the manufactured but sadly limping
enthusiasm for Mr.. Blaine should deceive a
good many is not strange. That it wearies
the great body of sensible people is most
certain; that, in the face of the whole alb
surd performance, the republican presi-.
dental nominee should remain silent while
Mr.. Blaine's leaders publicly boast that he
is to be made Secretary of State and again
turned loose in the republican china shop in
the event of republican success, is beyond
belief
A plumed knight who kneels and begs, a
great commander who never won a victory,
great statesman who never framed a
measure, a great statesman whom the peo-
pie have, in four presidential campaigns,
steadily refused to follow-what hope of
victory can the republican party entertain,
if nobody will give bonds that he shall be
sent to the rear9