St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-26
The MAN FROM MAINE
Under No Circumstances Will
He Be a Candidate for
President.
However, He Is Positively
Sure of a Grand Repub-
liean Victory.
A Great Republican Love
Feast Yesterday in New
York City.
Indiana Republicans Will
Boom HarriSon--St. Louis
Rejoices.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-To-morrOw's
World will contain three column in
terview with Mr. Blaine, which has
been cabled from Florence by T. c.
Crawford, for some time the Worlds
correspondent in Washington, and now
in Europe. Mr.. Blaine, in the course
of long conversation, distinctly as
serted that under no circumstances
whatever will he allow his name to be
used in connection with the next presi-
Dental nomination. He insists on the
sincerity of his withdrawal and asserts
that he had made up his mind thereto
long ago. He considers first, that any
man whose name has been associated
with a defeat owes it to his party not to
allow himself TO be ren0minated, and,
secondly, he is unequal to facing the
fatigues, worry and excitement of an
other canvass, all the more as he would
feel himself bound to work as hard as
on previous occasions. Mrs. Blaine and
the other members of his family are
most emphatic in their approval of his
withdrawal, which is deinitive. Mr..
Blaine Will not return from Europe I'M
I'll June, and not until after the Repub-
lican convention. He declines to eX-
press himself on the subject Of the Re-
publican candidates now in the field,
but asserts that he did not retire in
favor of any particular one of them.
HE Is CONVINCED
of a Republican victory, baSing his con-
Viction in particular on the tariff queS-
loi, ocl- l,n
direct question whether he would,
under any circumstances. permit his
name to be used as a candidate, he re-
piled in the most emphatic negative, but
then added: Il do not wish to make any
new affirmationS upon the subject. l
have said all that l wish to say upon
the subject in that letter. That letter,
as you must know. was not hap
hazard, off-hand affair. 1t was the re-
suit of much deliDeratiOn and careful
thought. You will remember that l
told you in Paris last December that l
had no intention of being a candidate
again, and that had practically made
up my mind at that time to forbid the
use of my name in the approaching con
Vention. l hold" lie said later in the
conversation. that L have no right to
be candidate again. 4 man who has
once been the candidate of his party
and defeated owes it to his party to
withdraw and not be a candidate sec
ond time. More than this, there is
ANOTHER PLAIN REASON
for my withdrawing, L could not go
through the burden and fatigue of an
other presidential canVasS-such one
as the canvass of the last campaign.
To accept a nomination, and to do less
han before, would be impossible" Mr..
Crawford thus concludes his dispatch:
Edwards the close of my last call L
asked Mr. Blaine when he expected to
return to America. He said that he eX-
pected to reach New York about the
last of June. He expects to spend the
late spring in London. He has not yet
determined upon his movements. After
leaving Florence he will probably go
straight TO England from Italy. He
said, with an air Of frankneSs not to be
mistaken: You have no idea what a
relief 1t is to me to think that l am
now out Of the canvass, and that when
l come back to New York in the sum-
mer that l shall not be going back there
to face reception after reception, and to
enter into the turmoil and excitement
of a political canvass. can now come
back quietly, after the convention has
decided the result, and enjoy my own
life in my own way free, hope, from
further criticism or comment"