The Springdale news., 1888-09-07

son has aspircd to the Presidency when he knew that Mr. Blaine wanted the nomination.. Four years ago he was delegate to tho Chicago convention. During the convention there was talk of start ing movement for Harrison's nomination. As soon as Harrison found out about it ae-wha? In sisted that 1t must stop? Declared his loyalty to Blalne' Nothing of the sort. He took to his heels and fled to Indianapolis, so that the con. veution might not be embarrassed by his presence In making him and lot Blaine the candidate. Do you suppose this little fact escaped Mr. Blaine's notice? Do you imagine from what you know of the man that 1t was circulated to make him. feel very cordial toward the Indian | af olls statesmany
 During the canvass Mr. Blaine brought suit for libel against the Indianapolis Sentinel and employ ed Mr. Harrlson's law firm to prose. cute it. After the eiecuou Mir. Blaine had the suit dropped, aud gave his reasons iu a letter which declared that he could not get jus. tlee i'll the courts of the State, an 1 thus insulted the whole population. The letter was, of course, addressed to lr. Harrison. Il had obviously been written in fit of passion. It was hard y conceivable that it's au. thor could hayo intended that it should be made public, as it must inevitably hurt him with tho peo- pie of Indiana.
 But what happened? Dld Mr. Harrison keep the letter to himself, and i'll asking for dismissal of the suit rest content with I simple state ment that his client had concluded to drep thc matter2 N1t at ala When he got the letter. he decar ed that Il Was an outrage; that it re- deeted upon him as the counsel em. pleyed to prosecute tho suit;.lthat he had always believed Mr. Blaine WAS a coward and now he knew it, and so on-all this in the hearing of witnesses. who natural y remem- Der it. From his office Mr. Harri- son went to the court room and read the letter in open court. Everyone was thun9erstruck. Mir. Harrison tossed the letter over to the Jerk as if to have it made part of the record. Do | understand that you submit that letter as part of the record?' asked the judge adding, "because if you do I will have the author hauled up for con tempt of court in saying that he cannot get justice in this tribunal" Of course, Mr. Harrison hastened to withdraw the document. but the mischief had been done; it was read and everywhere published.
 What happened next? Mir. liar rison and his friends at once began to say that Mir. Blanc had killed himself by writing that lctter-th. letter winch Mr. Harrison was re- sponsible. for making public
 Whenever anybody began to talk about Blaine as the candidate for lssS the Harrison crowd would
 burst forth with Iidiculc of the idea that the man who wrote that letter
 should for moment ba thought of as candidate. We might as well
 talk about a man flying to tbe
 moon" was the graphic way John
 C. New pu. it, "as to talk of Blaine
 carrying Indiana after hls letter in which he said he could not get jus
 tiee III the courts of our state" At Chicago last June the Indiana m.n
 were all talking this way.
 Observe, now. the steps up to tho time of Harrison's nomination. He
 mad shown up to 1881 ti.at he was
 wiling to take the nomination away froin Blaine. After Blaine's defeat he had given to tEe puelie q letter winch Blaines friends have always declared was not meant for r the public, and winch ther say Har- rison must have known was not
 meant tor the public. This private
 letter must inevitably hurt Blaine, . il made pubhc; Harrison must have
 known 1t would hurt Blaine if be
 made il public; he made it pubhc, and then ho and his friends began
 claiming that Blaine was an impos- sible candidate because of his pri-
 yate lett CT which Harrison had
 made public. All of this, of course,
 Is well known to Blaine. In other