The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1888-02-25
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Race.
FITTsBURG, Feb. IL.


RF Jones. Chairman of the he
publican National Committee, has re-
ceiyed = letter FROM Mr.. Blaine declin-
ing 10 allow his name To- go before the
Republican National Convention as a
candidate for ehe Presidency.
In answer TO a question as To wheth-
ar he considered Mr.. Baine's decllna-
,ion fnal. or whether he thought that
vcntlsmau would accept the Repuoli-
can nomination if rendered, Mr.. Jones
declined To state his views.
Following is Mr. Blalue's letter In
full.
"FLoRENcE. Italy, Jan. 81, 1888.
"To B. +. Jones, Esq, Chairman OF
the Republican NatiOuai Committee
Sir: | wish through you to state to
members of the Republican party that
nv name will not be presented 10 the
National Convention called to assem-
Die in Chicago in June next for the
nomination at candidates for President
And Vice President Of the United
States. | am constrained tn this de
cision by considerations entirely per-
sonal to myself, of which you were
advised more than year ago. But |
cannot make this announcement with
out giving expr,sslcn 10 my deep
sense Of gratitude 10 the mauy thous-
ands of my countrymen who have sus-
tanned me so long aud 80 cordially.
That feeling has seemed to go beyond
ordinary politieAl adherence of my
fellow partisan and to partake some-
what 0t the nature OF personal attach.
lnent. For this most generous loyalty
OF friendship can make no adequate
return. but | shall carry the memory
Of II while life lasts.
CHEERING PROSPECTS FOR REPuBLI-
CANS.
"Nor car I refrsin from cougratu-
lAiing the Republican, party upon the
cheering prospects which distinguish
the opening of the national Contest OF
1888 as com pared with that of 1884.
Ia 1882 the Republican party through
out the United States met with a dis
astrous defeat. Ten States that had
supported Garfield and Arthur in the
election Of 1880 were carried by the
Democrats, either by majorities or
pluralities. The Republican loss in
the November elections, AS compared
with the preceding national election,
exceeded half million votes, and the
electoral votes of the Union, divided
on the basis of the result of 1884, gave
the Democrats over 800 electors out
of . total of 800. There was partial
reaction in favor of the Republican
party in the elections of 1883, but the
Democrats still held possession of sew
eral of the Northern States, and on
the basis of the years contest could
show more than 100 majority in the
ELECTORAL college OF the whole country
But against the encouragement nat
urally following the adverse elections
of these two years the spirit of the
Republican party, in tho national con
test of 1884, rose high. and the Repub-
lican masses entered into the campaign
with such energy that the final result
depended on the vote of single State,
and that State was carried by the
Democratic party by plurality so
email that 1t represented less than one.
eleventh of one per cent. of the entire
vote. The change of a single vote in
every 1000 of the total poll would
have given the State to the Republi-
cane, though only two years before the
Democratic plurality exceeded 192,,
900.
WHAT THE FAST HAS DEMONSTRATED
"The elections of 1886 and 1887
have demoralFated tha oro,y;no