Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-05-30
FINAL.
Our Own Jimmy Blaine
Declines Again.
BREAK The NEWS TO JOHN SHERMAN
WhOOp'er Up for Gresham, ALI
son, ct al.
THE GREAT TATTOOED KNIGHT
Writes Letter but Don't Want II Burned
This Time.
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE TRIBUNE
That Sets at Rest All Doubts as TO the
Maine Man.
The Lituo Rock Magnet Finds the CisVs-
land Cloud
That Wulld 0ysrwhslm Him Under De-
iugs Of Honest Democratic
Ballots.
The Little Rock Magnet Finds the CisVs-
land Cloud
That Would 0Verwhslm Him Under De-
iugs Of Honest Democratic
Ballots.
DEFEAT STARING HIN In THE FACE
And the Great Daclinsr, Leter-Wrltsr, mo
Deadhaad in the Enterprise" ETC., Etc,
Declines Once MOre--Will Not AG-
aspt the Nomination Under
ANY Conditions.

New YORK, May 3O.-The Tribune OF
to-day publishes the following letter from
Mr.. Blaine:
WRaeIar Reid, Eq, Editor Ne'c York
Tribune:
MY DEAR SIR Since my return to
Paris from Southern Italy on tue sth inst,
l have learned what l did not before
bslieve) that my name msy yet be pre-
sented to the National Convention, as
candidate for the Presidential nomination
Of the Republican party. A single phrase
of my letter of January 25 from Florence,
which was decisive of everything | had
the personal power to decide, has been
treated by many of my most valued friends
as not absolutely conclusive in the ultimate
and possible contingencies. On the other
hand, friends equally devoted and dis
interested have construed my letter
as it should be construed) to
be an unconditional withholding
of nv name from the National Convention.
They have in consequence given their sup
port to eminent gentlemen who are candi-
dates for the Chicago nomination, some OF
whom would not, l am sure, have consent
ed to assume that position, il had desired
to represent the party in the Presidential
contest of 1888.
i'll should now, by speech or by silence,
by commission or omission, permit my
name in any event to come before the con-
yention, l should incur the rsproach OF
being uncandid with those who have always
been candid with me. speak, therefore,
because am not willing TO remain in
doubtful attitude, am not willing to be
the cause of misleading a single man,
among the millions who have given me
their suflrages and their confidence, | am
not willing that even one Of my faithful
supporters in the past should think me
capable of palterlpg in double sense, with
nv words, assuming that the Presidential
nomination could by any possible chance
be offered to me.
ICOULD NOT ACCEPT 1T
without leaving in the minds of thousands
of those men the impression that had not
been free from iudiscretion, and, therefore,
could not at all.
The Misrepresentation OF malice have
no weight, but the just displeasuIe OF
friends could not patiently ara.ns.
Republican victory, the prospects o
which grow brighter every day, can be i'm
psriled only by lack of unity in council o
by acrimonious contest over men. Th'
issue of protection is incalculaby strOnge
and greater than any man, for il concerns tn
prosperity of the present and Degeneration
vet to come. Were it possible for every
voter of the Republic to see for himsel
the condition and recompense OF labor il
3 Europe the party of free trade in the
United States would not receive the sup
port Of one wage worker between the two
oceans.
|, 1t might not be directly in our powe
a philanthropists to elevate the European
laborer, but it will be lasting stigma upoi
our craftsmanship if we permit the Amer
lean laborer to be forced down to tn
European level, and in the end the re
= wards of labor everywhere will be ad
ysnced if we steadily refuse to lower tn
standard at home.
Yours very sincerely,
Signed JAMES u. BLAINE