Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-03
JAMES q. BLAMR
He h Interviewed by . Correspondent at
Florence.


florence.
NEW YoRK, February 25-To.m orrov's
World will contain q three column inter-
view with Mr.. Blaine which has been cabled
from Florence by Mr.. T. @. Crawford, for
some time the Worlds correspon-
dent in Washington and now in Eu-
rope. Mr.. Blaine, in the course
of q long conversation, distinctly
asserted that under no circumstances what
ever would he allow his name to be used
in connection with the next presidential
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
q defeat in the presidential cam
paign owes it to his party not
to allow himself to be renominated
and, secondly, he is unequal to facing the
fatigues, worry and excitement of another
canvass, all the more as he would feel him.
self 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 defnitive,
and neither hasty nor recent in its
decision. Mr.. Blaine will not return from
Europe until June and not until after the re-
publican convention. He declines to ex-
press himself on the subject of republican
candidates now in the field, but asserts that
he did not retire in favor of any particular
one of them. He is col0inced Of republi-
can victory, basing his conviction in partic-
ular on the tariff question.
When Mr.. Blaine was asked the direct
question whether he would, under any cir
cumstances, permit his name to be used
again as q candidate, he replied in the most
emphatic negative, but then added: 81 do
not wish to make any new affirmations upon
the subject. I have said all that
I wish to say upon this subject in that letter.
That letter, as you must know, was not q
hap hazard, off-hand affair. It was the re-
suit of much elaboration and careful
thought. You will remember that told
you in Paris last December that had no
intention of being candidate again, and
that had practically made up my mind at
that time to forbid the use of my name in
that convention
II hold" he said, later in the conversation,
s'that have no right to be candidate again.
A man who has once been a candidate of
his party, and defeated, owes it to his party
time. More than this there is another plain
reason for my withdrawal. could not go
through the burden and fatigue of another
presidential canvass, such one as the can
VASE of the last campaign. To accept q
nomination and to do less than before would
be impossible.
Mr.. Crawford thus concludes his dispatch:
"Toward the close of my last call I asked
Mr.. Blaine when he expected to return to
America. He said that he expected to reach
New York about the last of June. He ex-
poets to spend the late spring in London.
He has not yet determined upon his move
ments. After leaving Florence he will
probably 60 straight to England from Italy.
He said, with an open frankness not to be
mistaken: You have no idea what a relief
it is to mo to think that I am now
out of tho canvass, and that when
I come back to New York in the summer
that shall rot be going back there to face
reception after reception. and to enter into
the turmoil of excitement of political can
vass. I can now come back quietly after the
convention has once decided the result and
enjoy life in my own way, free, hope from
further criticism or comment"