Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-27
HE Is SINCERE.
Mr.. BLAINE INfRRvIEwRD ON HIS LATE
LETTER OF DECLINATIoN.
Hs Says Hs Meant Everything Hs Said, hut
Rsfass 10 Commit Himself on 0A9 0an-
didatss-Hs Finds il Rslief 10
Be- '0ut Of PolitcL"

NEW YORK, February 26.-The World
to-day prints . thrss-column interview
with Mr.. Elaine, which has been cabled
from Florence BY Mr.. T. G. Crawford, for
some time the Worlds correspondent ct
Washington. and now In Europe. Mr..
Blaine, in the course Of long converse
ton, distinctly asserted that under no cir
cumstances would he allow his name 70 b
used in connection with the next Prssi.
Dental nomination. He insists on the
sincerity Of his withdnwal, and asserts
that he had
MADE UP HIS MIHp
thereto long seo. He consider. dut. that
any man whose name Is associated with
defeat in Presidential campaign owes it
to his party not to allow himself to be 70
nominated, and, secondly, he 10 unequal to
facing the fatisues, VERY and excitement Of
another canvas, all the more Is he would
feel himself bound to work - hard q on
previous occasions.
Mn. Blaine aud the other members Of
his family are most emphatic in their ap-
proval OF his Withdrawal, which il definite,
and neither hasty nor recent In its decis-
ion. Mr. Blaine will not return from
Europe until June, and not until after the
Republican Convention. He declines to
express 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 oNK
Of them. He is convinced Of Republican
victory, basing his conviction In particular
on the tariff question. When MIR. Blaine
was asked the direct question, whether he
would, under any circumstances, permit
his name TO be used again - candidate,
he replied in the most emphatic negative,
but then added:
~ do not wish 10 make any new affirm
stiops upon the subject have said all
that wish to say on the subject in that
letter. That letter, as you must know,
was not hap hazsrd, off-hand affair. II
was the result OF
MUCH DELIBERATI0N AND CAREFUL
THOUGHT.
You will remember that told You in
Paris last December that had no inten-
ton Of being candidate again, and that
I had practically made up mind at that
time TO forbid tho use Of my name in the
approaching convention"
~ hold" be said later in the conver-
sation, that have no right to be can
didate again. A man who has once been
the candidate OF his party and defeated
owes II to his party TO withdraw and not
be candidate second time. More than
this, there ia another plain reason for my
withdrawal. could not 20 through the
burden and fatigue Of another Presidcn-
tial canvas-such . one rs the canvass Of
the last campaign. To acoep. nomins.
ton, and to do less than before, would be-
impossible.
HIS FCTURE.
Mr.. Crawford thus concludes his dis
patch: Toward the closc Of my last call
I asked Mr.. Blaine when he expected 70
return to America. He said that he ex-
pected 70 reach New York about the last
Of June. He expects 10 spend the late
spring in London. He has not yet deter
mined upon his movements. After leav-
ing Florence he will probably 70 straight
TO England from Italy. He said With an
air Of frankness not 10 be mistaken:
"You have no idea what relief II II TO
me TO think that am now out OF the can.
vass, and that when ! come back 70 New
York In the summer that ] shall not be
going back there 10 face reception after
reception, and 10 enter into the turmoil
and excitement of n nolitical canvas i
can now come back quietly, after ths
convention has once decided the result,
and enjoy my own life In my own way,
free, hope, from further criticism or
comment"