The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-02-27
is MORE POSITIVE.
MIR. BLAINE WILL NOT PERMIT
Tho Use of HIS Name as a Candidate in the
Next Ropubiloln National 0onvontion.
Some of Hls Reasons for This Re.
SOlvO-Iptsrviswsd at Florence.

NEW YoRk, Feb. 26.-To.day's World
prints q athree.Column interview with Mr..
Blaine, which has been cabled from Flor.
encs by Mr.. 7. O. Crawford, for some time
the Worlds correspondent at Washington,
now in Europe. Mr.. Blaine, in the course
OF q long conversation, distinctly asserted
that under no circumstances would he al
low his name to be used in connection
with the next Presidential nomination.
he insists on the sincerity Of his with
drawal, 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 Presidential
campaign owes ito his party not to allow
himself to be renominated, and, secondly,
he ia unequal to facing the iatigues, worry
and excitement OF another canvass, all the
more az he would feel himself bound to
work as hard as on previous occasions.
Mrs. Blaine and the other membera OF
his family are most emphatic in their sp.
proval OF his withdrawal, which ia neither
hRsty nor recent in It's decision. Mr..
Blaine will not return from Europe until
June, and not until alter the Repub-
can Convention. He declines to express
himself on the subject OF the Republican
candidates now in the field, but asserts
that he did not retire in favor Of any par
ticular one Of them. He ia convinced of a
Republican victory, basing his conviction
in particular on the tariff question. When
Mr.. Blaine was asked the direct question,
whether he would, under any crCum.
stances, permit his name TO be uaed again
as candidate, he replied in the most en-
phatic negative, hut then added:
~ do not wish to make any new sf-
frmatiions upon the subject. ! have said
all that wish to say on the subject in
that letter. That letter, as you must know,
was not haphazsrd, od.hand affair. It
was the result Of much deliberation and
careful thought. You will remember that
told you in Paris last December that
had no intention Of being q candidate
again, and that l had practically made up
my mind at that time to forbid the use Of
my name in the approaching convention"
81 hold" he said later in the converaa-
ton, "thRt I have no right to be q Csndi-
date again. A man who has once been
the candidate Of his party and defeated
owes Il TO his party to withdraw snd not
be candidate q second time. More than
this, there ia another plain reason for my
withdrawal. ! could not go through the
burden and fatigue Of another Prestden-
tial csnvass-auCh one as the canvass OF
the last campaign. To accept nomina-
ton, and to do less than before, would be
impossible"
Mr.. Crawford thus concludes his dis
patch: "Toward the close Of my last call
asked Mr.. Blaine when he expected to
return to America. He said that he ex.
peeted to reach New York about the last
Of June. He expects to spend the late
spring in London. He has not yet de-
termined upon his movements. After
leaving Florence he will probably 20
straight to England from Italy. Be said,
with an air OF frsnkueas not to be mis-
taken:
"You have no idea what relief It is
to me to think that l am now out Of the
canvass, and that when l come back to
New York in the summer that l shall not
be going back there TO face reception alter,
reception, and to enter into the turmoil
and excitement Of q political canvass. l
can now come back quietly, alter the con-
vention has once decided its result, and
enjoy my own life in my own way, free, |
hope, from further criticism or comment