Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-30
q 49,
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
BLAINE AGAIN DECLINES.
He Would Not Accept If
Nominated.
SHERIDAN is MUCH BETTER.
His Condition Showing
Steady Improvement.
EDNAUNDS WILL KEEP QUIET
EDMUNDs WILL KEEP QUIET
While The Senate Discusses
The Treaty.
MIR. BLAINE SPEAKS AGAIN.

1 MIR. BLAINE SPEARS AUA1Ns
His Name Must Not be Presented at
Chicaeo-If by Amy Chance He Were
Nominated HE Could Not Accept-A
Letter which IL Straightfsrward,
Plain and Positive.
NEW York, May 29.-The Tribune will
| print tomorrow the following letter from
Mr.. Blaine to Whitelaw Reid, dated Paris,
May IT,.
Since my return to Paris from southern
Italy on the 9Th inst. have learned (what I
did not before believe) that my name may
vet be presented to the national convention
as candidate for the presidential nomina-
ton of the Republican party. single
phrase of my letter of January 25 from Flor
ence, 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 ultimate
and possible contingencies. On the other
hands friends equally devoted and disinter-
ested have construed my letter (as it should
be construed) to be an unconditional with
holding of my name from the national con-
vention. They have in consequence given
their support to eminent gentlemen who are
candidates for the Chicago convention, some
of whom would not am sure have consented
to assume that position if I had desired to
represent the party in the presiden-
tial contest of 1883. If should
now by speech or by silence,
by commission or omission permit my name
in any event to come before the convention, I
should incur the reproach of being uncandid
with those who have always been candid with
me. I speak, therefore, because am net
willing to remain in doubtful attitude. I
am not willing to be the cause of mis-
leading a single man among the millions
who have given me their suffrages and their
even one of MY faithful supporters
in the past should think me capa-
BILE of paltering in double sense
with my words. Assuming that the presf-
Dental nomination could by any possible
chance be offered to me could not accept it
without leaving in the minds of the thou-
sands of these men the impression that had
not been free from indirection and therefore
could not accept it at all. The misrepresen-
tations of malice have no weight, but the
lust displeasure of friends I could not
patiently endure.
Republican victory. the prospects of which
only by lack of unity in council or by acri-
monious contest over men. The issue of pro-
lection is intellectually stronger and greater
than any man, fer it concerns the prosperity
of the PRESENT and OF generations to come.
Were it possible for every voter of the re.
public to see for himself the condition and
recompense of labor in Europe, the party of
free trade in the United States would not
receive the support of one wage-worker be-
tween the two oceans. It may not be directed
in our power as philanthropists to elevate
the European laborer, but it will be lasting
stigma upon our craftsmanship if we permit
the American laborer to be forced down to
the European level. And in the end the re-
ward of labor everywhere will be advanced
if we steadily refuse to lower the standard at
home. Yours very sincerely,
JAMES G. BLAINE.