The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-07-05
The Blaine Family.


HOW THEY RECEIVED THE FINAL NEWS FROM
CHICAGO.
Il. {. Crawford in IL cable.ram from Lin
lithyow, Scotland, to the Boston Globe, thus
describes the manner in which Mr.. Blaine and
family received the writer's announcement:
'4As Mr. Blaine looked at me inquir in@ly.
called out, Harrison is nominated on the
eighth ballot. Mr.. Blaine smiled and bowed
and said in Il sound hearty voice, lit is Il good
nomination. He then turned to continue
showing Mrs. Carnegie the features of the
great palatial ruin they We're examining. Nei-
ther one of Mr.. Blanes daughters showed any
more feeling than did their father. Miss Mar
garet Blaine, in a dark blue suit with Il aunty
white feather in her dark hat looked the per-
feet picture of health and content. Miss Hat
tic, who has improved very much during her
stay abroad, drew her tight-titting jacket about
her and apparently dismissed in Il moment all
thought of her fathers political future. 1t
was yesterday that ! heard Mr.. Blaine talk
most freely of Mr.. Harrison. He then fore
shadowed most clearly his nomination.. lie
spoke of lIarrison's splendid record Il sol
dier. lawyer and statesman. His grandfather
was President of the United States, and his
great-grandfather was one of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence. lie had made a
good record as protectioni>t. and there was
nowhere flaw in his record. All Of this glow
ing talk came yesterday in connection with the
probably be nominated.
After MIR. Blaine withdrew to write his dis
patch, | asked Miss Dodge how she liked the
nomination. She is very sincere Republican
and, like all members of the Blaine family
very loyal to its head. She likes Mr.. Harrison,
but would have preferred Mr.. Blaine. Miss
Margaret Blaine: 81 am glad that the conver-
ton is oyer.'
All were most loyal i'm their expressions to
Mr.. Blaine, whom they regarded as first of al
men, but they expressed no disappointment
this time. 1t was not serious matter. The
subject had been really taken out of range of
special consideration after Mr.. Blaine with
drew. Mr. Blaine himself was most serene
and contented. He has remained consistent
from the start. lie has never been in the can
vass since he pulled out in Florence. He
wrote the second letter only because there was
an appearance of his first letter not being ac-
cepted in good faith. Since this Paris letter he
has not had one word of communication with
Republican managers.
Every day the convention has been sit Ing.
the English papers have had special cable
grams which have been photographed to all
the provincial papers, which represented MIR.
Blaine as being in constant communication
with Chicago and as intriguing to secure the
result. He has not had one dispatch from Chi
cago on all this trip, and has had to depend
upon correspondents along with him for his in
formation. Not even this evening did he re-
ceive formal notice of his nomination until af-
ter IL o'clock, and he had retired to bed be-
fore he heard who WAS nominated for vice
president. The only dispatch he has sent to
Chicago since starting from London was the
one he sent as his last wishes of what he wish
ed to be done,