Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-09-26
Geo. C. GOrham and Walter @. Gresham on
Blaine.

Ge0. U. 60rham and Walter q. GroSham OF
Blaine.
Geo. G. Gorham, it will be remembered
was the able editor of the National Repub
IAN at Washington, the National organ
of the Malone party that rendered thai
party such jealous and efficient service
when it was opposed by Blaine, as Malone
showed in bis secret circular about which
the Blaineite kickers made such a rumpus
using it as stick with which to brain Ma
hone and his followers. Gresham was a
prominent candidate for the nomination fol
the Presidency in the National Republican
Convention, andwas recognized as the clean.
est and best of all who were put in nomina-
tion in that body. The Republican oppo-
nents of Blaine who would not support him
directly, are now called upon to support
him indirectly by voting for Harrison who
is recognized as merely his stool-pigeon.-
'sThe Republican contest this year." as
Gorham says, represents mainly Mr.. Blaine,
and he represents only his own appetite
and that ofhis insatia BILE millionaire clients.
To ask the friends of Malone to support
Harrison under the circumstances is to ask
them to feast of 'biled crow" The
stomachs of many, as in the case of Cor
ham, will revolt at it. The following is the
report of the Washington correspondent OF
the New York Herald of his interview with
Geo. G. Gorham as published in that paper
on the 18th instant -
"Mr. George G. Gorham courteously re.
ceived Herald representative at his resi-
deDce here this evening, and in reply to in
quiries said that while his position in the
presidential campaign could not possess any
public interest, he was perfectly willing to
express his opinion in the Herald, which
had recently 80 kindly given him room to
speak of his dead friend, Mr.. Conkling
AS to the statement that he had declared
for Cleveland, he said that as stalwart re-
publican who had upheld Grant and Conk-
ling as against the democratic party and its
doughfaced republican-serving men led by
Blaine, he could not aid in restoring to
power the petty dynasty which ruled briefly
under Garfield and in four months organ
lied the defeats of the following seven
years solely to slaughter Roscoe Conkling.
Mr.. Harrison's most effective leaders at
Chicago, outside of the State of Indiana, 1"
he said, Shave publicly stated that if elect
ed he will appoint Mr.. Blaine Secretary of
State. To this comes no word of denial
The campaign is being made as Blaine
campaign, not by the National Committee,
but without reference to it. We are told
that there is but one issue, and that is the
tariff. Upon that subject republicans are
asked to sustain dogmas which are as re-
pugnant to good sense as they are to all
previous acts and declarations of the party.
A tariff for trusts, with incidental protec-
ton, was never before made party test.
GAS to the negro, he was betrayed into
the hands of his enemies by Mr.. Blaine and
his coterie in 1875. The attempt to re-
publicanize the South by coalitions with ex-
Confederate dissenters from the democratic
party was commenced in Virginia in 1881
and succeeded. 1t was defeated by Mr..
Blaine and his newspaper calliope in 1888
after two unsuccessful previous efforts.
THE POWER BEHIND THE THRONE.
ssThe republican contest this year repre-
sents mainly Mr.. Blaine, and he represents
only his own appetite and that of his insati-
able millionaire clients. The democratic
party represents Mr.. Cleveland, who is
charged with no unmanly crime or ten
dency. He never knelt and begged for
letters he had written. He never combined
with opponents to defeat the measures of
his party. He never perilled the peace of
the country to secure guano beds for his
friends. Ii elected he will not make an as
signment of his administration to anybody.
If MIR. Tweed were living, and if his SUBJ
ohieftains were hauling him about the coun-
try and exhibiting him as the next Secre-
tary of the Treasury, some democrats would
revolt and wait for better days. In the
same frame of mind republicans who do not
want Harrison elected bad enough to see
the government placed in the hands of
Blaine will not cease to be republicans, but
will refuse to further the programme.
81 am one of this class-and therefore,
unless General Harrison gives the country
an assurance that he will not, if elected,
place the author of the Mulligan letters
and the political assassin of Roscoe Conk-
ling at the head of the State Department,
my feeble influence will be cast in favor of
the election of Mr.. Cleveland.
81 find that the opinion l express as to
Mr.. Harrison s intentions toward Mr.. Blaine
is strictly in harmony with that of Mr..
Walter @. Gresham, whose nomination
favored. After an interview with repre-
sentative of the Paris edition of the Herald
of August 81, that gentleman said to q
democratic friend who was present, and also
being interviewed -
Speaking of Mr.. Blaine remarked
Judge Gresham, with smile, you are
leaving out an important part of your inter-
view. fl were democrat talking to a
newspaper man-which l AMI would say:
''But see here, you republicans, this whole
campaign of yours is piece of inconsist-
ency. In your Convention you could not
agree upon Mr.. Blaine and nominated Mr..
Harrison. Now it appears that Mr.. Har-
rison is sort of figurehead, while Mr..
Blaine practically controls the policy of the
CONTEST
Furthermore, it is generally under
stood that as Secretary of State MIR. Blaine
will direct the policy of the next admins
tration should the republicans win. In
other words, Mr.. Blaine is to all intents
and purposes the candidate. But this is a
palpable absurdity. For if Mr.. Blaine is
unfit to run in person for the Presidency he
is surely unfit to be the manager of the
man who was nominated in his place. The
people of the United States will not be de-
ceived by any such ridiculous device of the