The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-20
RL1LYE,S RLNNDER.

l. Col Dudley, Of the National Republican Com.
mittcc, says Mr., Blaine probably did not think
about what be was saying Very likely he does
not know that The Republican platform particular.
ly condoms Trusts. lie has had little tiino 10 read
since be arrived home"
O. II Is held by several Republicans about the
National Headquarters and elsewhere that owing
to hsabScncc In Europe, Mr Blaine Is not aware
OF the state Of public sentiment In this country
toward Trusts, aud did not realize what an unpop.
ulnr position he was putting himself aud his party
into when lac came TO their defense.
a. Its claimed by critics who are hostile 10 Mr..
Blaine that his mistake Is due 10 his lifelong tend
cncy 10 bundor whenever he talks or writes for
the public Thcy point 10 IA, fact that he has
made scarcely one important uitcrucc in recent
year, which has not had To bs qualified or ex'
plnincd away, and which has not Injured both him
aud his party.
o. II h claimed by other untrioudly critics that
he was led into tho defense OF the Trusts from tho
came motives which led him TO consent 10 attend
the Bolshazzar banquet In this city on the eve Of
election IN issithat is his love for rich men, and
his belief In the power of money.
| o. Finally large number oi observers Of vary.
Ing political faith take the ground that Mr.. Blaine
knew perfectly well what be wa, about, know that
he was antagonIzing both the Republican platform
and public sentiment and ma lo his dclvemnco
! with malice prcpcnsc, out Of uniricndlnoss ID
Gen, Harrison and desire to sec the present Re-
publican campaign ond IN overwhelming defeat go
kc,g FORT Euming Post.
Any one OF these paragraphs puts Mr..
Blaine in very bal box. by the first
and second, his utter ignorance Of wha,
his own party has been doing during his
absence, is confessed lie has been 80
much in the habit Of playing Boss, and Of
being deferred to rs 'tho uncrownod King
of his party and Tia supreme dictator that
perhaps he did not think II worth while "a
inform himself, supposing, rs lac did, nc
doubt, that his Paris letter was platform
enough for II. Thus shut up in himself,
ono can easily realize how and why
no has Numbered as hc has no cggrc-
giously since he made his first speech
in New York on his return home. but
there Ia also something in tho charge OF
toadyism contained in the fourth para
graph That has boon many times noticed
| NoiNNhaiil ~ NhN tsaH' VI hlh l'N'nN blp WI
Scotland with that prince Of vulgarlans,
Carnegie, who confessed to an income Of
81 5000 from the Thompson Steel and
Iron Works, the wages OF the working
mon engaged in which he recently tried
TO cut down 10 tho cxtcnt Of 20 pei
cont And II may also DO true OF Blaine.
rs Is stated IN tho fifth paragraph,
that lao has made these plumbers
with u deliberate purpose 10 betray his
party and It's nominees. All tho trouble
that befcll him while he was member OF
tho House in regard to Little Rock bonds
and the Mulligan letter grow out Of his be-
trayal Of some Of his associates In that
enterprise, indeed tho very men who let
him into It, Blaine is bad man. lie Is
n danger and a menace to tho cius, he cs-
pouscs and 10 all who arc associated with
him