St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-22

in the hope that the situation might
change. They have moved heaven and
earth TO placate his enemies in New
York. The once hated Plat has been
made the cOmmandeI-in-chief of their
forces, and to appease his appetite for
revenge Warner Miller, Jenny Hustled
and scores of others have been butch
cred to make Stalwart holiday. Fred
Grant was placed at the head of the
state ticket by the political assassips of
his father, and the friends of Mr.. Conk-
ling have been prosecuted with impor-
tunltieS for some sign that his proud ST.
lence might be broken. But no sign
has been given.
The cable stump speech on the tariff
may have been sent in the hope that it
would change the issue from merely
personal one to one founded OH public
question; but even that danger to the
laboring man which the Sympa-
thetic MIR. Blaine sees in reduction of
the duty, however eXOrbitant, on SIN
gle imported article fails to bring about
that degree of harmony in the state of
New York without which his election
would be impossible.
Having given his friends all the time
they could reasonably ask for to see if
the clouds would lift, and seeing no
change In the prospect before him, he
has at last escaped from his keepers and
declared himself out of the race. The
most bewildered of his followers, una
ole to adapt themselves to the situation,
VIII doubtless remain in their present
state OF lunacy until the Republican ma
tlonal convention shall have made its
candidate and adjourned. The more
practical are already ranging them
selves under other banners. Sic transit
gloria, Blaine. He has been
THE MOST STUPENDOUS SHAM
III American politics. A representative
in congress from 1868 to 1916 and speaker
from 1869 TO 1875, senator from 1876 to
1881, and secretary of state under Gar
held and for a brief time under Arthur,
he was conspicuous in congress only as
a c0nsnlratOr against his party and as
the malnStay of the lobby, while in the
cabinet he devoted himself to enSnaring
his chief into quarrelS in which no man
could succeed, and in faint-hearted
Jlng0lng, under which the United States
was to run ANONYMOUSLY whenever a
friendly nation refused to be bnllied.
But it was in the role of party leader
That Mr.. Blaine'S marvellous talent for
imposture exhibited itself at the high
est. Caught in the very act of adultery
with the Democratic party in 1875. and
beSmeared all over with the Mulligan
letters at the next session, the hireIing
newspapers and lobbyists of the land
worked up enthusiasm and delegates
for him in 1876, until he came very near
being the Republican nominee. Con-
sorting and cOnSpiring with the Demo-
Gratis in 1881, in order that they might
use the patronage of Garfield'S admins
tratlon for their own mutual benefit,
and to the destruction of the Republi-
can party, and placing himself at the
head OF the bolt in New York that made
Cleveland governor in 1882 and presi-
dent i'll 1884, he was allowed, in the lat
ter year, to go down in command of the
ship he had thus scuttled. Even in his
letter of declination
HE HAS THE INSoLENCE
TO refer to the disaster brought upon the
party by himself in 1882 IN the follow
ing words:
In 1882 the Republican party through
out the Union met with a disastrous de-
feat. Ten states that had supported
Garfield and Arthur i'll the election of
1880 were carried by the Democrats.
either by majOritieS or pluralitieS.
lie omitted to state that these diSaS-
tiers were the result of the causeless
bolt of his faction against Judge Folger
in New York, and that for fear the Re-
publican party might succeed if he re-
manned silent, he openly assaulted it over
his own signature i'll letter for publ
cation, which met the eye of every read
ing voter in the state before election.
and which contained the following
words:
For the remainder of the campaign
Republicans everywhere should bend
their energies TO securing a majority in
the next house OF representatives
Whatever causes of just discomfort may
exist with state nominations unfairly
and lnJurl0uSly thrust upon the party,
and whatever means may be taken to
resent such wrongs and repel such in
dignities, it is evidently the duty of all
true Republicans to- use every honorable
effort to hold control of the popular
branch of congress-" His allusiOn to
1882 was not made to invite such remin-
iscenceS as the above, but to show how,
under his magic leadership, the great
majority of Cleveland against Folger
had been nearly overcome in 1884.
the Blaine Republicans all vote the
Democratic ticket at his bidding, as
they did in 1882, as above shown, and
when his newspaper pals confuse and
deceive the people as they then did, the
state is lost to the Republicans by 300
600, But that when all his supporters
and nine-tenthS of the Catholic Irish
Democracy are added to the blind parti-
san Republicans who suppress their dis
gust and vote the regular ticket headed
by him the party is only beaten by
small majority.
see no reason for suppresSing these
truths, WhlleSMr. Blaine even now
HAS GONE INTO AMBUSH,
tn &c
stinctS and again attempt the control or
the humiliation and defeat of the party
which he sees could not elevate him to
the presidency if it would. 1t is neces-
sary that he and his methods should be
we'll understood, and how he became a
great leader.
Brass bands, tranSparencieS and cam
paign cries and songs familiarized the
public ear with his name until tens of
thousands of honest Republicans, igno-
rant of his true character, came to re-
gard him as Il sort of party necessity.
The Skulker between the lines of the
two parties was heralded by q great ora
tor as the ''Plumed Knight and the
name clung to him. From being a sturdy
beggar at the door of the Republican
mansion, which he had tried more than
once to burn. he came, by the mere force
OF Self-asSertion, to be regarded by the
crowds who passed in and out as the
master of the house. Inflated, STACEY.
and pOmpous, the strut of the drum
major was supposed by the unskillful to
be the stride of major general. Opera
bouffe draws better in our country than
grand opera, and the management of the
Blaine troupe has been so noisy
and pushing that the public has con-
scented to be entertained by inexplicable
dumb show and noise. But the play is
ended, and the curtain has gone down.
The leading actor has withdrawn from
the company, leaving place that can
never be filled. Vale Dir. Blaine. AS
to the effect of all this upon the party,
tie nunstinn Is NOT so InIInh o1,n of oo,,