The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-17
JAMES G. BLAINE,
The "Greatest Lying Statesman" Photo.
graphed BY n StaIwart.

The Hon. Geo. c. Gorham, the ex-sec-
rotary of the L. s. senate and an intimate
personal friend OF the late Roscoe Conk-
ling, writes OF Mr.. Blaine in BeJOrGs
Magazine for October:
His leadership during the administration of
Garfield is history. He was false TO country, TO
party and to the president. lie barteret with
southern democratic senators for their votes IN
the senate TO secure the pOlitica. destruction of
Roscoe COnklng and delivered republican
Virginia back to the democracy as the cOnsid-
Grafton, thus making the South again solid. lie
bred the disturbances which unsettled the weak
head of the half-breed Guiteau, who assassin
ated the president after praising him in writ
ing for his treatment of Conkling. Alter he
was dismissed from Office by President Arthur
he became the pet of a large element among
the southern democrats and during the sum-
mer of 1882 the word was passed among them
that he would do for them. None knew better
than they; and "Jem Blaine is good enough for
me" was familiar form OF greeting among
them.
In 1882 he and his crew in New York broke
down the republican party and gave the state
TO Cleveland. The party never rallied from
this and never will under the lead OF those
who then struck il down. The democratic
party had then no further use for Mr.. Blaine's
services, for they could win without his
sistance.
In 1854, after he had destroyed the party and
made the election of any candidate impossible,
he sought and obtained the privilege of going
down with a captains uniform on his back on
the quarterback of the ship he had scuttled
He then gave hoarse howl at Augusta, against
the South whose instrument he had so often
been, and subsidized.
Painful and laborious efforts were made dur
ing the last year by all who wanted HIM In
Office Tor their own purposes, TO make him APP
pear a popular candidate. But, ike Alfred
Jingle's ''Brummagem buttons" they were mo
60" lie wanted nomination, yet feared 1t.
He declined it in advance and then intrigued
| for it. Timid weak and vacillatlng his ambl-
| ton unslaked, bat the road to its qualification
| beset with hOrrid GOrgons his record had
evoked, he has drifted in and out oil tne polltl-
| cal current as caprice and the condition OF his
| health and spirits have dictated. The real
Blaine shouters, having held him up at Chicago
| and had him slaughtered, now, with equal
want of sense, haul him about the country
as show, reminding one OF nothing so
much the crier outside the door of the show
in the play of "Belphegor, the Mountebank,"
| who mOnOtOnOuSly shouts into the ears OF
passers-by, with deafening bass-drum accom-
paniment by himself: Come and see Bel
| Sbdzzdr BelpRegOr, the greatest necromancer
alive! aliye!l alivel!p
The idea of advertising him all summer as
| the guest and ehum of Mr.. Carnegie, the head
| of the offensive iron and steel trust, riding
CcOIliDu on HIS anu DClAlS Sit-
| tertained by him at Cluny castle, and then at
| tempting TO make him the trust defending hero
| of a campaign in which Carnegle's workingmen
/ are asked to vote for Blaine for secretary OF
state and high wages for themselves, just after
they have been locked out by their greedy en-
| ployers in an effort TO make them submit to a
reduction of 10 per cent on their miserable
! starvation wages-is it not the ecstasy OF lOlyt
That the manufactured but sadly limping en-
| thusiasm for MIR. Blaine should deceive a good
many is not strange. That il wearies the great
body of sensible people is most certain. That
| in the face of the whole absurd performance,
the republican presidential nominee should
remain silent while Mr. Blaine'S leaders pub
! licly boast that he is to be made secretary OF
state and again turned loose in the republican
china shop in the event of republican success
| is beyond belief.
A plumed knight who kneels and begs, a
| great commander who never won a victory, a
great statesman who never framed measure, a
| great statesman whom the people have, in four
! presidential campaigns, steadily refused 10 fol-
! l0w-what hope OF victory can the republican
party entertain if nobody will give bonds that
! he shall be sent to the rear?