The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1888-03-03
NOT A CANDIDATE.
BLAINE REITERATBS HIS DECISION
NOT TO RUN.
He Meant Ali He Said-The Florence Let
ter Written After Much Consideration.

He Meant Ali He Said-The Florence Let
ter Written After Much Consideration.
The New York World of Sunday con-
tanned three column interview with Mr..
Blaine, which has been cabled from Flor
ence, by Mr.. t. G. Crawford, for some
time the Worlds correspondent in Wash
lngton, and now in Europe.
Mr.. Blaine, in the course of long con
versatiou, distinctly asserted that under
no circumstances whatever would he
allow his name to be used in connection
with the next Presidential nomination.
He insists on the 81 ncerlty of his with
drawal, and asserts that he had made up
his mind thereto long ago. He considers,
first, that any man whose name has been
associated with defeat IN Presidential
campaign owes it to his party not to allow
himself to be reDominated, and, secondly,
he is unequal to facing the fatigues,
worry and excitement of another canvass,
all the more as he would feel himself
bound to work as hard rs on previous oc-
casions Mrs. Blaine and the other mem
bars Of his family are most emphatic in
their approval of MS withdrawal, which
is dennitive and neither hasty nor recent
in it's decision. Mr.. Blaine will not re-
turn from Europe until June, and not
until after the Republican convention.
He declines to express himself on the
subject of the Republican candidates now
in the field, but asserts that he did not
retire in favor of any particular one oi
them. He is convinced of Repu blIcau
victory, basiug his conviction in particu-
lar upon the tariff question.
NNha, NJ. pl,ina ,roS aSGal tho ,Jirpnr
question whether he would, under any
circumstances, permit his name to be
used again as candidate, he replied III
she most emphatic negative, but then
added: Il do not wish to make any new
affrmatirus upon the subject. | have
said all wish to say upon this subject
in that letter, as you must know, Was
not a haphaZard. oft hand affair. 1t was
the result of much deliberatiou aud care
full thought. You will remember that
told you III Paris last December that |
had no intention of being a cali late
again, and that | had PRACTICAL; made
up my mind at that time TO forbid the
use of my name IN the approaching con-
vention."
Il hold" he said later in the CONVEX
satiou, that have no right to be a can
didate again. A man who has once been
the candidate of his party and defeated
owes it to his party to withdraw aud not
be candidate a second time. More than
this, there is another plain reason for my
Withdrawing. | could not go through
the burden and fatigue of another Presi-
dental canvass-such one as the Can
vass of the last campaign. To accept a
nomination and to do less than before
would be impossible"
Mr.. Crawford thus concludes his dis
patch:
Toward the close of NV last call
asked Mr.. Blaine when be expected to
return to America. He said be expected
to reach New York about the last of
June. He expacts to spend the late
spring in London. He has not yet deter
mined upon his movements. After leav-
ing Florence he will! probably go straight
to England from Italy. He said, with
an air of frankness not to be mistaken:
"'You have no idea what a relief it Is
to me to think that am now out of the
canvass, and that when l come back to
New York in the summer that | shall
not be going back there to face reception
after reception, and to enter into the tur-
MOL and excitement of a political can
vass. | can now come back quietly after
the convention mas once decided the re-
suit and enjoy my own life in nv own
way-free, hope, from further criticism
or comment"