Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-05
BLAINE WILL NOT RESIGN.
The Great Secretary VIII Remain with Mr.
Harrison Just RS Long as He Can.
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New York Globe.
Mr.. Blaine is not going to resign. The
popular ruraor to that effect, with which
the country has been amused for some
weeks, has now been contradicted by the
condescension of the secretary himself.
! His health is superb. The alleged puffs
under his eyes are the inventions of
licentious press. He is, in truth, so
| vigorous that he is able to administer the
| state department from Bar HaTbOr for
| period of several months at a time.
! From which it appears that if Mr.. Har-
! rison is like Mr.. Polk in his decided dis
| approval of ''the practice which has
sometimes prevailed of cabinet officers
absenting themselves for long periods
| from the seat of government, - Mr..
| Blaine is not like Mr.. Buchanan in hum
! BILE submission to the presidential whim
| Unless, however, appearances are very
| deceptive, Mr. Harrison is as well salts
| fed when Mr. Blaine is absent from the
| seat of gov eminent as when he is pres
ent, and especially is this likely to be the
! case when Mr.. Harrison is abroad him
| self, with his interesting family, enjoy
| ing the ocean breeZes on a United States
| vessel in the naval service.
Mr.. Blaine $ case is the hardest in the
| history of American politics. He cut
this administration out of the whole
cloth. AS the uncrOwned king of the
! Republican party he ordained and estab-
| lished 1t. His relations to it are now
| perfectly plain to those outside the inner
circles of the administration as they
have for a long time been to those inside.
He is the blind Samson grinding at the
mill.
In our issue of July we republished
from Mr.. Blaine $ book a sketch of the
| somewhat similar situation of Mr.. Buch-
anan in the cabinet of M. Polk. Like
Mr. Buchanan, Mr.. Blaine is i'll the cab
met because the president could
not avoid appointing him. ''While, -
as Mr.. Blaine says in this sketch,
Ibis presence in the cabinet was not a
source of pleasure to the president, he
realized that it brought character,
strength and power to the administra-
ton. Mr.. Buchanan was an older man
than Mr.. Polk, was superior to him in
tellectually, had seen a longer and more
varied public experience, and enjoyed Il
higher personal standing throughout the
country. Mr.. Buchanan, therefore,
held absolute control of the situation had
he chosen to assert himself. This he
aid to an administration whose policy
was destroying him IN his own state, and
whose patronage was persistently used to
promote the fortunes of his rivals and his
enemies. -
All this description applies with ten
fold force to Mr.. Blaine himself. He is
infinitely stronger in his own party than
ever was Mr.. Buchanan. HU has been
treated with greater indignity by Mr..
Harrison than was MIR. Buchanan by Mr..
Polk. His power to make or mar the
fortunes of the administration is beyond
question. But, like Mr.. Buchanan, he
has chosen subordinatiOn instead of mas
terry, and is the servant and follower
where he is entitled to leader
ship and control. MI. Baine says
that Mr.. Polk weighed the
temperament OF Mr.. Buchanan
and calculated how far he might degrade
him Has MIR. Harrison done the same
with Mr.. Blaine? There was a time not
very long ago when no Republican poll
tician, to say nothing of Mr.. Benjamin
Harrison of Indianapolis, would have
ventured to build upon the docility of
James G Blaine. Four months ago Mr..
Blaine was the uncrowned chIeftian of
the trust party. His word sounded like Z
a bugle- call in all the camps of mOnop-
oily. At his command the purses of the
tariff benefciaries were emptied into the
campaign funds, and all the forces of all
the eDemies of the common people sprang
into confident activity. He had no rival.
The crown lowered over his brow, and
lowered so closely that he had to dodge
to escape it. Four months of the Har-
risOn administration, four months of Mr.. Z
Blaine, fetching and carrying for press
ident of his own creation, have well nigh
eliminated him as a factor in the politics
of the United States. One year more of
the same, and Blaine-yea! Blaine, of
Maine-will have been reduced to a
cipher.
But Mr.. Harrison has evidently not
reckOned without his host. He has
studied Mr.. Blaine as Mr.. Polk studied
Mr.. Buchanan, and he knows him better
than the country has known him. He |
has calculated what he will endure, andI
he has not missed the mark. Even Gen.
Arthur, when he succeeded Garfield,
found it extremely difficult to choke Mr..
Blame off from the state department,
although the new administration was or
ganiZed in every department against him.
He will remain with Mr.. Harrison just
as long as the latter will permit bin.
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