New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-31
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pacent announcements that General Har-
- - n.or Mr. blaine for his Secretary of
ctoto hove been positive enough to make this
soon, 70 the blaine haters fitting occasion for
the renewal of the old lies and ABUSE 10 DO
sure thew never think it necessary 70 oner
snecial excuse for INDUCING their propensitles'
~. e., naturally welcome any incident which
o,onoors 70 hiring their vituperation into some
III 90 relation TO current events. And 50 the
plausible dispatches from lndlanapohs nave
furnished a convenient text on "hion W mans
score of diatribes. Pending the cue arnVai
Of March 4 with perdition in its traln' they are
snatching fearful Joy from the preoicuon 'nae
Mr.. Blaine will plunge us-plunge IS the WORD
into all sorts of foreign complications. Inc
picture which they paint represents the NATIONS
Of the earth as sitting at our doors in circle
ike mack of wolves and bowling for our
bIood. II lurid picture, and serves to give
an added touch Of gloom to many q weary page
for the brains with which tho artists mix their
colors are Of a very inferior quality
Inasnuch as they are all Democrats, 1t might
ba smposed that they would feel little diff
dence in predicting foreign entanglements
under a Republican Administration, and thus
unnecessarily recalling to the public mind the
series of melancholy farces which Secretary
of State belonging TO their own political faioh
has put upon the stage during the last four
years. Before relapdng into falsehoods about
Mr.. Blaine's administration OF foreign afairs
in 1881, they would do well to run over the
facts Of Mr.. Bayards diplomacy since 1880.
No one knows whittier be is conducting US at
the present moment, but even the Secretary
himself probably would not dispute the asser-
ton that he has thus far succeeded in producing
very uncomfortable degree Of friction with
Germany without having promoted-to say the
least Of tour National honor, or dignity or
prestige. Those who are entirely satisfied
with the outcome Of the Hayian difficulty can
not very well deny the bare fact that under
this particularly "safep Administration the
country actually was involved in one OF those
dreadful foreign complications the mere thought
Of which, as a possibility in case MIR. Blaine
should succeed Mr.. Bayard. Is held to justify
white lips and chattering teeth. Perhaps the
Blaine-haters do not consider the fisheries dis
pute a complication but after beholding
President Clevelands retaliatory hip-hop most
Of their feliow-citizens not to speak Of Great
Britain, would have been puzzled 10 define 1t
az anything else. II our memory serves, Mr..
Bsyard engineered us into something closely
resembling complication with Mexico not
many moons after he had entered upon his anti
ENHANCEMENT administration. and the country
has never been quite certain that his procession
Of diplomats, which was so very long in pass
ing a given point. finally brought back peace
with honor Then there was little affair with
A. RI oh not at
tain the dignity Of a complication, must have
possessed some of the characteristics thereof,
since it involved requisition upon our frugal
navy for couple of gunboats.
On the whole perhaps it would be just as
well II the terror stricken patriots who are
perfectly certain that the next Administration
is going to drench the land in blood would con-
fine their alarms within their own personal and
individual bosoms, at least until after the pres
emit Administration has gone out Of power.