Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-16
THE REPORTS ABOUT BLAINI

It is probably true, as Walker Blaine
 says, that James G. Blaine has no imme-
 diate intention of resigning his position as
 secretary of state It is probably true also
 that his health is as good as it was when he accepted the position and that it IS sufficiently strong to allow him to carry
 with physical safety all the burdens of his office Nevertheless it is true likewise that there is considerable friction between President Harrison and MT Blaine, and 1 that this must end sooner or later in the resignation of the latter.
 When President Harrison was forced against his will to tender the leading place Il his cabinet to MT Blaine it became evi- dent to anyone who knows the small and
 jealous nature of the former that there could be no harmony or agreement between the two men. The superior in tellectual attainnents and the greater per l sonal popularity of Mir Blaine were a con-
 stant source of irritation to the president, and the fact that during the l campaign he was constantly paraded as the real leader of the
 republican party was an additional spark to fan the flame of jealousy that burned so fercely in the heart of the president.
 His treatment of MT Blaine from the be-
 ginning has been such as no man of the latter's spirit could be expected to brook, and it is not hoped even by his most inti-
 mate friends that he will much longer con- tinue to bear it. The president has con- 1 stantly thwarted his plans for appoint the case of the Haytian commission, but no less plainly in other cases. In award ing patronage in the states, especially in the south, Mir Blaines friends have been | conspicuously ignored. Malone was put
 in control of the Virginia patronage for
 example, although all the Blaine men in Virginia protested against it. But most disagreeable of all to MT Blaine has been the presidents interference with the state department, it's policies and it's patronage. ! Add to this the worry of the thousand and | one Blaine men who constantly besiege the 1 secretary at his apartments and at his office, all demanding the fulfllment of pledges
 and promises which he is utterly unable to ! redeem, and one can get an idea of the daily aggravations which would have in-
 duced the Blaine of 1881, comparatively | well man, to throw up his commission in | disgust long ago. The knowledge that the
 jealous president is trying to freeze him | out of the cabinet, to hunt him out of public life, is believed by his friends to be ! the one thing that will make him stick to | his post, for many of them affect to be-
 lieve that this knowledge would make him 1 remain in the cabinet even if the effort broke his heart Whether their belief is
 we'll founded the early future is likely to prove. To one who knows Mir Blaine's proud and impetuous nature, who recalls the leading position he has always held in the councils of his party, who remembers how much it was owing to his permission that Benjamin Harrison received the nom-
 ination at Chicago there is nothing wild or improbable in the declaration of politi
 clans who are best able to judge in the
 matter, including some of the state depart
 ment officials who are not required to
 speak for publication and who are there