Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-17
BLAINE'S CONDITION.
The Gazette First to Make the
True Facts Known.
VICTIM OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
A Prominent Army Surgeon Gives the Facts
10 Gazette Representative.
An Analysis of Water Passed-only by
the Strictest Care and Attention can
He Prolong His Life - His
Presidential Candidacy.
Blaine a Sick Man.

Special 10 the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-At this season
of the year political gossip at the capitol is
very scarce. There is but one cabinet Off
Ger in the city-the attOrney-gen eraI-Who
was admonished by the president to stay
here ane hold things down" This eau
ton was scarcely necessary, as Old Sol has
held everything and everybody down for
the past week.
The principal topic of political conversa-
ton is the condition of Mr.. Blaine ana his
probable candidacy in 1892 Tor presidential
hOnorS. For months the papers have been
filed with daily bulletins from Bar Harbor,
and the cabinet premier has been reported
as being both seriously i'll and thoroughly
well in the space OF twenty-fOur hours. No
authentic information has been published
regarding Mr.. Blaine, and the public has
been left in doubt concerning his
TRUE PHYSICAL CONDITION.
The time mas now arrived, however
when definite information is at hand. and it
remains for The GAZETTE TO give It's read
erS ami the country the first authentic in
formation concerning Mr.. Blaine. So
guarded have been the methods employed
for keeping his condition Sc
| cret, 50 conflicting have been the
reports published concerning him, that
the public was left to draw its own con-
illusions. THE GAZETTE representative
happened to be one of Il cOteric OF gentle
men yesterday when the subject OF Mr..
Blaine'S condition was nnder discussion.
In the party We're two contract surgeons of
the army, one CT whom is con-
nected with the Army medical museum
of the war department. Opinions differed
widely as to the cause of Mn. Blaine's all
ment, one of the gentlemen stating that the
secrecy maintained was only
POLITICAL DODGE
to curry public favor and that the distin-
TuiSheG statesman was not Ill Others
shared the same opinion. After consider
able discussion one of the army surgeons
said: Gentlemen, you are wrong in your
suImises, and your diagnosis is entirely III
correct. | am in Il position to know abSO-
lutely that Mir Blaine is a sick man, and
that under the most favorable clrcum-
stances he has not long to live. Last week
there was sent to the army medical mu-
scum. III my care, phlal containing Specl.
men OF water passed BY Mr.. Blaine. Upon
careful examination | found IL to contain an
unusual amount of albumen, and the un-
miStakabe indications that Mr.. Blaine is
victim of BrightS disease. So far as his
chances for life are concerned. that is a
matter of speculation. He should cease all
work, adopt a careful regimen, and aban-
don any intention Of engaging in
4 POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
in any capacity. II is only by the stricteSt
care and attention that Mr.. Blaine can pro-
long his life. He should go to Carlsbad.
Germany, or to some equally famous water
cure, and take a season of absolute rest
While rumors have ut various times been
spread that the distinguished Maine states
man was suffering from an attack of
Bright's disease, yet the above statement
is the first authentic proof that such
was the case. The GAZETTE rep
resentative has seen the analysis, and is in
possession OF data to substantiate this ar
ticle. The discovery beyond cavil OF
Bright's disease, permanently removes Mr.
Blaine from the list of possible presidential
candidates 1t removes him as well from
the
ARENA OF ACTIVE POLITICS
where he has been, perhaps, the most con-
spicuods figure in our history for the past
twenty years 1t also disposes of any at
tempt to put him in the next cabinet, in the
event Of Republican ascendancy i'll lS92, and
shortly retires to private life the man who
is to-day the peer of his party, and who was
a perennial presidential possibility.
a Hardware Stock Transferred.
HENDERSON, RUsK COUNTY, Ten. Aug