San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-30
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ling the republicans who have axes to
grind. The republican party never
has found itself without an available
candidate for the highest Office In
the gift of the nation, and sucn can
didate when elected has always
proved an able, honest and acceptable
administrator of public affairs. There
is no good reason to conclude that
this next year will prove any eXcep-
ton to the usual rule. The republic
can party has at present but two can.
didates whom 1T is seriously consider
ing, and as these candidates are warm
personal friends, occupying the two
highest positions of honor and re-
sponsibility in the nation, 1t is not at
all likely that their amicable rela-
tions will be strained by any rivalry
over the question of presidential NOM
ination. The LIGHT has already put
itself on record in this matter. The
position taken six months ago re-
mains unchanged, and will so re-
main unless an overwhelming defeat
of the republican party in Iowa
andOhio next Tuesday compels COM
plete change in the programme. The
view taken by theLIGHT these many
months has been that Mr.. Blaine IS
not q candidate for the presidency;
that Mr.. Harrison is; that Mr.. Harri-
son has given the country very able
and clean administration of affairs,
and in so far as these entitle him to
consideration his chances are excel
lent for denomination; that there is q
perfect understanding between Mr..
Harrison and Mr.. Blaine on this mat
ter, and that the names of but one of
these true and tried republicans will
come before the next national conven-
ton of the party. These opinions, ex-
pressed six months since by the
LIGHT, are confirmed by the recent
utterances of one who assumed to
speak semi officially for Mr.. Blaine,
in a recent New York press publica-
ton, and from which article the fol-
lowing is reproduced.
Mr.. Blaine has not been, is not, and
will not be, in any sense, actively or
passively, a candidate for the Repub.
lican nomination. Beyond such fu-
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propriety and fair play will suggest,
he will leave no one any excuse for
further using his name in that con-
nectIon. His family and his inner
circle of friends know this to be the
situation, ind they have given no
occasion, unless silence be an occa-
sion, for any different understanding.
1t would hardly have been dig,
nified for Mr.. Blaine to decline
formally, or even informally, that
which nobody could with au-
thOrity offer him. Among the causes
which have Influenced Mr. Blaipe In
determining his own future, the mat.
ter Of health has naturally been prom.
inent, while those cares st to him hope
and fully believe that the great Sec
rotary will have strength sufficient to
enable him to continue for au indefi-
mite period mis- inestimable service to
his country at the head of the state
department, they are equally we'll as
suTed that as candidate under the
strain and stress of a presidential can
vass, or as president under the
| harrassments incident to the
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| sacrificed. This is not saying that
! ne is broken in health, permanently
or otherwise. II means that a de-
gree of vitality which is equal to the
| demands of a carefully regulated life
and the performance of administra-
1--WE duties under healthful conditions
may not be equal to the prodigious
and endless strain to which an Amer
lean President or Presidential candi-
date Is subjected, and Mr.. Blaine has
sufficient for the former test, but Dot
for the latter. And, it should be
added, his tastes easily reconcile
him to the former.
The readers of the LIGHT will re.
cognize how fully the above comedies
with what this journal has again
and again expressed: viz. that Mr.
Blaine's desires and tastes run
more in the direction of the
affairs of the state department than
in those of the supervision of the af.
fairs of general government; also
that Mr.. Blaine's family are so
Numerically opposed to his under.
taking the fatigue and worry of 8
presidential campaign that II
amounts to a virtual embargo upon
any such attempt. In this view o.
the case the duty of republican.
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