Evening journal., 1891-07-22
BLAINE WORKING HARD.
Regaining His Health and Tired
of Making Denials. ul
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PRESIDENT HARRIsoNs SILENCE

Beneath shs Dignity of the Chief Execu-
tive TO Notice tho Rumors That ala
Friends Inspired the Stories About tho
Health of tho Secretary of State.
NEW YORK, July 22.-The Press' BaS
Harbor correspondent says: with a
healthy smile on his face, two ruddy sweet
pea blossoms on his cutaway coat and two
ruddy dots on his cheek, Mr.. Blaine
walked aad rode and worked during the
day, rising half an hour earlier than Is his
won't in order to get through his CORE
spondence in time TO have an outing. To
an intimate friend he said that when he
first came here the alarmists' stories about
his Ill health used to annoy him. He wa.
afraid they would reach the eyes Of his
wife and frighten her She had a similar
fear for his feelings, and so they both used
to get the papers and cut out the scarey
articles before passing them to the other
One day Mrs. Blaine caught him weed
ing out the Blaine killing articles from q
New York evening paper which she greatly
admires for its strong religious sentimens,
and from that time on the scissors Of butD
husband and wife were allowed TO rust in
idleness.
No Use in Denying.
'Since then,n said Mr.. Blaine, '1 have
let matters take their course and devoted
myself to mending my lame foot aud
toning up my nervous system. II is nc
| use for me TO deny these statements IT }
| could lie upon a table and have board
Of medical examiners cut me open, OK.
pose my viscera and hold an ante
, mortem autopsy on my body, the verdict
/ rendered would not be credited b. those
who are determined 10 have me In articulc
mortis. SO | am resting and laying on
| flesh, getting ready for the work OF next
fall and winter
Blaine Nat After the Nomination.
This friend OF Mr.. Blaine's Is warm
advocate OF Harrisonis denomination and
an otieeholder under the present admins.
tration. He says that in three weeks OF
constant intercourse with Mr.. Blaine he
has never heard the secretary Of state eyS.
press wish for the nomination, wAils
time aud time again he has spoken hope
fully Of Harrison's reelection, as II h'
already considered his denomination
settled fact.
Tho Presidents Silence.
The same papers Washington repre-
N|ANaAAf1 NtNAAAHAr+ AtAt itntMAA Bi itN
story that Secretary Blaine is sufferia,
from Bright's disease was generally M.
missed in Washington as the resurreciio
Of very dead political ghost. The publ
cation is not wholly displeasing at thi
time to the friends of either the presidDn
or his premier, inasmuch as the vehicle q
the story Is such as TO displace eifectual
| the empty tales TO the effect that the ,D
Z ministration or friends OF the adminisurf
tion are in any way responsible for a,
e origin Of adverse reports about Secreiar
s Blaine's health. IL could only be expec4e
8 that the dignity Of the president prevent
his answering any OF these innuendoes
That Omaha Dispatch.
Some effort has been made to repres. "a
as significant a recent dispatch in al
Omaha paper describing Mr.. Blaine n.
seriously i'll, on the assumption that hi
dispatch was sent by the correspondent d
the Indianapolis Journal, and on the fur
ther assumption that the presidents serrc
tary, Mr.. Halford, must edit every teie
gram that goes from Washington to lhs
Republican daily Of their own city. Che
regular correspondent of the indianapolis
Journal did not send the dispatch relel fed
TO, so that the attempt 10 connect the
Presidential cottage at Cape May, through
Secretary Halford or any one else, hss, not
even that slight excuse