The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-08-06

ling disclosure which, if true, uncovers
a most disgraceful conspiracy against
the mental peace of Mr.. Blaine. The
correspondent says:
Altogether better, stronger and
a.ore like his old self than he has been
for weeks is Premier Blaine, and the
funny part of it is that the very news
papers which have been doing their
best to kill him have as a matter
of fact, been more instrumental than
medicine or doctors in effecting his
cure. Rather notifying that to the
editors of the aforesaid papers, but
nevertheless a fact. 1t is now known
and openly admitted that there has
been organized conspiracy among a
dozen or SO Of the prominent anti
Blaine papers throughout the country
to worry Blaine, already a broken
down man, either into his grave or
into a madhouse.
The issues al stake were tremendous,
and it was deemed necessary that the
man from Maine be eliminated from
the situation. So the combination
zealously set to work to eliminate the
political giant, and correspondents,
who might be christened literary grave
diggers, we're despatched to Bar Har-
Dor with formal instructions to "keep
Blaine at the point of death until the
1st of September"
am in position to state authorita-
lively that these we're the exact orders
given to New York correspondent,
who certainly obeyed them to the
letter. Whenever there was :sgood
news about Blaine, that is, news that
he was sinking rapidly, that paralysis
had set in, that ten new specialists
had been telegraphed for, or that
negotiations had been opened with
the undertaken, then the combination
would cheerfully pay for kilograms of
1000, 1900 or 1000 words a day,
| but in the event OF "bad news" such
as a temporary rally, a pleasant drive
along the beach, or an opinion that
Blaine might live, after all, then a
few hundred words or less was great
abundance. What interesting reading,
to be sure, would be the copies kept
by the telegraph companies of instruc-
! tions sent day after day from anti
Blaine editors to their faithful cores
pondents in Bar Harbor. However,
s'the cat is out OF the bag" now, "the
game is up" and the graveyard jour-
nalist is no longer needed here.
The consequence is that natural
revulsion of public feeling has caused
Blaine's sanitary pendulum to swing
over very far to the other side-prob-
ably too far. The real truth is that
while the Secretary of State is not the
sick man he has been reported, he is
very far from being we'll man.
But coming to the way il which
the friendly newspapers gave the
ssPlumed Knight his lift on the road
to recovery. A close friend of the
family who has recently arrived here
from Washington, gave me a graphic
account of an incident from which
dates Blaine's rapid convalescene.
:sNVe were sitting OUT" he said, con
the lovely broad piazza which overlooks
Frenchman's Bay, and Mr.. Blaine, re-
clining in steamer chair, had beer
reading great pile Of newspapers
Just arrived. This was about a week
ago. For an hour or SO the Secretary
had scarcely spoken word, and a:
/ glanced at him from time to time
saw from the frowns and nervou:
movements that he was violently
agitated. Suddenly he raised himself
abruptly and dashed the paper he wa:
reading to the ground.
"This is outrageous, infamous" he
exclaimed, and began striding up and
down the piazza, forgteful of his shawl
and planting his feet with a vigo
which he had not shown for weeks
There was slight flush on his usually
pallid cheeks. dts enough to make ;
man ashamed of his country" he con
tinued bitterly, and in anger. Il car
stand being attacked by my enemies
I've got used to that long ago, bu
here is paper pointing to the rum
pied sheet, (which I have befriended
playing the role Of Judas, and printing
columns about me which it knows t
be malicious lies designed to get nj
out of the way, and there are othe
traitors of the same kind in the pill
there-false friends who would sta'
me in the back. On, know them
I'll remember, and | swear to Coz
l won't die now just TO spite them
And as he spoke Mr.. Blaine brough
down his right fist with bang upol
the palm of his left.
s.Nlrs. Blaine and other ladies lis
tened aghast to this outburst, the like
of which they had not heard fo
months. At last something had oc
cured to rouse the dormant will
These newspaper blows had struck
fire and for the moment Blaine was him
self again, quick, resolute and aggres
sive. Right there and then he mad
. up his mind that he was going to &c
better and he has done 60. That
all there is to it. Talk about you
faith cures, tell you this wonderful
rally of Blaine's is triumph of MINI
over matter if ever there was one.
Don't fatter yourself that frlendshl
authorizes you to say disagreabl
things to your intimates. On the cor
trarv, the nearer YOU come into IT