The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-03

! Office, or II auNeI 'Is0I9 ''7'iiO Z" 'OP' O9'
tive Of the MORNING NEWS will call on
them.
Genius Manufacturing Greatness.
Undoubtedly Candidate Blaine is laboring
under the oppressive odds Of manifold dis
advantages in his struggle for continued
life and a fair chance at the next presidential
nomination Of the Republican party. Be-
side his hostile friend Harrison he has to
| contend with an obstrusively ambitious
/ young female relative who glories in the
picturesquely absurd patronyinic of Mar
gherita Arlina Hamm.
This aggressively enterprising young
woman aspires TO be n great journalist like
Charles O'Connor Hennessey and Jeems
Gordon Bennett, who printed the harrow
| ing details Of the execution of a bloody
! murderer-r-r-e~r-r and got ARE, ted" To
compass this laudable ambition she has
been trading upon the reputation Of her
famous uncle, aad formed a sort of trust or
corner on information about the physical
condition of the Secretary Of State with
results superlatively satisfactory to herself
and exceedingly amusing to the public.
Writing to the Chicago Inter ocean she
recently described herself as 1.-THE wonder
full girl politician" But she failed to state
what share she has in the government Of
this great country beyond answering Mr..
| Bialne's dJorbell occasionally. Still she
regards herself as "the focus of all politi
clans, which appears somewhat infelici-
| tous simile when gender is taken into ac-
count. But she doesn't mind a tTihe like
that and rattles on fsmillarlv that Senator
Hale and Joe Manly were closeted with
her." Gaining confidence after that closet
performance, she adds that she holds the
| reins"
Thus she continues In the course Of a
column article Blaine is mentioned as much
| as five or six times always unfortunately
to great deal of gush about Marguerite
Arlina Hamm.
Nor does this brisk and not over -dlffldent
damsel hesitate to assert that "Margherita
Arlina Hamm has done more for Blaine
with her bright genius than all his diplo-
matte managers" Nothing shy about
Margherita Then she calmly proceeds to
state that "now James G. Blaine can have
vention if he wants it, and he will owe it to
Margherita Arlina Hamm."
That's gracious, Margherita How in the
world did Blaine ever manage to scuffle
along all this time without his Margherita,
anyway
Unsolicited she next proceeds to give her
autobiography with an Originality of
thought and creative power of expression"
OF which she claims to hold controlling
interest. AS to the creative power of ex-
preston" it may be altogether true. Here
are two paragraphs in her own words:
Very soon she plunged into the arena of
reportoFlal work, where she
developed precocious detective instincts,
which, if used exclusively, would make her
the female Nldocq of America. Bound up
in her frail form, with woman's delicate
p1rceptive faculty, is a vast fund of animal
armed with a jeweled dagger she
knows absolutely no fear, and has braved
many dangers in quest of news. To scale a
ladder at fire is but one daring incident of
many in which she has been a participator
in Boston and New York.
With a piquant, childish face, framed
round with red brown curls and a winaiug
smile, she possesses the subtle, Unborn power
of personal magnetism, yet with 1t is the
soul of a soldier the heart and ambition of
a man, which makes of her a natural poll
tician. With her features under absolute
control, masking her thought with an ex-
preston as immovable as wax, the minds of
others are to her an open book. Woe be it
to the enemy who rouses the tiger under
that white skin, and woe to the guilty plot-/
ter on whose trail she starts.
After adding to that blood curdling out
burst OF creative expression" the proud
though somewhat doubtful boast that 'her
name is flashing on the many wires of the
country and flowing from many a news
paper pen, while her portrait is being pub
lished in every important JOURNAL" she
then undertakes to make a gaplngly anx-
ious world believe tina. she is Totally insensi-
BILE of the personal charm she possesses"
That is not strictly consistent. Moreover
1t might lead impolite people to declare
themselves to be suffering from the same
sort of insensibility.
When she claims to be utterly regardless
Of ordinary conventionalities, however,
there is no apparent ground for dispute. But
when she declares that "Margherita Arlina
Hamm is probably the closest American
counterpart of the French school of journal
lists" she lays the basis for a discussion.
To her "inspirational genius" all the I'M
impressionable regular newspaper writers at
Bar Harbor are bundled into one mass of
condemnation as ''faking correspondents, >"
whom she describes as Ignorant of the
principles of true journalism and lacking
by absence of metropolitan experience"
No doubt but that they are a bad lot Real
mean.
Without reservation Journalist Marghe-
rita Arlina Hamm frankly AYERS that she
unqualifedIy esteems it quite remarkable
to think that little girl only 20 years old
could stir the nation and draw the eyes of
the world to this out-of the-way resort"
To think Of the matter in that way is
rather remarkable. No one can dispute
that. Nor is any one likely to deny her
claim that she islands a unique character
in American journalism" Not even the
ridiculous "Co" Editorial Freak Shepard
has ever approached the heights of
grotesque absurdity that she has already
attained.
If Mr.. Blaine does not contrive to forcibly
repress the "inspirational genius" of that
Tightly young niece of his and keep a dis
Greet governess ''closeted with her" instead
of Senator Hale and Joe Manly" his cam
paign will soon be converted into a roaring
burlesque.
Juggling with newspaper shares has