The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-06-21
BLAINE'S BOOMERANG.

S ii'"iHs ehitbIldi ITOm q
Mac N, Ga, News, is a gem in
way, and Is well worthy of reading
James q. Blaine, ex-secretary of
state, man whose whole life is tinged
with romance and whose bright, bold,
aggressive, magnetic, sym athletic al d
impre-sionable nature has won many3l
fithful personal friends. although they
be hostile to the creed he impersonates,
has passed forever as potentiality in
American politics.
A man without fear and without re-
proach, man seen always yOnder
where the tight is thickest, a gallant
and chivalric man whose name is the
synonym of honor. For twelve years
James Il. Blaine has been called the
White -P'umed Kni. ht. He has been
the Idol of his party. He has been its
shining herald, and his ,me mas been\
that of a great leader OF men. To\
speak of Blaine was to think of mag
netism, of proui deeds, and to recall
the memory of Heary Of Navar-e.I
To the Republican party James G.
Blaine has been Us atutelary divinity,
man whose remarkable mental re-
sources and splendid m ghetto quail
Iies have for years given the succeed
ing republican administrations the
prestige and power they have enjoyed
aud whose name represents to them
the purest, highest ideal of the prin-
ciplss they cherish.
He went down Friday under the
hoois of trained and d s,ipiined army
OF Federal ofiiceholders men who
owei him thanks for the very emolu-
menis that they enjoy. Forgotten,
ignored AMI prac icaliy discarded by
his party, Mr.. Blame can iud, per
haps, in private life the peace and
cOnten,ment which has been denied
him in his public career. His has
been stormy and sad existence. No
man has been more maligned or mis-
represented. But no man has to-day
warmer or more sincere friends.
Blaine resliz-s too fully that a
period has been put to his political
life aEd also that sadder fact remains
with him that the pitcher will soon be
broken at the iounta and that he
vii. soon become q memory.
His failure to attain the chief civic
dignity of the commonwealth is SIM
liar to the fate Of the great trium-I
virate, Clay, Calhoun and Webster,
who meriied that distinction, aspired
to it. but failed in the accomplishment
of their darling ambition.
The conclusion forces itself upon
the intelligence Of the country that
the nOminai ion to the presidency is
but for,ui,ous event and that states
manship is but side issue in the CON-
test.
Blaine and his friends must feel
keenly and bitterly the fl ,grant in
gratitude of the party to whom he has
always been very present help in
trouble" and it ia human nature to
expect that he and his adherents will
conniye a, any movement that prom
ises embarrassment to the success of
the republicans.
His defeat has been accepted with
bad grace by the powerful division
who obey his mandates and it is but
reasonable to suppose that they will
exhs ust the resources of their pOliti-
cal ingenuity in contrlving means to
reta'iate.
The democrats have a beautiful OPP
portuni;y now Of mastering the situa-
ton aud scoring complete victory.
but they must religiously repress every
appearance If factional wrangling and
unite on tie most available man.
Whiielaw Reid has ever been an
uncompromising foe to organized labor
and his name on the ticket will not
strengthen it with the masses.
In view of these uncontested facts
it is self-evident that Blaine, if he
survives the year, will see the party
that repaid him with gross ingrati.
tude punished for its corrup ion and
pe r6dy BY III. election of the demo-
cratic candidates..
He himself hxs drawn the drapery
around his political future and will
no more reappear upon the scene as
an active. potential. factor in shap-
ing legi.la,i N but he reals in his own
the fate of the party OF
which he was the most brilliant apos-
tie, but which so perfidiously repud'-
ated him.
Not since Boabdil turned upon the
mountain side and, signing, took his )
last glance at the beautiful city OF
Granada and the sparkling fountains
of the Alhambra palace, has the
world witnessed q passing alike so
pathetic, so touching and 80 bitter in
its memories.