Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-06

in worse times would have been settled
with dagger
Blaine was all the time gaming strength,
and it was manifest that merit of this kind
must pestiferously stand in the way of a
second term. especially as the President
was not happy in his intercourse with his
| fellow-politicians. The man who wanted
second term was quite averse to comforting
| large favors upon other States than Indi-
| ana Mr.. Blaine could look man in the
| eye while talking to him. and could help
him out of false position and anticipate
his excuse.
Biaine's Manners Called Conspiracy.
Manners rule the world. Unfortunately,
| at the White House, the better Blaine's
manner grew the more of q conspiracy it
was interpreted. Why should he have
| better complexion than the President, q
brighter eye, more warmth in putting out
his hand, more srfggestiveness, imagination,
and all which make up the accomplished
man of society. His household were marry
ing into the army, into the high musical
| circles. The man of fame with the baton to
WOO Blaine's daughter found information
| there upon his own art.
The various representatives of Central
and South America, whose self-estimation
was inversely strong to the size and repute
of the country, saw Blaine preside among
them and looked up to him with the inter-
est of the junior class In statecraft at a
clinic by Grotius or some of the old mas
ters. The President had strong power of
expressing himself from the shoulders up,
and was slightly illuminated when address,
ing a crowd, but the moment he came face
to face with an individual he looked as If he
wanted the interview to terminate and let
his mind get down to the agreeable topic of
a'second term for himself
Thus are men more than blessed accord
ing to their expectation made unjust and
miserable by ambition.
Cast-Ofs Picked Up by Harrison.
AS time went on the President began to
gather into his Cabinet the cast-off satel-
lites of Mr.. Blaine, who had been assidu-
Gus in their intentions until they had seen
Mr.. Blaine once defeated, and the virtue
went out of them. Much of the shew-
bread, which was fit only for the priests to
eat, had been given to the editorial frater-
nifty in consulates and missions. and so
forth, and the press on one side was pretty
well muzzled and the Blaine workers were
brought into this Harrison radius, and thus
it seemed that the event at Minneapolis
must come out right The responsibility of
the country which is opposed to any change
of Presidents as an error which disturbs
the peanut trade had on the whole made its
courtesy to Mr.. Harrison.
About four or five months before the con-
vention was to meet the President, who
had been to the war, while Blaine had not
volunteered, resolved to put some belliger-
ency into his platform. Chile was to be
was impressing the South American States
with their natural mutually of interest
with ourselves. He had for a year or two
been boring himself with signors and sig
noritas, fixing up sensibilities in Mexico,
putting the glass eye snugly back in the
head of Guatamala, and dusting with his
best clothes-brush the fearful deshabille of
Venezuela The President was bent on
war; Mr.. Blaine observed here and there
thSt he thought there was no occasion for
war.
Great Interests Well Preserved.
The naval officers all lost their promotions,
but to the great relief of the country, we
did not throw away a hundred to thousand
millions of the guiana interests and the
horned cattle toward Patagonia When the
Chilean issue was settled by the State De-
partment it was too late for any other large
business but to get from Blaine a letter |
promising not to run against Harrison. To |
this great stroke of policy was the Govern |
ment of the United States brought by the |
insane ambition of the discoveries of yester- |
day to become the dynasties of tomorrow. |
AS pertinaciously as old Maurice of Hol- |
land forced conclusions upon John Oden |
the President and his Cabinet |
coterie undertook to pick the pocket of |
Blaine of document that he would not run. /
They were all after it, from Tracy to El-
kns. Each man, when he got it, was to
kneel upon one knee, kiss the Presidents
foot, and be made knight for having got /
from poor sick man prosecuted by the
death of his children and contrariety of |
events his abnegation of hope and desire.
And all this from an individual whom
Blaine had manufactured, clothed, piano.
piled and blessed. The treatment of Joan
of Arc and her white plume by Charles
VII was quite analogous
Blaine in a Debtors Cell
The letter was at last obtained, the man
of dangerous popularity had given his note
and was in the debtors cell. What can he
do now? Nothing, but he can still be
popular. All those who had not admired
the Presidents style, those who thought
that he looked more like Phillip IL than
Charles ", and those who thought that the
play of politics would be as tedious. as
Quaker meeting for four years more of Har-
rison, began to say: "Why, this old fellow
Blaine, whom We have fought for so long,
is all We have left to meet the combination
of patronage, design and dull mercantile
We know how he is
treated. we know how his family feels, we
know the spurns that patient merit of the
takes, and let us run him at
p
This produced revolution in the Indi-
ana council. Lew Wallace was called upon |
to see if anything in 1.-The Fair God'' or
''Ben Hur" would meet the situation.
Chauncey Depew was sent for, and the ever
handsome Hiscock. 1t was resolved that
they must get another letter from Blaine;
the first letter, saying 'T am dead, " was not |
enough. They wanted him to write an
other, saying 'T am damned" but every
friend of Blaines in former DAYS had |
become already ingrateful, and only one or
.wo had the audacity to suggest to him to
write another. letter.
Most Afraid of BIaine's FamiIv.
They were not exactly afraid of Blaine. |
though still aware that they deserved to be
kicked down his front steps, but there was
shoot of the eve of Mrs Blaine and some
Of the small children in the hallway of the
Blaine house, which produced q veritable
panic among the Harrisonites
Alas, that Russell Harrison, the prince
e1pectant, had squandered his opportuni.
ties and could uot tickle Blaine, like the
advertising solicitor of yore, and get from
him letter at contract rates, to be kept |
standlnp and to saw. |