The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-05
MR. BLAINE RESIGNS.

Mr. BLAINE has quarreled with Mr.. HAIR
RIsoN and as result handed IL his resig-
nation as secretary of state, which has
been promptly accepted. In all this the
man from Maine has been guilty of the
mistake Of his life. He has been led into
the commission Of fatal blunder, and one
from which he cannot be extricated. He
may not be responsible for the error; we
do not think he is responsible, beyond the
fact that he has permitted himself to be
battered into doing a wrong act and al
lowed himself 10 be beguiled by his ad-
visers. Those really guilty Of the great
blunder which in all probability will not
only bring BLAINE to humiliating defeat,
but leave stain upon his name, are the
political bosses to whom he has unwisely
listened.
Two months ago Mr.. BLAIxE was not
candidate for the presidency and he did
not want the nomination. When in Feb
ruary he wrote to Chairman CLAKKsoN of
the Republican National committee that
he was not candidate and that his name
would not 20 before the convention, he
meant what be said and he then intended
TO be loyal to the president, who was
known as the foremost and most eager as
pirsnt for the nomination. Mr. BLAINE in
tended that letter should be understood as
final and conclusive on his part, and he so
intended until very few days age when
the solicitations and fattery of those who
hate HARRISON turned the head of the sec
rotary of state causing him to do that
which will bring against him the charges
OF ingratitude, of base treschery and down
right meanness.
Nor do we believe that his course will
avail him or his friends. Rather do we
think that what he has done viii accom-
plish precisely what it was intended that
it should prevent The purpose of those
who have been playing upon the vanity of
MIR. BLAINE was 10 prevent the nomination
of Mr.. HARRISON, but we do not believe
they will succeed. They cannot succeed
unless the RepD blican party, through its
representatives assembled at Minneapolis,
shall stultify itself, shall proclaim against
the legitimate heir to the leadership and
declare the work of the past three years
which has all been Republican and in per-
feet line with the party's principles and
professionals q failure. Nobody can
foretell what political convention of the
magnitude of that now gathering at Min
neapolis will do. The best laid schems
of the shrewdest manipulators may
be oYerthrown by a simple incident, and
the most cleverly constructed plans come
to naught. But we do not think Mr.
BLAINE will get the nomination which his
friends have promised and which he has
been forced to practice treachery in the
hope Of obtaining. Unless the convention
shall be made up OF men whose natures are
unlike those of ordinary men, Mr..
BLAINE's conduct will raise up friends to
Mr.. HARRISON, the delegates resenting the
course pursued by the plumed knight and
the political bosses who have assumed to
defy the people and nominate a man of
their own choosing.
So far as the Democracy are concerned
there can only be rejoicing from one end of
the republic to the other over what is now
transpiring in the ranks of the opposition.
Democratic success was not dependent
upon Republican dissensions. With some
slight differences in the Democratic fold
adjusted, as they will be at Chicago, the
party of the people are reasonably certain
of great victory in November; but the
Republican quarrel which is sure to follow
yesterdays events, no matter who may be
the Minneapolis nominee gives the choice
OF the Chicago convention a walk-over.