Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-03
A MARKED DIFFERENCE.
Blaine's Letter of Withdrawal Four Years
go. Ago and Now.

It is worth while to recall as a matter
of historic interest, if for no other pur-
pose, the fact that Mr.. Blaine on the
25th of January, 1883, wrote letter to
the then chairman of the republican
national committee stating that his
n anne would not be presented to the
convention which had been called for
the following June. 1t may be worth
while. also. to recall that in the letter
referred to he gave the reasons which
seemed to him sufficient to justify his
course: and that he discussed at length
the political situation and congratu
lated the party on the brightness of its
outlook as indicated by the events of
the preceding four years.
Bearing these facts in mind it is
notewor thy that in his recent with
drawal Mr.. Blaine does not give pub
LEFTY to the reasons which have inn
PEELED him to withdraw. Neither does
he congratula his party On the out
look or refer with pride to recent po-
htical events as Indicative of probable
success. He lays stress on the impor-
lance of the issues-just as he did in
1888: but in his letter of the lat
ter year he declared that ION the
result of such an issue chat of the
tariff fairly presented to the popular
Judgment there is no room for dOuHt
In his recent letter he declares that
'tne popular decision on these issues
mot specified except in the vague state
ment that the industrial and financial
policies of the government are at stalle)
is of great moment but he studiOusly
refraips from expressing the opinion
that there is no doubt as to the result
The contrast is significant In view
of it the country may also recall with
profit that the 1888 letter, though SO
much fuller and more emphatic than the
recent letter, was not accepted as final
and that he was compelled to supple
ment it with a dispatch in June asking
his friends to refrain from voting for
h i'm in the convention. And they do
say that all of his friends with the eX-
ception of his fool friend Boutelle-
understood him to mean that they
We're only to refrain from voting for
him in case it became apparent that he
could not be nominated, and that he
has never forgiven Boutalle for taking
him at his word.-Detroit Free Press.
=. PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.
Blaine having stepped aside, the
British lions tail is perceived to be
gradually untwisting itself. -Philadel-
phi "a Record.
The friends of Blaine who were
jubilant under a conviction that he
would lead them to victory, are now
schc cling themselves to the task of
marchin g to defeat under Harrison.
Detroit Free Press.
Some of the Blaine men in their
disappointment talk of starting a
boom for Robert T. Lincoln. No doubt
they reason that the son of his father
would make better run than the
grandson of his grandfather, who is at
present locum tenens at the white
house. Boston Globe.
There was one democrat on the
Jury that tried Quay's libel suit against
the democratic journal at Beaver Falls,
Pa. The fear was expressed that he
would hang the jury. 1t looks at this
distance as though the jury was COM
posed of class OF citizens who we'll
deserve hanging.-St Louis Republic.
The protest of democracy against
czarism and the suppression of debate
under Speaker Reed was protest OF
principle, and the principle applies to
a democratic ma ority as fOrcibly as to
a republican majority. The tempta.
ton to pay the republicans back in
their own coin is a strong one, but it
should be firmly resisted-N. y. World
Talk of a woman's No! Why, it's
mere fieebite compared with fiirta-
tions now escaping from that political
coquette and idol of the republican
party. If ever man fiirted with the
height of his ambition. tits the fascin-
ating James. A modern philosopher
hath said that the root of all evil is let.
ter-writing. ''Blaiue's letter. re-
marked fellow citizen last week, re
minds me of one of those bombs they
send off be fore the real fireworks be-
GIN 1t is a II sound and hurrah, but it
makes people devilish anxious to see
what is coming next. Boston Herald