Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-28
INCIDENTS OF BLAlNE's CAREER.

Resignation from the Cabinet-His Liter
airy Aspirations-The ConklinG Episode.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Regarding Mr..
Blaine's resignation from President Har-
rison's Cabinet, concerning which there
has been much discussion, an intimate
friend says:
AT 12 o'clock of the day Mr.. Blaine's
resignation was given out he had no idea
of resigning from the Cabinet. He had
had meeting on that day with the Cana :
dian Commissioners on the Welland
canal question. 1t was said afterwards
that Mr.. Blaine had resigned because he
and John W. Foster got into a contro-
versy in the presence of the Canadians.
This is absolutely false.
when Mr.. Blaine reached home he
found some one had marked lot of in
tervit VS. which had been telegraphed
from Minneapolis and printed in several
papers.
They accused Mr. Blaine with betray-
ing the President and with using his place
in the Cabinet as a cover for a conspiracy
to defeat the President and secure the
nomination.
Under the heat of indignation over
these interviews, Mr.. Blaine wrote his
resignation and he has since told his
friends that there were never but two &C.
caaions of difference between himself and
! the President, and that they had been
! fully explained and satisfactorily set
| tied"
The Conklins Episode.
Mr. Blaine's career in the House was
m arked by many exciting episodes. He
| first came into prominence through an
angry alteration between himself and
| Roscoe Conkling, then member of the
| House from Utica, N. Y.
1t was in the war period, and Blaine
made a bitter attack upon Conkling for
| having charged the Government with
| fees as judge-advocate while drawing
| pay as a member of Congress. Conkling
repealed the attack and INDUCED in some
| severe criticism of his opponent, who in
| reply spoke derisively of Conkling' s
magnificent turkey gobbler strut"
| The incident excited great public at
| tention at the time, and helped to bring
! both actors in it into that prominence
| which they each enjoyed during the re-
| mainder of their lives.
BIaine's Literary Aspirations.
| Immediately after his resignation
from the Cabinet of the President last
| summer Mr.. Blaine went to Bar Harbo1
| where he might recuperate his health and
i at the same time mature those plans
| about which he had talked in a general
| way with his most intimate friends.
His tastes had always been of literary
character, and his ability in that direc-
sion is evidenced by the scholarly style
and polished finish of his Twenty Years
| of Congress"
It. was his intention to have followed
this up with Il commentary on the politi-
cal history of the country since the
period covered by his first work, and te
| bring his work up to date.
1t had also been arranged that he would
| write the introduction for Il book Father
| Thomas Sherman intended to have pub
| lished on the career of his father, Gen.
| Sherman.
MIR. Blaine's Survivors in Congress.
| The ravages of time or the vicissi tudei
of political life are stongly accentuateC
by tho fact that in u House composed o
332 members to-day, there are but twelv
| members who served in the House will
Mr. Blaine in the Fourtyfourth or prio
Congresses. These are Holman, O'Neil
PENN Harmer, Hooker, Blount, Bur
rows, Springer, Forney, Culberson, Bland
Henderson Qll.) and ketcham.