The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-02-02

resenting the policy of the United
States and the wishes of the presl-
dent. This is absolutely false. Mr..
Blaine himself, at the meeting of
the commissioners, said that it was
useless for them to talk about the
matter any further that they had
simply got to surrender their claims,
and to treat American vessels just
the same as thev treated Canadian
vessels, or they need 60 no further.
Mr.. Foster agreed with Mr.. Blame
and they walked home arm in arm.
They were then and have been ever
since, good friends.
When Mr.. Blaine reached home
he found some one had marked
lot of interviews which had been
telegraphed from Minneapolis and
printed in several papers. They
accused Mr.. Blaine with betraying
the President and with using his
place in the cabinet as a coYer for
conspiracy to defeat the Presl-
dent and secure the nomination.
The interviews wound up by declar-
ing that if Mr.. Blame was an hon
orable man he would have resigned
from the cabinet. Under the heat
ofindignatlon oyer these interviews,
Mr. Blaine wrote his resignation
and he has since told his friends
that there were never but two occa-
sons of difference between himself
and the President, and that they
had been fully explained and salts
factorlly settled.
BLAINE'S LITERARY ASPIRATIONS.
Immediately after his resigna-
ton from the cabinet of the Presi-
dent last summer Mr.. Blame went
to Bar Harbor, where he might re-
cuperate his health and at the same
time mature those plans about
which he had talked in a gentle
men way with his most intimate
friends. Mr.. Blaine had always
been of a literary turn, and his
ability in that direction is shown
by his scholarly style and polished
finish of his, Twenty years of Con-
gress." 1t was Mr.. Blalne's lnten-
ton to have followed this up with
commentary from the present his
tory of the country since the period
covered by his first work and to
bring his work up to date. 1t had
also been arranged that he would
write the introduction for a book
Father Tom Sherman intended to
have published on the career OF his
father, Gen. Sherman.
Mr.. Blalne's stayingIn Washing
ton this winter was an enforced one.
He had intended to pass the WIN
ter in Pasadena, California. Mr..
Blaine had made all his arrange
ments to 90 to California and spend
the winter. He wrote to Mr.. los.
Medill, of the Chicago Tribune,
who had house, to secure him
quarters. Mr.. Medil rented one
for him near the one he himself
owned, and it lay for some time
awaiting Mr.. Blaine's arrival. Mr..
Blaine was taken III, and the doc
tors advised against his making the
trip. In the meantime, Mr.. Me-
dills home burned to the ground,
and he moved into the house he had
hired for Mr.. Blaine.
Mr.. Blaine death has occasioned
the postponement of many serial
entertainments which were fixed
for the next few days. Among
these was the eighth anniversary
dinner of the Gridir0n Club, which
was to have been gwen at the Ar
lington Hotel Saturday night.
The dinner will be given on Satur-
day, February 4th. Mr.. Blaine
was one of the invited guests at the
last annual dinner, and the ban
quet of the year proceeding was
postponed on account Of the death
of Secretary Window, who was also
an invited guest.
HIS BIRTHPLACE.
James G.. Blame was born in a
plain but simple dwelling, on the
single street of West Brownsville,
Pa, not far from the scene of the
campaign which ended in Brad
docks defeat by the Indians. On
the hills above West Brownsville
the curious inquirer may also see
the house in which Ephralm Blaine
and Miss Gillespie were married,
and, finally, the half-dozen houses
which quarrel for precedence as the
birthplace of this sketch's subject.
Mr.. Blaine has himself disposed of
this interesting contest by fixing
upon certain dwelling among
these as the scene of his earliest re-
collections. The building is of
wood, two stories IN height, and
removed, i'll accordance with the
inscrutable Pennsylvania custom,
as little as possible from the road.
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