Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-02-02

DubliC llltu hDbW Dtlb null Vi HIS me, ana |
that not the more attractive. His ancestry !
was of the native American nobility, and |
his own family life was of n strangely |
varied character, n middle age of unalloyed |
happiness being followed by an evening of
almost continuous calamity and sorrow.
The Gillespes and Blaines were people Of |
standing before the Revolution, and the
Colonel Blaine who was commissary gen |
eral of the northern department of Wash
ington's army was the secretary's grand.
father. Neal Gillespie, his mothers father,
was scholar of high standing and direct
ed his grandson's studies down to the time
be entered Washington university. Equal
honor is due the ancestors of Mrs. Blaine
who was Miss Harriet Stanwood, of a fam
lily that settled in Massachusetts, in the
early days of that colony, and went thence
to Maine in tho vanguard of it's pioneers.
In Augusta, where her father, Jacob
Stanwood, lived for many years, Mrs
Blaine was born in 1928. Her father was
well to do merchant a man of influence,
although never holding public office. lie
took great pride in his daughter, who was
girl OF fine natural gifts, strengthened by
liberal education. Full of ambition and
force, SO we'll displayed in after life, she
determined to make her own way, and
hence started out as n school teacher. 1t
was at Millcrsburg, Ky, that she first met
Mr.. Blaine then a professor at the Military
institute at Blue Lick Springs, twenty
miles distant. The world has heard enough
of the circumstances connected with their
marriage X is a cruel feature of American
political campaigns that neither man nor
woman is spared The slightest youthful
indiscretiOn or even an error of judgment
is magnified into u monstrous crime, and
III 1884 both candidates suffered.
The first child of this union, Stanwood
Blaine, died in infancy. Three sons and
two daughters remained, and the fathers
heart was wrapped up in them. Walker
| Blaine, the oldest, was his fathers trusted
companion and assistant. Miss Margaret
Blaine was to her mother what Walker
was to his father, but Miss Harriet was
best known to the public, possessing both
wit and beauty and all the social qualities
| required for leading lady in Washington
| society OF Emmor!s and james G.. Blaine,
! Jr., the world knew but little. Such was
the family when Secretary Blaine took up
! his residence III that historic house on La
| fayette square that was but too well named
the House of Calamity The tragedies pre-
viously enacted there are part OF the ma
tons history, and the Blaines suffered ter
ribly.
| i lrSU came lne uedll Ol d uduSuucr
Nhen the wife of Colonel Coppinger), and
but two weeks later Walker Blaine died
even before the country had learned that
he was seriously i'll. The marriage of
James G. Blaine, Jr., mere boy, to Miss
Marie Nevins, was followed rapidly by his
divorce and a painful series OF recrimina-
tons and Immediately after it the death
of Emmons Blaine at Chicago No COM
ment can add color to this bare statement
of the facts. Only Mrs. Walter Damrosch,
nee Margaret Blaine. her sister Harriet and
! James &. Blaine, Jr.. remain to comfort
their afflicted mother When the heat en-
gendered by the late campaign shall have
cooled the world will Judge very lenienty
the actions of the secretary during the
Minneapolis convention.
Ingersolrs Eloquent Tribute.
The noblest eulogy on the departed
statesman's political career and principles
was that uttered by Colonel Robert g. In
gersol in the Republican national conven-
ton OF 1876. It's therefore submitted here
entire as the fttest ending OF this sketch;
Massachusetts, may be satisfied with the 10y
atty Of benjamin II. Bristow. So am !. Bat II
any man nominated by this convention cannot
carry the state Of Massachusetts, am not sat
istied with the loyalty of that state If the
nominee OF this convention cannot carry the
grand old commonwealth of Massachusetts by
1900 majority, would advise them to sell out
Faneuil hall as a Democratic headquarters. |
would advise them to take from Bunker Hill
that old monument OF glory.
The Republicans OF the United States de-
mand as their leader in the great contest in
ls76 man of intelligence, man of integrity, a
man of well known and approved political
opinions. They demand reformer after as
well as before tho election. They demand a
politician in the highest, broadcast and best
sense-a man of superb moral CT age. They
, demand a man acquainted with Ole affairs
with the wants of the people, with not only the
requirements of the hour, but with the de-
mands of the future. They demand man
broad enough to comprehend the relations OF
this government to the other nations of the
earth They demand II man well Versed IN the
powers, duties and prerogatiyes of each and
, every department of this government.
, They demand man who will sacredly pre-
serve the financial honor of the United States
one who knows enough to know that the ma
l tional debt must be paid through the prosperity
of this people, one who knows enough TO know
that all the financial theories in the world can
not redeem n single dollar one who KIN VS.
enough to know that all the money must be
paid not by law, but by labor; one who knows
, enough to know that the people OF the United
States have the industry to make the money
and the honor TO pay it over just rs fast as they
I make it,
mand man who knows that prosperity and
g resumption when they come must come to-
gether; that when they come they will come
hand in hand through the golden harvest fields
hand in hand by the whirling spindles and the
turning wheels; hand in hand past the open
furnace doors; hand in hand by the flaming
FORCES; hand in hand by the chimneys filled
with eager fire-greeted and grasped by the
=, countless sons OF toll
This money has to be dug out OF the earth
. You cannot make it BY passing resolutions in Il
political convention.
4 The Republicans of tho United States want q
i man who knows that this government should
h protect every citizen at home and abroad; whC
{ knows that any government that will not de
/ fend its defenders and protect its protectors /:
a disgrace to the map of the world. They do
> III and man who believes in the eternal sepa-
: ration and enforcement of church and school
They demand man whose political reputation
: is spotless as a star; but they do not demand
n that their candidate shall have a certificate o
l. moral character signed by a Confederate con
A gress. The man who has in full heaped anC
rounded all tlpSa sDlPndil QualiiiCa