The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-02-07
TEE SOUTH AND BLAINE.

NOM even MS SuGuAlcSl OIL oaNO OhNoe
ruled by personal hate instead Of poll
tical difference. Not even those who
were once called followers of the
Plsmed Knights can now speak more
eloauently of this mans worth than
GO many of those who few years ago
regarded him rs their bitterest enemy.
A. rule the Southern press sounds
the praises of Blaine as they would
had he been the product of their own
sunny cline. His magnetism was
such that it compelled their admira-
tion.
The San Antonio (Texas) Express
calls him the typical American, and
describes him as
A man upon whose rugged
face Fear was afraid to look; whose
heart was big enough to gather
within its gates everything animate
and inauimate upon which falls the
shadow of our flag; who loved his
country with an affection amounting
to idolatry and guarded her honor as
his own; who was a party man with,
out becoming a bitter, purblind
politician-a politician without pros
tituting his patriotism; whose mind
was as deep as Wehster's 8, active as
Caihuun's and broader han both
combiRed-such q man, Oh Sons of
America, are you called upon tomOurn,
The Birmingham (Ala) Age-Her-
o1d gays no mau has wrung tribute
from uuwillingness as did Blaine, and
adda:
The foremost American of his
generation ia dead. Strange,
marvellous strange, how the South had
come to feel toward Blaine; and
above all the deep and wide devotion
Of the masses of his own party, this
Southern sentiment that gathered
round him in his last years was the
BRIGHTEST jewel he ever wore. II was
tribute literally wrung from uuwilling.
ness, and bestowed on no other of our
ancient enemies living or dead, save
Lincoln,
The Atlanta Constitution criticises
many of his acts as statesman, but
admits that he was the idol and the
representative of the people.
ct the people-we might almost
say the people without regard to party
--instinotively knew that Mr.. Blaine
at his best, was a representative
Americana man evidently in love
with the whole country and it's insti-
tuions.
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) NetOs ao.
kRowledges that his death was a loss
to the whole country.
Bus our great statesman has been
taken from us, and there is not an
American to-day who does not feel
that the country has sustained an
almost irreparabie loss.
That most bitter of partisan papers,
the New Orleans States, which was
never known to find any good in the
North, is compelled to admit that
Blaine was the most magnetic man of
his day, and it says:
Mr. Blaine was undoubtedly the
most magnetic man Of his day. His
generous impulses and gracee OF man
ner made him magnetic, but his
greatness as a statesman and serious
limitations, and it is too soon now to
gay exactly where his place in history
will be.
The Florida Times Union says of
him;
Blaine was thorough partisan, per
haps an extreme partisan, but he
would have been an able man in most
any walk of life, if Fate had not made
him a politician. He will certainly
rank among the great Americans.
New Orleans Ptcayune admits his
greatness:
Few public men of his day have
made more impression upon public
affairs OF his country, and none OF his
associates and CCmpeeTs in political
life will be remembered longer.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says;
The country has produced pro-
founder men and statesman Of lOfIier
mold, but it would be hard to select,
perhaps, from the men who have fig
ured in the past few decades, one
who in so many phases of his char
acter ably illustrated the American
politician and statesman.
The Columbus (Ga,) Enquirer. Sun
says;
The whole Nation, North and
South, will mingle tears of sorrow
over his grave, and will in common
hold him in memory as the greatest
of Americans.
The Savannah GA NetOs adds:
Although strong partisan he had
many admirers and friends among
Democrats. In the South, nOtwith-
standing his prominence ia his party,
he WAS held in higher esteem than
any other of the Republicen leaders.
These tributes to Blaine from the
Southern papers are but illustrations
that All brave men love courage, even
when it Is against them. 1t is only
the coward that hates greatness, and
the only attacks now found on The
dead statesman are from those papers
which slsndered him in life.