The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-03
NUMBER 81
JAMES q. BLAINE DEAD.

JAMES ii. BLAINE DEAD.
The end has come at last and the
great statesman who has honored his
: country so well, and who for the past
few weeks has been making such a
! valiant fight against death, has passed
from the scenes of his earthly glory to
the great beyond. Although for more
than month his death has been al
most daily expected, still the grief
with which the nation will hear of
the final dissolution will be none the
less poignant. The death of no pub
lie man during recent years has been
more sincerely mourned by the entire.
people, than will be that of Mr.. Blaine.
James q. Blaine was born in West
Brownsville, Pa, Jan. 81, 1880. He
received a college education, and his
early years were spent in teaching
and newspaper work. He had
a love for politics and entered the po-
lltlcal arena at an early age. He was
a delegate to the first Republican Ma
tlonal convention. member of the
Maine legislature and in 1863 entered
the house of representatives, where
hecOn tinued in active service for IA
years. of which he served as it's speak
er. Here probably some of the most
exciting and sensational epochs of his
life occurred. If, as has been often
pnI orb Of l,o =
sensational side of politics, his de-
sires in this particular must have been
fully satisfied during the closing years
OF his service in that body. AS he
rose in reputation and influence his
eye centered upon the presidency and
in 1876 he was prominent candidate
for the nomination and was defeated
by ,2S votes. Everybody is familiar
with his presidential aspirations since
that time and how those ambitions
have been blocked. In 1880 he enter
ed Garfield's Cabinet, after short
service in the Senate, and here his
admirers predicted for him most
brilliant career. But Garfeld's death
/ cut this short. From that time I'M
til he entered Harrison's Cabinet as
Secretary of State, he was not in pub
lie life, but followed literary work,
and it has been often remarked that
had he not earned a worldwide repu-
tation as statesman and a diplomat
ist his literary. work would have
{ made him famous.
| AS Secretary of State under Pres
ident Harrison he added fresh laurels
to his reputation as statesman and
diplomatist, and proved himself to be
the most brilliant statesman the
country has ever produced. Outside
of the presidency, probably his great
est ambition was to effect union,
for commercial purposes, at least, of
the American republics. and hence
his scheme for q panAmerican con-
greSS. He wanted to make the Amer
lean Continent as independent of the
rest of the world as possible, and
would have built here political web
as strong as any that ever existed be-
tween nations Of the old world. He
looked ahead and saw the possibilities
for extending our trade with those
republics. and consequently out of his
fertile brain came the reciprocity
clause of the Mckinley law, and as
Secretary of State he made that
clause effective.
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not help but make bitter enenaea
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