The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-02-03
THE DEAD STATESMAN.

/ Minneapolis Journal: Some men will
be inclined to think that Mr.. Blaine's
failure to reach the presidency stamps
his career as failure. But no one
regards the lives of Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay as failures. Mr..
Blaine, like them, failed to De PreSi-
dent, but like them: yes, even more
than they, he wrought for his coun-
try'S good. He lived in more tenn
pestuous times than they did and he
met the extraordinary responsible
ties placed upon him, seriously. The
fact is, had he been President he could
not have left deeper impress upon
| the history of his country than he has.
He could not, indeed, have been more
of an inspiration to the American
spirit than he was.
Winona Republican: But few men
in this country or any other, however
distinguished in official life, has dur
ing his life enjoyed such universal
feeling of popular devotion as James
G. Blaine. In civil life, more partic-
ularly, his hold upon the affections of
the people has been such as no other
American has enjoyed since the death
of Henry Clay. In death, as in life,
the great heart of the nation goes
out with undesirable throb of sym
pathy and Of homage toward the illus
trious American Commoner. 1t will
indeed be .long before we look upon
his like again.
Minneapolis Tribune: Like Hamil
ton, Webster, Clay and Sumner,
Blaine needed the honor of no office
to secure his fame in political history.
No office could add to his name. His
greatness was not of a kind in which
office had pare. AS far as fame
could go, he had gone the whole way.
ST, Paul Pioneer Press: For a gen.
Grafton one of the chief actors in the
mightiest drama of the world, for a
part of that time its most conspicuous
and powerful figure, honored at home
and abroad, filling to the full in his
ripe and mellow age the chapters of
our history where his work is record
ed, and, perhaps the best and highest
of all, possessed as few have ever been
of the unalterable devotion of those
who knew and loved him, Mr.. Blaine
goes to his rest great and hOnored
man. Of all the tributes to his mem
DRY, none are more sincere, none are
more surely witness of deathless
name, none would have been more
earnestly coveted by him than the wet
eyes and broken voices of the men
and women who today feel that some
thing of the glory has departed from
us because he is no more.
Minneapolis Times: There aremany
good and great men still left in the
world, and there will always be, but
the country mourns it's greatest COM
mCaer, very noble and inspiring
prdsence, and will long cherish the
memory of James G.. Blaine with min
gled pride and affection. The world
is the poorer that he has been pro-
noted to highest service.
ST. Paul Globe: He had ability. He
won tirsJ notoriety, then leadership,
by his ability as debater. He was
fertile in resources. He had width of
vision, seeing the relation of things.
He generaliZed readily and rapidly.
He had his faculties all at command.
They were ever on the alert. Quick
to see an advantage, quick to take it,
he was as politician, parliamenta-
rian, an adversary, one to be feared
and respected. He kept well in touch
with the popular feeling.