The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-02-04
JAMES G. BLAINE.


ton residence ut II o'clock last Friday
morning. His name will go iutc
history with those OF Clay and Web
st,r "a the foremost American al his
time, who fairly earned but did
not receive the highest reward his
I country could bestow. The following is
brief biography OF this remarkab,
man:
James Gillespie Blaine was horn
January 81. 1880. at the village of
West Brownsville, Penn. He was the
second son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim
Lyons Blaine.
Ephraim Blaine was careful to give
all his children an excellent education,
and when James had completed at
home his early studies in the element,
airy principles, he was sent to the home
of relative at Lancaster, Ohio
This ielatiye was Thomas Ewing, the
Secretary of the Treasury. Young
Blaine was eleven when he went to
Lancaster, aud he began ut once g.
prepare himself for college, studying
with his cousin, Thomas Ewing, Junior,
now General Thomas Ewing, and once
"a member of Congress. and ut the
early age OF thirteen, entered Wash.
ington College.
Upon graduating he took position
as teacher in n miIit Try school for
boys at Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky,
but remained there only a year
during which lime he wooe.l and won
Miss Harriet Stanwood), and return
ing to Pennsylvania entered upon the
study OF law. He did no., however,
enter on the practice of that profession
but again engaged in teaching in the
Pennsylvania Institution for the blind,
remaining there until 1854 during which
year he resigned and took up his home
i'll Augusta, Maine, and entered upon
his life work by the purchase of hall
na,rest i'll the Keunebtc journal and
the assumption of the editorial charge
of that paper at the age of only
twenty three years. At twenty five
he was leading power in the coun
ellis of the Republican party, so rec
ognized Ivy Fessenden, Hamlin and
the two Morrills and others then AMI
still prominent in the state. Before
he was twenty-Dine he was chosen
chairman of The Executive Committee
o; the Repub can organization il
Maine--a position he has held evet
since. and from which he has prac
tictl!y shaped and directed every
political cimpaien in the state, always
leading his party to brilliant victory
IN 1860 he was elected to congress
in 1869 was cho. Ell speaker and served
until 1876 when he passed from the
lower 10 the upper house and thereip
and DIS cabinet minister completed Iii.
career of public service.
Mr.. Blaine was rresse for he
republican nomination for president in
1876 but failed to receive it; was aga'n
supported in that of 1880 and again
defeated, was nominated by the con
vcnton oil. 1884 and beaten ut the poll,
by Mr.. Cleveland; was the almost
unanimous choice of the party in til,
convention of 1884 bu forbade the use
of his name, and was again brough
forward by his friends in the Min
neapolis convention OF last year
although he had lby letter withdraw
his ln,me from consideration.
! Few public men have ever occupie,
the vi ce that James q. B,uine has TO
many years filed in the hearts of til
American people. Henry Clay Is mos
often compared to INN and there ar
many tstrong points of resemblance
Clay an,l Blaine both possessed in
marked degree those quilitie. Of at
traction, Of sympathetic intuition
which are now fittiuSly Described II
personal magnetism. 1t is said tha
Mr.. Blaine rarely forgot face, or til
, name That belonged to it. He had I'll
: faculty Of making those with whom h
, c,mr in contact believe that he too
tie strongest aud most dir. OF persons
: interest in them. It was said OF him thu
h c,ud decline request for favor
such way as TO make friend by n
&c whic, would have made an enem
for most men. His conversations
powers were necessarily, from whit b.
been said, of high order. His fund Of il
: formation, white not thorough or Il .,
curttr ~ he no doubt would have like,
o 'in0 to his lack Of early advantage
was most extensive aud there we're fe
subjects on which he could not co
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