Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-01-28

HAfter Mr.. Blaine had Written MS 4eteot
announcing that be would not be canol-
date for the Republican nomination he was
waited upon by his friends and urged 70
reconsider his action. IL was represehteo
to MIR. Blaine. who was then i'll, that the
campaign would be made so easy for him
as to involve no physical or mental ex-
haustion, and that the result would % MS
triumuhaut election. With an air OF oes-
pondencv the sick man replied that ne was
Satisfied that he could not live through a
heated politieal campaign, and that II ne
shonId the harrassments OF q Presidentlai
office would surely terminate his liie
within six months after he took his seat:
HE intended, and this statement is sig
nifcant in view Of subsequent events, 10
resign his office as Secretary OF Stale IA
the early summer, retre 10 MS ueHe
home and spend his remaining ueyS IL
quiet literary work"
Mr.. BLAINE's DEATH
at the last came painlessly and quiet, but
not without premonition. The attending
physicians have said repeatedly In these
later DAYS since hope OF recovery was
abandoned, that when the end came IL
would occur with at least two or lhree
hours warning. rms one an
nouncement at least, among many per-
picking and contradictory statements, mas
been verified oy facts. The approach OF
death was made evident to the family fully
two hours before its actual occurrence. IL
was between S and o'clock this morning
when the first dangerous symptoms were
observed. The family had taken tnelr
breakfast, and the trained nurse, mrs
Price. had gone down for her breakfast
also. leaving the patient temporarily alone;
lanes c. Blaine, Jr had on his hat and
coat preparatory TO starting OIL Tor MS
davis dnties at the Office OF the Pennsyl-
fvnnia Railroad Company, where he IS en-
niovad. when his mother suggested TO him
ihst n would be betterto walt till the nurse
came mn. He promptly acquiesced.
Wr Blaine had passed a restless night.
and had been pronouir6eti mot so well,
even by his cautious physicians. put Oe-
'vond a perceptible increase OF the langC.gS, :,
which had marked his condition during the
past few days, there was no very alarming
change to be noted. When the nurse re-
turned from her breakfast, however, her
experienced eyes at once saw that the end
was drawing near. Both physicians were
Immediately telephoned for and arrived
within a few minutes Of each other. The
powerful hear stimulant (nitro-glycerine)
which had several times before brought
the patient back out Of the dark valley OF
death, was powerless now.
DIR. HYATT CAME OUT
at $50 and said to the group Of waiting
newspaper men that he feared that the emu
was at hand. In the meantime all the
family had been summoned into the death
chamber-Mrs. Blaine, the devoted wife;
Miss Hattie Blaine, his unmarried daugh-
fer: Mrs. Damrosch, his married daughter:
James g. Blaine, Jr., his only surviving
son; and Miss Dodge Gail Hamilton). his
cousin.
In silent, fearful sorrow they witnessed
the closing scene The patient lay so
opietlv that even the doctors were hardly
sble TO say when he died. No word OF
consciousness, no look of recognition had
passed. At 10 ;45 he lay, SO sIIll that Ine
window shades were raised 10 give more
light to enable the physicians TO determine
if life still fingered. Fifteen minutes later
they pronounced him dead.
The news was instantly flashed all over
the world.
Mr.. Blaine was in the act Of writing
n note to President Harrison 10 inform
him of the event, when the President him.
self arrived accompanied by his private
secretary and Secretary Of State Foster
All the rest Of the Cabinet quickly follow
ed and the excitement throughout the city
became general as the news spread.
SECRETARY RUsK.
T have no hesitation in saying that in
MANY respects Mr.. Blaine outranked any
of his contemporaries, aud none has WELD
ed a greater influence in shaping the for
tunes of the Republican party. One OF the
oualities have always esteemed the most
highlv in James G.. Blaine. was his sturdy,
unswerving Americanism. He will al
yavs be one of the conspicuous figures IN
the political history of this country. His
death. while not unexpected, Will be
great shock to the people ofthe whole ma
ton, irrective Of their political senti-
ments."
A GENTLEMAN
who was intimately associated with Mr..
"At 70 O'Clock Of the day Mr.. Blaine's
resignation was given out be had no idea
of resipning from the Cabinet. At that
hour he went home and found that some
one had marked number Of interviews
which had been telegraghed from Mime
anolis and printed in several papers.
Thev accused Mr.. Blaine with betraying
the president and with using his place in
The Cabinet as a cover for conspiracy 10
defeat the President and secure the nonl-
nation. The interviews wound up by de-
clariug that if Mr. Blaine was an honora-
bic man he would have resigned from the
Cabinet.
these interviews, Mr.. Blaine wrote his
resignation. and he has since told his
friends that there were never but two oc-
casions of difference between himself and
the President and that they had been fully
explained and satisfactorily settled"