The Republican journal., 1895-11-07
The Memory of Blaine.

In recent editorial the New ork Mail
and Express pays an appreciative and
eloquent tribute to the memory Of state
man our country has sadly missed during
the last few years. After referring to the
applause which greeted the leading parti-
eipants in the Republican State Conven-
ton the Mail and Express says:
The name of all names which evoked
applause, Spontaneous, prolonged, repeat
ed, irresistible; cheering, which rose and
swelled as the flood of memory of affec-
ton and of loyalty surged over the au-
dience, was the everything name of James
G. Blaine. Nor was that meeting an ex-
ceptional one. Wherever American free
men gather the memory of Blaine is re-
called with every instinct of patriotism
and revived with every aspiration for the
is no living American, probably no Ameri-
ality, while living, so irresistably captivat-
ed the feelings and stirred the admiration
and enthusiasm Of his fellow men, or the
echo Of whose magical name, when gone,
has SO thrilled the senses of those who
survived and mourned him.
Blaine true place in American states
manship has not yet been definitely as
signed 1t is not at the mountain foot,
but only at a distance that its towering
height and magnificent proportions can be
adequately appreciated or accurately
measured 1t viii be only after the
rancor and the political animosities of
the generation in which he lived Shall
have passed away that patriotic men of
all parties will pay their united tribute Of
respect and admiration to the memory of
James q. Blaine. Like many another
supereminent genius, as soon as Lis great
ness began to overshadoW the ambitions
of other men, his calumnlators commeuc-
ed their cowardly warfare Of SANDER and
vituperation. He was Il shining mark
for the shafts of malice and detraction.
Blaine was himself incapable of cherish
ing animosity. He was almost like q
woman in the warmth and the tenacity of
his affections.
He was Republican, but he was first
statesman and an American. Partsanship
ceased at the door of the Department Of
State. So long as Secretary Blaine re-
manned at the head of the department it's
foreign policy was broad in scope, high
IN motive. positive, progressive, impos-
ing. Tenacious Of our rights, respectful
Of the rights of others, animated by
profound conviction Of the SPLENDID
destiny of the republic, he strengthened
everywhere the respect Of other nations
for our flag. The limits of Blaine S
America were bounded by the two oceans,
the Arctic zone and the straits of Magellan.
No grander view ever opened to the eye
of faith than that which dawned upon his
prophetic vision.
He looked forward to the day when
republics only should occupy the Western
continent, republics consecrated alike to
freedom, and living upon terms of closest
intimacy in commercial relations and in
ternational comfy. He gathered at Wash
ington representatives Of the sister re-
publics in Pan American Congress. He
devised that grand and benefcent policy
of reciprocity, which gave new and
remarkable stimulus to our commerce,
until it was abandoned and swept away
by the jealous and vindictive Administra-
ton of Cleveland and Gresham, which
policy of reckless folly alone prevented
Blaine's prophetic dream from becoming
an abiding and splendid reality.