Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-05-05
BLAINE's MEMORY.
NEVER FORGOT A FACE OR THE
NAME OF AN ACQUAINTANCE.

NAME Spf AN HSQOHiN tHNSe'
The Wedding Notice He Wrote When
an Edito. - Some Striking Incidents
That weYo Related by EI-Governe1
Cumback of Indiana.
Upon taking editorial charge OF the
Eennebec Journal Mr. Blaine soon
familiarized himself with Maine poll
tics by studying the files of The Jour-
nal. and he studied them closely as far
back as 1926. By this means no soon
became the best posted man in the state
on Maine politics, and he was looked
upon as authority. His able editorials
during the campaign bringing mp po-
litical matters of the past showed care.
ful research, and they were copied wide.
". It was while editor Of The Journal
that he was one day stopped on the
street by an old lady whom he had new
er seen before and asked to write up the
wedding of her daughter, which occur
red the night before.
Blaine had served his time In con-
Rfess and went to Maine to speak dur
ing his campaign, when at the close OF
his speech he began shaking hands with
the masses crowded around him. An
old lady with wrinkled brow and whit
ened hair, bearing babe in her arms.
approached and offered her hand.
"Why, how do you do?" said Mr..
Blaine. "Where's tLat daughter OF
yours wrote up that :, ,dding notice
about?"
"Poor Lucy is Dead" said the old Ia
dy, and her eyes filed with teara
"This is her child"
The man with the big, kind heart
reached over and kissed the little blue
eyed girl.
During the Greeley campaign in 1879
ex- Governor Cumback Of Indiana spoke
with Mr.. Blaine in Springfield, o. This
was early in the campaign. Just before
the election Mr.. Cumback was sent up
in Blaine's state to make speech. He
was told by the committee that he
would find Maine people very stiff and
inhospitable and quite different from
the western people. Mr.. Cumback was
surprised. however, at his enthusiastic
reception, there being large crowds
everywhere, and he never had more
enthusiastic meeting than at Augusta.
BE told Blaine Of the incident and hia
agreeable disappointment.
| ha OF
q man Of unusual stuff to get them
stirred up! Such man Oh a speech az
you are would have good reputation
anywhere.
"But what do you know about my
speech?" asked the governor.
Didn't you speak with me over at
SpringfeldT' said Blaine in way as a
reminder Then he went ahead and told
Mr.. Cumback all about his speech, OF
the crowd present and gave promptly
all the main points of the speech and
even named the party with them. He
also remembered at what hotel they put
mp and what day of the week it was.
Another instance Of Blaine's great
memory is cited in the following story,
as told by Mr.. Cumback:
During the Garfield campaign MIR.
Blaine spoke in Cumback's town. He
was entertained by Mr.. Cumback and
driven over town.
"There's sick man in that house
there that has been talking you up fo1
president for four or five years, said
the governor land he thinks there Ia
NO one like Jim Blaine"
"Me for PRESIDENT" said Blaine.
eyes, you FOR president. Do you
want to stop and go in to see him g
: go :l6lseS, 9lyyuao4 yiulutsi
They went in and remained few
minutes. Blaine trotted the children on
his lap and talked freely with the sici
man, whose name was David Kerr.
Blaine and the governor met at Gar.
aeld's Inauguration.
"How are you, WHIP" asked Blaine.
And he asked all about the men he had
met in Cumback's town several months
before and called nearly all Of them by
their first names. "Oh, yes" he said,
chow is Dave Kerr? Did he ever get
well3 Poor fellow, he suffered terribly.
And those little children. how about
themF'
This may be considered . wonderful
feat of memory. X was in October when
he met these people, and it was on the
eth Of March, nearly Eve months after
ward, that he recalled his visit, re.
membering the name OF every person
he was introduced to on that day. Ha
had seen million people since that
time End had shaken hands with and
met thousands.
Mr.. Cumback accompanied Mr..
Blaine on his speaking tour through In.
diana during his campaign in 1885. II
was just ten days before election. Cum.
back left him at Lafayette. saying that
he wouldn't see him again until tbs
inauguration.
"I don't know" said Blaine doubt
fully. "I'm afraid 1t won't be-"
He had an unusual, vacant, farawsy
look in his eyes. and he was very aeri-
ous. His words came slowly and heai.
tatingly. Mr.. Cumback assured him
that there was no doubt, but Blaine
shook his head.
81 don't know" said he. GIVE had
Q sort CT feeling for the last week that
wouldn't be elected. hope will,
but the outcome is doubtful, and ] feel
now as II it were very doubtful. But If ]
am defeated will 80 to work the next
day on my book.
And he did. He began the second vol.
ume of his Twenty Years Of Con.
gress" the next day after the election.
Chicago Emes-Herald.
Ho Laid.
Don't waste your time in clipping
OF the branches. said the Hoodman 10