The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-08-14

But here now was the retrieving
chance. Blaine had achieved the nom
nation. AT last he had attained a posi-
ton to realize on his popularity. To be
sure, Blaine had shouldered a legacy of
sorry discord from the Garfield term
1t was true that the independent Mug
wunlps hadiifted their hands, palms out
ward, before their averted faces; and the
Prohibitionists, too, had baked and
gone off at a tangent. Years before Mr.
Blame had referred to Roscoe Conkling
as "a strutting turkey-cock," and now
Conl<ling and his stalwarts were sitting
ongtOp of the fence to see the Blaine
PROFESSION go by. OF course there were
some dainty people who protested against
the use of dredges with which to dump
over the head of Mr.. Cleveland. Out
side the question of decency, they held
it to be a dangerous thing to make a
martyr of an enemy
Oh. yes, these elements were all oper-
ati1tg against the Republican candidate;
BUT every man must meet hostility. and
these forces could be overcome at the
polls Which was true of the schedule
just named. Despite their influence Mr..
Blaine could have won. But here with
in five days of election another antagon-
ism was added to the schedule, and Fate,
Standing just around the corner" rub
bid her hands with sardonic JUNCTION.
NEW YORK BY A THOUSAND
PLURALITY.
iav be said here, as it will lat
et zss ii history, that, minus any one
Of sssstacles just named, Mr.. Blaine
No. aye been President of the United
st GX& Jew York was vital, and it
"a cleveland a plurality of Io47.
Anss7ssss ~ the scheduled forces carried
thabkGlail votes against Blaine. Could
he hsveswon or escaped any one of them
he would have succeeded. Could he
have been delivered from the ministers
welksme another story would have been
wriSten The combination was just
strdrg enough to defeat the dearest am
biti@l of Blaine's life, and did so.
Oh Thursday morning the World
prieAed the brief address of DR.. Bur-
chard; including the Three RS, and
the country first heard of Burchard
through the roll and rumble of his al
liberation. The Times and the Herald.
though bitterly opposing Mr.. Blaine, did
not print the Burchard utterance. Why.
| have never understood. Each had re-
ceived from the local bureau of the As
ISOLATED Press copy of Mulvey's trans
cribed notes. Possibly some hurrying
copy-reader had squeezed mere meet
ing of dominies into the political news
notes" or had reduced it to a meagre
paragraph with singie-iine head. The
weekly Union and Catholic Times did
not miss it. On Thursday its weekly
issue referred to the incident with brew
ity more potent than exact, thus:
AT the meeting of the ministers with
Blaine at this city Wednesday, the Rev
DIR. Burchard said in his address to
Blaine: You represent all the virtues,
Mr.. Cleveland represents Rum, Roman
ism. and Rebellion. The Herald re-
printed this, and the Democratic press
on Friday got into full swing editorially
DR.. McGlynn wrote and published let
ter of vehement protest, and the Three
RS became to the closing canvass what
the Morey letter had been to the Gar
field campaign four years before
The Democrats were to close their
campaign on Saturday night with great
parade through the streets of New York,
and meanwhile the sign-painters IN Ann
Street were busy night and day prepar-
ing Rum. Romanism. and Rebellion"
transparenc1es.
On Saturday morning two days before
election. DR. Burchard over his signature
published a card to the public. He de-
clared the purpose of his words had
been wholly misunderstood; that he did
not intend to cast any reflection on the
Roman Catholic Church, and was
speaking only of the doings OF the Dem
ocratic party: that he believed in relig-
ious freedom. and that he alone was re-
5ponsible for the language and senti-
ment OF his address.
This contribution from DR. Burchard
did more harm than good. It evoked
ieering laughter from the enemies of
Blaine and groans OF disgust from his
friends. To some minds its last SEN
tence confirmed the shifty rurnor that
DR.. Burctard was at heart Cleveland
man. and that he had poisoned the
Blaine address to help his favorite. This
rurnor was as wicked as it was redicu
Ious. and it is mentioned here only to in
dictate the fevered condition twenty years
ago.
HOW Blaine TOOK IT.
Saturday came, and despite the jang
ling clamor of friends and foes there
was no syllable from Mr.. Blaine to bal