Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-15

of the state where thot church was
especially strong. He had a sister who
was mother superior Of q convent at
South Bend and this fact was strongly
dwelt upon. The result was he did not
gain any votes among the Catholics
and lost heavily among the Protestants.
Last Visit to Indiana
His visit to the state was just at the
windup OF the campaign, and took all
the time and money Of the committee
and the party workers in getting up
demonstrations for him. The Demo-
Gratis utilized this time by beating the
bushes to get out all their vote. Hem
bricks made a personal appeal to all
his Indiana friends, saying, among 9TH
er things, that Il would be the last time
he would call upon them for their sup
port. Mr.. Blaine did not appear to ap-
preciate all the difficulties that con-
fronted his party In Indiana during
that campaign, but was impressed with
the idea that General Harrison and the
other party leaders had not stood by
him as loyalty as they. should have
done. He knew that Indiana had been
enthusiastically for him at the con-
vention and that his nomination had
awakened the greatest possible enthu-
siasm throughout the state, and he
could only account for the waning OF
his popularity by holding the leaders
and not himself responsible.
All this was in his mind when he
agreed to canvass the state in 1888. He
was very reluctant to make the pro-
posed tour, and only yielded to the
earnest urging of the national commit
tee. His tour was failure in every
way. The crowds were not so large or
so enthusiastic us was expected; his
.I.a. la.g a at,1 NA1
disappointment. His refusal to meet
the crowds that gathered otherwise
than to make a short address soured
the people, and thousands went away
lukewarn1. Then, to add to the trou-
bles of tho party leaders in the state,
the national committee insisted on maxi
ing an effort to get up great demon
stration of organized labor in favor
Of Mr.. Harrison. Large delegations
Of laboring men from all parts of the
state had already visited Indianapolis
and the state leaders represented to
the national committee that 1t would
be impossible to get them to make an
other visit, but the committee insisted
the effort should be made and sent two
labor agitators into the state to man
age the affair.
Peevish and PetuIant
AS a demopstration 1t was flzzle
and cost a good deal of money. The
result was it gave a good deal Of coll
oring to the Democratic claims that
organized labor was opposed to Harri-
son. The Blaine coming and the labor
demonstration were fixed for the same
time and required all the energy and
money of the party. The two things
combined came very near losing the
state to the Republicans. The James
G.. Blaine OF 1888 was not the magnetic
James G. Blaine of former years. AS
said, he was peevish and petulant.
This was displayed in numberless ways.
He would not stop at hotels, but had
to be entertained at some private house.
One of the great demonstrations ar
ranged for was to take place at Tip
pecanoe battle ground, short distance
from the city of Lafayette. 1t was
beautiful day AMI a vast throng had as
sembled to greet him. Something had
gone wrong with him at breakfast and
he entered the train to go to the battle
ground in very petulant mood. One
or two of his enthusiastic admirers per-
sisted on entering his car, and this add
ed to his peevishness. So 1t was that
when the battle ground was reached
he refused to speak at all, and it was
only after persistent persuasion that he
was induced to take seat on the plat
form. Fully 10000 people had gathered
to greet him, but he sat on the plat
form with his head down and would
hardly respond to the greetings of any
one.
He entered Harrison's cabinet, but
each of the two distinguished gentle
men carried a chip on his shoulder,
and nothing during the whole adminis-
tration so pleased Harrison as the ten
dering of Blaine's resignation, unless
it was the acceptance of it,