Arizona republican., 1920-10-18
l. THE CLEVELAND BLAINE
 RACE OF 1884 D.. E-oIo~;1 A-~LfY


 WASHINGTON. D. C.. Oct. 16.-Dis l graceful because of the scandal-mon- | gering and mud -slinging, exciting oe- cause of the intense partisanship dis 1 played. and because it was so close i the campaign of 1884 stands as one of | the most interesting of our history. resulted in the elevation of Grove, l Cleveland to the presidential office. the | first Democrat to be elected after the | Civil war, whose two terms of office 1 were the only interruptions in 52 years of Republican asCendancy. Long before the campaign was i've 1t was realized hat the candidate who carried New York would ae elscted. Cleveland carried the state by onl1 1.149 plurality over Blaine 4 change of coo voters in New York would have made Blaine president. The narrc V margin resulted in a thousand ifs and it is by some of these ifs tEat the campaign will be remembered longest
 The aggressive action on the part of the Democrats began with the election of 1882. Garfield had alienated Conk- ling by making Blaine secretary or state. Then followed the appointments of Robertson to be collector of the port of New York. Conkling was so furious that he resigned his seat in the senate being initiated by Thomas q. Platt. his junior colleague, who thereby gained for himself the sobriquet of Me Tool Conkling and Platt were soccly disap- pointed in that they were not trium- phantly reelected.
 The assassination of Garfield did not end the factional disputes in the party. President Arthur was Conkling's friend but he soon broke with the imperious New Yorker. Blaine was the popuiaI leader and the idol of the masses of the Republican voters. Yet his enemies were many and powerful. both within and without the party. The Demu crats looked upon him as the next nominee for president and trimmed their sails accordingly. In 1882 the Democrats swept the country and elected a majority of the house of Tep< resentatives.
 Cleveland's Nomination
 More than that, they carried the pivotal state of New York ny a ma jority of almost 100000 with Grover Cleveland as the nominee for governor. Cleveland's care0r as mayor of Buffa- To and his veto of extravagant appro priations had brought him into notice in New York His gret v:cycry, con tributed to by Republican factionism, caused the whole country :) look to him. When the Democratic national convention met in 1884 he was easiiS nominated on the second ballot, receiv- ing the necessary two thiri is vote de- spite the violent and even disorderis protests of Tammany Hall, then led hy John Kelly.
 The administration opposed Blaine with all it's force, and attempted to win the nomination for President Ar thur. But Blaine was the leader from the beginning and received the nonl- nation on the fourth ballot. The DOW erful influences which had defeated him in the conventions of 1876 and 1880 were still at work, but their force was expended and Blaine was nominated for slaughter.
 Again there was a third party factor in the problem. The GreenhacKers re- appeared as the anti-monoroly party and nominated for president no less a parsonage than General Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts. the premier acrobatic clown of the political circus. Six weeks after taking the and-monop- olv nomination, Butler appelred as delegate in the Democratic convention actually trying to get the Democrtic nomination and bidding for southern support by offering plauK faVor)ng Federal pensions for Confederate sol diers!
 Scandals affecting Blaine's integrity had been afloat for years, and had been used against him in two national con : ventions. The Democratic press hailed his nomination with the Cre1it MoOi- Her scandal and the Mulligan letters The charge was reiterated that Blaine as sneaker of the house of representa- tives. had been influenced in his rul- ings by financial considerations.
 The Usual Mud Battle
 When the campaign was fairly start ed. a scandal about MT. Cleveland s earlier life was unerthed-the Halp'n affair. The Bline forces made fatal mistake in lending official countenance to the spread of the scandal. when the Democratic committee considered publishing the Blaine scandal broad cast. Mir. Cleveland vetoed the pro9o- sition. That did not prevent. of course the individual Democrats from taking up and repeating the old charges against Blaine which had been cur rent for eight years. The result was a bitter, nasty. mud d-slip ging campaign
 Everybody looked upon New York as the pivotal state. There MT. Cleveiano and MT. Blaine both labored under great difficulties Mir. Blaine had the implacable hatred of Roscoe Conkling That alone cost him the presidency, tol there were thousand Conkling men 1T Oneida county who voted for CleVeland On the other hand, Cleveland had th' enmity of Tammany Hall and the in tense hatred of Charles A. Dana, eoi' tor of the New York Sun, and th' ablest journalist in the land. The Sur was then a straight-out Tammany or gan. MT. Dana had a personal grieV nee aginst Mir. Clevelnd. He inspire' the Tammany opposition to Cleveland and after the nomination he bolted tn | ticket.
 Dana and the Sun supported Gen eral Butler. the third party candidate and always had a good word for tn Prohibitionist candidate, Governo John P. St. John of Kansas. Butler candidacy was a miserable fiasco. an the Suns following voted straight TO Blaine when election day came arounc
 How Blaine 6lundered Blaine made a stumping tour or i Middle West and was welcomed few men have ever been. There was n doubt in the minds of either Republl cans or Democrats that he hac mac many votes for himself, and that n had swung the tide in his favor. ' his way back east he stopped In Tn
 diana to visit his sister, who wa