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jKe TlcrtA Hlarclinians IT LM 4R"ORE kTallORTaFEECII ri uaiPiuiT ruT ftALfM. S. C. lUiteml at IW p.t&c al !UWUh. C. aa aa-ood cU matter FRIDAY. Feta-tiarT a. 61.00-A YEAR. ia ata Caraltaa IwomUU a aal a ktkl. Ire. " ,U arU ''Pr Kakritkal la ckaractrr aa4aiaa at la MUtTII IROLIMO. Mt al Ikal laral tk.aa4 -rl akl ? 4 altar a jrar lar ack a MT'. IW? ! aaJ aaladt Ikal II i akaa alalia wart fc Ikal arte. Hal, kaarter ax a a a4aa.l Ikal article arlk aaarr Ik4 ae kr tar a- laaar fax ar nalt lr ka U il we kaira'l la aaat. Tkrrr are mmi faraarr ta tatk araliaa fc, aflrr MUnhi( Iketr aftaraltaral aa1 relui araal, (rl like tart aa ara4 a I .nil aaarr far rra4ia al Irr4aia IW arar. Tker raa ! aa mt la 'tattkrte areklara ! aatiUtai rfrace ka akaaa Ikal, laaaak tk e-r a fcaaa rarr. f a III lair a Watketa MP" far lk? all aat ." lar Saeta araliaa wtaraal. la far I Ik rral MlWia raaraal. ? raaa af" I Weir ; lar.-v tirralaliM. raa aBarJ la artal a la r- arra.lt al !. alia aaar araal a aa a .atk (araliaa jaacaalraaal i. Hal. a kl Ike i a. aa lag la raatiar twaa. tarta" racttaa. av4 rraa. elr., aa.af aala atalialaa aairal at laal etlta alallar. a an! katr la "ral Ikrir rar aaral aeca4iat la la r l-lk." kat lka f Ha.! ta la Xaatta mr itoali fa aa a'ti'l laal Ikea aarkl la at al kaaae.aaa1 a kirk tfcrf aaaM are Irf la rt al kaaae f If -a. I kef las .tkl at Ik trral aatrarah Ikal aa awai, Ike it ankkr, aaal Wraae aaatre talereatra1 la a 1 ak Ikaa la lartk I araliaa. Tkt aakl ta k later. -MrW ta Till! MIRTH IROI.IM lrak Ilaea1 la k ta4. II alt raaaal. la tavaeti aalair ml aia(. earct tare taaapaaliaa. II l aatlaaa la aaakr Ik aaprt tack all -ltaa f 5iartk araliaa. aa4 aaak II traoaal ta Ik aaMl aalrnall iaaaal mi Ike Stair. II keraa aaatra Imib( a I allal la ala lkl If Ik aaaet raa k aaJrai raia lae Ik krttrraaeal af la aratkafaU aallir Male. r kaie. Ike re fare, la ataVt la aat la MIRTH AJU1LIMO allkia Ik track mt rtf aaa la Ik Stale, red ar ea1 Ik atir la Oae tllar ar Vear. Paaakl ilrellt la laltaaee. .! Iki Tb Iealb f Jutar LlktAB hS retail' ,rJ bu wrll Vooan tb-vu(Kn l lb Coo !ft,lercj. todbU k.trf.lb lrlrr of ihVl na .nliK-tiv of one of I tb nxxt Jraiai- -rrw- in lb history f lor emir. m- t- tail was uwJ.r cjn-MJerjli-rti oI an arnerMimettt f ih1.-1 r it.-n-Iinj U i- ! la all frttrin irrtT- tit of tlwir ' r in lite ,r 1-1 wwii tb Scale. It near !.tHn. 0.njrn-!. il thL jo-iW lt bw it k-.irv t fr2ir nl I f..rt hyiteo!in)f tlw N ttcfit of the n-au rv to lb' h ual " Nrn' arm piat tb ortiinem -'"in try. Th aOKixlmrnt t iir liiti"ti wbn xentnr Zrh 0o.Uer came t lU frt with a bvrt vcb in a hich b aid tbat biUfin tb- nuain In- arrvfl to tb p-n- . rl len..r of tb iinw iwlow iit. yrt anutr it .n :H.n r n J fT I.vi ouM r.trtI t citizt ubp- Aul." he avM nl. -I aio not pn-juivd t o far a that " l-atuar r. Hi inttfa-' vitr nut w rKletit. k-i.t-n him aiI Chan.!ler a iHnniiC l r.iul antasnUm riUtetL An outburst wa rxpettwl. arwl it rain. ":BLAIHE SKETCHED BY GATH. oration in Blaine. lie could s into both natun-J, and kue bow all rvligioo ii;Vrmi? u niounsbiue in lb heart. Hi arisdom. and wiavitT. and fear of to Ttica from Albany after ULtine went I to Maine. her publiej men, made the' private and the publicjlfe ot -Maine nc.iry iuv same. U -it .... ii ,,1.1 n..: .Uff. n-nt from the life he had seen nant to see that great, hoary East, as its in Pennsylvania, Ohio, irginia and Ratii il of Ilia Life aaal Traila ia Pak- lic aaal al II : imunn? inoffensive awt-suspet-ted mother. HIM PROTOTVPEJ 15 HISTORY, Xot till lyi. at twenty-eiebt. UkI v.rtn .huk fi.vrAlxrn si,)iC or THE I Klaintr s pomicaJ career o-u uui u, lw oiu; xsiZATftS which rxii thk peiiltt j tinent more than the men of Maine, lUkE tif lTt.H mmE Of lPPRr.HEXHlX HIS ENMITIES rm..'l..H ha-t thi .-mitrrants and UwTere and snf ulators ..L.v .v.w.j,- : . . ;.!.. ; f areni past. lie s n sundered corner of the country, that Maine or frontier Massachusetts which did not obtain its Statehood and admis sion to the Union till 1820. Maine and Missouri entered the Union together ten before Blaine was bom, and he LET LOCK. IffTyi, at twenty-eigbt. knew the con- Hel asu rEV-' wa in the Maine legislature between the could say, life Abraham of old. as he , :j I . . , .rlv.n: : .: .t-;H AND ' limes of John Brown's raid and Grant's -1.1.. . -a t K.. U'ulTfwlur f llu Wt at rR!t.Sb:TP rEJ""R.T WHITE Hlf MT ' ituieui iik ' .H ' Shiloh. Having been speaker of the Maine kg-Wa-kiDKton Iw, , iiaiure, Blaine came to Congress the Within the lifcof r.bune. C.irfield sanl, j Mme Tear j,, Garfield. and there lo its eivil eitt-Bt. IIarris.ns life were j ,UvwJ tln from 32 to 46. containeil. like a l-s-r within a larger j j-rom lb6, the year Grant became drawer. Km-U rvwixed tlie Presidential : prKJent till the centennial year, he was ;S?aker. In 1876 he was appointed to the Senate to succeed Lot Morrill, resign- notnination from Blaine and his to. low ing. In the cabinet of ea h he was what ; I'anlinal Uendiza name.1 after Fer-: din.tnd ainl IaN !i.i. -the thirl king of Sa:n." It Ls fallen to the lot of few men to,' have been so well and widely Momland fiemlv puiuel. He oormioiids in these inftieulars t Itleigh. Ah-xandtri Hamilton. Clay, and rei.hen A. Ifctugbi. 'id to Mar."u-en of St- t. for there were eli-met.t of l-siity and femrtiinity, ' a well - of Mn-ngth. in Mr. Blaine, j He had tlx- w.irui impuLxs. the warm, brain, the b-jovant vet suffering temper- j ameiit. and the inst.int nervous organiza-! "Mr. Irrhlent." said the MUswfian ti,,n ahich ierfullr attract and finally after B!ain became Speaker, I said to with outatretteil ftnifer 1I filing at Ills, wear meow-net oui o me ijuiik Him iu uir irciire ui wtriiu uiuris, ai foetuan. hi. tall f.m trembling with -l JJ HE, etmtlion. but hi vow ta-IIlike in its .. teacher bv original thok-e. ed. aud was then elected. He nwived 351 votes when 3H4 nomi nated Hayes, and he had 334 votes four year later w hen Grant had 306. He was then, in 184, nominated, and in IbSH eontnJIed the convention for Harrison's ultimate advantage, and, in is2. resigned frrnn Harrion"8 Cabinet while Harrison was forcing the nomina tion again. He supported Harrison and both closel tht ir career together. FIRST INSIGHT INTO BLAINE. In the year 1869, or that winter, soon Innkpd at the Missouri contention: -With my staff have I passed over this Jordan, and. lol I am become two bands." SCENES OF HIS BOYHOOD. I hired a little boy, such as Blaine had been at West Brownsville, who was anx ious to make some money for his father, and he drove me behind two ponies to Little Washington, twenty-four miles. The country looked to have been once old. Tollgates, taverns, turnpikes, ham lets, big stone culverts, everything re minded me of some Roman road to Gaul or Germany long since disused, but run i of the echoes of a tramping past. Thcj buffalos, the Indians, Girty, Braddoek, , Benton, had gone that way. j And Blaine had counted the miestoues ; 1 11 1 I T manv times in cniiuuoou, ims iam , There "is a tradition that in Blaine's stock somewhere was a Virginia progeni tor, a schoolmistress. His native part of Pennsylvania was long considered to be included in Virginia and Wheeling, Va., was onlv aboutthirty miles from Little Washington. The superior suavity of Blaine from such beginnings, his Irish sofuuing. his perfectly correct habits, family gentleness, and party fidelity, w ith ready and growing talents and self watchfulness, the result of his, till now, uneertaiu employment, won him that foundation iu the State, no distant hos tilitv has atfectetl. Maine has been his gallant, last and second mother, and no accusation comes to her in this hour of her Senator's, her Speaker's and her Sec retary's dissolution. Dirhjo is her motto, and he has confirmed it, and even of h m she could repeat the song of 1840: She's gone hell-bent For Governor Kent; ; For Tippecanoe And Tyler too. Maine was long a , Jemocratic like New Hamshire and Connect i- Yet State i learner atx! aitboat a piiver in it - when Pruinethra lay bound to the nk it as iw4 tle king of beat who availed him self t hi dtresw. It n not any oilier of tb nJer brutes of t!e field or brds of the air. It th vulture, tin' i-ca ven--r of tte animal kinghm g!utnninz urfi rarhun. whk-h prrynl ujn hi ita!. ktaing that in a defenrh-v man ti could move neither band nor foot, lie had tn into a ho vital he eoiiM dig hi hrk." He Mil t!-n amid a stilln t pn- fatl.na k. f''"d that tb rutl of a p"-r w.i.n..-l har-hly. I dandier wa tl'aI?y le. Irrt of -piration toii upn hU fore liea.1 atl b cleiK bed tli arm of hi hjir until tit tmmeil .1 tr-akel. It wa ttI lh.-t lie would reply. TH' ! half r then nk lairk. He did in if THK JiPI.IT I THE A LLI M'K. tat, Ike re aackt la k SO.noo araalr akaaaaM aakrttkr, aaal Ikaa aria lo kaiki aaa afaal mf a kirk lie a kale Mat aaaM k ataaal. If jaa kate aala) tl.lM yaa a ill grl Ike kraral af Ik rr tfvliaa. Get Up Clubs. aal laa art aa m rlak la taat aik. j kaMkaaa1 mt ttllar f Tk aaarr a III k ! larrrl r alrtateat la lilrtary. aaal arricallaral aakjerl. aaal a III k rvarearalaltf e af Ik krt kaakl la 5atk C araliaa. akall ak la aaake il "tart mf Ik -!. Mraal fl.lM aaal art la MIRTH C kR- OI.IM fa Ttt Safmil EiuinMit eotilain a mjiiifiMo from a faction of 11k Farmer. AlUn.-e appialmg to ineuiU-r. in tbetr- ..r l rejKl.lmlr llea-t if the late VcUI- phi' rneiiiiii. I f.irnun n- r gani,t!trfi oil a lrttly ii.m arii-.ii lxt. Tit tu-tnifoto i ignel by J. H Tillman. 't Triine-ee. aln. along with ht oTi-. a. abi4ilMl." a. far as the Alliance u oMii-arrneal. at the Meniphi tinriitin Vr. Tilhnaii dettonaci the men a ho now control the AliiaiHT. and rrview the origin and grwth of t he or der, planting out it original urira-s. which he derhuea were in aceonl with the rirK-iplea frf tf Ieniovratie arty. anl ahnh lie, a. a life long l-ni'rt. uodt-nvk to carry out and impress u on it tneinla-r. Referring to and defining the action of th late national cani(aign. in whk-h he U charged w ith trea.oii to the Alliance ly -tiding ttit. under hi oftVtal ign. t jre. numeriMi document apjvaling to th Allianr to U true to the Ik-mfn THtic teaching ujn hi h it - fiunh-l. he ayi: I cneeied it a duly levtlving un tne. U4b a general manager and director of the Ie ture b-ireau of tiie Al liance, 'xl a. an humble ni--niln-r of the Iiemorratie party, to eoiitnlxite to the ueee of a caue common to the inter est of iath. That the literature sent wit utxler my ignature aided the Ih--uo-cratic arty ami o.iilriltitil alike to the ilefeat of the li pul!.ean and Third ar lie. I h.e ihxImuM. and fni ly admit in fact. aeh were niv diin-, la-cause the n.inl jwrty in my Slate and other ul hrn Mate wa alltin with the Ile puUHaiis in it effort to ih-fcat Ia-mo-eratie pniH-iii-. ki ;i;ksTlo. an editor by alternation, a politician by raet. anIali jut together, a literary man, ' nt the nM-ny of a great ople and ctmti nent. their devotion and their dt-sert ion alike making attrition Inmate, wiltul. giJtetl constitution. Worn out. was the name of his disease. Whatever other attacks he had. none of them appear to have killed him. but he dil of the tubl;e career and of the tp- . ..I l. : ,;tl ..... 1 . 1.. Ki I al!-ttl life, but not short of the fulfill- ' nietit of tini-. He ended the period Seward and Ste ven began, the Whig or Middle State succession to the i.-voiie w hi h survived Monroe. Adam, and Jackson. He was lni at Jackotf time of per, was a young litical iJax-rver and s-h''!-liy ; when VanBureri was !. f. atel by Harri son, was the Mm of a l--al s;iiitleinan an I ri inn try iTi-'-lililer. and lat-ame a v..ter when the Whig defeated the low I ir.ff and the polk. la!!as and Calhoun , i. in I. i nation after the Mexican war. Near that time Blaine went to the vi cinity of Henry Clay's home lo l a i a.-1-er in a Kentucky academy. His own native home, iu soiith-wi-steru Petin svlvauia. were on the Ma ire road built b the United Slate, and piling through Brownsville and "Uttle Washington" toj the oiitl-t Wi-st of Ohio. At the latter! a party ne gave io me v asningion cor resxr.dents, that I would like so write a sketch of hi previous life. He replied that he did not care about it. I was therefore surprised the following "day, Sunday, to receive his name at my door, and he came up stairs and said he would iijk.ii his aifee-! like to accept the tender I had made, and thereupon in mv work-room took down an atla and ointed out Brownsville. The little incident, I think, was some kev to his nature. He denied before stramrers what he accepted in private. or. rather, had an indecisiou which be came an infinuitv. He was then hardlv forty years old, and looked like an Irish hunter. His high-planted thighs reared him, stag-like, up, and his eyes were of a round shape and protuberant, so that he seemed to look out of the side of his face and to throw his spine kick as if far-sighted. ueh a tiir of eves are seldom seen in public life, and most often are seen with students. They were bright, rich eves, but couveved to me the notion of some mental recent ricitv He wa then already growing grav. I put him down at that interview as a man shy and bashful in spite of his forced or assumed aggressiveness, and I think now that his errors never were of the heart, but of the nerves. He consulted hi decisions after he should have locked them up and thrown awav the kev. His alleged duplicity was place hedi.il the Uim tit ..f a iT1"! conn- 'only doubtfulness; he b tame alternately try (i.l!eu. Ala tit the time the iH-nioc- the victim of Ins buoyant ami despond- ra"V asraiii prevailed, tlir-nin the mm- in;; nature. romise iiie.-jiie of .v, and elected The bnite in hini was very iiutierfectlv ien-e. ami le-ad.-d its cabinet with devi lot ed. He seemed to contain within Manv. voung Blaine mad.- hi second i his nature lth the sexes, the wooing and pilkTimage and came East. lirst to Phiia-1 the Hying, the Satyr and the Nymph. leiphui and huaily to Maine, following the lead of his wife, who was returning !:!m teat. R ITU' t:5 kTtlR k I'm. A a r u i Lt an L Jiale J.aiv V aTl k- - rle-te I a.ted Nilra ,vwal.-r frn KarMava If liar trfr aaf th p.ou!aia au-l I a waa-ral. le a a lk I aaia-ratar taadaLale f.ar lartrnM f-ar tea X atl aaa k-frlr. lr aat.taai aarl;. a k Ike V4e,a arty la aar a ..ar lit ktaut. k taV Ik gftaaarl V.al IW ta-avatala. attVavl r akaraaa Ik r on I"-. ilarat ta -4. t l f-al I Wit Ik tl-J-aK-aa.-. II a-li aaa lakr aawl liar l '. a av. mm aaterkaaMI kfce la as. . w. a r4a a t k a4 laal Ike aa aa.r al a a l-art(. -t afw a I tk ar mm -- at 4 .. a lata a Ikw - aaal w4 th fVvaar ar awi V lw.' 'ii intoht ltl r.a I a mi . . r t fJ !! - k V tktrif Am -.. iHli a aa. m t W t e a. wwm I aa . t , .1 tta a . ,a v aai 4aa Ma f 1 a. rm a-. ! aa Kinoa Free lr Now U-l our l-tfislat il re establish a M- klslartral ! ,rai inai-tin f..r North Carolina. in Mail- Dorru nave ncn laws, ana it l belieei thai it l.i auI North Car olina lo la- the dummi2 ground for all of the inferior :r.h-s .f .si. Many ec lav I" -en injured by oil that was oid ( high tet. i4aot.tM. That a kha. it v-em to u. Anywav iror mierahlv mean stuff ha laa-n "aufcl iu Kiltfnt f.if oil. anil S.HIM atrat ought lo b taken to ev that n!y rRlllf lrl oil b aun4i.il It i re 4 the local leah-ra fault. Iut th fault of th tnann fartarer fmta w In an ihev Imjv . tionie fniin tier sehool teaelnng romaiKv. lb, the jicnniles. last scion of a family once landed, official and rich, took the route of hi tu-ctrssities to the far Keinie-lai- rtvvr. ImI. as it were, into Egypt by hi liaje and its lliot her. like Joseph of old. All this i homely and ptthet ic. It ac count for Blaine as a man of humility, of anxiety, and of thenple. Hi wife's intluem-e ha always Iwen stnmg with him. Hi mother's was so la-fore that. His DESCENT. The public inheritance he came by throiiifh his great-grandfather; high sheriff of old Mother t 'umM-rlaml. the county of iYiUKvhai.ia which stretcheil from ihe Siis.'n-haiina to the Olii. and who wa. aio jairvcvor of s-ippli-s to Wjishington's army as it lay iu the Jer sey. ami on the pillion, wilh the sea closexl l-fon- it. !id no granary ia-hiiid. but the In-ii an 1 (ieraian alli-s Troia the ni nt!i of the Is'high to the Pofoinae. Then- wa in that day no WeM r:i New York. Ephraim B'aine pnn-und the whiskey, the tio:ir and the U-ef which kept the army alive at Newtown. Morris loan. Tappan. New Windsor a Jul NVw b:irg. Thi Col B! airii- died at the ilecav of the old Federal pirty. a quarter of a century la-fore t.is irreat-grand son was horn, in lo'i. Tiiejrt( rily pu.hel tothe wild lands of ti...- UpH-r Mo:iotig:ihela. near AlU-rt Gallatin' purchase, and Blaine's father married Mis ti;l!epie. the (Ltuzhter of an Irish Catholic land holder at th'- national r-iad crossing of Ihe Monoiiahela. upon the farther shon-. r West Brownsville. With her he re ceived the -ferry oppisite Broa nsville proper, tne rival ot nttstMirg. when' steailllai.lts Ui w;ts done mi To look iiixn his was not a harmoni ous nor symmetrical visage nor head. j His countenance at repose was a mixture ! of the challenger and the disturbed one. j as if to say, "Who -'knocks there f" But the Celtic admixture in him brought i such softness and courtesy that in inter- . course, especially w here several were pn-sctit, he seemed to be a w hole party, a i harp at.d a bard. i . I ! a,.t t a- . m a a a - t a 45 IIOrxT M 5. The State AtaliLiC ba r-te a k-tter fraa a -aik-aaan in lN-rsan e,eintv r larwinat aeaai aarrahl THe writer 4 Ik telle aa mm' r e.a.'e.h-rale a4 la-r. kal a4aal fNT a attaiat at wa lala-l ralilrl U. It. tail mm hi M ajtiaataaH 'af lie Lta Ihe iwven that f a Va a.artk'rt' aja-rti ara- a4 rat tWal la n4a nu I a r l aral kr aafTaat t mt iaa V I" P Hat aiaita.t aaal a rm via a aa ' le-W I aaa ake I akatkrr aaa Iril k a .It U- IU naea - aaf Hr lttt tint aat law lk rertat'H aaa a a mm a''i-Ul a a. 4 a4 W tk -r aa4 a 4ra taa aaa aa ' (. IWa aa kaak aa4 t a k.a ..a.. ...4l. Wl 1 t ! a-ar-4 .. .a 1 1. t ta IW aat I ataal 'Mt t r riaw p I a rf l aNl il .,. lW:H.av Ittat kaa t . a.M f t .a a 1 t U. i r a aa t t,, K ia j.i.i t a.a'. aa-t -a-a alaaat'W n . Hat ft-'5,h. .r . t a It a 1$. t ' t I -- a av. il.Vta tta .- i W.ra at sa W a t.at a t o la t .. , . . a t m it . m mr ) . I t a na.t , j a a. s , i . fea. . a 'h V .. t .aj.aa J i nk t 1m . .- ' a BLAINE S DUALITY. B-joks. after all, were his chief promot el. " Teaching and countrv editor life had s.-ttled his original character, and to them he retunied, like Raleigh and Bol iugbroke after the shipwrecks of politics. Of coiitemporarv statesmen I think he was like Ilisraeli nearer than anv other. The .polemical strain in Gladstone he never r. vealed. for religion was his stead v eiieu.y. and caused bi.u. perhais. to miss t.ie rresideucy. As the narrow and in sinuating kirk would not trust the Queen of S-ols any more than her closest priests would release their irritating foreclosure upiti her. so Blaine was pulled in twain lietwecu Catholics and Protestants, his -o;tsin, Mrs. Sherman, and Parson Burehard. At his dying bed the prying, gaping provincial wizards and witches eaves- dropjied to know if he iierished by thi "communion" or that. Old Henry of Navarre, whom Blaine fairly resembled in height, irt. heard, and plume of bat tie. joined Imth their churches, satisfied none of them, and was finally waylaid by a deranged fanatic, as Gu'itcau the equally -inspired" otic, as he said, did mean to kill Blaine. I little guessed that morning, when Blaine showed me his birthplace and told of large undeveloped coal lands in his family there, that he would be for twen- n- omit and wholesaling it-mre r years year to come ine nexi man the coal-smoKed heights. i e eoumry lourani. tie was tne assembler or the minority, me civilians, agsunsi urant. It was not Conkling who was his rival, mil (.rant. They arrived on the scene of action at Washington together. President and Siieaker by the same momentum. Colfax going on the ticket with Grant led to the SM-akerhip falling from Colfax io i;iaine. A the Speaker, Blaine raised himself to that lMtwfr in Congress tbnMii;hhisin itiiem-e over the young memla-rs by which he wa the choice of the airty undoubt edly, and of tLe convention. Um to be--.tne Grant ueceaaor. Tlii-si-tno men did not like each other. Blaine hal a retailing tongue, having nee la-eti a reaicr. and every waggish thin he id nUiut Cirant wa rarrieu by tle w-rviti4 of Conkling and ntlier ran didate l.t (irant.'aiel made the moat of. GraM. iteletil. wan the unknown, the military quantity. drapped into t he cur rent .4 jaJhtit hkea great at u nip or rva-k, la-hitMl whN h lit water rua and altered their t haniH I. He wa a hat Jarkaoo and Tat lor ha.1 laa-ti earlier, th "maa on laca-taxti - Aflaf Chaa. Grevl.V atl .rfbera had drowned thetnaelvea trying lo r tiive i.rant tit termal My rW-nent f.aae. around Klain. Hut lb party had lat-ti weaketwil hi ;t a lx ila aub-ar.a-t.i M-tor. were a ri. (tea. Finally it all eaiwe l Blaiia. hot il wa th- ttat ta-e was now my only incentive to stray dowuj cut. a -. 1 -1 11 1 l . . a .' that neglected ai.ie, paraiiei io me great nave of steam travel. Late, but at last, he had caught up with envious fortune, and was the candidate of millions for the mighty consulate. The high and bound ing country took beauty and inspiration from her son, and the pleasure of pursu ing such a biography by travel I felt to be the highest privilege. Everybody spoke well of Blaine. He had left no evil memories behind him. One old lady who called him -James,'" thought he had jilted a young lady w hile at college, but, I investigated the matter and found little in it, as it takes two to be in love. The time of love came later on and Blaine has been in love with his wife all his life. He was at college a brash debater, striding in, carrying the argument by his feet aud hands as well as his head. He loved to play shinny, which is a game of getting in as you can, poking and hook ing out and kicking, hitting as you go, to drive the ball home. He went to the Presbyterian kirk, among the descendants of the whisky insurrectionists, whose most willful "leader, David Bradford, lived in that town. The family aifairs were hardly improved and James wanted to get out and help the family to good times again. WENT TO KENTUCKY TO TEACH. Instead of going to Pittsburg, like Car negie, or back to Philadelphia sjioils. like j subsequently lhomas Scott, or in the louuy at riarns burg. or to Washington w ith his relatives; the Ewmgs. just then in power. Biaiue embarked for Kentucky to Ik- a eda gogue, the same as Seward and Thad. Stevens and Lvman Trumbull and I-wis Cass. His might have been the China cup they gave boys in tnose days in scribed tor loving a book. Bv the time he returned to Pittsburg from Kentucky, in two years, he was just ;i man with a wife, soon to be a father, and poor and unsettled and anxious. He once said to me: "Do vou know that I tried to be a newspaper contribu tor? Yes, I tried it in Philadelphia in the early 50's. I sent communications to the old Pennsylvania Inquirer. They couldn't pay anything. I might have stopped there had they aid me and never hav e gone to Maine. He seems to have taken his meals at the Merchants' Hotel iu Fourth street. The late M. Hall Stantou boarded with him there, and did not known that he was married. Stanton went to vote for him for President at Cincinnati in 1ST6, but had been badged for Hartranft, a trick probably set up from New York. It was the cause of Pennsylvania several times afterward quitting the party. TEACHER AND PUPIL MET IN CONGRESS. In Kentucky Job Stevenson, afterward a member of Congress under Blaine, was one of Blaine's pupils at the Georgetown Military Academy. He came into collision A MAN WHO SAlLKUi SliUHLl. B'aine would have made a great editor in a larger field, probably one of the greatest and most courteous of the world's journalists. Toward the close of his life he inclined to the press as better than politics; for then the rewards of literary eonipsition were one result of his gen eral fame; but in that tentative time in the Augtisia pajier his rewards were but livelihood, . and he had opportunity to read and to get discipline. The day Harrison w.is inaugurated I spent near five hours in the Capitol w ith Hannibal Hamlin. f He told- me that Biaiue did not mature fast: that he gave no greater promise than mauy other young men; that his moral life in Maine was faultless, and that he had good, gen tle, and orthodox inclinations. He said Blaine was uncertain in his fulfillments of political promises. I suspect that Blaine in that common wealth of small temporalities held him self liaek. ! Age counted far more there than youth j and he knew thett-rmerityof thestranger would awaken resentment. His wife, no doubt, 'played the part of DMgo, and directed hiai "from her native grasp of her native society. Mr. Elkins once said to me: -She is one of the last and lst of the Puritan dames." Biaiue went to the Legislature, presided over the popular branch, and came on to Congress. He saw the transformation of the State after the Kansas-Nebraska betrayals of the North by Pierce, Douglas and Buchanan, when the Democratic Senator. Hamlin, carried Maine for the Republican governor. F s senden entered upon his career. It Morrill was no unaccomplished p-olitieai actor. The Washburnes had Brother Mat iakin" the zavel, I leaned over the jtrowded, and at one of these p., nhn tS iJuhlswiTfflltri Uli the statue of William K, liared notes.. He was a lii tie nervous, Maine, wns to bo rc-em-d. Mr altogether effective. ' ' , gave way talus p.queag.nr.s, M ( As an orator be had a very loud, clear, setts, winch had been emie,l ii..i.t!r nasal, bat not unpleasant voice, Ldniunds, by reciting her crabi aftea appearing to proceed out of the corner of his mouth. He was not an ora tor, but a quick, lucid, cogent, debator, and a good reader of his own thoughtful ly considered essays. His countenance had the hungry grininess of fighting thought like Dnnois or Bayard when he faced an antagonist before the Uouse. Proctor Knott ceased to'bjeja humorist or to smile after he jostled against Blaine with Mulligan as Knott's Sancho PanzA. Had Blaine lived he could have earned a hundred thousand dollars this year by lecturing. . . - He made a great Speaker, great m im part ialitv, great in friendship, inclining uniformly, to kindness.- Congress was ag:iin his cla.-4 in school. lie held it in hand like an educator. From it his popularity radiated over the land. Colfax had, been glib. Banks mainly deportment.' Blaine was a real man. "easy, discerning, reciprocal, with joy dispatch and elegance. Grant was a long time displaying his teallv great qualities of courage and con fidence! Colfax faded away in the Vice Presidency. Blaine was to many of us a new reveal- ment. Soon he lost his State of Maiue prim ness and became a continental Peunsyl vanian again. Who could forget the opening of his reception of Ihe King of the Sandwich Islands: "It happens aus piciously that the first sovereign to lie reeiv--l lie rhe A mericnn (Vmirress comes ! not from the iast but rrom tne west. more impiacame ironr tuning nan It was in the business management of j jury to whr-t him on. Said Mr i his promises his committee that he i our consul to Liverpool, uhou'.i made bis earliest mistakes and enmities. Blaine's clerk: "Was there -, He disappointed Butler and Garfield. the hate of so kind a man .' It w.i- h. former a otent personality m the Mouse, t up on him, either dinuship of her ward of Maine he said was true; it was no! wi.. would not have preservnl h: r. ; if he had been always tame. It is a singular fact that 1 and re. won almost every Slate in ion. Nor is it clear that Blaine w.i?, motions by management. Who ever saw his headqiiarti petent hands ? If he invited any one in it ;i good old busby-braim-d J. F. .1.. rest invited themselves in and . to pick his ofiieial table liarc. 11 gers really were the American ., Senator Cullom says that K i tiou to be Speaker was (he r. - spark of good feeling at a !nt Mr. Ilolman says that Blaine a remarkable ability. Judge I said to me after Blaine's d fe.,; a 1 t I land, and just as ne was lavm collectorship of the xrl of New sat With hi in in Congress: I !..,. and could not be jierseiited .nt . . regard, and 1 say to vou tl,.,t Congr-ss who pursue him are n i to untie Blaine's sh.oest rings. " A MAN WHO REorillKIi J.o. K Biaiue required love a. tuin it . other headers required hate.' cherishing natun he sileiitlv mi;?. : der a hatred which apaaid t.. studied his pangs, and had sworn to let him eseajie. He had n! .m. hundred Hogcr Chillingwurth-. with abundant resources and audacity, the Mirabeau of that Ijodv, aiul (iarrield was the hope of the five traders, who! thought they had extorted the promise j those jibi-s make the teal's to that he should have the Ways and Means! will long moisten the grav. rvo, as it nad necii said j ,.. , "He was driven likea lamb to t In ter, and he oiiened nol his uioui!. Israel in tiie State a vigilant, single eyed man. That tact in which Blaine became an adept when he was in his heafthy prime '.that ice-bound province taught him. He handled the jen and the gavel with that caution which finally became a defect in his nature. He had to differentiate between his Scotch-Irish dash and his State of Maiue method. Even in Congress at first he iay low. The same man was there, but he wanted to be sure. Senator Cullom savs that Mr. Lincoln ! once sai l lo him: "There is a new man coming forward Blaine, of Maine." What a pity that Blainecould not have lived to tell us with his own pen, and without the qualification . of the candi date, the secrets and rumors of those times ! BLAINE AND CONKLING. Committee. He put Dawes there instead and gave Garfield Appropriations. Had Blaine given Garfield what he wanted Ways and Means Garfield would never have lx-en Psesident, for he came to me soon afterward and said -They are just standing on their heads in my district at the news that I am a member of the Cobden Club " Garfield had been put there by the same influence which in the fullness of days, twenty-, four years, beat protection through itsj ow n immodesty put there by a small bevy j of men w ithout craft or profession or phy- j sieal projierty, whose apostle was David j A. Wells. :'I tried to grVe them freej coal," said Blaine to me. ' AN INDEPENDENT FACTOR THEN. j This agitation, in fact, was factitious, j and the schism it set up in li92wasj in; ant to catch Blame, but he had too snsib!e a constituency to wander from ir. The amateur free traders destroyed both their candidate, Greeley, and all hope of tariff revision till late in Clevc laud s term, and in the interval was no barrier against the most rapacious j bounties. Grant came to his second term with J Conkling, Edmunds. Morton, and Car-! pentcr heading an intolerant majority, j and Blaine was the so!e independent j power left. He had preserved himself through the excesses of the imjieachment trial, taking no notable part in it. He, now grew eminent by his moderation and briliant conduct over a Congress that was soon sjiottel by exposure, a Senate full of ha treds, and a President who was the vic tim of his appointees. Panic supervened grave. Henry Ward liei-cher, who fouler names than Blaine, and hp corners of more Mulligan letter -i; out. thought it some relief to t . abuse Blaine in 11. and to -in, i railroad president from Michigan Near the close of the war came the Conkling incident, where the Maine mem- i ber, hardly 33 years old, drew and re ; turned the fire of one of the most coin ; bative. and implacable men of the cen tury, and vet, as manv will be astonished in 1873 and lasted till 1X77-78, and Til deu carried New York with the cry of reform. The St. Louis whiskv cases, the Dis trict of Columbia extravagance. Credit j Mobilier, and back pay caught almost j everylxxly but Blaine. The Vice Presi-1 dent Colfax and Wilson. Garfield. Pat- j terson, and Brooks went to the wall. j It became necessary in lime to catch with Blaine in Congress, and it looked to hear, I think Blaine aud Conkling had Blaine, and Mulligan was found in time ! WM5 ousireperous pupu aim ine siasu- as many joints of resemblance as of dif- to affect his nomination bv a convention People could avoid the long Imat counter march around I'lttdmrg and go direct to Wheeling by the continued national pad. which for years had l o bridge, and Mr. Bl.iin on.-v s.n.1 to me. My pan-iM had a 1 i;i-oine of f ;.nxi in silver everv vear from that ferry . The bridge co.n- wny hotucht the ferry out. but the in nnne was gone. It wa. a large auiniity for tlane day." Yet. I think il wa well nigh dcp-irted la f..re Biaiue cailieiHI the scene. The i :nn-ne juare brick house w hen Blaine a Uirii wa gtvt-ti up aiain for a smaller !ruk. aiel tjei for a Jain frame Imhii-, and ala-ii a 11 hew nt pricm l.utt.-r ami Ih.iv IhJ I for hi in.rfh.-r at til llg. .aoulae-lniiffetl town acroaa t),r nvr. atih if. U-ree hke New Orleans. I Jti tU aiel ing schoolmaster coming to blow; but nobody remembers much about it. I fancy that Blames caution at that time of life had not been grown, and that he was a child of impulse. But the suc cessful man is merely a growth, and be tween the necessity one is partly respon sible for and the adventure one must make to recover, the publie being is hewed. His wife became his guiding hand and led him back to her parents and the clean. steady habits of New England. He might outh like Sargent S Prentiss and settled there and lost his habits; he might have stayed in Pennsyl vania and become a tradesman, a -glass- maker, or a contractor. He might have founded a town in Ohio like Charlev Fos ter. But the genius which him to love a book took him these earthly temptations and bv a round-! about way led him into public life. j He was useful in Maine to show its men of capital the path of investment in I his native districts, the Colbums and ! others. The basis of Blaine was stit! ! Pennsylvania, and while he has been a . ference. Each was the sujx'rior in tone and self esteem, official descent, and high-marked ambition of the great body of constituen cy servers around them. The flavor Of hayseed and of trade was in neither. Blaine had cultivated defer ence as much as Conkling defiance, but in either case the purjxise was to prevail, and Blaine, if forgiving, was as quickly touehy as I oukling. pitched hi Mr. Hayes' State of Ohio. While Blaine was Itcing crucified in Washington the alliance of bullies at Cincinnati, reformers and assassins in the same caucus, were dividing his af fects. Morton, Bristow, Conkling, Hartranft, or the Camerons. Hayes were all requir ed, with a big State behind them, and the aid of that other Spangler, the Gas light Man. to beat this pestiferous Kehixil i-iereaieu ror congress alter one term, j teacher from Maine. Conkling returned with the revenges of j He uttered a cry of indiriiient scat of God" la-catiM- li i. o ed to confirm Bcecher iu some -I'm: Alx.ut the time Blaine U-eaiiie , , he ami Hannibal Hamlin made nation which licat Ixt Morriii Senate. A rather inip.tent j. a .i,- . Biaiue therefore existed in !...:..- : the times of Fesseiidcii to t!i'. . i lieed. j.' Yet before lie died Blaine va th ; didate of all the Couklingit-e. ew i some of Conkling. blood, and i' i Cameron and tjciay. of iln- la i ... I burne. of G.-orge Hojir. the .,' Beeeher, and of Thomas P!att. All he seenn-d to want :ilt i I . ! health. He. was fasein.,t ing r. :. . i ; his favors to others were- long ii '.,! , . there i jn-rsoiiai i onsi-iiiciiecs. n o. admired, and even ioi-or nun ii trustcl his friendship for thnr -If any of his sons were erring, la- k-l tKntiv tturo Yi.ii i.ii l.t i... 1 1 TTJ III1TIII IIIT7 IJiari . atll Il" flrive Ellen Terry out of the .loma love than Blaine. He was indulgent to the young i who filled the seats of Maine in t! -ate when he might have desired li.-i but he went, instead, and wrote j . book, the doing of iwhich, under ;i t contract,' gave him the gout and a - . paralysis, and then he gave all tin ; eeeds of the book to pay tie- deficit i.t campaign, he whom they said was a . ruptionist. , IVrils Ki.-lil inviti-il him to iin-.a i rich men, nut he nu t, instead, the a' terativjely senile Burehartl. He jlerceived the genius of Jay Gould as now all p reeive it, but (iould was i giver.. ei... t,.. . . it ri.. i . . i c I lie i acme lMiiiniao ieopie were ! Conkling. the Forbts and Boston morants were his enemies, and m poured out from Pennsylvania foi I! rison was withheld from Blame. MADE HIS MONEY' IV THE LAST HKi M He is nol well off when first !. SiK-aker, but hebxik a Iioum- In littn . Conklin the contest still smoldering against the provost marshal general's bureau of the Army. That bureau, having yielded to Blaine's tact what Conkling's compulsion could not procure, selected Blaine to read its letter of defense. SwoAds were at reserved j once out and sparks flew. from all But Blaine had a little State and root ling a big one. He laid. New. York across the path of Blaine to the Cabinet and the Presidency, and Blaine pleasing, graceful writer and general j worthy of narration bv FroLssart or Philip reader, and a delightful conversationalist, 1 de Comities than the civil historian vt I heard each of those n.en admit pain as he went to church and fell unconscious upon the steps. When Brisfow called at his house, he express regrets Mrs. Blaine gave a repe tition of Oliver Cromwell's daughter, Bridget, fetching her father Oliver from his height. ' Since that time the wounded remnant of Blaine has been ujxn the stagi , but thev had to remount Grant as a eandi- He controlled the Senate j date to beat him in 18S0, and then only the House, and each got a I landeVl him in the St!. to Tr.to-i ...,. President away from the other. It is a ! thev had previously landed him 'in the pity thai such b irbarie chronicles lie 1 Senate. ujxm the page of our history, more j t t t -t t t t s -I a .i J I a . a I aa a- V f 1 a II - r llrMi lKiraih-le.1 Ihe tl.t- tfttal r-avl. Mr. BUiim- f.tt:i-r ak.l lo la- catied pT.Hhori.4ary. tir tirphait et.it.t ekrk. tlt he might miveawat aiel e-Iir tie hi -hitdrt i al th aeaieiite loan ,4 Wa.t.ltia-1.-. I aerify f.aur Rt.lea lite et, atd ltlf Wat io A iKa-llli fie re IW .la-d .4 a l m. h tt4rtvt .y k '.I ty I- .4 ifmytnUl . kUtlt'a WoTMia II. ". 1ie taf III ft-a atll- l ars-l t'a'!..' latitat as4 h lrih a tall. I;tt- ,., w li:ueail atletall the I'a'taola ... k al .r.e tteav Jle. alar- lliairw a r He laaawar a tf4al4e maa. rearvvl l- r -..ln-f.i m tla Caih 4t MiOiil al'( .. awotwvrawi a'a- M..t t . I.. a m'M t t m laraif to , J -. II e t a ..f m a " a,ar aaa 14 "!?! "t aw 4 lta r taf ItUtlar, laal Ike t -i r t-f al a l.t. rart alel k-U I' . l '.-. i,r 4. ro(a b '.t.x'-t at'aw- lw ktwa a kal tt aa ' "jt ia! a ak.4 tfr- in a " ' I- t .-a.1 a. .a a tv alu Ii . a. .4. I, 1 1 1- ,.f tt,. ; a .Writ tr.ttji la, t l"W ii I l.o.fc , a. kt.l aaarta! I l.a,. a 4 I. tit. tml. f .-. ,. l a '4. at W.aW H(. ir. I it.. i (a. S i,:. tott .. t . a- i I .- a r .4 tlw ,.r k it. a i ltM'l. ip! I twiaaa lar" I., m t atfoalw a I. a a, ta m m urn lt at 4 ':.ta a tHtf ta-t.jt flir 4" ' at itaif l- al-twt !' -.., (vara ttn , r , k l a . I .a tat- tt a,. tk a. l ,.. t U t aoM if l.aM.f o a. k a .t ... t , al t . M ,fm aii.t.. - - I. ,4 ,1, IU,. If- aaa ar. I .a M t-l ,,,.. hk. t . a -a ' i a ta,i a I . mi. ' ! i W l ., ta t t a 1 m ne nas never passed j rom prfse to Doeti- cal illustration. Understanding, this earthly footstool, have Ix-en his domains. More cultured than any of our Presi dents except John (Juincy Adams, or any of our statesmen. iei haps. except Webs" ter and Seward, he had neither Wclwter's Miltonian march of rhetotie and figure. nor Seward's pure idealism, nor tuiney Adams poetical em4ion and p-wer of rooTHxl v. Olawrrer, preceiver, reirter, l.-ad-r wnter. and deliverer of oration. Blaine has followed the National pike. ktt on the stonea and bridge, and charmed the country by his ene. arpieacity, and ongntnea aa our roMpani'm ln njrjf. MIS CAREER AT Al t.l TA. Maine waa a State, like a w hite sheet f paper, fr the young atraiiger to write hi bam. Thy knew him only a. II.t-tiStanfielrgl-l'oking hualatial heanl thai be waa writ c4itiet-tet. and reu4 urpried hat h a 4 upon the iM-wspqx-r -down to Guti. th raiitul. awnv Ai half way to Bangor and tlw lumla-r liills. Far U-IhimI bua a err tltei.h r M.tsa wu- He was defeated by a union of the military and the office-holders, but he shivered New York in Mr. Conkling's mailed hand, broke Sherman in Ohio and Cameron in Pennsylvania, and when cfar field died Blaine w-:is thu trirwt i...i.:it.i when Conkling was fighting to! man in the new world, and so wasnomi- l''lllul" eoueeiorsiiip. i saiu ; nated over Arthur and the Senate in the ability of the other. "Conkling is a.s i . , ... . . . . - i smart as he can tie, said Blame in 1869 ! In Ike to him: "Don't . growing man ! sihntlv you think B'aine is a 1884. He nodded his head ' While Garfield 4yes.", Blaine had siiniMrtHl : fllin t. hu liai-t i..k;.w. I onkiing as against Hayes, w hom neither i head, Harrison s.-emel to desire to lxrid of them liked. of Blaine and to put in that still lonely. '""-'"iners oiaineanuc.oriKiing too Dorm ar man s i aee a t,.irc. l of vi.b. 1- . i . ortunates wno could la- lalx-lleil aett aettletnetita. alienee a. t.t U!!!i.. ...T4 viMftua...4i H.-f, Klfl- J,aihaii CiIW. ami the ah. Aflef Mr. 1 1. ante laaanta lh ntttntnee liUJer, 4ttio-ainnr. and bit r f 4 lralet.t IU la. I t i..f il laaana ' mchallll Otl to Htatt.rfi 1'imL P -t.il .1 hi oith. rt-1 aa.kk-t.lt ther a a re- Porta Dtoutta. X. If . wht-re WeUtt-r veaie.1 t.. ate a at. re ttf fci.tj tratrl j Malted Q41 bia earm-r. Portland waa Aalk. ttibavlt a era 14 taa-twl la ! tbe rttpiTIUa. Ibe rtt of Neal io and iheiN.wt tdl after lae kad ava ita lit Ibe CtltfTaaan LKjfel..w, father t4 n.erirt k.i.tiwky. I'.U.n had hvetl all I the -rt, and it aaa auty niiW to tli.- hi. f ufe. a. .t apeak. Maat h king t 1 'altla. Italt lUaiu Uved at t Ik-capital k .-kajy. Ik Apfaa rawL II bal area j aixl tbe lgialatur a ton knew him. and a twl- .4 travti f, a ka b mm ahall b bail a lera aeeni f.r laal. to ..graph tw trt.ae.. a tta la a'aa. ai b44atk J kal. Altd rrnVal biattary. atel I-, a .-a... la aia-ia-ba aiel .aa f.aat. j Th baaia of all atnaig tn-ers in fU. ,tia.v a. Kiraataa-ti, hiaay-! AltteTaia la bil.K-ai ay Bta.hv an-l . Ia.ai. fr aa lla- F-4. atat ktaf lb , aaaaale k taf daunt n. 1 f ere w r- irn.ti aaa tral.xtifta . al titl tai die, i aaatiy tbll! t ta ptt-k! up tti at4 a.al tka aliar al.twat..alaea I.. 1'illa. ! kbul. tlw Urat laa ret art- J U i-tal- at i - t I i. a . . t . . e I v. t a t - tti t . ti ta '1- Mi i i.. I, s. - , I 'rtaa..i. -ri. a t- IL, tf lta t rani. ipei "a-e, air l tra larinl l.y la ail. ' .a a tar " I lla.aifl.1. tathl a la I-. Ia at... aaa las.1 .at ll.tayaeat Nalwatat II. ka t a,ea I Ut Ja k4t. Satalel It r. U a-et J aa.l l Uf.aa Halktr a.aito t .f14 L ta-l Iwarl a! I ft t. .t,t a t'-a Kfatawr tUlaul ' '-J H i. kael f tUrti ia(a -... .,. ( tr. l,a-tas a.a. t-H. k ' I I - . Oat aaal ' 1 't o t. a ' in ,.-a f,a? Ika-teaf .1 I I aw a atw 4ell "a lln t f t 4 a - i j Ht .4! 4 . ar Sa Ta eat Ila .('w tk, L.va katt k aata IU Millie. far. tiVctl iafad Ulaa tbrr. aughau, brt-d Mte '. laini't art Mary. Iwt t.- r-l u J.r t4 Freta b lutrtf e al lb nnai treat 4" !. rata I t tit Kettltetae atel at-tlVd. eai Ikta bad fraawai u-h l Im,-!. law alawtt that t;ae, ai. llai.utiatl Ham lot alat kal laaB is tt. aa-ttate. wa tie Aiatat 4 lb Va4aai4 I JHtU raa n lie aa tit rtarta! Ihe - p4k an ar?r at lb 1 "Ula. I 4la rativ.-fita.ti t.f aVi" Tke atale aaa tKti..u;fl 4 Maaaa rbuartta atel ! rtt. taf -aa r. luar tlrf laal lit lit anett, taw atl-l afard aeaa tit lb Maria. Ury fan.il. a. aa.l t areata, fr f,1utat, eri t-ftr -' rf''b kaa, kw4 a. lab elat..w4.t. a eta-waoaa bf aitk tk aaata rkatM tkaaiy ta b aatcbett. akt nl Vi were coiiahy accomplished None laitl ask when- MacGreir sat when they w-re , al tin- btstd if the table, lioth'had a Scotch streak, but there was no Puritan in Blaine, w hile Conkling was of old ?a-li-in stix-k. the witeh-burning plac-e. Both men were cautious, anxious, de sirous of financial itidi -iidenei-, and am bitious. Neither knew the w.ty to hap pines, if that can ever lie in ambition. , Itoth at times were profoundly- morbid and lonely; Uit Blaine n-served his fam ily nook as a sj4 for p-aee. and never wa harsh there. He wa made to Make others happy, if he eould not la- happy himself. What are calli-d Chri-t iau coticilalioiis. a heart f. It amt.-sty for hi -rseeutoi.. digni fied, if they also weaketl. Bl iine. and here, eminently, he was like Hmrv Clay. Conkling wrt rather like Ih Witt Clin ton. He Itad the advantage of Blaihe in la-ing a tra'iiH-i lawyer ami the ' iura tive dis;t.lvantae of having no origina tn.li imr fertility tf suggest iven-ss. nor scientific -u viet ion. He was a Miffer pi rt i ami than Biaitie. Ixit Blaine would t.4 lJi lit the eml Conkling left thepartv when B'aine wax ad .t.d by it. and Blaine woii'd have i.upport.l Tongting if himself l.e.l Into -fit II T.-l t'o'ik.i sg wa B.sm.rck a we all ii.-d to him. Blame w Ca vou r. Tlv b isiot-M gr;u.p if Conkling iip,n hi I'atronage and hi promixea wa U-t-ter than BUine . Imt bedistnbute.1 then, more fe-wtally ami airimonsouslv. I'tiea waa lag m eJjfl, fr .iklina-, Maine tfa) Hiall f.4- lUailte. Frofn tlte aaal wha U h luul held three tear iu lite Xetiate. Conkling la-held Blal.le r!atf t tit MavtrUUI 14 th lower , e'l- B'aiu la-At a tuitv i.t lit!i...,t 1 - r . - -. s.,tssrat ttwt. iiehrv L Ii..aM wa at.irrv. Im.i I aaa- t.in. t I.t.tie ..t, an i, jirt.rf iMni-rrvgMid f" b.'. alien ISlait Waa alaa.J .1.- "i tnai I itiav Blaine men. 1 Ins parsimony of discharging o! ! ligations the sensitive count rytfelt, timl j 'f hav ing Mr. Blaine made "use of and liackcapix-d. Garfield was a more verdant, and heavy-luiofed Blaine, the domestic line of the A fa bia u strain, t He was as gixxl a ; student ami reader as Blaine, possibly a . little higher in literary finish, a more pro fessional orator and pulpiteer, and a ten- iier-uearted teiiow; hut in many things he never rose alxive Ixing a big, soft bov anI in Cabinet iniative ami worldly and scx-ial presence his moral lxre no propor tion to his physical courage, Blaine made an admirable chamberlain to this man of no aplomb, but it was not hard to prick Garfield against his Mentor. Arthur, in like manner, h :-id r..as il L'l f to siierifiee Blaine in order tliat he miglit I propitiate and get rid of Conkling, like ; Biehard. If banishing Norfolk and Here ford at once. Both went into the oppo sition, and Mr. Harrison seem to have regarded himself as a smarter man than ' Blaine. It seems a singular fact tl.uf -i.;i prime nunistertothmjPresMlents, Blaine never hail a full chance and vet kept the public admiration above them all. Each of these Presidents broke Blaine's house- 1 ''eaage up. Gat Held lost him a lifeJ nn l n t ne .senate : A rt hurt he proprie torxhip of Blaine's beautiful house, which he added manfully to Washington's ar eiiitecturex, and la-fore Harrison's term wax out Blaine's official residence in the Kogi-r residem-e had lairome a private one. PoPl LABmr WAS HI CRIME. So in the Senate. Tli Senate had long b-en the semi-cor-rupt iartiei,rttor in the executive patnn age it eonfirme.1. and through every State thus licentiously uuqKI was a lilaine recruit merit. With a few exceptions Daae- Maaaa. l..t. '"T! '"T".10 re4ved upon a txilicv of !if. lUaibax : d-f mnl dumb snobberr for tlie ore a. tar thk tatraa J wuoae crime waa popularity; but W aaa, aOTa-Efi. llaiTMS V.' M station, and mere i saw him prov i assist tlie; butler with the wine for reception. In the time of general johb i . land grant railroads absorbing :- mains, all that was brought a'tu was a miserable parcel of Fort stcx-k. while jurist Senator-' n.-r. the publie time to argue railroad a tent cases under the roof of ila i for lordly fees. He made no money until ,-i!n field's dentil, his reputation drew I to some mining and Virginia i oixrations. Mr. FJkins t ld me n, been, reared to business he n i! been a great business m:m.' !t Davis Kiiid that when Mr. I'.lan.' his house at Washington h. U i. embarrassed that Davis went a rowed some money for him t" - through. Men who iu (Vbinct pla-cs turn to their employers kindiiin of t: lie laud, ne.vspajHT eorresp.nd- ' lx-eaine millionaires on M-erei an ' information, shrank from the n similar fa:iilty, whose net vmis. : j .j - aions led him to write 'Burn tin- a thing of no more acount than v. i has said to me after long and talks: "Now, I never want ! -word of this in print.' I think this timidity was al. and invited slander and siispi : he investigatcxl no man and ia no man's right to his own con- -u acquisitions. The testiuioiiev of i li' bl I ea atel corresjxmdciic-e. is thj- ttiMimotiy creiver of stolen gixxls, and dona -; respondents eould eondenni Car;. Washington, or William the Ml' nt Blaine's gretit offense wa- n worthy of the Presideiiey . and !....' -x.pular charms and talents. a: ! ticc Miller to me after Hayes had ( him: "These xpular convent!"! packeil to reject a laal: whom c. i wants for a man nobody wants. aia; I see Hayes preferred to Blame. I eon vent ions ought to have had ila i: The three brimming tim.-s of I. . life were when he delivered the oration, c-lectt-d Harrison, atid head of the pan-American i 'mi;'i POLITICAL KoES WHOTK Ills l.l'l 1 i His epitaph was written y t!i -1 . ; cratic National Convention w 1 nominated Mr. Cleveland at th. t of-a resolution of sy uipalhy at ti . of Blaine's sou. The implie al.! ; ' party's Pharisees was dmwn.il n quiry of Pilate and the Botnan what harm hath. he done f" The golden affluence of tl.- i- :. and Grant commanded, from tin .; of the golden "spike in lsr.ii to tin- , of our society to htay the d.-va-ia' " Baring's fail'uie, is the reply. We "are rich, and he w as i.roki t. , ed. The sect ions which the piliey ..; -' and his advisers would haw- -i Blaine comnosed. In this here-".. Henry Clay pressing the Mi--i.ui. 1 t promise in 1820. i In cultivation and address: in a ! suggestive and searching inter.-' ! the material affairs of his com !' versatility, scholarship, and lim- was fifty years in advance- of hi- -! i Ii-deemed by weakne-sse whi.-! no one but himself, and bv a -! ' which is the Creator s !est irif't u eann ana gives it alternation of ,-un dew and atmosphere to breathe and tain life and set the hues of Lamia rainbow, Blaine is the sunset of his tit tbe still starry closing of a noble day GEORUC AXFBED ToWNEM'.
The North Carolinian (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Feb. 3, 1893, edition 1
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