Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — A Politician, Not a Statesman. [ARTICLE]

A Politician, Not a Statesman.

It is the fashion of Mr. Blaine’s supporters to speak of him as the great statesman, the Republican statesman, the statesman of Maine, the statesman of this, that, and the other, without, specifying any act of statesmanship that be was ever connected with. In pointof fact, Mr. Blaine has betrayed lessinterest in the legislation of during the past twenty years than any other man who has held a prominentposition in the national councils, except, possibly his rival, Roscoe Conkling. Itis, perhaps, some excuse for him that he was during a large part of thistime in the Speaker’s chair, buthe never found any difficulty in coming down from the chair and taking part, as he had theright to dp, in any business in which, he felt an interest His interest was. never awakened except when he saw. or thought he saw, some political ad- j vantage to he gained for himself, as, for instance, when he came down and moved the Credit Mobil ier investiga- j tion, which dragged half a dozen other “statesmen” over the coals, and putsome of them to death. Mr. Blaine is ] a politician pure and simple. The useof the word statesman as applied tohim is a misnomer of the most glaring type. Statesmanship implies identifi- j cation with, or at all events interest- ; in, acts which go to make up the country’s history. What act in this. J category ever originated with MrBlaine? What one is he bo identified ' with that it has ever been referred to asthe Blaine bill, or the Blaine measure, or the Blaine proposition? —New YorkEvening Post (Pep.). Behind Blaine the people in distinct outline the sinister features, of Jay Gould. A President whom Jay 1 Gould wants the country must Instinctively distrust. — Philadelphia Records ( Ind .).