Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1885 — Mr. Blaine Complacent. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Blaine Complacent.

Latest advices from Mr. Blaine, late candidate of the late g. o. p. for the Presidency, are of the most encouraging nature. He might be described as fair, fat, and fifty-five. His complexion has freshened, the fish and oysters of the Chesapeake have fattened him, and he reached the five and fiftieth milestone of life a few days since. He is said to be actually robust and buoyant. He is gradually scalping his enemies, and blazing his way by easy stages to the nomination of 1888. It is stated that he considers himself almost “even" with Mr. Arthur and his Premier, Mr. Frelinghuysen. He thinks he defeated Mr. Arthur's Senatorial aspirations, and that Mr. Frelinghuysen and nis family have been so effectually “snubbed” that they will be glad to make a masterly retreat into Jersey early in March. Senator Edmunds a d ex-Senator Conkling are his next big game. Their discomfiture will not be so easily effected. A recent correspondent of the Chicago Times says that they “give Blaine more trouble than either the President or any of his Cabinet. Mr. Blaine realizes that there is no hope of dislodging the Vermont Senator from his seat. Mr. Edmunds is as firmly fixed in the Senatorial chair ns the Green Mountains of his native State upon their base. But Mr. Blaine is not neglecting the frigid Vermonter, and is determined to make his seat as uncomfortable for him as possible. Edmunds is unpopular among his Senatorial colleagues, and not a few of them on the Republican side are more than willing to render aid and comfort to Mr. Blaine in this matter. The only Republican whom Mr. Blaine really fears is Roscoe Conkling. He believes that the latter will make an early effort to re-enter public life, and his return to the stage of affairs would be as unwelcome to Mr. Blaine as Banquo’s ghost to Macbeth at the royal feast IJ is still war to the knife between these ancient enemies, and will be to the end.” In regard to the next Presidency, Mr. Blaine intends to make a fight for it During the next four years he proposes to be the leader of the Third House, always a formidable power in Washington City, and then, too. as this same correspondent, already alluded to, says, “he has a grip upon the machinery of the grand old party which he does not believe can bo shaken during the ensuing four years. With no one in the White House to wield the public patronage against him, he sees no opportunity for any of his would-be rivals in Republican leadership to render themselves formidable. Altogether, Mr. Blaine is today in a decidedly happy frame of mind. He has learned to look upon the past with complacency, and he gazes into the future with confidence.” Mr. Arthur thinks that the “g. o. p." will not nominate Mr. Blaine. They tried the experiment once, and it cost too much. It is, perhaps, however, to the interest of the Democratic party leaders to encourage Mr. Blaine’s hopes and aspirations for another campaign, or at least they should not discourage him. Give him plenty of rope and —taffy.— lndianapolis Sentinel.