Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — Blaine’s Pilgrimage to Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Blaine’s Pilgrimage to Ireland.

It seems that all Mr, James G. Blaine’#, health needs is a voyage across the Atlantic. It is expected that the salt ocean breezes will tone up his system to endure the political squalls of the next eighteen months, and that the boom he will get by cable will be more efficacious wi(h politicians and voters than any manipulation possible from Bar Harbor. ’ To this end it is given out that Mr. Blaine and his factotum, Joe Manley, ex-Postmaster of Augusta, Me., will sail for England early in June. The only health-seeking part of the trip will be that on shipboard. When the party lands at Liverpool the managers of the circus will have arranged a spontaneous outpouring of the people to welcome the only genuine plumed knight of American dubbing who ever sought those monarchist shores. His journey from Liverpool to London will be a voluntary ovation all along the line. In the metropolis Mr. Blaine will be invited to eat at Democratic dinners and to speak at home ru'e meetings. Of course the matter of his public utterances will be made as offensive (o English ears as possible in order to arouse the bitterest criticism, which will be promptly cabled to the New York Tribune to show the brutal manner in which the “bloody Britons” handle a favorite son of Maine. When the indignation of the English publ c has been sufficiently aroused and this country has been harrowed with the reports of frequent attempts to mob Mr. Bia ne he will shake the dust of London from his feet and cross the channel to Ireland. Before doing so, however, Mr. Blaine will meet Gladstone, and, having fallen on his neck, the grand old man w.ll be chained to the plumed knight’s chariot wheel for a triumphial tour of tbe green isle. No effort will be spared to induce Mr. Painell to accompany Mr. Blaine on his tour. Should this combination be effected it is expected that the aggregation will produce nothing short of a convulsion in Ireland, the mere vibration of which will awaken the wildest enthusiasm for Mr. Blaine among IrishAmericans. This is a very delighful programme, to be sure. And there can be no doubt that it will land Mr. Blaine in the White House if all the Irish voters in America turn Republicans and all who are Republicans now vote for Mr. Blaine. But there is an ominous shadow of a doubt in that “if.”— Chicago News. When an undertaker makes love he should never hint that he will be glad to Sve the object of his affections an elegant neral free of charge.