Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — BLAINE MEANS BUSINESS. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE MEANS BUSINESS.

The Maine Man Positively Asserts that He Is Not a Candidate. He Maintains that No Defeated Candi- * date Should Again Make the Contest. The New York World prints a threecolumn interview with Mr. Blaine which has been cabled from Florence by Mr. T. C. Crawford: Mr. Blaine, in the course of a long conversation, distinctly asserted that under no circumstances whatever would he allow his noma to be used in connection with the next Presidential nomination. He insists on the sincerity of his withdrawal, and asserts that he had made np his mind thereto long ago. He considers, first, that any man whose name has been associated with a defeat in a Presidential campaign owes it to his party not to allow himself to be renominated, and, secondly, he is unequal to facing the fatigues, worry and excitement of another canvass, all the more as he. would feel himself bound to work as hard os on previous occasions. Mrs. Blaine and the other members of his family are most emphatio in their approval of his withdrawal, which is definitive, and neither hasty nor recent in its decision. Mr. Blaine will not return from Europe until June, and not until after the Republican convention. He deolines to express himself on the subject of the Republican candidates in the field, but asserts that he did not retire In favor of any particular one of them. He is convinced of a Republican victory, basing his conviction in particular on the tariff question. When Mr. Blaine was asked the direot question whether he would under any circumstances permit his name to be used again as a candidate, he replied in the most emphatio negative, but then added: ‘I do not wish to make any new affirmations upon the subject. I have said all that I wish to say upon this subject in that letter. That letter, as you must know,was not a haphazard, off-hand affair. It was the result of much deliberation and oareftil thought. You will remember that I told you In Paris lost December that I hod no Intention of being a candidate again, and that I hod practically made up my mind at that time to forbid the use of my name in the approaching convention. “I hold, “ he said later in the conversation, “that I have no right to bo a candidate again. A man who has onoe been the candidate of his party and defeated owes it to his party to withdraw and not be a candidate a second time. More than this,there is anotherlplain reason for my withdrawing. loould not go through the burden and fatigue of another Presidential oon-vass—-such a oue as the canvass of the last campaign. To aooept a nomination, and to do less than before, would be impossible. *