Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — BLAINE NOT A CANDIDATE. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE NOT A CANDIDATE.

Avbttn Cobbin baa made a “personal donation" of $83,003 to relieve the Bufferings of his starved-out miners. They asked for justice and he gjves them alms. _ Da. Mat, of Findlay, 0., is the latest Enoch Arden. He enlisted at the outbreak of the rebellion, leaving a yonng wife and two children at home—the original Enoch had two. The rest cf the story is en regie. Reported death, rich widower, second marriage, number one’s return, will notdietuib the happy household, eel (-sacrifice, death. The story is touching, but it has been told so often. , - .

Mr. Austin Cobbix on Wednesday, in reply to the question of a member of Congressional Investigation Committee with respect to the claim that the Beading Railroad Company had made money at the expense of minersand consumers, said that the best answer to that was that with a paid up capital of 149,000,000 the road has been twice a bankrupt in twelve years. This was no answer at alt With its common and preferred Block, amounting to a little over $40,000,000, it is shown by the Investors’ Supplement of the Financial Chronicle that the funded indebtedness of the company is over $100,000,000 with an additional debt of over $13,000 000 on the account of the Coal and Iron Company. It would require a remarkably good business to pay interest on all this load and make money besides.

He Meant What He Sold In Hta Recent Letter. The New York World of Sun Jay contained a three column interview with Mr. Blaine, c ibled from Florence by T. C. Crawford, for eome time the World’s corresporde it in Washington, and now in Europe. Mr. Blaine, in »irtc of a long conversation, distinctly asserted that under no circumstances whatever would h? allow his name to be used in connection with the next Presidential nomination. He insists on the sincerity of his withdrawal, and asserts that he had made up his mind thereto long ago. He considers (1) that any man whose name has been asscciated with defeat in a Presidential campaign owes it to his party not to allow himself to be renominated, and (2) he is unequal to fie ug the fatigues, worry and excitement of another canvass, all the more as he would feel himself bound to work ae hard as on previous occasions. Mrs Blaine and the other members cf hie family are most emphatic 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 J une, and not unti after the Republican convention. Ht declines to t sprees himself on the sub ject of the Republican candidates now in the field, but asserts that he did not retire in favor of any part icular 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 direct question whether he would, under stances, permit his name to be used again as a candidate, he replied in the most emphatic negative, but then he 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 hap-haz ard, off-hand affair. It was the result of much deliberation and careful thought. You will remember that I told yon in Paris, last December, that I had no intention of being a candidate again, and that I had practically made up my mind 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 be a candidate again. A man who has 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 another plain reason for my withdrawal. I could not go through the burden and fatigue of another presidential canvass such a one as the canvass of th? last campaign. To accept a nomination and do less than before would be impossible.”

Mr. Crawford thus concludes his dis* patch: “Toward the close of my last call I asked Mr. Blaine when he expected to return to America. He said that he expected to reach New York, about the last of June. He expects to spend the late spring in London. He has not yet determined upon his movements. After leaving Florence he will probably go straight to England from Italy. He said with an air of frankness not to be mistaken: “You have no idea what a relief it is to me to think that I am now out of the canvass, and that when I come back to New York, in the summer, I shall not be going back there to face recention after reception, and to enter into ne turmeii and-excitement of 'a political canvass. I can now come back quietly, after the convention has once decided the result, and enjoy my life in my own way—free, I hope, Iron further criticism or comment.”