| Show J1 r J1BEATEN ELAINE 1 1 M < jf ij t q k i fVJLk i He Attributes His Defeat to a 1 Rainstorm it t 0 rn 1 IT CERTAINLY WAS A COLD DAY f 0 TheTatt Fed to l the rich and Germans t 1 Ger-mans Is He Looking Ahead f Blaine BOSTON November 16TheJoumaZ t Augusta correspondent sends the fol 1o ins interview with Elaine Tasked 1 i Blaine what he thought would be the result of the count in New York and here he-re th the had no more means of knowing it than an unborn child Her He-r r t had from the first no other desire than jq that r a fair count should made and so i far as sl he was personally concerned he i Would be content with either result Success would not elate him and defeat j i would not depress him He was engaged en-gaged in a congenial and profitable j work which had been interrupted by the campaign and the deep regret that he g would feel at Democratic triumph would be altogether to his party and country r not for himself I Jived too near the I added after tt Presidency in 1881 Blaine Id a longpdu andhavje keen sense ofife burdens its embarrassments and j a t imperils to be unduly anxious for its w office Itvnswer to an inquiry hOW ne accounted I I ac-counted for the dosenejs of the election fi l in New York r JSlaiBe baidt Well con eidering the loss by the bolt of Independent 1 Inde-pendent Republicans and the far larger loss from the action of Republican Prohibitionists Pro-hibitionists the wonder at first sight 0 1 that rthe Democrats did not carry the State by as large a majority as they con I fidenjly expected they would This result re-sult was prevented by the great acces i I1 ito the Republican ranks of Irish American voters and workingmen of all classes who sustained because of my advocacy of protective tariff They be Jieveahd believe wisely that free trade would reduce their wages You really think then J queried the 1 reporter that you gat a considerable t Irish vote in New York OhrI bad thousands upon thousands thou-sands replied Blaine uand should have had many more but for the intolerant in-tolerant and utterly improper remark oft = I > rJ Burchard which was quoted everywhere to my prejudice and in many places attributed to myself though it was in the highest degree distasteful dis-tasteful and offensive to me But a lie you know travels very fast and there I waSPhot time before dieelection to over itukfe and correct that oneand so I suffered i suf-fered for it I asked Blaine if bethought the Irish American vote was organized at all or had competent leaders < 4tYe8 said he I > was deeply impressed r im-pressed by the ability earnestness and ingrity of those whom Jilet There for instance is Patrick Eord of the i Jn > i World He is a man of the f most elfish devotion to any cause he espouses possessing great faculty for an organizer with marked I r ability and untiring euefgy General Kerwin of the Tablet hap in a large decree I de-cree the same characteristics and is a farsighted and able man with a fine I n record as a Union soldier The Irish i Nation edien by John Devoy also gave rns strong and valuable sipport Alexander Alex-ander Sullivan and John iPInnerty were very powerful on the stump and did us Ii royal service Both ar natural orators of tile fervid Irish tv ie Sullivans r tariff speeoh in Toledo contributed Tery largely to the defeat of Frank Hurd These men with others whom r I did not per nnnllv meet have made the bTHak inVtha Irish Democratic vole one that I believe will widen and increase in-crease future as the full significance of the attitude of the Democratic party t on the tariff question becomes understood under-stood and appreciated Our Irish and r t IrishAmerican citizens will in time get tirnd of voting in accordance with the wishes of English free traders L I said to Blame that the Irish in Boston thought he understood the character of their people better than any other Republican leader Mr Blaine replied that it w < wi3d be egotistic for him to assume than but he said there wits perhaps a Ff r > ng leaning of the Irish element towards Jiim because of the fact that oa his 1 mothers side he was of Irish de teent i1 In Pennsylvania his native State he had received an enormous Irish vote i none counties hitherto strongly Democratic = Demo-cratic having been completely reversed in their popular majority by the change of the Irish in his favor This however how-ever was of course due impart to the r fact that Tae stood so distinctively as the ire rest t1ti e of protection to Arneric tn industries anradea which prevailed with 1 mere forceon Pennsylvania than in any other State I But said I did not you lose corK cor-K pondinglv in German votes y Not at ul1urr plied S fr Blaine all t throngh the west the Germans sup potted me nobly How else could I r have carried Ghic go by 9000 Cincinnati Cincin-nati by 5000 and Cleveland by 5XX Oluo4Wii > in illinois and Iowa have 1 the largest German population in the f ri west dI earned them bv splendid majorities Such able and influential f German editors as Mark Breit in Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Kauffman ia Cleveland Pra f torius in St Louis and many others brought great strength the Republi can cause German praters were also the most effective on the L stump Bruccer Gottschalk and f jnen of that stamp exerted great influence There was aniramense effort 1 made to prejudice theGerjuans against me but it fined They axo a wonderfully wonder-fully cool eaded peopfe inflexibly honest hon-est in their cofteiasionsand Justin their H judgments and ji have abundant reason to thank them for their generous support j sup-port I shall not soon fojgetat At different J dif-ferent points jn thereat I ioun German ri and Irish clubs cordially muting in 1 I public del otItr fioJS u I is Your correspondent brought Elie con t g versation back to Nap work by Asking i Blaine if he thought the Pro il itionstq 1 I were honest mtheirsupportof St John f Tliav neve 4uring ijle i campaign Ii jreplied Elaine reflected j upon the no 3 tire of any man and I shall not do sto h I content mvself with saying that I I t ihink the Prohibitionists were misJ II 3f led and that they did not jcorreetly measure the possible result jot their 1 coiirs e f T receive4 from many cf them the assurance that my candidacy made 2at iheir election diputt because they a really wanted to vote for pf but they seemed to be under the strange delusion J arthe tem ran cCaaF Q1114 bQ pro pro r t meted supporting their own ° Presidential Presi-dential ticket and by their course they influenced prejudicially the national 3 ties which wereireally at stake L You attribute the close vote in New YorK then Mr Blame solely to the action ot the Independents and Prohibitionists Prohibi-tionists 1 No not solely replied Blaine Ac uording to letters I have received I from central and western NewYork it would seem that the rainy day lessened ened the Republican vote The Demo era1 ic majorities lie in the cities whole by a few minutes walk on a good pavement pave-ment a man reaches his polling place The Republican majorities are in the country where large numbers live three four or even five miles irom the polling place which on election day had to be reached over muddy roads and in A rainstorm Had the day been hue the Republican majorities in the rural counties would have been increased one good judge writes me by probably 10000 but all agree from 3000 to 5000 The actual difference between the two parties in the final count whichever which-ever way it goes will perhaps not exceed 1000 about 112 of I per cent of the total vote or one vote in every 1200 for the entire State t > So t > if the Democrats leally carried New York by the small margin as the latest news indicates you see how easily a fair day might have reversed the result But great political battles like military battles are often lost of won by an apparently trivial incident or accident which no human foresight might guard against Sf Mr Blaino turned homeward at this point He seemed to be in perfect health and in so far as any one could judge in the best of spirits He told me that his long tourof lortvtwo days on the stump had not in the least degree fatigued him J |
