| Show > I BCAIXES CLEVERNESS The Plumed Knight will sail for Europe on Wednesday There are a good many ambitious Republicans who 1 wish he was sailing for the golden t shore whence no traveler ever returns There are hundreds of thousands of Republican voters who would be easier t In their minds if they knew that the man from Maine would forget to comeback come-back to America until the votes for President had been counted next year a But Blaine is not en route for Oblivion and he will return He is going away I In order that he may come back II a Politically speaking he can better be away than at home during the next i I j few months Until next winter will be II 4 f S the most critical icrod in the business I if r h > busi-ness in which he is now engaged If I I I he were at home he could not keep I f f himself prominently before the people j i without running the risk of mak I I k < ing himself offensive with too 1 l ouch solicitation and yet lie must nOt I y let the people forget him or forget that I iie is poking aCE it Yrasi i Iiati8l rajdidite Jilr Maim is cunning dot rob r h I un I 3 f i > b l sw 7 derstands the art of pulling the political wires better than he What he doesn know in the trickery of demagogy nobody no-body need try to teach him Abroad h i will be far more conspicuous than he could possibly be at home he will be continually before the people of two continents and if he can find the convenient con-venient opportunity to utter a speech or two on the other side of the Atlantic you may rest assured he will improve It and he will let fly Americanisms which will be applauded and discussed on this side The traveler can create more or less of a sensation when he returns just as his going excites attention This foreign trip has been very cleverly arranged in the hit Jr eat of Mr Blames candidacy and it will succeed admirably if the Plumed Knight shall manage and time his homecoming home-coming with the skill displayed in his going If he shall play his cards well while abroad and return next fall he will be able to keep the enthusiasm until un-til the selection of the Delegates and the holding of the convention one year from this month i and when that convention con-vention shall be held no man in the Republican party can down him < Senator Sherman Senator Allison and the others who have made their aspirations aspira-tions less conspicuous may well turn green with envy as they note the clever work of the man who has made up his mind that he will be elected President or that the Democrats shall continue in the administration of the governmeat I |
