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Show DBaD presidential aspirants. j The fatuity with which Mr. Blaine adhered to the flattering assurances of hia friends, that his nomination at at Cincinnati was as good as accomplished, accom-plished, must seem strango to the majority of careful observers. At the best, before the congressional investigation in-vestigation development, his chances were not brilliant, on account of his geographical position and his pronounced views on public questions But when Harmon made his singular statement in regard to the Union Pacific and Little Hock bond transaction, transac-tion, he opened a wide field of doubtful doubt-ful revelations, which could not fail to involve the ex-speaker, unless he unequivocally cleared himself. Though probably acquitted of positive slight of hand or violation of tbe moral law, every step in tho investigation investi-gation tended to reveal the fact that he had gone deeply into the stockjobbing stock-jobbing profession, and it became difficult to dissever these relations from those of his important official position. From tho moment when this obliquity was evident, Blaine'e star began to dwindle, and we have seen that not all his rare official services, ability and aulacity or the enthusiasm and plqck of his Iricnds could save him from failure. He fell, not as a party rain, lor he it to day more than ver the recognized j ' leader of the republican machine, ! and, if Hares should bo elected, would probably becomo a momberof the administration; bis fall was in the nature of an inexorable concession to ': public opinion. It is the old history of Clay, Webster, Calhoun and Howard How-ard again repeated. The brightest and strongest men of the parties full ' before the common-place avaihiblcs, whose lack of genius has kept them 1 ! , ' in the rear of tho political field and out of the race an active- competitors. I Vet probably a large proportion of ' Mr. Blaine's friends could not ritaYwi up to tho seventh ballot why he should not rally to bis standard a i j majority of the convention, but they ' i are now able to appreciate tho weak ness of their favorite. With Blaine probably dies out nil the older presi- ( dential anpiranU of tho republican ( party. Cunkling, Morton, Hartrauft u and WodMmrne havo been shelved, 1 j and ten if their party should survivo J 1 ! another decade, new mon will abiorb , the attention of tha public, I. |