Show at last tho the white plum planes Is withered at list iho ahe pnra of the tha grand knight have hare grown brown cold the man ot of mighty triumphs and mighty disappointments and sorrows boo baa finished his bis wonderful career and thinking of 0 him tody today to dy day more inore people will grieve that ha be la is dead than over before la in this land sorrowed sor rowed around a abler bier no wan man cu can give ony any idoa idea of tho the magnetism which was JAMM Q G BLAINES la in life no ila fillod filled many lofty places ices and ho be did it so 10 that tho the world saw that he ha bent to accept theme them that the tha office odea was exalted by his holding it 11 and that he ha needed no officio to exalt himself in the last two months such a compliment has bits been paid him as never before was paid to mortal this Is tile the land of free men this Is tho the land the existence of which rests upon the patriotism and intelligence of tho the and yet when called upon to make a decision on an a question which affects affect il tho the welfare of every man and woman in the land ot of the brightest of these americans remained rl ra homo bome from the polls because they thought a wrong wrone was done to JAMES G BLAINE whoa tho the nomination was refused him at allono apollo apolis last juno june those men will understand onder der dor stand today to day why that nomination I 1 was not noi given him those who know bla big condition said it would mould not do that be was even then than going into a final oel ipso and to havo have given him tho the nomination would have been but to hasten tt by somo some wools weeks tho the event ot of yesterday it Is thirty years since sanco jamrs JAMES G BLAKE BLAINE become became one of 0 tho the central figures among american cUl citizens zons that war which developed so many giants to in civil and military ufa ito did not forgot him when great names wore were so plenty the world had to admit that in tho the crucial test ot of tho the mighty war there were giants enough produced to meet the mighty crisis side by side eldo with the foremost ones stood JAMES G BLAINE but ho he did not reach his full nil stature amoni among his bis countrymen until the days of 0 reconstruction carno came then as master ol of tho of 0 representatives comado ho made lis place as one whose name came called up moro more enthus larm than tiny any other name ever did in fit america ills ilia biographers will III tell tire story of his hs life as it cao can b bo 0 reduced to words hut but the impression that ho he made upon ills his countrymen can only bo oil it can gocr bo portrayed ile ho was not a faultless man had lie ho been he ha would have been more aban mortal ito ho had his ho he had his own sovereign will and un 11 ll his old age ho he never learned what wo we call conciliation for a friend lie ho had both bolh hands stretched bcd out for an enemy lie ho had nothing but blows and ho be could stretch ills his right arm out ont 2000 nilles to strike an enemy there never was such another scene in america na ai when ho be assailed assail cj by hla his political enemies and charged chari cd with double dealing in ili some money transactions walked into tho the couso of 0 representatives became liis ills own attorney hurled back the charges against him offered in ili evidence tho the voy very letters they had charged wore were eliminating and turning to tire tho speaker of 0 tile house declared that ho be had received tile tho which completely exonerated exonerate d him but was lor for artisan purposes withholding it 11 tho the magnetism or of the man carried sway alike both friend and enemy iio was as blessed with mith a wonderful memory ho he would meet a man ono one day for a tow few minutes and mooting meeting him again in five years would cill call him by namo name and recall the tha circumstances and do it with a touch of tho the hand and a glanco of tho the OYO which mado made that man ills his devoted follower ever after lie ile was tho the foremost of debaters till all that was bitter und and all abat was beautiful in ili human language langua 0 O LO ho could evil call up at will and ho he could flash into his big words a power which transformed tile word a into words of lire fire or words of honey honer as ho be plea pleased sod except tor for his quarrel with ROSCOE CONf wo we believe lael lovo both those men would have been presidents of the united lot all ail young men talo notice of that fact the tha oo ao strayed both men it if mr BLA IN E did not lot use his to crush co ic L usa when ho he was given a place in fit I 1 president ro cot Cab cabinet inot lie did not stretch out his bis firm arm to prevent it nud and so 80 retired self conscious proud haughty imperial scornful and cynical to tile die in ili qulos by that act I 1 BLAINE was killed as effectually as corling when the highest honors of the iho republic w ero era within his grasp idere were friends enough ot of CoNi claNo ito to dash the cup aside and so tho the two I 1 brightest won aion of the ago both have died willi lah their highest ambition iw hut but as a speaker as a writer as a bral brained ned patriotic american citizen as one who hail had tho the highest views on ques dons which concern tho the government of the his united states stales as ono one choso whoso instincts wore clearest as ono nearest the iho people it will bo be the duty ditty of 0 tho the historian to declare that there was no peer of JEs G i alter finishing his schooling he worked for or many years as editor el 0 1 a newspaper and when he became came out front from that schooling ho be had bad the faculty of usini ing the english language as almost no other man could by the studies which ho be mout through in that newspaper office ho he caught exactly tho the bearing of 0 tho the tn gaiu ain questions which altoft the american people ills his henrt originally was waa big biff enough to 10 take his whole country in and hence when he appeared in public alto ho was equipped as no other m mn man n in public life was he was in touch ahe at the same time with the very vary highest stat statesmen osmon and with the very humblest man who tolls tells for or dally daily bread the baudy ol of law by somo some Is thought to be the very best schooling jn in the ascent toward statesmanship and it is a good school up to a certain point but tho the man who pursues that study and that profession lor for fifteen or twenty years ao all most men do who reach oal conchi la Is very apt ever after to look at all questions simply limply from a legal standpoint it becomes second for or such men to so reason and all that lila axi ir escaped ho he never got out of touch with his countrymen and it was lor for that reason that whew when ho he called more meu men responded than to any other call la Is the republic iio poss possessed ossed a marvelous mirve lou power over his bis e countrymen they believed in lim they swore by him dhori he ha was personally poro nally disappointed that disappointment was shared by millions of ills fal lowmon whon when he bo was w wounded millions ot of his all countrymen felt the blow and so especially lor for the tha last eight years have they leaned upon him and looked locked up to him as no other american ever was leaned upon and looked up to when mon the republic wa was young and possessed but one third ot of the tha people which it now possesses posses sei when what those people were wera distributed equally over a small portion ot of the area of the republic the men 0 of that day turned to CLAY with no an asin which was wonderful ind find with art an which was waa profound but when tho the nation increased to bo be th the foro foremost most ot of the earth when it was omnipotent on land when til all other nations began to grow dwarfed and small by comparison then jawes JAMES G had the intellectual stature and iho e magnetism to beckon to all men between tho son seas and to bays them respond by tons tens of millions la in cobb enthusiastic us lastic adoration of his him all those men morning foci feel that the greatest american Is no more they repine at the fate which lid did not permit them to bestow upon him tho the highest honor which a free people can bestow upon A mortal to ortal and to the ends of the earth wherever revor the cable can reach wherever rover the electrio spark can be felt the news ROBS goes out today to day that tile tho greatest of Ameri americans caris has ha fallen asleep lie ile lived a stormy life at the holgat of his manhood tho the very e eminence of his ability created enemies all around lini hint who struck at hint him in front and in tile the assassins way from the roar rear and it was his delight to sti ike I 1 lack ack at them and like an gladiator turn them all down at last as ago bogan to gather upon him and ns as the splendor of his ahli genius and the intensity 0 of ills his patriotism became clearer and clearer to ills his countrymen the opposition to him began to cease con so and obrn one domestic sorrow after mother another succeeded succo oded until at last hn he turned his face to tho the wall and died nil Illi family and hla his friends may tako this comfort to themselves that though lio be Is I 1 dead his big nation naruo will bo be an incantation to lili bli countrymen always it will godown in history that ho he was too great to even have been president and a henio hence it n will bo be found that ho be was vas the iho mirsny CLAY of this generation as much bigger intellectually ly than CLAY as ai to Is the nation bigger today to day than it was ln in ienir cair time it will bo be to told d too tao that v tile he lived moro more people shouted his name than tiny any other name that when be died moro more men grieved gr oved I 1 than had over ever grimed before in the united states on hearing that a statesman had died in ili his life JAMUS G ct aien demonstrated the possibilities of 0 f achievement which are in the iho grasp of every youth it if he bo has bag but the ability to act and the tenacity to try and in his bis death ho he proved that life Is not a walking shadow a poor player who struts and trots arots his bis hour upon tile the stage slid and then Is scott eoon no lie moro more tor for lie ho loft left a name behind that IV will III go sounding down the ages to the last syllable of recorded time |