| Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I BLAINES REPLY COURTEOUS TO AN DUKE By J 3 E Ed Edwards This daily series of at anecdotes and Incidents that throw now new Interesting h mind l frequently e en l dramatic bt e MJ light on n famous u n and personalities t c of the past have e been c by Edwards d dd d during nearby o I forts J years of more or I less Inti monte mato acquaintance with man many of at the tho contrys lenders since time tho Civil War Cach anecdote or er Incident Is fresh from Mr Edwards notebook and either In whole I or In i part It constitutes Now News of at Yesterday garnered from time tho mon who made the from sources As Im Important important contributions ot of tho th Human Interest t sort to American hIstory these I articles have hae a distinctive value all their own r 1 used to think said Senator 31 11 Depow that thal aggressive ness was perhaps time the most Important qualification for or anyone anone who was deter determined determined mined to secure public office And Ami per perhaps haps It is R But In m my later lator years I have I been impressed with time tho tact fact that In Inthe Inthe the greatest successes In public mean so fat far as Influence personal fol following following lowing the tho unswerving loyalty of at masses of men are arc Is tho most valuable of all I 1 have hoard heard men say that all else olee It was the wonderful tact of which Hen Henry CI wit was tho master that I gave gaio him a leadership In American Amerlean life whIch continued for fifty years That too was In my opinIon As I 1 look book back upon the career of James G Blame I perhaps the quality most iciest nearly nearby aso with genius of all the many brilliant qualities of which Mr Blame was pO possessed I could tell many anee anecdotes dotes of his superb tact and It was I not a lack of oC tact but real tact that caused him to be almost yb le But I thInk time tho fin cSt display of that quality which Mr Blame ever the tho finest finestone one of which I have hae personal persona knowledge took place nt at a dinner which wa was given Iven In Mr Blaines honor In the year ear ISSO I think although It mo ma have been 1857 Mr Blames health was greatly Im Impaired impaired I paired about that time and I 1 havo al thought ho never noer fully recovered I II ered from the effect e of tIme sunstroke i which I c Ito I had in hl O at the time or of the Cincinnati Republican na mma i lIonal convention In 1876 I lUll am certaIn I that the thet loss boss of oC the In iii Inno no Wl way affected his Ide for he was full fully prepared to accept calmly over eer tho result of the election of 1884 might be Ana Anyway ice he went to Europe with the Intention of oC spending a year ear I there hoping thereby to regain his I fully While In London ho he was Invited as the guest of honor to a dinner given by bya a very exalted person Some of tile the most distinguished of oC the public men menor or of Great Britain were present were two dukes several noblemen of lesser Jesser degree two or three ally famous statesmen lind some men of oC limo Tho Prince of Wales no now Edward VII JI present and Ime he scorn scorned cd to ho bo especially especial interested d In Mr Blame Blaine Mr responded with great fe licit and modest modost to the toast In his honor After Arter ho he sat down ono one of the dukes asked In an undertone yet ut so that we could all hear It Who Vho Is thIs American and what ha lisa he done Ho He was told that Mr Elaine was one of oC the most living Amer beans and had boon been fa for I tho presidency throUgh an adverse vote ot of only 1100 In New Nest York state A little bittle later the duke W was JI called upon b by the toastmaster and In answer to Mr Blame spoke In no manner of Americans Ho He oven von to go 10 so far as to sn say that they wore rebels I remember well the ear sar castle manner In which he said th time Imd rebelled against their kin king III and In that vein ice ho went on to the end or of his toast Of course there thero sias immediate gen general oral eral and evident embarrassment h by reason of those and I could see that the tho Prince ot of Wales himself lf ono one of the most tactful of omen men regretted them kC keenly nl As for Mr Blame I am that In that banquet room sympathized td with him deeply realizing time the delicate In bum which the dukes speech had put hIm yet et even while time the remarks wore ivore being belnE made I somo how felt foit sure that Mr Ir would woul find IL a WI to turn tIme the Incident so as 8 to remove all embarrassment And Ice he did The duke through Mr Blame Dinino rose roso to his feet feel There was great reat courtesy In iii every movement of his hla bod body A cordial smile played his face foce His eyes oes shone upon the ibis Prince of oC Wales ales I have often thought he said Id IC King Georga III had possessed the same Infinite tact that his teen son the tho Prince of Wales ales the record of oC history between his country countr an and mine maine might have hae boon been different That nil all But those simple words so earnestly so graciously spoken won time the heart of every man In that room and I doubt It if Mr Ir Blame wa more maIo popular with an as of oC hIs follow countrymen n titan than Ice ho wm was with that hod after his reply courteous courteau to that blundering noble |
