| Show MR BLAINES intentions THE enterprising journalists journalist of this country has fallen into a great many ciany absurd habits in the pursuit of ways that are original and interesting in the publication of news and the most utterly absurd of them all is the lately invented method of finding out and informing the public who is or is not going to run for president in obtaining any other species of information unless it be that in which some heinous crime is involved the greatest of journalists is satisfied with getting his facts from the person best beat able to give them correctly but with presidential matters there seems to be some mysterious objection to this common place method if there is any object in knowing whether a certain politician has presidential aspirations pi rations the fashion is to go for information to almost anybody in preference to the man most interested after the public publication ution of about a dozen different opinions said to be absolutely sol authentic most of them confirming the belief that hat mr blaine was going to be a republican candidate at the next national convention now comes the mail and express with the wonderful news that somebody who knew had said that mr blaine would not upon soy any conditions accept the nomination but on the other hand band was into the harrison Harr campaign seek neck and ears and moreover after the first airet of the new year he be was going to say so himself in order to jakeits make its authority particular among the many contradicting statements this enterprising organ further declares that the mystical individual who told it all this I 1 has charge of the northwest for president 22 and of course would know all about it the alleged charge da affairs of the north west for presidents president is in a title we have never before been informed of but presuming that one of our western bos bosses sess has created for himself this exalted function will any man of common sense who respects james G blaine believe him a voluntary party to any such proceeding as this boss of the northwest ascribes to him if mr blaine has fully made up his mind to deny himself the republican nomination and all for his love of benjamin harrlson harrison it is probable that his plan pl a n of telling it would not be through a sub rosa conversation with some political boss or other with the tacit understanding that the latter would tell it sub row rosa to the nau matt and Express which in its ito turn would take the general public into the great secret if mr blaine anything baa hae for the public on the subject of his nomination we are of the impression that they can get it by the asking and will not have hare to wait till after the first of the now new years year for his hia answer the fact that thai all this information about his private in tensions ten tent tiona ions is handed out secondhand second hand gives rise to the suspicion that it is in political rubbish and nothing more however it may be that Ameri americans caPs greatest politician has decided not to run again for a post which would require q u ire greater physical power than he be finds remaining in his somewhat weak ened constitution but when he makes up his mind to announce it he will do it ican in no indirect or underhand man ner |
