Show OF MAINE whoever has hits thought that abo white plumed navarre badain ba bad dein berely retired inta the se seclusion cluRion ol 01 a private citizen tired of the fray and of the political arena will be surely disappointed even before the national republican convention in chicagoan Chica goin goiti next when tho the grand ranauld ran duld uld party is u to receive the landard bearer the campaign in november it is true sinco hia exit cabinet at washington ho he has not taken very perceptible action in political affair of the country ho he has quietly laid bis his wires and dug bid his trenches tren chea to storm the nom convention in june remembering TOem mem bering that his open ambition in the cincinnati convention of 1876 and again in the chicago convention of 1880 met with des feat though only after gallant re distance si ie tance stance by bis his faithful adhered ad heren vat i he ii has chosen r a more uno stint i a bious course he has lias been busy in ina in A elul ii opinion and attracting tr public unpretentious but more moro confidence inspiring course oeun historian oria n he e has bits been assiduous assiduously ij C opalp e annals of twenty years of the union 1013 we may aay say tho the must most vital ecore acore of years in the life ef of the nation since its birth he shrewdly corn com bained A k 4 pleasure pleasy ieli 0 more accurately politics wi with ith literature for it is not to be overlooked or ar underrated what in influence fluence ahe the two thousand agents i had who 6 dr are aid said to have been canvassing half a million families in the country for th forthcoming dorkof mr blame blaine having alius ailt ceedee io in getting no lees less than subscribers subscribe ri all these cani can bassing eff efforts lorts on the part pa rt of glib tongued irresistibly eloquent book agents aun in make ake the e people in m the states think and talk more of the ex senator and ex secretary of state than they would if his TW liatTo 11 gly l y leen bUhA rait 3 V a ed toward caucuses or politicians combinations combination a 1 1 1 agala tho 0 long promised and eagerly expected book is as coyly elow slow in rao appearing petting as a shy ehy maiden la is to 11 timid hove jve you Ho she will encourage her lover and intimate ifie finite her state f feeling by blushes and half suppress of amor amorous I 1 bils f yearn ing hueu so ivenia ine n ew made m adE historian Storian v now and then allowa f thi he first mgt volume which has ha reached completion ion appear in the newspaper newspapers ar imeri such aaa aa the e it important t tenth clith fw s chapter treating of the last list months of buch anaa anaus presidency from which we lately published the extract en on judge black such judiciously ahn ion extracts have tor win favor for th coauthor to judee from the tenor of the chap chapters tors of publicity public iti thus far it seems possible that he may eved himself with conservative democrat democrats especially ally ietha Damoc democratic ratio party should fail tr a y platform or L 15 an W candidate t aa As to blai nes t prospects imp asi in the chicagus Chica 9 gS convention weltion grant giant is quoted aarin a ayin g that the states man from maine i would probably lead all alf other ca candidates one thing is certain ht hd has only buly one formidable rival in the field the one who can wiell wield all al I 1 the ponderous power of meral eueral t ii tae the 4 gen gentleman aft who occupies t the ecat seat which mr blaine hns fins ought sought for eo ao before getting eo so near and yet so far the near future may develop many as yet unknown factors and features at present tho the issue seems narrowed doyeto doyl to |