Show JAMES G BLAINE the lively career of the bartys candidate depicted by ail an independent pen fen N Y sun Mr Blaino comes of or revolutionary nary stock ilia his grandfather col E ephraim blaine waa was commissary gendral of lie the middle department during tha the revolutionary mar war and is said to have been a man of sufficient business ability to bis services quite as valuable ai as if lie ho had bad been engaged in somo some more branch of army w ork mr Illa blame inc ia 54 years v ears old iio ile was born iu in union town ship lVa washington ellington county pennsylvania and mag was graduated at dt 17 from the college of washington Deton and jefferson in in that estate state iio vas was a diligent student and began at once to earn hi as sor of mathematics in tile western military institute at blue lick springs during his residence there ho lie met inet misi harriet Sa nood an accomplished young woman from majc whom ho he sifter after ward yard married it nas was through her persuasion on after an experience exper ienco of to two years ears as a teacher that lio lie went M ent to her native state hero where for thirty five yeara years he be lias has been a conspicuous figure leadership of tho tile republican party ho ile camo came first into notice as its a vigorous writer for the lite portland daily advertiser Adier liser he lie was subsequently editor of the kennebec Kenneb cc Jour journal and made his mark as a P powerful 6 erful political writer entering politics as a republican lie ile served as a member of tho the main legislature from 1857 to and at once chov showed ed mastery of parliamentary arlia practice eliat brought him into prominence and during during the last two years of liis his term ho lie was wits speaker of tho tile house hous e after a brief respite from legislative work lie was elected to congress and served continuously from 1864 to 1870 Cand and was tho the porty forty first forty second and und forty thi thud 1 I congresses his ills scry services ices in ili this of ice lice covered the important period of the reconstruction legislation which called for skilful management by the speaker upon the appointment of lot 11 al M murrill as secretary of the tile tleass treasury ury mr blaine stepped into gorrills morrills Mor rills slices aa i senator from maine upon he lie expiration of tile term mr blaino was reelected senator and he lie continued in the senate unta unan ho lie was appointed us as secretary of stae state by Among the many memorable scenes which marked his career in congress was wasa a hot debacle with ben hill of Jeor gLi over tho the southern qu question stion just previous s to tho presidential I 1 campaign of Thil chenery fiery southerner annd found a match in his dashing appo nent from maine the two men were however u warm arm personal onal friends and personal they i shook hall hands lers s cordially upon u poll being a simultaneously promoted to tho senate when ben hill died mr blaine sent contribution to tho the fund for erecting a it monument to the memory of his old opponent saying in tile letter which accompanied his subscription 1 I wish to place one wreath upon his grave mr blames blaines quarrel with koscho conkling dates back to it originated with senator Con klinga klings refusal to yield the floor to mr blaine mr me conkling remarking that ho hadid did not wish to have anything any thing to do with the tile member from maine faine not even to yield him blin tho the floor mr blaine replied with a prompt promptness and vim vini which showed that lie ile fully i returned mr Conkli ngn animosity As to the gent lemans cruel sarcasm ho lie eaid sald 1 I liopo it will not be too severe the contempt of that laige la gentit illan mania Is so wilting willing hia his haugg haughty lity disdain hn s grandino duent it swell hia his inn ceic t up eremi nent overpowering turkey gobbler strut haa has been ao so crosbi crushing cru shiny 1119 to to clysel myself f and all tile members of thia this H that I 1 know it was all act of the greatest te temerity merit y for me to venture on oil a controversy with him but sir I 1 know chols responsible for all this I 1 know that within the last five weeks as members ortho of tho house will recollect an extra strut has characterized 17 ed the tile gent lemans bearing it is not his fallat it is tho tile fault of another that gifted and i satirical writer theodoro tilton of tiro the new york 1 inde independent pendent spent some weeks recently in this city his ills letters published jn ui that paper embraced with many serious statements a little jo cose satire a part of which was that the tile mantle of the tile lato late winter filter davis had bad fallen tipon tho tile member front from new york the gentleman gentl ernan took it seriously and anti il it lias has given liis ills strut an additional tho tile resemblance ia is great it is is striking hyperion Ily to a satyr to hercules mud to marble dunghill tc to diamond a singed cat eat to a bengal tiger a whining puppy to ft a loarina lion iton I 1 shade of tho the mighty DA advis ia forgive ave tho the almost profanation of that ya jocose cose 1111 calire catire firc mr T blaino blaine and mr Cmil conkling kling have not apken to one another since the event in mr blaine blaines career in congress which best illustrate illustrates ili lait anda audacious cious and sensational methods of self defense aa inston all attack was hia ills in ill tile house of 11 representatives t I 1 vess on oil june ath 1876 on the mul lic linari all let letters tors jas jag mulligan Jul ligan had told a it committee of congress that lint blame blaine acting as the tile broker of warren fisher sen sell a contractor lia had d tried to ee sell I 1 I 1 to frienda friends in maine worth of stoc stocks and bonds of tho little rock fart 1 ort 1 smith ily ity ao and had received receive 1 for that service about 10 1600 2500 of tho the bonds aa as a commission that tho thi speculation had lift 1 I turned out badly and anti blaine was compelled to tako take back part of tho mul ligan ym had added to thia this story tho the statement iffat tl bat I 1 elisha ilisha atkins then a director in tile union pacific PAC ilic co cb had told him t that hat blame find field var 4 of tile little hock rock A For bonds to col thomaa thomas A scott and that col scott had made the union pacific company com any take them at 80 cents on th the dollar F when pressed for proof of misstate liis his statements mulligan had produced a number of letters and memoranda and declared that they would prove his story at a subsequent examination mulligan old told how blaine had visited him in ili the tile house and implored him for the eake wife and children to show liim him the letters and how ainer lie had gotten them lie refused to return them mr blaine e at the time was kaaa a candidate forthe tor the nomination for president his ills friends on the committee tried in vain to testimony and iio ile took too k the witness stand hims himself elfand and contradicted Mulli eana story not satisfied with the tile result of liia work ho determined to make a ft bold attempt the tables on his the house of representatives senta tives his intention was made known to tho the public and on oil june 5 the galle galleries rits and thu floor of the house were crowded by his fric friends ads he ile obtained the flowron floor on a question of privilege and abd defended liim him a speech which elicited enthusiastic plaudit pl audits from his ills friends after charging ail that the committees inquiry had b been tinned into an investigation ti of his ills personal affairs al lairs ho lie drew from liis ills pocket the mulligan letters holding them up ho lie said that they had been wrongfully in mulli mulligan gana s pos possession and charged that tho committee in trying to use them thenia him blin had violat violated edthe the personal and private rights that bc be longed to every american citizen then holding the package high e enough ilous 11 for the whole house tobee to teo it he ile said 1 I thank god almighty that I 1 am ain not ashamed to show them hero here they are there is the very original package alvith some sense of humiliation with a mortification which I 1 do not pretend to conceal with a sense of outrage which I 1 think every man in my position would feel I 1 invite the confidence of of people and I 1 will read these letters let lera As ho lie finished this sentence the tile republican publican te members who had left their seats and stood near him hini clapped their handstand hands hand sand and the throng in t the galleries a ceries who had listened wit with rapt attention applauded and cheered air blaino maino then read some of letters and gave liis ills own cz explanation of their meeting and then aid paid that they had been pic picked ed out odthe of the most intimate business correspondence of his life then ho lie faced his republican colleagues and said 1 I ask you jou gentlemen if any of you oil could stand a 1 closer scrutiny a moro more rigid investigation of your ourvor cor rp the tile republican in members embers ail op plau pl ded and cheers went up from the galleries gal lenea then mr ulama advanced fro from nithe the nihle aisle and accused proctor knott of suppressing L it 1 dispatch from josiah caldwell which exonerated him froni front charges ch aises if ho concluded his this remarkable speech by y moving that the committee be compelled to report whether and why tho ali dispatch had been item I 1 suppressed and then took his ids seat mid tile applause of his friends air AL in blame blaine entered upon the performance for fort mance nance of his duties as Sec of state in his usual dashing style duri during titz the brief tune time he lie t occupied the ollice dehook up the dry bone 4 of that musty department in lit A il very lively fashion ho did not hesitate to to have it known that lio lie proposed prop owed to 0 o make the tile hobt of secretary of or swe one that should attract attention he ile at once tried his hit hand liand upon foreign affairs and less than a month before he left lie iss ucola a anani manifesto fosto for a peace Coi congress gress of ame american ican lia nations the invitation was withdrawn if M islarino had bee been n succeeded by Froling huysen mr blame was charged with ieng ills clat influence aa as Sper etory ot or state to promote the interests of hu ho credit of franco b extending an american protectorate protect oer over a portion of peru pern lor for tile ho benefit of tho the subject of four european Eui E ur nations he denied I 1 3 klowas alo was also clia igl mth with attempting attempt iop lo 10 intimidate nr timi dato date by inquiries aldes 13 ro 10 tho lite strength if nf tile united united statoria beato ia t he the Southern sou hern Pac pacific ilic I 1 he lie domed denied this and anti said his only object vat wat va t to ascertain whether linsted stated i birs were aviol available lable to trap transport sport sir mr 11 from front cartaina Par P mama taina to callao callan ano aini lr Tre ott froni pin pan 1 aan to valparaiso lut but tho hobt berbom bei loin charges against mi blaine growing brief carcer AS secretary of state were ere thos made wade by 05 J it the hica promoter of tle the Perti permian viall company and wid ho tile promoter of tho Cochet claim to have boight from front t the I 1 to heirs of or collict thu right to one third of this the agnano appo duponts its of if peru and alleged that blaino had used ins his official position as Secretary secret iry of state to advance tile interests odthe of the Pert peruvian ivian compain company and had gone ono so h far ai us to be privy arh y to an offer ofa fa bribe ister hurlbut produced it u bigall dis pali 1 11 av alti aich ii lie caid faid was wa the tile iliin ajro to oll duct t of un agreement between linn and blaine w aich minister hurlbut that no treaty treat of peace between dull and pern peru shall bo made unless there is h recognition of the dandreau claim clain I 1 as a prior lien upon any territory that peru may be required to cedo to dull chili when tho on foreign affairs affair avas investigating tho the transaction 8 Ship lierd presented A matet of testimony int ervie with bla blaine I 1 lie and promises of help in ili getting the tile covher laimo recognized in ili one of these interviews averred that blaine aid to him referring to tho the men aho it were pushing tho the claim clairn of tho Ship lierd berd you can treat with those fellows in twenty conr hours you havo have rot got exactly what they have havo not riot got and rud what hoy they absolutely need an american ican basis ou n which you hao bavo the right to ask for interference ce by tho american Americ government also ex capo poised aed the connection of ak acua na tor blair will with the audia as ln bia counsel and go between in the negotiations between heinit himself tind blame blaine mr blame maine denied emphatically lytho tho usper epou liia bit character and tho intimation that be 0 o had proposed to risk war nar with pent in in order to uphold a private claim of a speculative voin i puny ho ile characterized ship M herd ai wi a i a nian mail with whom lying ia is nn an employment and perjury a pastime he lie addressed tho the committee for one hour and and got into a personal contest with tho lion hon perry belmont who cross questioned him sharply about the transactions the scene between the tile youthful legislator and tho cd but vigor ons ex secretary was avas very dramatic d ra matic mr blaino had made the boast that he lie could metaphorically spank the boung democrat and teach him hini it jesson lesson but at lie close of the examination sir belmont appeared to have not only held his own but to have seriously the feathers of tho plumed knight mr blaino blaine tried lu tv bully M mr r belmont but could not escape lite llio merciless questioning of his young antagonist which constantly excited hia his irritation and bad temper when ho lie waa was pressed on oil sensitive points mr belmont compelled liim to admit that the tile peruvian courts could not or would not adjudicate the vial ins in question and thai that the lie only chance biauce for their success massuch was such pressure as his diplomatic plo matic plan proposed mr bel finout montalbo mon also drew from him tho the admission that the landreau cau ati claim which tip pushed was owned partly by b a Irenc frenchman hman for phoso benefit kis his diplomatic pyrotechnics had been displayed in the course of liis his te testimony stimon y Ship lierd told a story to show allow why it was that blaine was able to concoct a it defensive theory on the tile basis of or his ill s own letters the point of the tile story which Ship lierd said blaine told him was that in the reign of george IV the puke duke of york wrote some masterly dispatches apparently di directing rectina an english admiral not to fight but added in pencil on the 11 margin 1 r ti n of the tile dispatch this is all lioi right but give them h 11 and the tile result was that the admiral fought a winning batalo without a formal declaration of war Ship lierd said blame blaine wrote on the the margin of one odthe of lie letters to minister inister hurlbut go it esteve steve in III liis his instructions to minister comly at tile hawaiian islands I 1 mr fr blain 0 wrote within thirty years tile united stat states has acquired a legitimate dominant 1 influence in the north pacific which it can never consent to see diminished 1 by an intrusion therein of any element of influence hostile to its own ue did lid not hesitate to suggest that these views were sere held regardless ol 01 any possible posA ibie complications with he file british brilin government mr fr blaine has come into sharp conflict with the civil service reformers carl wrote of him in tho the Aven cawing jawing 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