Blaine Speaks Out

The New York Tribuno of May 30 publishes the followiiig letter from Mr. Hlaine: un.-. , t, , , „ Pari My 1', 1888. Reíd, Esq., Editor New Vork Tribune. Mï üeakSik- Sinccmy return tj Paris from Southern Ital.v on tho Sth instant. [ have learned ( what I did notbefore belleve) that m.v Dame ma.v yet be presentad to the uational convention as a candidato forthe presidenta} nomination of the republican party. A single phraso of my letter of Janaary ■-!.- fnini Florence (which was declslve of everything I had the personal power to decide) has been treated by many of my most valued friends at not absolutely coiiclusive in ultímate and possible contingeui is. On the other hand, frienda equally devoted and ilisinterested have construcd my letter (as it should be coiistrued) to be an unconditional witliolding of my name from the uational oonvention. They have in consequence glven their support to eminent gentlemen who are candidates for the Chicago nomination- somo of whom would not, I am sure, have consented to assume that posltion if I had desired to represent the party in the presidential contest of 1888. If I should now, by speech or by silence, by commission or omission, permit my name, in any event, to come before the convention I should incur the reproach of being uncandid with those who have always been candid with me. I speak, therefore, because I am not willing to remain in a doubtful attitude. I am not willing to be the cause of misleading a single man amonu the milhons who have given me theirsuffrages and their confldence. I am not willing that even one of my faithful supporters in the past should think me oapable of paltering in a doublo sense with my words. Assuming that the presidential nomination could by any possible chance be offered to me, I could not accept it without leaving in the minds of thousands of these mon the iinpression that I had not been free from indirection, and, therofore, I could not accept it at all. The misrepresentations of malice have no weight, but the just displeasure of friends I could not patiently endure. República victory, the prospects of Whlch grow brighter every day, can be imperilled only by lack of unity in council or by acriminous contest over men. The issue of protection is uncalculably stronger and greater than any man, for it concerns the irosperity of the present and of señera tions yet to come. Were it possible for every voter of the republic to see for himself the coudition and recompense of labor n Europe the party of free trade in the Jnited States would not receive the suport of one wage worker between the two oceans. It may not be directly in our power as philanthropists to elévate the Euroean laborer, but it will be a lasting stigma ipon our statesmanship if we permit the American laborers to be forced down to the iuropean level. And in tho end the revanis of labor everywhere will be ad vaneed if we steadily refuse to lower the tandard at home. Yours verv siiucvelv, (Signed) JtMBi C. Hi.AiNK.