An Emphatic Refusal

Wbw York, May 30.- The Tribune of toflay publiBhes the following letter f rom Mr. Blaine: "Paris, May 17, 1888.- YihUtlaw Beid, Esq., Kditor New York Tribune- My Dear Slr : Slnce my return to Paris from Southern Italy on the 8th inst. I have learned (what I did not befora belleve) that my name may yet be presented to the National convention as a eandldate for the Presidency by the Republlcan party. A single phriise of my letter of January 25 from Florence (which was deci9lve of every thlng I had the personal power to deelde) has been treated by many of my most valued f rienda as not absolutely conclusive in ultímate and possible contlngencies. On the other hand, friends equally dfivoted and disinterested have construed my letter (as it should be construed) to be an unconditional withholding of my name from the National conventton. They have in consequence given thelr support to eminent gentlemen who are candidatos for the Chicago nomination. some of whom would not, I am sure, have consented to assume that position if I had desired to represent the party In the Presidential contest of 1888. "If I should now, by spiech or by silenes, by commisslon or omission, permit my name, in any eveot, to come before the convention I should incur the reproach of belng uncandid wlth those who have always been candld wlth me. I speak, therefore, because I am Oot willing to remaln in a doubttul attitude. I am not willing to be the oause of misleadinK a single man among the milllon who have given me their suffrages and thelr oonnaence. 1 am not willing that even oma of mj f aitliful supporters In the past should think me capabl of palterlng In a doublé sense wlth my words. Assumlng that tho Presidential nomlnatlon could, by any possible chance, be ollered to me, I could not accept it without leaYing in the minds of thousands of these men the lmpresslon that I had not been free from indlrection, and, therefore, I could not accept lt at all. The misrepresentations of mallos have no weight, but the just dlspleasure of friends I could notpatlently endure. " Repubücan victory. the prospects of whlch grow brighter every day, can be imperiled only by lack of unity in council or by acrimonious contest over men. The issue of protection Is lncalculably stronger and greater than any man, for it concerns the prosperity of the present and of generation6 yet to come. Were tt possible for every voter of the Republic to see for himself the condition and the recompense of labor in Europe, the party of free trade in the United States would not receive the support of one wage-worker between the two oceans. It may not be directly in our power as philanthropists to elévate the European laborer, but it will be a lasting stigma upon our statesmansnlp if we permit the American laborer to be foroeddown to the European level. And, in the end, the rewards of labor everywhere will be advanced lf we steadily refuse to lower the Standard at home. Yours, very sincerely.