. McClure's magazine. dency in 1884 will rank among the memor-able disappointments and misfortunes ofthe people with that of Henry Clay, fortyyears before. Late in the week before the meeting ofthe Chicago National Republican Conven-tion in 1884, I received in Cincinnati a tel-egram from Mr. Blaine requesting me tocall on him in Washington, where he livedon the opposite side of Lafayette Squarefrom that of the celebrated old house wherehe spent his last days. He was engaged. MR. BLAINE IN iSqi. This is accounted one of the best portraits of Mr. Blaine in existence. It is from a photograph take
. McClure's magazine. dency in 1884 will rank among the memor-able disappointments and misfortunes ofthe people with that of Henry Clay, fortyyears before. Late in the week before the meeting ofthe Chicago National Republican Conven-tion in 1884, I received in Cincinnati a tel-egram from Mr. Blaine requesting me tocall on him in Washington, where he livedon the opposite side of Lafayette Squarefrom that of the celebrated old house wherehe spent his last days. He was engaged. MR. BLAINE IN iSqi. This is accounted one of the best portraits of Mr. Blaine in existence. It is from a photograph taken at Bar Harborin the autumn of 1891 by Mr. A. von Mumm Schwartzenstein, then Charge d Affaires of the German Empire at Wash-ington, and is here reproduced by the kind permission of Mr. W. E. Curtis. THE DEFEAT OF BLAINE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. 161 on his Twenty Years in Congress. I is not new to me—I have weighed all the called on him the day after his despatch chances. Besides —and here he kindled reached me, making haste, for I was about — why should we let the country go into to go to Chicago; and he first said he the hands of Democrats when we can name feared he had sent for me on an insufficient a ticket that is certain to be elected—one errand, and after a moments pause began that would sweep every Northern State? to speak of the approaching convention, What is it? I asked, and quickly used the expression— I am The answer came with vivid animation: alarm
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