"I did not hear the words, 'Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,'" he told me, "else, as you must know, I would have fittingly disposed of them." I said: "Mr.Blaine, you may as well give it up.

The doom of Webster, Clay, and Douglas is upon you.

If you are nominated again, with an assured election, you will die before the day of election.

If you survive the day and are elected, you'll die before the 4th of March." He smiled grimly and replied: "It really looks that way." My own opinion has always been that if the Republicans had nominated Mr.Arthur in 1884 they would have elected him.

The New York vote would scarcely have been so close.