CHAPTER the Nineteenth.
Mr.Cleveland in the White House--Mr.Bayard in the Department of State--Queer Appointments to Office--The One-Party Power--The End of North and South Sectionalism I The futility of political as well as of other human reckoning was set forth by the result of the presidential election of 1884.

With a kind of prescience, as I have related, Mr.Blaine had foreseen it.

He was a sagacious as well as a lovable and brilliant man.

He looked back affectionately upon the days he had passed in Kentucky, when a poor school-teacher, and was especially cordial to the Kentuckians.

In the House he and Beck were sworn friends, and they continued their friendship when both of them had reached the Senate.
I inherited Mr.Blaine's desk in the Ways and Means Committee room.