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Title: McClure's magazine
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, S. S. (Samuel Sidney), 1857-1949
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Publisher: New York : S.S. McClure
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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as that was; and I con-jectured that all this had been in hismind when he wanted Sherman and Lin-coln to be the ticket in 1884. And it oc-curred to me with so much force as thelogic of many things he said, that I ac-cepted it as true, and was reminded of hisweary exclamation once of a good friendwhose moods -were changeable: Nowthat he is right, stay with him. He takesthe health out of me with his uncertain-ties. The Secretaryship of State he cared for;in that office the world was all before him,and he was fully himself, and was notfretted by a perpetual procession of favor-seekers. The argument his urgent ad-mirers used with him was that it would beeasier to make up his mind than to con-vince a President, and that as the Chief ofState he could throw the work on theCabinet; but he was not satisfied. TheFlorence letter to me seemed familiar, forit was a reminder of Homburg, and itssincerity was in all the lines and betweenthe lines; and it was addressed to a friend MURAT HALSTEAD. 171
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ibLAINE S GRAVE AT WASHINGTON, D. C. THE TREE AT THE LEFT MARKS THE HEAD OF THE GRAVE, AND THE FIRST OF THETHREE LOW STONES IN THE FOREGROUND, NUMBERING FROM THE LEFT, MARKS THE FOOT. From a photograph by Miss F. B. Johnston. in Pittsburg, that it might not be sup- there appeared harmony of views concern-pressed in New York. He had very close ing Pan-Americanism; that Mr. Blaine en-and influential friends who did not divine joyed the office and that his official laborshis true attitude, or would not admit that during the Harrison Administration werethey had, and insisted that he was really of the highest distinction, showing his hap-well and strong and tough, better than he piest characteristics. The difference as tohad been, and that he should not be hu- duties that arose between the President andmored in his fancy that he was an invalid, the Secretary was forgotten, and theirThis feeling continued even to 1892, mutual sympathies abounded, when therethough he had been meantime painfu

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