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I do not believe there was at that time
in the heart of either a tinge of anger against the other.
But as the contest went on, Mr. Blaine seems to have become
possessed with a belief that the bitter public attacks upon
him were instigated by Bristow. Some of the Kentucky papers
had been specially bitter. The Republican Convention opened
in Cincinnati, Wednesday, June 14. The Sunday morning before
Mr. Blaine fell in a swoon on the steps of the church at the
corner of G and Tenth Streets in Washington. He was carried
to his house on Fifteenth Street. Bristow was in his office
in the Treasury Department when a friend called upon him,
and gave him the news of Blaine's attack, and said: "Would
it not be well for you to go round and express your interest?"
Bristow took his hat, and the two friends went together to
Mr. Blaine's house.
An occurrence took place there which satisfied them both
that the feeling against Bristow on the part of Mr. Blaine
and his near friends was exceedingly strong and implacable.
The story was immediately telegraphed in cipher to Mr.


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