The interesting thing about Blaine is that he gets stuck with the label of anti-Catholicism yet his mother was Irish Catholic and his parents (father was Protestant) decided to raise his sisters as Catholic but him as Protestant. He gets tagged with the “rum, romanism and rebellion” statement that he never made - it was by a minister who had nothing to do with the campaign but the statement was made late in the election and could not be countered.
I remember the jingle “James G. Blaine, James G. Blaine, the continental liar from the State of Maine”. I cannot remember who said it or about what, or whether there was anything to it.