Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-25
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
IAN APPEAL TO BLAINE
To Call off The Bust
Boomers.
JOHN SHERMAN IN TO STAY.
Mckinley Is Loyal To His.
Chief.
ALL the CANDIDATES STICK.
No Light DaWns On The
Situation.
BLAINE Or BUST.

BLAINE Or BUST.
The Leaders of the PIumed KnIght,l
Canvass VIII Force Their Man-much
had blood stirred Up byTheir DOgGed
PurpOse-An Appeal VIII be Made q
Blaine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Refuses "a
l. be Bark HOrse-Shermam WIFI Seich
and VIII Make square Fight Against
B1afne-A mucR MIXED Up State of II
fairs.
CHICAGO, June 24.-The presidential situa,
ton is practically unchanged. To-day has
brought only a clearer understanding of the
conditions under which this remarkable con
test is to be fought ont. Gradually it has
dawned upon the convention that certain
ones pretending to represent Mr.. Blaine HAYS
determined to prevent the nomination of any
| other man. The friends Of all the other can.
| didates are indignant that the convention
should be thus dominated by an influence
which, without an ayewed candidate of its
| own, attempts first to push sincere candidates
to the front and defeat them So much feel
/ ing has developed on this score that various
cablegrsms have been sent Mr.. Blaine besides
those he il supposed to have received frem
Elkins and Phelps. In these dispatches the
actual condition of affairs has been
| fully described and the bad feeling and
probable Generalization of the party if his
representatives are permitted to continue
their tactics carefully pointed out. There is
general belief that some dispatch from Mr..
Blaine will be read to morrow, probably re-
questing his friends to refrain from voting
for him. Further light WAS thrown to-day
on the attempted coup in Blaine's interest at
o'clock yesterday. A plan had been form
ulated to push Blaine's name to the front on
the first and second ballot. Alabama was to
lead the way, followed by all the Blaine
States, New York joining in with fifty votes
and the Blaine men in Pennsylvania leaving
the leadership Of Quay and return
ing to their first love. Even Ohio,
led : by Foraker, who wants second
place, was to contribute twenty or twenty
i've votes to the grand column. It is not
known why the scheme was abandoned. A
Chicago man not politician, who has been
empowered to speak for Mr.. Blaine,
was called into conference just before the
meeting of the convention He was in
formed of the plan and shown list of 423
sure and reliable Blaine delegates, or an as
sured majority of the convention. He looked
over the list; saw that ir comprised the
names of delegates who are here ostensibly
for other candidates, and at once gave his
dictun as follows: tThis thing must come
this nomination by riding over the rights of
any of the men in the field now.
He regards them all as his friends and knows
they have entered the contest in good faith,
believing him to be out by his own act. You
propose to draw delegates from the support
ers of these men to undermine them and de-
feat them IF you nominate him thus q
cablegram will be received from him in
twenty minutes declining the nomination and
You will then be in worse predicament
than ever. This thing must be stopped"
Reluctantly Elkins and his colleagues con-
scented to postpone the coup and the friends
of all the candidates except Harrison Joined
the Blaine men in forcing an adjournment
till Monday.
The present situation may be described as
follows: In the convention tomorrow all
the candidates viii stand. The conference
of anti Blaine men has agreed not to present
any candidates for the support of the opposi-
ton; indeed, 1t lie unable to agree upon q
candidate. There Is deep feeling that the
Blaine OF bust programme is not sane
toned by Mr. Blaine himself. The plan of
the opposition therefore is simply to stand
firm and wait for Mr.. Blaine himself to speak
or for his assured representatives to force the
ISSUE The feeling is that if Blaine does not
settle the matter the convention will have to
settle 1t, and that the convention cannot go
sincerely about the business of choosing a
leader a. long a. this Blaine spectre hangs
over 1t. The convention may sit for several
days without reaching solution of the
surrounded. A popularity Of the Mckinley
movement, it has been noticed, Is that the
men who were doing all In their power to
press him to the front were Blaine men. It
was Blaine delegate who first voted for him
and on succeeding roll calls other Blaine
delegates followed their example. Further,
in the conference the Blaine influence has
been exerted in favor of adopting Mckinley
as the leader of the opposition forces. The
effort to induce all the other candidates to
withdraw and to put Mckinley forward as a
dark horse Is q Blaine scheme. As soon as
the present avowed candidates leave the
field and q dark horse takes their
place Blaine will be nominated. The
logic of this In very easily perceived.
Blaine cannot in honor take this nomination
if It shall be secured by running over the
candidates who entered the field and did the
best they could, but If these candidates vol
unfairly withdraw and q dark horse takes
their place no obligation rests upon Mr..
Blaine, as the newcomer, has not been
candidate and whose friends have put out no
efforts In his behalf on the suppositien that
Blaine was of the way. An effort has been
made to get Foraker to stand as q dark horse,
and Foraker has been willing enough to do it
and has posed before the convention with
that purpose In view on distinct under
standing that il the anti-Blains influence
could be induced to rally about him Blaine
was to beat him out, the vice-presideney be-
ing his reward.
An effort has been made to play upon the
ambition of Mckinley, but without success.
Mckinley has been loyal to Sherman. An
effort is being made to bring Cullom forward,
thus destroying Gresham, and in due time q
similar effort may be made to undermine
Harrison by playing on the ambition of Gov
ernor Porter. The anti Blaine men are not
in ignorance Of these adroit tactics. At one
moment on Saturday there was q prospect
of the Mckinley programme succeeding and
Sherman had really given the Ohio delegation
a release and permission to do what it should
deem best. The Blaine men were tam
ming the Mckinley blaze, as best they
were detected Sherman withdrew his
consent, his representatives here denied that
he had thought of retiring, and the Sena-
tor himself was interviewed to the same
effect Another Elkins scheme is to force
the opposition to unite on Sherman. This
IL the theory that Blaine could safely take
nomination from Sherman for the reason
that the Ohio senator was candidate be-
fore Blaine's first letter was written, as is
Witnessed by his demand for presidential en-
dorsement of the Ohio State convention of
1897. Therefore Blaine is under no such OBJ
legation to Sherman as to the candidates who
entered the field on the belief that Blaine
was out Of the race.
The situation therefore is deadlock with
no good feeling prevailing and powerful
pressure being brought to bear on Mr.. Blaine
to solve the great problem in so far as word of
his can do 30. The understanding Blaine's
friends have Is that he wants the nomination
II it can be secured in q proper way. In the
present temper of the supporters OF the va
rious candidates his nomination by consent
or as q result of withdrawal is an impossible
ity. As Blaine's programme Is to deadlock
the convention, kill off other candidates and
weary their supporters, the. opposition have
adopted the same tactics.
DELEGATKs IN CONFERENgE.
Alabamaa MEN Can Reach No Result
9epevv Denies That he rs TO Nomai-
nate Blaine.
CHICAGO, June 24.-Ben Butterworth att
tended caucus of Alabama delegates this
afternoon and urged the nomination of Sher-
man. Then Logan a. Root, of Arkansas,
made Blaine speech. He said the Arkansas
delegates were for Blaine. It had not been
7sax,,o1 havvavar ia vote for him