The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-24

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Some of the ablest and most anxious o
its members had spent but little il any
of the night in bed. Bepew, Miller
Tom Platt and Hiscock, of New York
EIkins, Charles Emory Smith, OF Penn
sylvania, and other leaders, who hay,
been trying to prevent Blaine's nomina
ton in accordance with his wishes, had
discovered towards morning that the
man with whom they thought they
could succeed WIS
BEING CUT DowS
by the sappers and minors fthe field
This field, by the way, was the most Pc
culiar ever seen in American politics.
The most troublesome fnctor in it was
the last ditch Blaine contingent, headed
by California, and with branches so nu.
merous that it reached into every dele
CATION. II these Blaine men could have
been convinced that Blaine was dead,
they might have consented to think Sc
riously OF everybody else, but they knew
he was alive, in full possession Of his
great powers, and they knew he WAS the
real
CHOICE OF \ MAJORITY
OF the convention. Nebraska had been
given the temporary craftsmanship to
control her. California was given the
permanent Craftsmanship to put her un-
der bonds to keep the peace. They
were Blaine shoutcrs. They were told
that they were standing in the way OF u
nomination and forcing to port u dark
horse, who might be picked up at the
last moment. In despair they replied
that they
REPRESENTED THE SENTIMENT
OF the people, and would allow no poll
ttcians to think for them; and as for the
dark horse argument, that couldn't
frighten them, for Mckinley was "0Dl
right" ifthey couldn'tget Blaine. They
insisted, however, that they could get
Blaine and the convention could not
agree on anybody else. What may be
called the
BLAINE.IIARRIsON MEN
were in despair. Their plans seemed tc
have miscarricd on the eve OF success
and they did not know which way IL
turn.
Mckinley was good enough for them
too, but would Ohio let so Sherman be
fore a combination could be made thai
would cast Mckinley, too, on the rock
bound coast where so many other fine
craft had gone to pieces.
Quay, of Pennsylvania, was iubilan
over the success of himself and cO-ad
tutors in taking the wind out of Harri
sons sails.
By a hard
ALL NIGHT EFFORT,
conferences, entrcaties and fine wire
pulling in general they had seemingl
sent Harrison to keep Sherman an,
Gresham company. But successful Il
they were in destruction they iacke
either the material or the capacity 70
construction.
Blaine last bitches, the Allison mer
the Algcr men, the Sherman men, tn
Gresham men had helped them to elm
mate Harrison; hut when it came to de
Gliding upon u man and
rUTrlXGLliM THROUGH
here wasa different state OF affairs A
gers friends wouldn't let go. Allison
vrooms thought him the most promi
ing Of the thoroughbrcds. The McHir
ley adventures refused to step into
trap from which they might not escap
with all their belongings. New Yor
came in late and it seemed as thoug
Pennsylvania wasn't coming in at al
} In New York the majority was hayir
trouble with a
sTIFF-SECEID MINORITY,
Things were much worse III Pennsy
ENTHUSIASTICALLY more complicate
> because big chunk Of the delegate
< resented Quay's assumption OF leade
: ship field broader than he has been a
1t customed to.
C Warner Miller, Of New York, wns
I, the chair to rest Estec aud to see til
1t the Harrison scheme did not misscar
y for want OF friend at court.
s. The ballotingwas not
q PARTICULARLY sioSmaeAST,
10 except MS showing the high water ma
10 OF the Harrisou movement, and its cal
lg decline; the proof that Sherman v
done for; that Alger could not hope
reach the goal, and that Gresham v