Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-31
A QUEER STORY.
A Washington Nswspaper Says That Blaine Was Practically Forced Out of the Race.

A Washington Newspaper Says That
 Blaine Was Practically Forced Out of
 the Race.
 WASHINGTON, May 31.-The Washington Post publishes the following to-day:
 s'The Post has the most respectable and the most reliable authority for the statement that two or more candidates for the presi- dential nomination at the Chicago convention put their heads together some time ago, and contrive plan to get MT. Blaine out of the race The result of this contrivance was that when MT. Blaine reached Paris he found sev- eral letters awaiting him, and not the least important were lettsrs from these presidential conspirators, as they have been termed, to the knowledge of The Post The writer of one of these letters was Senator John Sher- man. The name of the eminent gentleman who wrote the other will probably be made known later, and before it is much later. The two letters-it is not certain at present that same subject and were similar in tone.
 Both remonstrated with MT. Blaine for allowing state of misunderstanding to exist concerning his candidacy for the presidency. Both expressed the utmost confidence that Mir. Blaine meant every syllable of what he said in his Florence letter, but pointed out that the misinterpretation of that letter by some of MT. Blaine's friends (whose friend ship was too ardent for political discretion) was embarrassing everybody, demoralizing party organization and threatening the utter disintegration and hopeless defeat of the Re- publican party. Both letters appealed to MT. Blaine to do something at once to relieve the party of this embarrassment.
 "Both letters spoke of the eternal friend ship of the writers for MT. Blaine in the past and an assurance of continuance in the future Both writers swore by all that was r~a:%:~~-1-t4.c~b- ta1oy vOu1u SUCK CO MT. Blaine while there was button on his coat, and that they never would have entered the field as candidates themselves if they had not had the assurance of his Florence letter that he was entirely out of the race, Both urged MT. Blaine to take such action immediately as would make impossible for a few injudic1ous friends here to put him in false position before the coun. try, and deprive the party of that reasonable certainty of it's ground which is necessary tc success in the preparation for great politi. cal campaign.
 'sKnowing that these letters had met Mr. Blaine at Paris, The Posts informant had nc difficulty in divining what spurred Mr. Blaine to the writing of this last letter, es pecially when he read this significant part of it:
 "'On the other hand, friends equally devoted and interested have construed my Florence)
 letter, as it should be construed, to be an un.
 conditional withholding of my name from the
 national convention. They have in conse quence given their support to eminent gentle l men who are candidates for the Chicago nomination-some of whom would not, am 1 sure, have consented to assume that position ! if had desired to represent the party in the presidential contest of 1888.'
 "The Posts informant regards the act oi 1 tie joint letter writers as an unfair and g disingenuous trick, and he blamss Blaine fol
 having written his letter at the prompting o1 his rivals, without waiting to hear from hi. | friandsn 5