The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-28
IT WAS UNAUTHORIZED.
The Story that Blaine Will Send
a Second DecIinatiou
WAS BASED ON MERE THEORY
Advanced in Private Conversation
in the New York Sun onlc4-An
Unfounded sensation-what
ingalls, Will Do.

C1Nc1NNATI, April ga New York
special says: Yesterday afternoon Editor
Brigham, Of Pittsburgh, called on Chas
A. Dana, the editor OF the New York
Sun. Mr.. Dana and Mr.. Brigham have
long sustained the relations of close in,
timacy. A conversation, desultory in
its nature, finally led to politics. Said
Mr.. Dana:
brigham, what about Blaine?"
81 am at a loss to understand him.
said Brigham, "but ! will venture an
opinion. believe Blaine intends to
write second letter. Now, l do not
really know anything, OF course, about
it. My view is that just before sailing
from Europe Blaine will send cable
gram to some friend for publication, in
which he will declare that under no cir.
cumstances can he be the candidate Of
his party. He will be on the ocean be-
fore any communication can reach. him,
and Il will mean final declination."
"That's good news to print" said Mr..
Dana. "But, seriously, tell me whether
you have any authorization for it.
"No, have not" said Mr.. Brigham.
"Then," queried Mr.. Dana, "why do
you say it2'
81 say it." said Brigham, "as an inn
pulse. 1 have from no living man the
authority to say it. have been here
two days, and l put this and that to-
gether, and l form my opinion as a gem
eral conclusion. / have talked to Mr..
Hooker, of Vermont, a friend Of Senator
Edmunds, and he comedies with me;
but, mark me, have no authority to
say it."
Upon this basis Of information the
Sun to-day printed the following, dis
played editorially:
"a POLITICAL RuMoR
Reaches us from a high Republican
source and of so important a character
that we publish it prominently. Ac-
cording to this intimation the last thing
that Mr.. Blaine will do as he embarks on
board the steamship which is to bring
him home to the United States will be to
renew, in most positive language, his re-
fusal to be the Republican candidate for
the Presidency.
'This time the declaration will be so
absolute that it will give to all his friends
a notice which they cannot ignore. He
will say that, even If he should be nomi-
mated by the Republican Convention,
he will refuse to stand; and as it will be
impossible to communicate with him
after the publication of this new re-
fusal until the convention has met and
done its work and adjourned, his most
enthusiastic supporters will no longer
be able to find any reason for hoping
that he may be induced to change his
mind and accept the nomination. Such
q course would be almost creditable TO
Mr.. Blaine, and, while it would leave
the majority of the Republicans to re-
gret that they cannot have him for their
candidate, it would endear him to the
party and increase his moral power in
It much more than it could be increased
in any other way, even by his election
to the Presidency"
FROM BRIGHAM HIMSELF.
Now, it may be pertinent to ask how
1 know this. My answer is that Mr..
Brigham himself told me the details of
the conversation twelve hours before the
editorial appeared in print.
The fact is, but two men in this coun-
try are in Mr.. Blaine's confidence as to
his future plans. One is Whitelaw
Reid, the other Congressman William
Walter Phelps. All others who assume
to be his spokesmen arc not in his con-
fidence.
ingalls,, when he replies to the Voorhees,
attack on next Tuesday, will also join
issue with Joe Blackburn and will pro-
duce the copy ofa commission issued by
JEFF Davis to Blackburn giving him
authority to act as guerrilla and ma
rauder.