Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-12-03
BUSY POLITICIANS.
Review of the Recent Conference
in New York.
THE PROBABLE RESULTS.
This Makes it Appear That Mr.. Platt
Leads the New York Race-News from
Indianapolis shows 1t to BE
"An Idle Talk"

Ills nearest 4fieouS IN New OK still refuse
to talk for publication, but insist, as they
have for the past four weeks, that if Mr..
Blaine is not secretary of state it viii be be-
cause he declines to be This visit, two weeks
ago, has decided Mr.. Blaine Those standing
closest TO him say that he will accept.
Ostensibly Mr.. Blaine was here TO attend
the funeral of Mrs w T. Sherman, but that
was not what called him here lie was in
Boston on his way to New York when the
news of that estimable lady's death reached
him. Mr.. Blaine came here at the earnest
solicitation of number of influential poll
ticians, including Thomas G. Platt and
Stephen b. Elkins, aud while here held long
conferences with Mr. Platt and his friends in
the Fifth Avenue hotel
And for once in a New York fight among
Republicans Mr. Blaine, instead of prodding
the participants TO still more CORY displays,
was actually a peacenaker.
Mr.. Platt was highly anxious to know ex-
actly where Mr.. Blaine would be found when
the final struggle comes for the patronage of
New York. The friends of Warner Miller
have been making things very unpleasant for
Mr. Platt since the Union League indorse-
ment of the Herkmer statesman.
The outcome was reached in the final con-
ference, which took place in Mr.. Blaine's
room at the Fifth Avenue hotel on Friday
afternoon, and Mr.. Blaine, after again urging
Platt to effect some compromise with Miller,
assured him that he was his ally.
1t was a noticeable fact that every friend
of Mr., Blaine among the active politicians
was openly for Platt.
Another straw was the remark made by
Mr. Platt at the Fifth Avenue hotel to a
friend from Tioga county, and that was:
''Mr. Blaine will be secretary of state.
The party needs him and he viii not refuse
it,
Hon. Levi +. Morton had two extended
conferences with Mr. Blaine, at both of
which Mr.. Platt was present, and it was an
nouncel that the vice president-eiect would
visit Gen. Harrison the coming week Among
the political sharps who sit around the cor
ridors of the Fifth Avenue hotel now like
crows around a cornfield, it is pretty gener-
ally agreed that Messrs. Blaine, Platt and
Morton have come to thorough understand
ing and that they viii pu together
Whether that ''pull" is long enough to
reach Mr.. Harrison is what bothers Platt,
and the coming visit of Mr. Morton is sort
of reconnoitre for the benefit of the entire
crowd of anxious adherents to his political
fortunes
In a private conversation with a well
known Pennsylvania Republican Mr.. Platt
sized up the situation more fully than is his
wont in speaking of political matters before
the deal consummated. He said:
81 can't see that Miller is much of a mar
tyr He forced his nomination and was
defeated, and can't see where he sacrificed
anything to Harrison. 1t is peculiar case
if a defeated candidate by his defeat elects
the rest of the ticket The truth of the whole
matter is that Mr.. Miller came near swamp
ing the national ticket by the extreme course
he took on the high license question. The
platform and party were IN favor of high
license but Miller went beyond them both.
He was almost fanatical in his temperance
talks and pledges, and yet every Prohibition
vote we got in New York state was gotten
by the protection issue, and indeed that was
the only thing that saved the state for us.
fail to see where Mr.. Miller's sacrifice
comes in"
All of which means no compromise with
Mr.. Miller by either Piatt or Morton
The arrival of Maj. Mckinley, the Protec-
zionist congressman of Ohio, set a good many
minors afloat, and when he was closeted
with Messrs. Piatt and Morton, the guesses
were running riot. To reporters mr. Nc
Kinley only said he was in the city on pri-
vate business, but it was well known that
he was here to finish the negotiations for
Senator John Sherman, opened earlier in
the week by G. L. Magee, of Pittsburg, who
was one of Sherman's strongest supporters
at Chicago.
Sherman wants the patronage of Ohio
without interference from the crowd and
Congressman Butterworth and Mckinley are
with him. They expect and are working for
place for Honest John" in the cabinet
That gentleman has never given an i.tima-
tion of his own wishes, and his acceptance of
such place would rest largely upon whom
his successor would be in the senate
Mr.. Mckinley came on to sizs up the rela-
tive strength of Platt and Miller, find their
feeling in regard TO Senator Sherman and
also to see where Vice President-elect Nor
ton stood He found Platt and Morton will
ing to stand in with Senator Sherman on
anything but the secretaryship of state, and
upon that point they were non-committal.
Mr.. Quay still objects to Mr. Blaine, as he
has through the campaign, and is urging the
claims Of the Hon John Sherman for that
place. Senator Cameron and c. L. Magee
represented him here in the early part Of the
week. ButQuay and Platt stand together upon
everything but this, and Mckinley made ap
his mind that Miller was out Of the race and
did not even confer with his. friends
Whether Mr. Quay win apply the thumb
screws to Mr. Platt sufficiently to make him
waver in his allegiance to Mr. Blaine is a
question that cannot be answered yet, but
with Stsphen B. Elkins, who is no novice in
political maEsgveriug. hare TO watch for Mr.
Blaine's interests, it IS not probable, especi-
ally Is Mr. Platt well knows that outside of
a few politicians the entire sentiment Of
Quay's state is for Blaine
So confident was Mr.. Elkins that on We'd
Aesday evening when be started for West
Virginia he saiA: II have fa6thInv n s<s