Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-05
An Aggressive Fight to be Made for Him,
With His Alleged Consent,

PHILADELPHIA, May 4th.-The Times will
publish tomorrow the following triple
loaded special from New York, which it
will indorse as coming from a most au-
thentic source:
New YORK, May 4th: have entirely re-
liable information that friends OF Blaine
have within the last three days received
direct from him his assent to an
aggressive movement for his renom-
ination for President and the assur-
ance that, if nominated in the face of his
Florence letter of declination, he would
not feel at liberty to decline. A general
and systematic effort has been made by
Blalne's closest friends-Such as Chairman
Jones, William Walter Phelps, Whitelaw
Reid, Charles Emery Smith and others for
two months past to get Blaine into the
attitude of passive candidature. The
Washington conference was only part of
the varied methods by which influences
have been brought to bear upon Blaine,
and the publication of his portrait, freshly
taken from life in Italy and issued by The
Judge this week, was decided on more than
month ago.
As starting point for the effort to make
Blaine candidate, every possible pressure
has been put on Blaine TO get from him
direct assurance that he will not decline if
nominated, and that assurance has been
received in this city from Blaine within
the last three days. In very few days
more it will cease to be a secret that Blaine
is in the hands of his friends, as the Blaine
leaders will at once come to the front and
make an aggressive campaign for his re-
nomination.
This movement has been pretty clearly
foreshadowed for some weeks in such
Blaine organs as the Tribune of this city
and the Philadelphia Press, and all affecta-
ton about Blalnes candidacy will now
soon be thrown off and the battle
made an aggressive one. A part of the
original programme was the election
of Charles Emery Smith as a delegate
at large from your State, and the
failure was a great disappointment to the
Blaine junta in this city, but Mr.. Smith
gives assurance that Blaine can command a
majority of the Pennsylvania delegation
under any circumstances, and that if
Blaine's nomination shall seem to be as
sured the delegation will be solid for him.
The unexpected expressions in Massa-
| chusetts and Vermont for Blaine were not
accidental, nor are they unexpected to
Blaine's friends. When all of
| the anti-Blaine men were repos-
| ing on their arms, because they
| regarded Blaine as out of the fight, friends
| of Blaine were most energetically getting in
tner Work IN TWO anti Blame New England
! States, and got possession of Vermont and
Massachusetts. While others were Sleep
| ing in fancied security, it was the express
sion of three hitherto anti Blaine New Eng
| land States that made Blaine cast aside his
doubts and assent to the opportunities of
his friends for his denomination.
1t is now a positive fact that Blaine is in
the field; that his friends have his assent to
| the movement in his favor.
CHAIRMAN JONES DENIES IT.
Icopyigh 1885, by the California Associated Press
PITTsBURG, May 4th.-Jones, Chairman
of the Republican National Committee, was
informed of the story that Blaine had given
his assent to an aggressive movement for
his nomination Jones stated that, while
| he had no direct knowledge of such
| movement, he did not for a moment be-
| lieve it. He had reason to believe that
Blaine meant every word he wrote in his
| letter of declination