Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-13

in no way can Blaine be nominated now.
would not be party to any scheme
which would put him back in the race"
The reporter here suggested that there
might be deadlock.
The ex Lieutenant Governor of Cali
fornia said:
"No, sir; there can be no dead
lock which viii require the bringing
in OF Mr.. Blaine. There is no such
paucity of able men. Let the delegates
keep on balloting until they name one Of
those before them"
"But," put in the reporter, "suppose
Mr.. Blaine should be nominated ?"
Chen" said General Mansfield, che
will be nominated"
"Will you support him ?''
"Ahem II generally support the Re-
publican ticket"
"You are a politician. l cannot make
much out Of you, General" said the re-
porter.
eyes, I suppose 1 am. / have been
one for forty years" And with this the
General sought the seclusion of his Office.
Ex-MAyoR E. F. SPENCE.
President Spence, OF the First National
| Bank, was found in his private office.
He had just settled the financial affairs
OF this great Nation with Mr.. James D..
| Phelan, of San Francisco. As soon as
the moneyed magnates got done, the ex-
Mayor with his customary urbanity gave
the newspaper fellow a moment Of his
time. The object OF the interview being
made known, Mr.. Spence wrote on a
piece OF paper:
"After Blaine, who? The nominee of
the Republican party. The Convention
can and win give US good man. think
things point to Gresham. Depew would
be good man. Yes, Blaine is out OF the
question. There is no way to get him
now. The party can not be trifled with.
am sorry Blaine is out. was fer him
with all my might. But any Of our men
can beat Cleveland. He will be the
worst fooled man in America after cleo
ton day."
The reporter recalled to Mr.. Spence's
mind the surprise which four years ago
lifted his party out OF its shoes when the
g. o. p.'s craft went down with all hands
on board, before the storm of disappfoval
of the American people.
| FRANK RAIDER
Says: "Sherman is my man. Gath
says he will go before the Convention
with go votes. think Sherman is the
coming man. | was for Blaine before. y
CORONER JIM MEREDITH
Was discovered rather disconsolate upon
the street. No poor devil has committed
suicide for week, and Jim's occupation
is gone. He ssys;
"Well, if l must sit on this political
corpse my opinion is that it will be Sher-
man, Depew or Allison. Yes, that is the
order l put them in. Gresham has nc
show. 1t may be Blaine for
all that has yet taken place.
They will cast ballot after ballot until
they all get tired, and then they will SO
for Blaine. l notice none OF the delegates
are talking much. Others do all the
talking, and the men who will decide do
all the thinking. The leaders will go for
the man who pledges them the largest
amount of patronage"
Mr.. Lewis, a Gresham man present
remarked:
"Well, they will not get any promises
out Of Gresham"
jim is not a statesman YETI but he is 8
pretty good practical politician" He
said:
eyes, they will go for patronage; and
they will get it. They will get it from
sherman. They will get it from Gresham
They will get more from Gresham than
the others"
Coroner Meredith is frank and out
spoken. He knows how they run Re.
publican Convention. He thinks it g
pretty good way, and like q sensible fel
low he stands up TO the rack, acknowl
edges the corn, and says what he thinks