The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-26
HARRISON GETS It
Not Much Enthusiasm Over
the Nomination.
BLAINE'S WET BLANKET
He Asks His Friends Not to
Vote for Him.
MORTON FOR SECOND PLACE
He is Nominated on
the First Ballot.
MORTON FOR SECOND PLACE

CHICAGO, June 25.--Blaines cablegram
to vote for him prevented his nomination
and nominated Harrison. The Blaine man.
ayers have kept Blaine constantly Informed
OF what was going on here. Blaine seems
to have thought that the battle for his
nomination, which his representatives were
working here with his full approval, ought
to have been carried to a successful issue
by last Saturday night. When the adjourn
ment till Monday without balloting was
carried Saturday afternoon, Blaine was
undoubtedly disappointed. The Blaine
managers could not have acted otherwise
than to join, as they did, and vote for the
adjournment. They had 42S votes certainly
for Blaine and not mora than $50 votes cer-
tainly against him, and if he had been an
ordinary candidate they could and undoubt
edly would have prevented an adjourn
ment and
NOMINATED BLAINE,
But in their extraordinary circumstances
they had to wait just as long as the other
candidates chose to make them wait. Every
other candidate had to have at least the
semblance of chance to win, and for as
long as he and his friends thought desirable
The anti-Blaiue combination of senators,
within and without the convention, was
trying Mckinley as the possible dark horse,
and when they asked time till Monday to
complete their plans the Blaine managers
had to give in. Meanwhile on yesterday
more was said than had been said before
about the plan of the Blaine managers,
which had come to be pretty well under
stood. The more they talked about 1t the
more embittered the friends of tho different
candidates became. They had discovered
that the "chances" which the Blaine man
ayers boasted of giving every candidate was
dubious and deceptive thing. The Blaine
managers kept the nomination quite beyond
the reach of the rivals all the while. The
feeling toward the Blaine managers
BECAME so STRONG
that 1t was determined by about ninety
delegates to resist Blaine's nomination to
the end, even after every other candidate
was quite ont of the race. They drew up
an agreement to that effect and signed it.
The Blaine managers heard OF course, no
doubt all the while Of the ultimate nomina-
ton Of Blaine. They perfected last night
their plans for breaking the force of tho
Sherman movement, the latest device OF
the anti-BlaiGe men, and the only one
which thoroughly deceived such astute
politicians as Quay and McManes,
10th of whom confidently predicted
last night Sherman's nomination
on the second ballot to-day, and had the
anti-Blaine men been able to unite on any
other candidate, the Blaine managers would
have been able to defeat him. Having a
large majority of the convention, they
could bid defiance to all combinations, with
the certainty that they would win at last.
But all the while the bitter feelings of the
rival candidates and their friends would
have grown deeper, and ultimately the vic
tory might have been bought with certain
defeat in November. Blaine evidently con-
cluded thai It would prove too costly, for
after thinking it over and sleeping upon it,
he sent this morning a cablegram which
STOPPED THE BLAINE MOVEMENT
suddenly in full career. The cablegram
arrived about 10 O'clock. The Blaine man
ayers held brief consultation and agreed
that Blaine must not be further pressed, and
then sent the news to the Blaine men in the
different delegations, adding: I'VE must
beat Sherman now" They had already
agreed with tho Harrison element that If
for any reason Blaine could not be nomi-
nated they would support Harrison. the
friends OF the latter pledging their support
to Blaine should il be needed, 80 that when
the Blaine men got the news, on
the first intimations OF the Blaine managers,
they just turned in and voted for Harrison,
beginning with the second ballot Of this
morning. That was the beginning Of tho
end. On the next ballot Harrison got 544
votes and was nominated. This was such
an anti-climux to the nomination OF Blaine,
which the great majority of the conven-
ton had come there TO effect, that it was
received with great GOODNESS. The delegates
stood up and cheered and waved their Gags
and handkerchiefs and there was some
cheering ia the galleries. many Of the