St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-17
BLAINE'S 0B0M,
California Gives 1t Life, to the
CONSERVATION Of Can
didates.
Pacific Coasters Give It Out
Cold That They Mean
Business.
They Will Present the Name
Of the Tattooed
Man,
Trusting That Delegates Will
Take to Him as a Duck
Does to Water.
Steve Elkins Has a Letter
That Is Full Of
Meat.
He Will Spring 1t Upon the
Convention for Purposes
Of Stampede.
DepeW Is on Deck -- Dakota
Is Allowed Her Ten
Votes.
If New York Joins California
All Minor Booms Are
Busted.
Steve Elkins Has a Letter
That Is Full Of
Meat.
He Will Spring 1t Upon the
Convention for Purposes
Of Stampede.
DepeW Is on Deck Dakota
Is Allowed Her Ten
Votes.
II New York Joins California
All Minor BOomS Are
Busted.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 16.-Unless something
occurs to justify change of base on the
part of the California delegation before
wednesday of next week, all question
as to the name of James G. Blaine being
presented to the national Republican
convention on that day may be set at
rest. "They say that Blaine will not
be put in nomination." said Creed
Raymond, chairman of the California
delegation, in his speech in reply
to the address of welcome from the local
Blaine clubs at the Leland this after
noon. California" he continued, sis
the third state on the roll and the first
Republican state. When California is
called, l, if no one else can do it, will
put James g.. Blaine in nomination."
TO say that this extract from Delegate
Haymond's address carried
CONSIDERATION INTO THE CAMP
Of the various favorite soDs is to put it
mildly. All of them have been banking
on the idea that it was impossible to get
the name of the Maine man before the
convention.
wherever l CO." said one of Gen.
Alger'S most intimate supporters this
evening, II find strong Blaine under
current in every boom. If l
ask our people whom they
would prefer if Alger cannot
The Sherman people, the Allison peo-
pie, the Harrison people say the same
thing. All are willing to concentrate
on Blaine" The same gentleman said:
''If the CalifornianS are determined to
persevere in their programme, | don't
see that we have any other recourse
than to shut up shop. Blaine once
formally placed in nomination, nobody
else has show"
But the men who are recognized as
the authorized mouthpieces of the
man from Maine do not take the same
view of the situation. Walker Blaine,
his son, deprecates the use of his
fathers name, and says that the Jones
and Florence letters were final and
irrevocable. B. f. Jones refuses to
talk, and refers would-be interviewers
to his statement of Thursday, in which
he said that under no circumstances
could Mr.. Blaine be induced to accept
the nomination. 1t is said tonight that
an effort has been made to reach him on
his coaching tour by cable, and to
elicit from him a final communication
to the permanent chairman of the con-
vention, which would justify that Off
cial in ruling out the nomination when
made by the Californians. In the event
of this effort failing it is further said
that the Jones and Reid letters will be
read to the convention with view of
convincing it that the step taken by the
CalifornianS is without justification, and
contrary to good policy. Should this be
done, a
ROW IN THE CONVENTION
is inevitable. The Californians insist
that they have a right to nominate
whom they please, and that Blaine has
no right to refuse to respond to the call
of his country.
Suppose" said Mr.. Hayward to-day,
"that the war was yet going on: that
the rebels were about to cross the Po-
tomac; that Grant was in Europe: To
whom would the country turn to find
leader for her forces? To Grant. And do
you think that Grant would refuse to
respond to such call? What he was
to this country in war Blaine is in
peace. They say that he has written
some letters or something. That was
Blaine of Maine. The man we pro-
pose to nominate is Blaine of Cali
fornia, and we will do it.''
All through the day the greatest ac-
tivity prevailed at the headquarters of
rison men were at work from an
early hour. Depots were carefully
watched, hotel registers scrutinized,
and very few delegates got In that failed
to become acquainted with the interior
of the Indiana committee room. To-
night New, Dudley, Lew Wallace,
Huston and others of Harrison's chief
workers claim that they have gained
considerable ground. and that his pros
poets are more encouraging than ever.
1t is significant, however, that some of
them in private conversation admit that
if the first place on the ticket is
OUT OF HIS REACH
they will be willing to take second
place, although they are careful to add
that he does not want a vice presidential
nomination, and that if his friends ac-
cept in his behalf it would be in the
face of his own opposition. 1t is fact,
however, that in the rotundas and the
lobbies Blaine Harrison combination
is being talked of as briskly as was
Blaine-Foraker ticket twenty-four hours
ago.