Morning journal and courier., 1888-06-14
NOWO " OiO6i0pH FROM ALL QUARTERS. BLAINE HAS NOT REFUSED To Accept The Nomina-
 ton If Rendered. HIS NAME WILL BE PRESENTED. A Strong Feeling In His
 Favor.
 MURDER AT F0REPAUGH'S SHOW. The Emperor In No Im-
 mediate Danger.
MURDER AT FOREPAUGH'S SHOW

NO NRw LETTER FROM BLAINE. Chairman Jones Pronounces the PIttsBurg Leaders Announcement a Ganard.
 ! CHICAGO June 13.-Chairman B. F. Jones I of the National Republican committee ar
 rived to-day and being interviewed in regard I to the rumor that he had 8 letter from Mr. Blaine expressing the lattsr's prefeIenc as to 1 the Republican presidential nominee he de- ! nied that he had received any letter of a i political nature since MT. Blaine wrote from | Florence. The reporter said: ''These same l rumors have it that MT. Blaine would not I accept the nomination though it were ten dered to him unanimously and has go stated to you. Has he eyer given such intimationa' tMost emphatically mo-" This closed the 1 interview. It had made two points measur- ably clear-that 8 new letter from Blaine was not forthcoming and that in the con- 1 tingency of the convention rendering him a nomination the delegates would have to look beyond Chairman Jones to learn the result. Blaine's Name VIII Be Presented. PITTsBURG, June 13.-Senator Farwell, of Illinois, passed through this city to night en route to Chicago. In an interview he stated
 Blaine's name would probably be presented at the Chicago convention and if nominated he would accept.
 A Strong Sentiment For Blaine. CHICAGO, June 13.-There is a strongly defined Blaine feeling here among the dele- gates who have arrived to attend the na- tional Republican convention. His sup porters say he would have no right to refuse k@, 1, 4ol also great activity at Gresham's headquar
 ters to-day. The register was left open and
 every Gresham man who dropped in put
 his name down.. Many former residents of
 New York held meeting in the Gresham.
 rooms this afternoon for the purpose of
 booming the judge. They organized them
 selves into committee to receive the New
 York delegation with all the hospi-
 tality the city could extend and
 interest of Gresham. They decided to call upon all former New Workers now resident here to lend their active cooperation. Gen. eral Alger will be nominated in the conven. tion by Colonel Robert T. Frazer of Detroit 8 lawyer and an old campaigner. General Harrison will be named by Albert K. Porter ot Indiana, whom Indianans say is 8 dark horse. General Shsrman's name will be pre- scented by General Hastings, attorney general of Pennsylvania General Gresham's name will probably be presented by Leonard Swett.
 Murat EHalstead Surveys the Situation.
 CHICAGO, June 13.-Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, came in on an early train to-day to look after the interests of Senator Sherman. To reporter he said: "Ohio is undoubtedly for Sherman, reports to the contrary notwithstanding There may be crank in the delegation, but I do not think there Is more than one if there is that. It will therefore stand by Mir. Sher- man. Sherman has a large vote assured more than three hundred. Blaine is out of the race for good and all, but it is not to be denied that the Ohio delegation is composed of Blaine's friends who would gladly be for him if he were in the field, but he is not, and no one knows it better than Whitelaw Reid, William Walter Phelps, Emory Smith or any other of the Plumed Knights friends"
 f'Do you think the Blaine men are seeking to create diversions from this man or that in order to get the delegates on the ground un- trammelled by pledGesf' 'No, do not. In fact they are utterly unsettled themselves. They do not know which way to turn"
 "Are they likely Co turn to Algerf' Hardly. But Yom Platt is doing all in his power to turn the New York delegation to Alger and he may succeed if Depew is not in tuo H0lu. Oop6W COulQ CdIEy NC" 4oHAB Dut might lose Kansas and Iowa. Harrison will have great pull in the claim set up for him that he can carry State which Blaine lost in 1874. With Phelps for second place 1t is claimed that New Jersey can be carried another State that Blaine did not get in 1884. It must not be overlooked that this is indeed a strong combination. It will re- ceive attention in the convention"
 And about GreshamF' About Gresham there is one terrific objection. If nominated he would have to resign from the bench, and that would give Cleveland an opportunity to put iu some old Democrat to preside over Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, and that won't do. The Gresham boom reminds me of the manner we ran the Bristow boom. We did uot help Bristow, but we beat Blaine and played hell at the same time. Hayes got it. Why, the way we worked for Bristow was a caution. We packed the galleries with five thousand persons, all supplied with Bristow fans and shouted themselves hoarse, but it was no go. We had run the. boom into the ground and broken it off.'