Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-05-31

WASHINGTON, May 81 The Washington
Post this morning publishes the following
The Post has the most respectable and the
most reliable authority for the statement
that two or more candidates for the Presi-
dental nomination at the Chicago conven-
ton put their heads together some time
ago, and contrived q plan to get Mr..
Blaine out of the race The result of
this contrivance was that when Mr..
Blaine reached Paris he found several let
tiers awaiting him and not the least irnpor-
tant were letters from these residential
conspirators as they have been termed, to
the knowledge of the Post. The writer of
one of these letters was Senator John Sher-
man. The name of the eminent gentleman
who wrote the other will prob
ably be made known later. and
before it is very much later
his Florence letter; but pointed out that
the misinterpretation of that letter by some
of Mr.. Blaine's friends whose friendship was
too ardent for political discretion) was en-
barrassing every body,I demoralizing party
organization and threatening the utter dis
emigration and hopeless defeat of the Re-
publican party. Both letters appealed to
Mr.. Blaine to do something at once to
relieve the party of this embarrassment
The two letters-It is not certain at present
that there were more than two dealt with
the same subject and were similar in tone
Both demonstrated with Mr.. Blaine for al
lowing state of misunderstanding to exist
concerning his candidacy for the Presi-
dency. Both expressed the utmost con-
tidence that Mr.. Blaine meant every
syllable of what he said in
Both letters spoke of the eternal friend
ship of the writer for Mr.. Blaine in the
past and an assurance of a continuance in
the future. Both writers swore by all that
was political that they would stick to Mr..
Blaine while there was button on his
coat, and that they never would have en-
tered the field as candidates themselves if
they had not had the assurance of his
Florence letter that he was entirely out
of the race. Both urged Mr.. Blaine to
take such action Immediately as would
make it impossible for some injudicious
friends hefe to put him in false position
before the country, and deprive the party
OF that reasonable certainty of its ground
which is necessary to success in the prepar-
alton for great political campaign.
Knowing that these letters had met Mr..
Blaine at Paris, the Posts informant had
no difficulty in divining what had spurred
Mr.. Blaine to the writing of this last letter.
especially when he read this significant
part oft. On the other hand friends equally
devoted and interested have construed
my Florence letter as IL should be con-
strued, to be an unconditional withholding
of my name from the National Convention.
They have in consequence given their sup
port to eminent gentlemen who are
candidates for the Chicago nom-
ination-some of whom would not, 1
am sure, have consented to assume that
position, il had desired to represent that
party in the Presidential contest of 1888.
The Posts informant regards the act of
the joint letter writer's as an unfair and q
disingenuous trick; and he blames Blaine
for having written his letter at the prompt
ing of his rivals, without waiting to hear
from his friends