St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-31
A BRACE OF CONsPIRATORS.
Sherman and Another Spurred ON
by Blaine's Latest Declination.

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Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May 3O.-The Wash
lngton Post will tomorrow publish the
following: "The Post has the most re-
spectacle and the most reliable au-
thority for the statement that two or
more candidates for the presidential
nomination at the Chicago con-
ventlon put their heads to-
gether some time ago and contrived
a plan to get Mr.. Blaine out of the race.
The result of this contrivance was that
when Mr.. Blaine reached Paris he
found several letters awaiting him, and
not the least important were letters
from these political conspirators, as
they have been termed, to the know
of one of these letters was
Senator John Sherman. The names
of the eminent gentleman who wrote
the other will probably be made known
later, and before it is much later. The
two letterS-it is not certain at present
that there were more than two-dealS
with the same subject and were similar
in tone. Both demonstrated with Mr..
Blaine for allowing q state
OF misunderstanding to exist con-
cernlng his candidacy for the
presldenc. Both expressed the utmost
conhndence that Mr.. Blaine meant
every syllable OF what he said in his
Florence letter, but pointed out that the
by some of Mr.. Blaine's friends,
whose friendship was too
ardent for political discretion,
was embarrassing everybody, demoraliz-
ing party organization and threatens
ing the utter diSintegratiOn and hope
less defeat of the Republican party.
Both letters appealed to Mr.. Blaine to
40 something at once to relieve the party
OF TINS embarrassment. Both letters
spoke OF the eternal friendship of the
writers for Mr.. Blaine in the
continuance in the future. Both writer's
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 entered the field as
candidates themselves if they had not
had the assurance of his Flor
ence letter that he was entirely
out of the race. Both urged
MI. Blaine to take such action imme-
dlately as would make it impossible for
a few inJudicious friends here TO put
MN III raise position before the coun-
try, and deprive the party of
which is necessary to success in the
preparation for great political CAM
paign. Knowing that these letters had
met Mr.. Blaine in Paris, the POSTS
informant had no difficulty in divining
what has spurred Mr.. Blaine to the
writing of this last letter, especially
when he read this significant part of it:
''On the other hand. friends equally de-
voted and interested have construed my
Florence) letter as it should be con-
strued, to be an unconditional
Withholding of my name from the
national convention. They have in
consequence given their support to
eminent gentlemen who are candidates
for the Chicago nomination, some of
whom would net, am sure, consented
to assume that position if L had decided
to represent the party in the presidential
contest of 1888. The POSTS informant
regards the act of the joint letter writ
ers as unfair and a disingenuous trick;
and he blames Blaine for having written
his letter at the prompting of his rivals
without waiting to hear ftom his friends.