St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-26
They Are Business Partners
and Play for Big
Stakes.
Star-Route Dorsey in the
Deal, and Blaine
Near By.
A Return to Belknapism Un-
questioned If He Is
Elected.

ufudtcS. LII IdlktnS 10 reporter IOF lNe
Tribune yesterday, said: ''It is strange
that the inside of Steve Elkins' alliance
with Harrison has not yet become
known. They are partners in business.
When Harrison went to Washington he
struck up an intimacy with Senator
Davis, of West Virginia. Elkins mar
ried daughter of Senator Davis, and
the intimacy extended to him. A few
years ago scheme was entered into by
Harrison and Elkins for the organiza-
tIon OF the Harrison Cattle Company OF
Montana. Harrison's son, who is now,
or was recently, in Elkins' Office in
New York, was made the executive
head of the company and sent out
to Montana. ElkinS floated the
stock and bonds of the cattle COM
pany amounting to 100000. Since
that enterprise was set OH foot the buSi-
ness and personal relations between the
two men have been of the most intimate
nature. Whenever Harrison goes to
New York he makes his headquarters
in Elkins' office, and whenever he takes
his summer vacation he goes to Deer
Park in Maryland. The cattle company
has had difficult time during the last
two years, like many others there, and,
it is understood, is in deep water. FL
kInS controls the affairs of the cattle
company, and if Harrison should be
elected president of the United States,
he would be under pressing and strong
obligations to Elkins. This statement
may explain why Elkins stopped at In
dianapolis to see Harrison. and why he
is now urging HarriSOn's nomination
with such pertinacity.
IF Blaine had been elected he would
have been able to manage Elkins. The
case is exactly the opposite with Har-
risOn. Should Harrison be elected he
will be managed by Elkins. So great is
the grip of Elkins upon Harrison, fiDan-
cially and personally, that should he be-
come president he might be placed at
times in an embarrassing position.
''Elkins has promoted the candidacy
OF Harrison by using two sets of argu-
mentS to the delegates who have ac-
cepted the declinatian of Mr.. Blaine as
a tinality-first, because Harrison was a
soldier: second, because he came from a
doubtful state. To the last ditch
Blaine men he appealed that some votes
be thrown to Harrison, in order to
equallZe the strength of the various
candidates, and thereby prevent the
nomination of anybody except Blaine.
He has thus succeeded in winning the
support of Charles Emory Smith and
Whitelaw Reid and other Blaine men
who were otherwise unfavOrable to Har-
rison or would be if they knew he was
the partner of Steve Elkins.
ut is well KNOWN" continued the
delegate. as he lit cigar, ''tO persons
who are familiar with the business reIa-
tiOnS of Blaine. Harrison and Elkins
that the nomination of Harrison would
be more to the interest of ElkIns than
would be that of Blaine, and hence the
desire of Elkins to promote the nomina-
tion of Harrison. The same is true of
Kerens, of st. Louis; Dorsey, of New
Mexico, and other representatives of
the 'Star-rOute' and land-grant sydicates,
who would be potential in the admins
tratiof if Harrison should be elected.
They have been playing for enormous
stakes and counting upon the ignorance
of the delegates. If Kerens, Elkins and
Dorsey should be the kitchen cabinet,
Harrison would be an imposing figure
in the White house and the last Repub-
llcan president.
''lt is not believed, however, by those
who are converSant with HarrisOn's
political career that he can be elected,
Notwithstanding his army of boomers
who are mainly county and township
committeeman. Harrison has no mold
ON the people of his state. There is not
a doubtful man in Indiana who would not
get up at O'Clock in the morning to
vote against him. He is recognized in
Indiana as he is in Washington as a
cold, selfish politician, austere and dis
tant in his manner. He has never been
elected to any office by popular suf-
frage and never will be, and should he
receive the nomination, the Repub-
licanS will lose Indiana just as surely
as the sun rises on election day.
His nomination would be received
with cheers by his strikers, but
chilling apathy weuld seize the voters,
and month before election $3.50, 200
would be asked for from Wall street to
save the state and it would not come,
for Harrison is no more popular in the
East than in the West. The truth is,
we have all been too tender and mealy-
mouthed i'll dealing with the Harrison
boomers. We have permitted them to
say without contradiction that he could
carry the state, whereas he would be
the worst whipped man the Republi-
cans have run in Indiana in twenty
years. | think, moreover, that if the
truth were to become known about the
relations between Harrison and Elkins
and the other Southwestern landgrab-
berS and Star-route men there would be
a landslide away from the Republican
party all over the country long before
election day.
THE association of Elkins with
Blaine undoubtedly cost the party the
last election, and it will be an everlast-
ing misfortune and shame if that same
brilliant New Mexican political adven-
turer shall have the aScendency in the
management of the next campaign.
The Republicans loved Blaine and con-
doned the existence of Elkins on his ac-
count, but it will not endure another ma
tional campaign conducted under such
auspices"
Another delegate from the Northwest
who is largely interested in stock rails
ing, when asked if he thought Steve
Elkins was for Harrison as Blaine's
friend, said: ''ElkinS would like to see
Harrison nominated, but he is too
shrewd to believe that such result can
thing uncomplementary to Gen. Harri-
son, because he is candidate for presi-
dent and [ may have to vote for him,
but Elkins is supporting him solely on
the ground that they were business
partners. hardly think that Gen. Har-
rison has made much money by the
partnership; indeed l have been told
that he has lost some. However, the
Harrison Cattle company, of Montana,
has passed out of their hands, as | was
informed it had been sold last night, and
the least said about the company the
better"
''How was the company organized?"
''Gen. Harrison. Elkins, Gen. Hazen,
and lot of others were the stOckhold-
erS and Elkins was to sell the bonds.
They started out to raise stock on stu
pendouS scale, but Elkins, for some rea-
son or other, was never able to float the
bonds. The company was one of the
most nlAnOYinlic in, tho Mort n,,I