The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-06-06
BLAINE CAN NAME THE MAN.
No Longer Candidate, He May Be Repnbli-
can Neutrality-suspicious. All at Sea-
BooEas Growing Meanwhile.

of both parties as was provoked by the
publication in the Star yesterday Of the
second and final letter of declination from
Mr.. Blaine. In most quarters it Is accepted
as conclusive, and as leaving no room for
the slightest encouragement to hope that
anything that can happen in the near future
would influence Mr.. Blaine to change his
mind and face the trials and disappoint-
ments of another presidential campaign.
a near relative of Mr. Blaine was seen
by Star reporter yesterday, but he insisted
on the suppression of his name. He said:
s.Nir. Blaine does not want to undertake
another campaign He is doing all he can
to prevent mis- name being used and he is
doing it concientiously, and with a persist
ence that he hopes will result in an agree
ment on some other name. He has written
great many letters like this one to MIR.
Reid to other confidential friends and they
all have this object in view. He hopes it
will be successful and that he will be spared
such another trial as he had in the last
campaign. But, if everything fails and
the nomination is given to him unanimous
", still think he would accept and make
as gallant q fight as he could. He is Re
publican of.the Republicans. His declina-
tion then would ring the death knell of the
party"
President Richard a. Cunningham of
the New Amsterdam Club had carefully
studied the letter and thought that it meant
Mr. Blades peremptory withdrawal from
politics. s'Re is out now for good, and
that's the only construction to be placed on
his letter. said Mr. Cunningham. ''If it
is true, look out for circus at the Repub-
lican National Convention. There will be
q big fight for an empty honor, for that's
what it would amount to. Still nobody
knows but Blaine would jump in at the
last moment.
Colonel Michael C. Murphy was not q
little surprised and was at loss to diagnose
the Republican situation. ''If Blaine is
really out" said he, 1T compicates matters
yery much for the G. o. P Many Re
pubicans took Mr. Blaine's first letter as q
bid for the nomination, and Of course the
Blaine men went to work with will. Now
they don't know just what this means OF
Just exactly what to do. I guess they d
beet take him at his word.
Senator Erwin, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, wouldn't say much. IF were to
write letter like that, my friends would
know how to interpret it. It's a good letter
and viii give the boys pile of work.
guess he means it.
Senator Warner Miller, who had such q
time of It at Buffulo to be delegated to the
National Convention, didn't like to talk.
He thought, being delegate, it might be
immodest or compromising, but he didn't
see how anybody who knew James G.
Blaine could put more than one construc
ton on that letter. stIn fact, it was alto
gether work of supererogation for him tc
write It, said the Senator, ''for we all
knew what he meant by the first letter. Il
means that he is out and we must look fol
another man"
'tAnd that other man-?"
t.Ah, there now; you really don't mean
that, do your said the handsome Senator,
smiling and moving away. ''See me a,
Chicago"
The great reglet for Blaine's with.
drawal, snd that he has VII y;.ss5dfsw6 sdw6 let nc
body mistske- -,SiEz6 Kr. Robert P. Porter
,pSaSiSs S2 t6e American Protective Tart
SGe, is that no other Republican coul
> draw on the Democrats for votes as b
could. The Irish element were stron
friends of MIR. Blaine and think many 0
them VIII deeply regret his preventing ther
: casting their votes for him There is on
thing want to say, and that is this, tha
honest Democratic papers, such as the Stal
hsys from the first given Mr.. Blaine tn
credit Of knowing what he was about whe
he wrote his Florence letter, and accepte
It IS final. The Mugwump press, on th
contrary, tried to discredit Il, and in dom
so have only discredited themselves.
'.Wen, after Blaine, who? ventured th
reporter.
a.sss difficult matter to say, and ther
are num1se. who viii have good deal t
say abcut 1t. Sherman has q kind of
following, and Gresham has friends, toe
AS for me, think Harrison and Phelp
would make winning ticket It may b
8 combination that hasn't struck everybod
as yet, but think it would suit goo
many people whom I know
With this new idea percolating throug.
his head, the reporter hunted up Mr.. Jas
P. Foster, the President of the Nationa
Republican League. Mr.. Foster prefacet
his remarks by saying that the League wa
made up of representatives from 5000 Re
publican clubs, with membership of hal
million, every man Of whom would hav
done what he could to make Blaine's sue
cess assured.
sThe Republican party will have reasol
to regret MI. Blaine's withdrawal, " said he
for he was the one man Of all others bes
calculated to insure success"
"But there msy be others"
ooh, yes, to be sure" said Mr.. Foster
''the party is rich in good men for Presi
dental timber. There are dozen wht
could win"
'tFor instancew
"Well, for first choice, Gresham or De
pew"
Mr.. James 4. Blanchard, Vice Presiden
Of the Republican League of New Yort
State, thought that the party was stron.
enough to stand it.
3tIts the greatest blow that has come te
the party IN long time" said Corone,
Nugent; with Blaine we could have made
winning fight, but now-well, Depew
can carry New York State, and he's my
man."
Mr. a. r. Whitney, delegate to Chi
cago from the Sixteenth District, said his
people we're solid for Depew, and that he
was practically instructed to vote for him.
Sherman S. Rogers, of Buffalo, didn',
think there was any need of borrowing
trouble. He was surprised that any Re
pubhcans had doubted Mr. Blaine's SINGER
ity when he sent out his first letter, and
those who didn't began to cast about for
somebody else.
'tFor whomy
.tOh, there's lots Of them. Don't think
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