Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-01
\ POLITICAL SENSATION.
TIE WASHINGTON POST lNTiMATEs
THAT BLAINE WAS "WoRkED.o

How Two Candidates for the Presidential
domination Put Their Heads Together
from the Field.
WASHINGTON, May 31.--The Washing
ton Post viii publish the following:
stThe Post has the most respectable
and the most reliable authority for the
statement that two or more candidates
for the presidential nomination at the
Chicago convention put their heads to-
gefher some time ago and contrived a
plan to get Mr.. Blaine out of the race.
The result of this continuance was that
when MIR. Blaine reached Paris he found
several letters awaiting him, and
not the least important were the
letters from the presidential conspirators
as they were termed. To the knowledge
of the Post, the writer of one of these
letters was Senator John Sherman. The
name 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 pres
ent that there were more than two
aSoAu MlCh blC SdDlc SubJeCU duu were
similar in tone. Both demonstrate
ed with Mr.. Blaine for allow
ing q state of misunderstanding
to exist concerning his candidacy for the
presidency. Both expressed the utmost
confidence that Mr.. Blaine meant every
syllable of what he had said in his Flor
ence letter, but pointed out that this
misinterpretation of that letter by some
of Mr.. Blaine's friends Whose friendship
was too ardent for political discretion)
was embarrassing everybody, demon
aIZing the party organization, and
threatening the utter disiGtegration and
hopes of the Republican party. Both
letters appealed to Mr.. Blaine to do m
thing at once to relieve the party of his
embarrassment. Both letters spoke Of
the eternal friendship of the writers for
Nh. Blaine in the past, and assurance of
a continuance in the future. Both writ
ers swore by all that was political they
would stick to Mr.. Blaine while
there was a button on his coat,
and they would never have entered 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
IL Impossible Ior a lew 1nJud1c10uS friends
here to put him in a false position before
the country and deprive the party of
that reasonable certainty of its ground
which is necessary to success in the prep
aration for a great political campaign
Knowing that these letters had met
Mr.. Blaine at Paris the. Post 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: son the other
hand friends equally devoted and inter
ested have construed my (F~lorence)
letter as it should have been
construed, to be an unconditional
Withholding of my name from the ma
tional convention, They have in conse-
qnence given their support to these gen
tlemen who are candidates for the Chi
cago nomination, some of whom would
not, / am sure have, consented to assume
that position if l had desired to represent
the the party in the presidential con-
test of 1881
The POSTS informant regards the act
of the joint letter writers as an unfair
trick, and he blames Mr.. Blaine for hay
ing written his letter at the prompting
of his rivals without waiting to hear
from his friends.