Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-25

ton. This man looked over the list, saw
that 1t comprised the names of delegates
who are here ostensibly for other candidates
and at once gave his dictum. This
he. "Blaine cannot take this nom
nation by riding over the rights
of many men now in the field. He regards
them all as his friends and knows they have
entered this contest in good faith, believing
him TO be out by his own act. You propose
to draw delegates from the support of these
men to undermine and defeat them. If YOU
nominate him in this way a cablcgram will
be received from him in twenty minutes de-
clining the nomination, and then you will
be in n worse predicament than ever.'
Reluctantly Elkins and his colleagues con
sented to postpone the Blame coup and the
friends of all the candidates except Harrison
joined the Blaine men in forcing an adjourn
ment till Monday morning. The situation
tonight may be described as follows: In the
convention tomorrow all the candidates will
stand firm. There are no Withdrawals. The
conference of anti-Blaine men has agreed
not to present any candidates for the support
of the opposition. Indeed it is
unable to agree upon a candidate.
'Blaine or Bust programme is not sane
toned by Blaine himself. The plan of the
opposition is simply to stand firm and wait
for Blaine himself to speak for his representa-
tives to force the issue. Tn feeling is that
if Blaine does not settle the matter the con-
vention will have to settle it, and that the
convention cannot sincerely go about the
business of choosing "a leader as long as this
Blaine specter hangs over it.
The convention tomorrow morning will
face the fact that the candidates whom
Elkins profcssed to have killed are all still
in the race. They are in for the purpose of
winning if possible, and determined at all
hazards to prevent the nomination of Blaine.
To-morrow's b~alloting is likely to
show "A repetition of the ballots of Saturday.
While these candidates are in the
field Elkins will not dare carry out a pro-
CRANE of stampediug the convention because
Thus a deadlock will appear and unless
Blaine himself cuts the knot and sets the
convention free to act upon its own RESPONSE
bility the convention may set for several
days without reaching a solution of the extra
ordinary difficulty by which it is now sur
rounded.
There has been much talk of Mckinley as
a dark horse. There is no doubt that Nc
Kinley has made a fine impression and that
he is popular on his own account, but it has
been noticed that those who were doing all
in their power to press him to the front were
Blaine men. In the conference of candidates
the Blame influence has been eXerted in
favor of adopting Mckinley as the leader of
the opposition forces, all the -Bl
men in the convention concentrating
their strength upon him. This effort toin-
duce other candidates TO withdraw and
bring Mckinley forward as a dark horse is a
Blaine scheme. just as soon rs the present
avowed candidates leave the field and
a dark horse takes their place
Blaine will be nominated. The logic
of this is easily perceived. Blaine
can not in honor take this nomination if Sc
cured by running over candidates who en-
tered the field and did the best they could for
themselves, but If these candidates voluntar-
lily withdraw and "A dark horse takes their
place no obligation rests upon Blaine as TO
the new conner, who has not been a candi-
date and whose friends have put forth no
efforts in his behalf, on the supposition that
Blaine was out of the race.
An effort has been made by the Blaine
people to get Foraker to stand
as a dark horse and Foraker
has posed before the convention
with that purpose in view on a distinct
understanding that if the anti Blaine in
fuence could be induced to rally about him
Blaine was TO beat him, the vice presidency
being his reward. An effort has also been
made TO play upon the ambition of Mckinley,