Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-25

EelnCtlutlE Elkln' ana Els cuurASuts
consented TO postpone tine Blaine coup, and
tb, friends OF AL the candidates except
Harrison ioiuei the Blaine men in forcing
au adjournment till Monday morning
THE SITUATION NOW
NAV he described as tolloas: In the con
veutiou to-mOrrow All the candidates will
stand firm. There are no Withdrawals
The conference OF anti-Blaiueites has
agrsed not to present any candidates Tor
the support of the opposition; indeed, it
is unable Ia agree upon candidate.
There IS deep feeling on ail sides that the
B!aire-Or- hust programme is not sanctioned
hy Mr blaine himself
The plan ct;he opposition therefore il sim
ply so stand irm and wait for Mr. Blaine
himself to speak, or for his assuyed repre-
seutatives 20 lOTce the issue. The feeliug
Is that it Mr. Blaine does not settle the
matter the cnvenuou will have 20 settle II,
and that the convention cannot 20 honest
Is and sincerely about tha business OF
choosing leader rs long as this Blaine
spectre hang over u.
THE ELKINs PROGRAMME
IL 10 demonstrate to the convention that
none OF the candidates now in the field can
~ nominated. When they are all ont of
the way and a dark horse IL npruuc on the
convention an effort will lr made to noui
Iuate Blaine Hut here are the facts which
the convention will iace tomorrow: The
candidates whom E,kins processes to have
killed refuse 10 be huried. Esery one
ct them il still in the race. They
are in tor To, purpose OF wiouiug if posi-
hle, and determined at all hazuds to PIE
vent the EOMlGut!on Of Blaine.
Tomorrow htllotng Is likely to show a
mere repetition Of the ballots OF Saturday
While tu'se other candidates Ire in the
field, EiElGs Will rot how dare carry out
his P:rgrawme OF stampsdiDg the couven-
ton, r"csrse he has heard authoritatiyely
from Mr Blame Tins q deadlock will
appear, and Nr. BlIius cuts the knot and
sets the convention free to act upon its
own responsibility uninterIercd with by n
Cabal 81 Negative leaders.
THE CONVENTION MAY SIT FOR SEVERAL
DAYS
/ withaut reaching solution Of the extraOr-
/ tluary difficulties hy which It is nov sur
rounded
/ Little hy little light comes iu upon this
/ phenomenal situation During the LAST
/ ,rw days there has been much talk OI Me
krniry - dark horse. ili- naue has
/ hecu mentioned with favor in many places.
. Delegates have voted for him in cnnveu-
non. There s no doubt that Mckinley
has made q line impression, and that he Is
Il f,.t
! mas been noticed that the men who we're
/ do,1gall H. tErrp"wer to press him to the
iro1t wsge Blaine meu. 1t waS Blaine
! delegate Shn lirst voted tor him. aud on
! "a" succeeding roll call other Blaine dele
gates followed their example.
NI'hINLEY ONLY \ BLAINE STALKING
HORSE.
Fur,hrrmore in the conference OF caudi-
dates the Elaine illIuruce has been eNcrted
ia favor of adopting Mckinley ~ the
leader OF the opposition forces, all the
2ut'- Blaine men In the convention COnc,u-
/ tratiug their strength upou him. This et-
/ frrt 10 induce all the other candidates To
withdraw an bring Mckinley forward as
/ . dark hor~r l. Blaine scheme. just as
.
. leave the field and dark horse takes their
/ place Blaine will bs nominated The
. 'ng.r OF this is easily perceived. Blaine
cannot id u"uof take thu nomination II II
hal been .-c7rcd hJ cunning over the can
dat ttss wHU entered the ti-ld aud did the
her they could tCr Themselves; hu, n these
candidate Voluntarily withdraw and a
dark nossc takes their place, no Obligation
rests Uu1u Mr. EaiTea ~ to the new comet,
who has not been candidate and wbnsr
friends have Put forth no effort in his he
bali ca the suppNstiOn that Blaine was ont
of the way. An ,',rt has rlsu been made
hy the Blaine peopl. to get Foraker to stand
- a dGrk horse and
FpEAEEE HA- uEEN WILLING ENOUGH
~ do IL, and mas paced before the C0nVeu
,loa with that pnrpp,e IN view, on Il dis
tiurt understanding that II the unti-kl'ine
iuiiueucr could he induced to rll'y about
hin Blaine was 10 beat him, the Vice
Presidency was to b. his reward. An ct-
fort has also heen made To play upon the
ambition of Mckinley, but without sue
c.ss. Mckinley has b,en loyal 10 Sher-
man. Au effort is also being made to bring
/ CGllom forward az dark horse, thus de
s.ruying Gresham, and in due time sim
/ liar effort may ba made 10 undermine HAr-
rt-0n by playing upon the ambition OF eX-
Governor Porter.
The anti-kHins leaders are not in
ignorance OF these adrOit tactics. At one
moment on Saturday there was some pre-
text OF the Mckinley programme succeed
iug. and John Sherman had really given
] e IL. oh
I tion tn himself ami permission to DO what
IL should seem hest The Rlaiue men
were tanning the Mckinley blaze az best
I they could in secret, but
THEY uyEErLhYED THE GAME
and were detected. Then Sherman with
DIRE y his Withdrawal His representatives.
/ here positively denied that he had q thought
! of retiring frOm the race, and the Senator
/ himssl; ia interviewed 20 the same effect
/ IN Washington. Another E.kius scheme
/ is to force the opposition to mite on
Sherman This on the theory that Blame
/ could safely take nomination away from
Sherman for the TeIsOu that the OllO
Senator was candidate before Rlaine'y
tirs, letter OF Withdrawal was written, as
Ii witnessed by his dtmLni for the pre'-
dental Endorsement oi the Ohio State
Convention of l--T. Therefore Blaine is
under no such obligations to Sherman
as 10 the candidates who enter the field on
,he belief that Blaine il out. 1t is true
that the Elaine mea are in the majority in
in. convention, but many Of these Blaine
delegates are attached to other candidates.
n thess other candidates refuse to yet out
of the KAY, aud they are now refusing to
do 81, /. is
NOT EASY To SEE HOW blaine CAN BE
NOMINATED,
or Il nominated how he cln accept.
The situation, therefore, Is deadlock,
with no good feeling prevailing, and u
powerful pressure being brought to bear
on Mr.. Blaine by cable Ia solve the great
problem IN 10 far as inal word OF his can
30 so. The understanding Bjaiue's friends
have is that he wants the nomination 1t 1t
can be secured in a proper way. In the
present temper OF the supporters ct the va
r.0u4 candidates his nomination by con-
sent, or AZ 4 result OF general withdraw
nj. IL an imposyibllity. The Blaine pro-
grtmme being to deadlock the convention,
kin oti other candidates and weary their
supporters, the opposition has adopted pre-
clsely the same tactics
a