Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-11
BLAINE In AGAIN.
He Decides to Run for the Presidency
So 1t is Announced on Appar-
emily Good Authority.
Fine Work Said 10 Have Been Done BY
His Political Friends in New En-
gland-The Portrait Dodge
Active Work Begun.

! PHILADELPHIA, May 4.-The Times will
| publish tomorrow the following triple
! loaded special rom New York, which it
will indor-e as coming direct from the
| most authentic sonrce:
Il have entirely reliable information
| that the friends of Blaine, within the last
three days, received direct from him his
assent 10 an aggressive movement for his
denomination t.r president, and the as
surance that if nominated in the face of
his Florence letter of decllnation. he
would not feel at liberty to decline.
A general and systematic effort
has been made by Blalue's closest
friends, such as Chairman Jones, Wm.
Walter Phelps, Whitelaw Reid, Charles
Emory Smith and others, for two months
past to get Blaine into the attitude of a
passive candidate. The Washington con
ference was only part of the varied
methods which Influences had been
brought to bear upon Blaine, and the pub
lication of his portrait, freshly taken from
life, in Italy, and issued by Judge this
week, was decided on more than q month
ago as the starting point for the avowed
effort to make Blame the candidate.
Every possible pressure has been put
upon Blaine to get from him the direct
assurances that he will not decline if nom
mated, and that assurance has been re-
ceived in this city from Blaine within
the last three days. In few days more
1t will cease to be secret that Blaine is
in the hands of his friends, as the Blaine
leaders will at once come to the front
and make an aggressive campaign for
his denomination.
This movement has been pretty clear
ly foreshadowded for some weeks III such
Blaine organs as The Tribune of this city
and The Philadel phia Press and all affec-
Uation about Blaine's candidacy will soon
be thrown off and the battle be made an
aggressive one. Part of the original pro-
gramme was the election of Chas. Emory
Smith as a delegate at-large from your
ftate; and the failure was great dis
appointment to the Blaine junto in this city :;
but Mr.. Smith gives the assurance that
Blaine can command ma jority of the Penn
sylyania delegation under any circumstan-
ces and that if Blaine's nomination shall
seem to be assured the delegation viii! be
solid for him.
"The unexpected expression in Massa-
chusetts and Vermont for Blaine were
not accidental, nor are they unexpected
to Blaine's friends. When all of the anti
Blaine men were reposing on their arms
because they regarded Blaine as out of
the fight, the friends of Blaiue were most
energetic in their work in the two anti
Blaine New England states, and they got
possession of Vermont and Massachusetts
while the others slept in fancied security.
1t was the expression of three hitherto
anti Blaine New England states that made
Blaine cast aside his doubts and assent to
the opportunities of his friends for his
nomination.
st is now a positive fact that Blaine is
in the field; that his friends have his as
sent to a movemAnt in his favor, and that
he will be nominated at Chicago, if hard
work and plenty of enthusiasm can &C
com pIish It,"