The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-31
Blaine's Aim.

| 1t seems TO be settled that Mr.. Blaine is
to be Secretary Of State. He did not have
TO go to Indianapolis His friends saved
him that trouble, and perhaps they said to
Gen. Harrison that Mr., Blaine would take
it as compliment If he were offered the
leading cabinet position without being
required to seem to make an effort to get it.
Speculation is revived respecting Mr..
Blaine's purposes. 1t is said that he is shap-
ing his plans with the view of being the
republican NOMINEES in 1892. II he is he has
a very hopeful disposition. He could have
had the nomination last year if he had been
willing to accept a majority nomination.
Perhaps he intended TO accept the majority
nomination, but waited too long for a
unanimous one. He did not think he could
be elected unless be was unanimously nomi-
mated, and his friends did their best TO
nominate him unanimously They tried to
kill off the other candidates, one after
another. Their plan was discovered and
defeated.
IL Mr.. Blaine does not intend to be can
didate in 1892 it is not easy to understand
why he should re-entsr public life as a
member Of Gen. Harrison's cabinet. He
has already occupied that position, and
therefore, it adds nothing TO the public
honors he has enjoyed. 1t may BE- that
being man Of great mental activity he
simply wants congenial employment. This
reason for seeking cabinet place, however,
is not very generally accepted. The belief
is that he is still seeking the Presidency,
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cessful or dies. The staying qualities of
the Presidential bee are surprising.
Another American girl has eloped with
foreigner. In this instance the foreigner
was not a coachman, or anything of that
sort, but he already had wife living. The
American girls name is Ida Wilcox, and
her home is in Bainbridge, N. Y. She has
been travelling with her mother in Europe.
and while at Nice she met DR.. SelIon, of
London. The doctor professed to be an in
valid, but whatever doubt existed on that
score, he certainly was handsome and at
tractiye, and the little Irritation between
himself and the young lady resulted seri-
ously for the young lady 3, who, though warned
that the doctor was married already, eloped
to Paris with him. When they arrived in
Paris they found a policeman waiting to
arrest them, and at last accounts they were
on the way back to the irate mother, who
proposes to make matters very warm for
the handsome and rascally doctor.
The indianapolis correspondent of the
New York Tribune has made guess at the
next ca binet, as follows: Secretary of State
Mr.. Blaine; Secretary of ttbe Treasury,
Senator Allison; Postmaster General, Mr..
Wan maker; Attorney General, Mr.. Goa,
OF West Virginia; Secretary of War, Gen.
Alger; Secretary Of the Interior, Mr.. Swift
or Mr.. Estee, of California; Secretary of
the Navy, New York man. The best man
from New York for Secretary of the Navy
would be MIR. William c. Whitney, but Of
course Mr.. Whitney wouldn't continue in
office under Gen. Harrison, nor would Gen.
Harrison think of appointing bin.
Mayor Grant, OF New York, has received
a White Cap notice-that is, he has received
a note signed white Cap" in which he is
to close the dives in that city,
to prevent people from dumping ashes in
the streets, and to require property owners
to remove snow and ice from the streets
fronting their property before 10 o'clock
each day. The mayor is told that ualess
he does these things, he will be seen at his
residence. 1t was thought that Mr. Grant
was making very successful mayor, but it
seems that he is not pleasing everybody.
Congressman Grimes II Georgia, has
been threatened with the same kind of mis-
fortune that Senator Vance Of North Car
olina sustained tho other day. When he
returned to Washington after the holidays
he was suffering with serious eye aifec-
ton, and for a number OF days he feared he
would lose an eye His friends will be
glad to learn. however, that the diseased
eye has greatly improved, and that he no
longer fears that he will have to wear a
glass one.
A bill to abolish grain gambling has been |
in the New York legislature. |
Its passage would be severe blow to men
like Mr. Hutchinson, commonly known as
"Old Hutch" of Chicago but the working
people would be beuefited