The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-27
HARRISON'S HANDS OFF.
he REFUSES TO TAKE PARTIN THE
sPEAKERsHIP FIGHT,

Reeds Opponents Trying to Turn the
Battle Into One Of the Solid West
aAgainst the Solid st-McKinley's
Claims and Some OF His Losses.
WASHINGTON, Nov 26-Who is the
Presidents candidate for speakerl Was
asked of Private Secretary Halford to-day.
''On the principles that all is fair in love and
war;" said Secretary Halford, 81 suppose
some of the gentlemen who would like to be
speaker of the House would like to convey
the impression that their campaign has the
sanction Of the administration. That is all
there is to such story, and the President
does notintend to interfere in this matter
one way or the other"
WEST AGAINST EAST.
"The solid west will face the solid east"
say the four western candidates tonight
They begin to admit for the first time that
''the east" by which they mean the delega-
tons from New England, New York, Penn
sylvania and New Jersey. may be solid in
favor of Mr.. Reed. But they add that the
fact will rouse the western feeling so that it
will be impossible for any western man to
vote for Mr.. Reed. He may get the 67
votes of the east, but he will never be able
to get the IS additional votes necessary to
nominate him.
LIKE HIsCoCK'S EXPERIENCE.
IL will be Mr.. Hiscocks experience over
again, and either of the western candidates
or some man like Benjamin Butterworth,
not now a candidate, will be elected. Mr..
Reed, of course, denies that there is any
great weight in this western theorizing. He
says his western friends will stand as firmly
by him as will his eastern supporters. He
denies that he is a sectional candidate, and
he does not think he can be put in that
position.
ALL LIKELY TO LOSE.
AS matter of fact, the western candidates
are as likely to lose votes as Mr.. Reed is.
Mr.. McKiDley's column has lost from five to
ten, ten on his own admissions Until tonight
he claimed four in New York and eight in
Pennsylvania, for example. Tonight he
claims only one in New York and
six in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Flood of
Elmira, who compelled Senator Platt and
President Harrison to appoint his brother
postmaster by threatening to resign and let
a democrat be elected, is the New Yorker
still claimed by Mr.. Mckinley. He is the
man Of whom Corporal Tanner said that if
his brains were squirted into the eye of a
mosquito they would not affect the mos
quito's eyesight, Mr.. Flood thereupon de-
claring that he would resign if Col. Tanner
was not removed.
WHY M'KINLEY CLAIMS HIM.
Mr.. Flood is claimed by Mr.. Mckinley
on the strength of q remark be made to Mr..
Mckinley last spring. The New Workers
already here, at their informal conference
tonight, agreed that Mr. Flood would come
in just as Jumbo" Baker of Rochester did
to-day. "Come in out of the wet," said one
New Yorker. Messrs. Kelley, Harmon,
Scull, and Osborne, are the only ones of the
six in Pennsylvania whom the Mckinley
people will name. Senator Quay has as
sured Reed that the first three will certainly
vote for him. Mr.. Osborne will hardly
stand out against the delegation.
The southern 'squad" of patriots met
tonight. and agreed to go for the winning
man, if they could find out in time who he
is to be. They have pledges and promises
from all except Mr.. Reed. Twelve of the
seventeen are for Mr.. Mckinley.