St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-02
A STARTLING FIND,
Democrats Unearth a Great
Conspiracy Against Seere-
tary Blaine.
Reed, Mckinley and Cannon
Reported as the Chief
Conspirators.
The Plumed Knight to Be
Driven Out Of the Cabinet
Into Exile.
q Remarkable Scheme Which
Is Said to Be Seriously
Contemplated.


WASHINGTON, D. c., July 81 Especial
to New York Times. MIR. Blaine may
not have heard yet the sound of an ap-
preaching storm, but one is coming his
wav. His course of late has been more
exasperating than some of the leading
Republicans in congress have been will
ing to admit, and it is understood that
BODY of them, composed of men who re-
gard themselves as persons of influence.
and who have assurances of support
from the president, have determined
that he must be forced out of the cab
met and politically slain.
Early in the winter his opposition to
the well-known views of the president
and Mr.. Mckinley made him trouble
some. That annoyance would have
been borne if he had not persisted III
putting himself before the public to eX-
plain in way that could only be otfen-
sive to the tariff-makerS. who would not
listen to his suggestions about reciproc-
jtv. The WAYS and means committee
kept quiet about the talk that MI. Blaine
gave them the morning of Feb. 10 at the
Ebbitt house, and the only references
that were made to Mr.. Blaine'S Sugges
tions were those that were casually
dropped to let people know that he was
responsible for all the fuss that was
being made about hides and sugar.
For two months he has been stirring
the whole country with ideas about the
question of reciprocity. The gentle
men of the ways and means committee
do not believe that Mr. Blaine clearly
understands them, and they are lndlg-
nant because so many persons are &C
cepting them just because Mr.. Blaine
has pronounced them to be good.
The ''triumvirate," consisting OF
Reed, Cannon and Mckinley, will. it is
understood, have control of this pollti-
cal execution. Blaine is to be shown
up if he does not speedily mend his
ways, and he is to go a-fying out OF the
rabinet as soon as the president
has been told that the movement has
arrived when American institutions
will no longer he safe with the once
great Plumed Knight at the head OF the
column. He is to be crushed" His
dismissal from the cabinet is to be fol
lowed by an exposure of his political
villaines since he took the portfolio OF
the state department. Then his insid-
Ious attempt to check the tariff by the
way Of reciprocity is to be held up to
the derision and scorn OF his country
men. He is to be driven from public
life into perpetual seclusion, and the
grand old party is to go on to the full
fillment of its destiny and the nomina-
ton and reelection of Benjamin Harrl-
son.
This is good deal of a conspiracy for
Mr.. Blame to consider at Bar Harbor.
1t looks funny in print, but it is said to
be seriously contemplated, absurd as it
may appear. 1t is possible that Mr..
Blaine has conceived it to be a possible
outcome of the events of the last four OF
five months, and that he will not be
greatly shocked to learn that 1t Is to be
tried on him.
Perhaps it will not work so well as
the .striumvirate" expect. There are a
good many Blaine Republicans left yet
Some of them live in McKinleY's dis
trict, in which there is to be fight very
soon. All of the Republicans in the
Reed district of Maine are not yet con-
WINGED that Reed is a greater man than
Blaine. notwithstanding Reeds great
success in counting quorum. A mans
ability to force quorum out of silent
members may make him great in Maine
now, but Blame became great man in
the estimation of the Maine Republicans
when he refused to do that very thing.
Mr.. Cannon'S people in Illinois always
did think that the fame of Blaine was
exaggerated and that CannOn's judg-
ment had nOtreceived the approval that
it was entitled to.
These be the jury that is to sentence
Blaine to be crushed" out of political
life. There is nothing so surprising in
It. When Reed began his career as
h1, linn 10 nf
the minority, it was as certain as that
night should follow day that his appe-
tite for crushing people would grow,
and that it would not be long before it
would demand a victim in his own
party. Having eaten Democrat once
a week he now feels competent to at
tack Republican who has, in a month,
torn the party asunder with his Internal
reciprocity suggestions and created
such a state of things that all sorts of
reciprocity flakes" are coming in, from
the White house, from senators and
from misguided representatives. The
thing must be stopped, even if heroic
measures have to be adopted to accom-
pliSh check.
About the time that the first step is
taken in this movement to crowd Blaine
out of the cabinet and out of the party
Mr. Butterworth may become a candi'
date for accommodation with Blaine.
tits learned that he has been informed
at Chicago that the success of the
worlds fair, that it is intended shall be
held in that city, is being imperiled by
the pending tariff bill. Foreigners will
not think of asking for space while there
Is pending bill which is framed fol
the express and only purpose of eXclud-
ing from the country goods that they
are asked 10 put on exhibition. The
temper Of several of the countries that
are to he relied on to make fine exhibits
is already disagreeable. The tariff car
wait, at least until there has been q
chance to see whether il cannot be re-
vised more beneficially to all concerned
and some of the Chicago people think
that there are many Of Mr.. Blaine's
suggestions that demand careful con
sideration before they are embodied III
any bill.
MI. Butterworth, 1t is said, will bring
these suggestions to the attention Of
congress in the hope that they may re-
suit in pOStponement, at least until the
second half of the session, so that the
invitation to foreigners to exhibit may
be accompanied by some assurance as
to the sort of comparisons that are tt
be instituted when foreign goods anC
prices come to be compared with do
meStic goods and prices.
1t will be interesting to watch the
course and effect Of conspiracy to un
seat and destroy Blaine. There may bt
death in it for several Republicans now
lively and suffering from nothing 81
much as difficulty in finding hat
large enough comfortably to fit thei
daily enlarging heads.