The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-15
BLAINE As LEADER.
He VIII Try His Strength in the
Cabinet.
SHERMAN INTERVIEWED
The Financial Schemes Of the Farmers, ALI
nance Members In Congress the
Silver Men Will Demand,

lSpeclalto THE HERALD-Examiner Disoatch.1
NEW YORK, Nov. IA Herald Washing
ton special says: "A Republican leader
whose avowed wish is to depose Mr.. Quay
from the national committee and to put
Mr.. Blaine at the head of the ticket in 1892.
gave me to-day the story of Mr.. Ouav's
conduct and position toward his party
Mr. Blaine, he said, was perfectly aware
when he took Office in the present admins
tratlon that Quay had put blanket mort
gage on the party for the benefit of manu-
iacturers who had supplied the corruption
fund for the election of General Harrison.
MIR. Blaine could not control the acts or.
pollcy Oh MIR. Quay as manager of the cam
palgn, but he resolved to save the party if
ne could from its disastrous conseauen ces.
and he entered the cabinet carefully
pledged and uncommitted for that very
purpose. So far as he was able he PLAYED
tne Pan-American congress against the
new Republican dogma of protection
put found Speaker Reed behind the
republican majority of the ways and
means committee and was Obliged 20 con-
less 10 ms friends he could do nothing to
stem the tide of madness while the bill was
before the House. His failure to accom-
pllsn anything with the Senate committee
was the cause of his uncomfortable out
Durst against the bill before Senators ALI
son, Hale and Blackburn.
defeated in b0th branches of Congress.
Blaine took an appeal to the country. and
was not disappointed il the result. The coun-
Try, however, could not prevent the at
tempted tying of Mr. Blaine's hands bv the
Mckinney bill, and the President. so nv
informant says, was more than passive
accessory TO the attempt to impose letters
on MS secretary of state Mr. Blaine has
never sWerved from his original purpose
10 negotiate the widest scheme of recipro-
CITY treaties that would leave protectionism
intact, for he is still, | am assured "a
ardent prOtectionist as he ever has been.
He had not hoped before the recent cleo
tlons 10 nave the support of the President,
ana MS highest expectation was to get his
reciprocity projects into such form as to
make them an issue within his party in
!o92. Now he will give the President the
fullest opportunity to choose between his
own tariff views, which have survived the
general wreck, and the rejected policy of
Reed, Quay and Mckinley.
Before the end OF the short session of
Congress, MIR. Blaine expected to have
progressed Tar enough with his impending
treaties OF reciprocity to show the country
an attractive middle course between
Mchlnleylsm and absolute free trade. The
next House of Representatives is not ex-
pected to be tolerant toward reciprocity as
an economic system. Mr.. Blaine, there
lore, Will have to content himself with
getting reciprocity into such position that
the people can vote squarely upon it as an
alternative to free trade in the presidential
and congressional elections two years
hence
"Other presidential aspirations are on
the air. Here is brace of prairie chicken
Candidates Tor the presidency-ex-Gov-
ernor John NJ Palmer for the Democrats
and Senator Shelby NJ Cullom for the
Republicans -