The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-29
REGULAR BLAINE RALLY.
THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COM
MITrEE MEETS TODAY.

Quay, Clarkson and Dudley to Run
Things to Suit Blaine
and Alger the Ticket They Want for
President-Quay Will Remain Chair
man.
WASHINGTON, July 2S.-There will be
Blaine rally here tomorrow. Quay, Clark
son and Dudley still move in mystery.
Secrecy is part Of their stock in trade. hence
it is that they gave out that the republican
national executive committee would meet in
Philadelphia tomorrow, when they pro-
posed all the time to have it meet in Wash
ington tomorrow at the Arlington, for
Quay, Clarkson and Dudley are the re-
publican national executive committee,
and their will is its law. Under
the new rules adopted at the republican,
convention of 1883 the committee, though
elected by the national republican commit
tee, and almost entirely composed or ma
tional committeeman, is quite an independ-
ent organization. 1t elects its own officers,
who need not be members of the national
committee, except that the chairman of
both committees must be the same person,
and manages its own affairs and the party
affairs without present regard to the ma
tional committee.
HANDLED THE DOODLE.
1t was the executive committee, and not
the national committee, which distributed
the $400, 900 aud elected Harrison and Nor
ton. The national committee has held no
meeting since the convention and will hold
none until summoned to meet the executive
committee. The officers of the executive
committee, which 10 to meet tomorrow to
lay plans for Secretary Blaine's NOM
ination, are: Chairman, Senator
Quay; vice chairman, Gen. Clarkson; /;
| secretary, State Senator Fassett
| (Platts heutenant; and, treasurer,
Col. Dudley. Dudley is no longer member
| of the national committee, John c. New
having taken his place, but he is a voter in
the executive committee by virtue Of his
| office The other members who are ex-
| pected to be present tomorrow, are Fessen-
| den of Connecticut, Haynes Of Maine, Con-
ger of Ohio, and Hobart of New Jersey.
Goodloe of Kentucky is dead, and the other
| members. New of Indiana, Davis Of Illinois,
| end DeYoung Of California, are not ex-
pected.
| NEARLY ALL FOR BLAINE.
| New is the only out-aud-out Harrison
man on the committee. All those TO be here
tomorrow are anti Harrison men, and
| most OF them are Blaine men. The ques-
tion whether New may have given Elijah
| W. Halford or some other Harrison man a
proxy, and whether that proxy would be
| recognized if Harrison's representative ap-
peared with it tomorrow, can't be answered
| tonight. While the dramatic feature of to-
morr0w's meeting will be the resignation, or
attempted resignation Of Chairman Quay,
| and possibly of Treasurer Dudley, the most
| important business will be the determina-
| ton. so far as the committee can determine,
as to the meeting of the next convention,
| which will be indicated by the call for a
4 Of hn al ,vv,{t H.
Blaine and anti Harrison men want all
early convention, in May if possible
MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE
They want to call the national committee
| together to prepare for it in November, in-
stead of as formerly, in December or jan
uary, apparently. If they do not change
| their minds the committee will meet then.
| for there seems TO be nobody to prevent
| the "A FROM doing as they please. 1t is prob
| able that the national committee will call a
| May convention, for the Blaine and auti-
Harrison Influence will be almost as strong
In it as in the executive committee. Quay
insists that he will resign his chairnanship
| If the committee will let him.
| He thinks he can resign his national COM
| mlttee Craftsmanship to the executive COM
mlttee as well as to the chairmanship of the
latter. Clarkson and Dudley differ with
him. They think he will have to wait till
They say they will not let him resign if they
can help it. The legal questions involved
in this knotty problem which Quay says
nado him say that perhaps or PROBABLY he
would resign, will be discussed at length in
to~morrow's meeting.
QUAY APT TO REMAIN.
1t looks now as though Quay will remain
| chairman. Clarkson and Dudley, who were
| at his house this afternoon arranging to-
| morrows programme think so, as Quay and
| Clarkson think Dudley will remain Besides
these matters some unpaid bills suggest the
need of new contributions beyond those
bought' in by Quay's 'chromo certificate
| scheme" Clarkson wants to talk about the
young men and good newspapers Of the
Republican party. Fessenden and Conger.
who have just seen Blaine, have his views
to present on all the questions to come up.
they say, and Quay, Clarkson and Dudley
| agree with them that Blaine will be nomi-
mated and will accept. Blaine and Alger is
| the ticket they are talking about.