Telegram-herald., 1891-12-23
LAYING WIRES FOR BLAINE.


tAyinC WINS fSH olAsHr'
ns.s,nx Of the k.paslieas Club csss-
eat LAT week.
Political history OF 10 email i'm
portanee has been making III Chi
csgo during the last lev days.
The men wno were setting up the
events that shall constitute . chapter
IN the Official record of the presidential
campaign of 1892. were republicans OF
pa'io lsi note outside their pohucsi
att iation and of great importance
within their party's conncila In Chi
cago within the last week were several
such men. The LIST included General
Russell A. Alger, himself a preadeniiai
possibility aud almost 3 vice-preslden-
tial certainty; JRmes ;. Ciarkson,
leader II the republican national organ
izatlons, A. l.. 1ogger of Ohio, friend
OF B alne; Tom Lowry OF Minneapolis.
a political power IN the northwest; John
NJ. Tnurston ot Nebraska. aud last. but
not least, Emmons Blaine, ssn OF his
father, bit :,rlght, able young man on
ms owa account. Decidedly 1t WAS =
Blame crowd.
Thef were many others OF less note.
The II lIcan clubs from the ststes of
the q middle west and Northwest,
Ohio. l.1iiDo, Missourl. Iowa, Nebras-
ka, Wisconsin, Michigan. Illinois, Mn
nesota aud the Dakotas had sent repre-
sentstiv"s TO the secret meesing which
Was n,l nj the Grand Pacific. All
these poht:c.ans met neither by chance
nor accident. They assembled 10 hear
news, formulate n roiicy and inaugn-
rate new departure In republican
party man igement.
They were mostly Blaine men. Con-
ger. q thick -ana-thIn B.aine man; c ARK
son, a III tInc man; Aiger, u Blame and
Alger man. To be sure. General John
McNuita was there, and the ex-Tallroad
receiver never was q Blame aian. tie
is one of the 500 Grant men.
Perhaps The most important bit OF
politics that came out OF the hurry
burly of talk, discussion and protfered
| advice at the meeting was the polIt-
ical declaration OF independence toy
| the we@tern republicans. In very plain
langu. - those vigorous young men
from the Founding west laid down the
princIple that New York and the east
d d not constitute the Unithd States.
Mr.. Clarkson, as president OF the Ma
tional league Of republican clubs, was
instructed to inform Mr.. Clarkson, as
chairman of the NATIONAL committee,
| that the west wanted, demanded aud
had to have amples recognI-
tion from the party leaders.
What the club representatives de-
sired then was that national sub
| headquarters be established at Chicago
| t0 I've managed by western men IN the
interest OF the party i'll the West, and
F, that the money contributed III the West
| be expended in the west and by wcs-
| tern aud for western men. The matter
will be duly presented to the national
CO nmittec At its next meeting. the de-
mands OF the west will be granted aud
i the next republican national campaign
| will be fought from Chicago. SO far as
the west Is concerned.
The second notable transaction of the
. same gathering Of historynakrrs was
statement hy the Blaine men of their
policy and the wishes of their leaders.
As has been said, Blaine atmosphere
perv ided the hotel. Alger and Conger
and Ciarkston and Thurston and En-
mons Blaine, the latter in consultation
with Conger and Alger for an hour or
more previou. to the meeting. At the
meeting itself little or nothing MAS said
as to the presidency. Little was need
ed. Nine out Of every ten present were
for Blaine. One SAID:
"Thlngs stand, so for as results 60.
recisely wnere they d,i last summer
when Blaine was said TO be dying at
Bar Hsrbor and Harrison was going
round the country on his junkeung
trip There has been no agreement be-
tween Blame and Harrison that either
shall withdraw, leaving he other VIC
tor in an unfought contest. / believe
that only one name will be submitted
to the conventlun, but this will be 90
because the other man was already
badly beaten at the primaries and does
not care to experience repetition of
the humiliation At the hands of the con-
vention.
{ To his intimate confidential advisers
each man has confided his wish fIr the
nomination. provided he can get it
without an unseemly contest on the
floor OF the convention. Harrlson's
candidacy is more open and avowed
than BIalne's. Harrison would he
wiling to fight for the honor in the
convention. but Blaine's ostensible re-
fusal to seek the nomination has
% ced the President TO assume a simi-
lar air Of apparent waiting indiffrr.
ence.
| "On the inside II is quite different.
| Harrison knows that Pepnsyivauis
quite respectable portion Of New
York and nine-tenths of the west are
for Blaine. Blaine Is quite well aware
that New England. except Name. is
against him; that the soath Is for
Harrison, as il was Tor sherman In
1883. aud that III states like Indiana,
kausas nnl Illinois IL n not .asy TO
prsd.cat- the result. So neither one
dares spring 10 the contest, bees use
surrender without effort would be pre-.
ferable 10 defeat.
"rbcn will come the long looked.
for, much-talked of declarat on from
Blainr--or Harrison. liza canvass OF
the delegates thows them about evenly
divided, or with a majority for IIar-
rison, Blame will write neat letter
thanking he friends for their good
wishes snd declining IN advance . nomi.
nation which he could not or might not
get. III the delegations are over.
whelmingly for Blame, that gentle
man viii ssy nothing for pnblica.
ton, bat will sccept the nomination
when rendered hlm by aeclamst,on. Ip
such sn event Harrison might write 4
d~clninp letter--but "a a not likely
Now 20 home and zee 10 him that none
but Blaine men go TO yoar state ron.
veation and that none but Blaine del.
egases 10 the natlona, convention are
chosen. Then you will know what the
Blame letter IN your case would be-"
And that is hos Il Wall al be settled