Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-05-21
Miscellaneous Items!
PERTAINING TO DIFFERENT SEC
TONS OF THE GLOBE.
Blaine and Harrison
Must Break or Bargain Seizure of
the British Tug-The Center
Of Population, Etc.

"OreAk' OF DATSaln, ana that pretty
soon. The disposition which the: pres
ident has SHOWN. during his present
tour to appropriate. Blaine's reciprocity
thunder makes it very plain that
Blaine, as we'll as the other cabinet Off
cers, must prepare themselves to take
oil the blame that attaches to the pres
ent administration while the president
takes all the credit, or else "move on.
When Blaine was asksdSby friend the
other day whether he had read what
the president had been sayi 'g about
reciprocity in his little speeches, Blaine
said: Eyes and I wondered whether l
was dreaming, my recollection of his
attitude on that question being so to-
tally the opposite of his. If he did oc
cupy the position he now claims, why
did have to write those letters to FRYE
to get recognition for reciprocity"
But the HarrisOnian answer is that the
president is entitled to all the credit
and his secretaries to all the blame of
whatever Is done in the several depart
ments, regardless of the position the
president may have taken while mat
tiers were pending. One Of the presi-
dents friends, who gets as close to him
~ any one can, said the other day:
When the president returns he will
have plain talk with Secretary Blaine,
&s> i,t, xx,in fall l..
ought to publicly avow his intentions,
whatever they are, with respect to
next years nomination. The president
is prepared, l believe, to say to Mr..
Blaine: 'Ify are Il candidate l shall
not be, but if you are not shall be,
and want to know now for my own
sake and for the partys sake Just where
you stand, AMI then want the coun-
try to know it, Evidently the Har-
risons believe that Blaine, unwilling
to announce himself candidate, al
though perfectly willing to accept the
nomination will assure the president,
and subsequently the country, that he
is not a candidate. But they may be
disappointed, Blaine may refuse to
comply with the presidents request
and may avail himself of several con-
Nnient pretexts to leave the cabinet,
now that he has concluded his reel
procity agreements with Brazil, Spain
and Venezuela, and has little more to
hope for in that direction. OF course,
Blaine will not announce that he will
accept the nomination in 1892, but his
refusal to announce that he is not n
candidate would he bad enough for the
Harrisonians. The Harrison men--
chiefly Office hOlders-are growing ner-
vious over Blaine's delayin boosting
Harrison openly for a second term.
They are talking all the ii re in the
tone Of the Russell Harrison editorials
about Blaine's duty to be loyal, to give
Harrison the credit for everything done
by the state department az well as the
rest Of the administration, and to for
get and try to make everybody else for
get that the chief achievement of the
Observation-Disclosures stub
bornly opposed by Harrison until his
hand was forced by Blaine's direct APP
peal to the people. Harrison, Judging
from what his friends say, brought
himself to believe that he did not for
nearly year strive to smother Blaine q
reciprocity scheme, using all the infiu-
ance of his office, together with Blaine's
personal enemy-Speaker Reed-to
prevent even its consideration in Con-
gress; that he did not succeed in keep
Ing 1t out IF the Mckinley bill until it
had gotten out of the finance committee.
The seizure Of the British tug pilot.
like the seisure of the Lorne, Is attract
Ing much attention among shipping
men at all points on the sound, and
the general opinion Is that Collector
Bradshaw has this time overreached
himself. One we'll known captain said
to Tacoma Ledger reporter: II
think, with many others, that the tug
boat trust and Its friends know the
trust Is on Its last legs, and are using
whatever means are in their power to
put of the death. There is not u shad'
ow Of doubt that the Pilot is held
Illegally. by a peculiar construction
ofthe law Collector Bradshaw excused
himself for the seizure 6 the
Lorne, but the case of the Pilot Is diff
fecent. She (the Pilot) brought the
Favonious from Victoria to Tacoma oil
rect. The Favonious is a foreign ship
and was brought from foreign port
10 the question Of interfering with Am
erican coasting traffic will not enter
Into this at all. Collector Bradshaw
must know this, and be is probably
just holding the tug to prevent
British tugs competing with American
tugs for time."