The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-15
A DUEL VIII MOUTHS.

If the expression painfully amusing
were allowable, it might fittingly be used
TO describe the situation as to the Repub
lican presidential candidates. There are
suspicious abroad that the serenity of Mr..
BLAINE in his retirement at Bar Harbor, is
not born altogether of the Indifference tc
worldly affairs produced by the knowledge
Of approaching dissolution. Whethe,
Bright's disease. or fatigue. is what ails
him, whether care or kidneys, there is be
ginning to Use in the political atmosphere
the faint odor of an idea that Mr.. BLAIYE's
ao-less-ness is portentous. One after az
other, from Prince RUSSELL to Secretary
NOBLE, ayows that the prime min :
lister has no thought of candidacy,
but shudders at the suggestion. On the
reverse, one after another from MANLEY
20 LOREN FLETCHER, AYERS that whilst Mr..
BLAINE naturally hesitstes to enter the
field at present, and may not desire at any
time to do so, especially in antagonism to
his devoted friend, the President, ETC. The
lest named class are getting TO be so numer-
Gus, and the popular BLAINE demonstra-
tons so clamorous, from Maine to Missouri
and across to Minnesota, that one may see
forest of pricked-up ears among the
friends and tosdies of the administration.
And the little man with the big hat is not
only apprehensive but, by George, he is
positively scared
It isn't the offices now in sight that are
making Cape May the Mecca of politicians
ike ELKINs and GARRISON, together with
the whole Indiana crowd. Something is
going on in the keystone cottage by the sea
that doesn't relate to the new district
judges. If one could hear the hushed con-
versations there, perhaps the names of
QUAY, CULLoM, PLAT, SHERMAN, ALGER
and others would come to him strangely
mixed; but the name whispered with mos.
frequency, in softest tones and in accents
of most wondering interest-need we
breathe the name of the Plumed knight,
And what spectacle for gods and men
TIE President of the United States sitting
in an easy char, near table surrounded
with sumptuous belongings in pslatial
residence-all gifts from subservient
Notwithstanding 70 the words of STEVE
ELKINs relative TO re -electionl The Pres
ident of the United Ststes studying how to
clrcQmVenb Tue man 10 NHOm no owed MS
nomination.
In Republican newspaper we find a
telegram recounting an interview with ex-
Senator FARwELL, of Illin ois. giving an
estimate of Mr.. HARRISON, and here is part
of it:
CHICAGO. Ill, Aug. LIT is my candid
opinion said ex-senator FARwELL to-day,
that il the nomination of HARRISON is forced
on the Republican party he will lose every
state in the union with the exception OF Yer
mont BE is not gentleman; he is little,
petulant man Men prominent in the Repub-
lcan party have allied on him and come away
swearing mad on account of the dscourteous
treatment received at his hands. Delegations
of citizens waiting upon him in connection with
public affairs have been snubbed."
There is more of the same sort, coupl ed
with the statement that HARRISON would
lose Illinois by 10000. But, allowing for
prejudices, there is little doubt
that were the Republican party at all sat-
isfied with HARRISON, we should hear no
such tumultuous and general shouting for
BLAINE And unless the Indiana Presi-
dent got pledge from the Maine states
man at the time the latter was awarded
the secretaryship of state, and that pledge
in writing, too, Mr.. HARRISON will have
but small showing in the Republican con-
vention Of 1892.