The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-13
BLAINE'S CONDITION
Colonel Mcclure Says His Health
Is not Good.
A CAMPAIGN WOULD KILL HIM
He is the Only Statesman Left in the G. O.
P.-Cleyeland May or May Not be Nom
nated-Pattison's Chances.

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Dispatch. I
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Colonel A. K. Nc
Clure, the veteran Philadelphia editor, was
in town Thursday. Although the colonel
has been identified with the Democratic
party for many years, he enjoys close per
sonal relations with Mr.. Blaine. "Mr.
Blaine" said Colonel Mcclure, sis the
only statesman left in the ranks of the G.
.. T. He it was who rescued his party
from the bottomiess abyss into which the
Mckinley bill W ould have plunged it. But
for Mr.. Blaine's insertion of the recipro-
city clause in the Mckinley bill the Repub-
licans would not to-day be certain of car
ry1ng single state in the uuiou. MIR.
Blaine foresaw the situation and was
quick to suggest the remedy. The Repub-
lican leaders in Congress objected at first
but be aroused public sentiment and
forced them to his position. Reciprocity is
only another name for free trade but its
adoption by the Republicans is the only
thing that has saved them from utter de-
feat. 1t must be very gratifying to Mr..
Blaine to see very general demand for
his nomination in his party throughout the
country. He is unquest1onably
THE STRONGEST MAN IN HIS PARTY.
But do not believe he will be nominated.
Mr. Blaine may be dreaming little OF the
presidency of late but when the time comes
when he must face the question, and say
yes or no. believe he will say no.
His health is the only obstacle in his path,
but that is much more critical than Is gem
orally known. If MIR. Blaine should &C
cept the nomination for President next
7 a ir1y ha -
the end of the campaign. Knowing what l
do about his physical condition, l think
am justified in saying that the great strain
of the canvass would kill Mr.. Blaine inside
of sixty days. To anyone who knows Mr.
Blaine intimately nothing is more certain
than that he is
ABSOLUTELY OUT OF THE RESIDENTIAL RACE
for physical reasons. l know that DR.
Taylor, of Philadelphia, recently gave Mr.
Blaine a clean bill of health, so to speak
but that does not prove anything to the
Initiated. The truth Is that MIR. Blaine
has been kept alive for many years by his
physicians conceallng his true condition
from him. 1t would not do to tell him the
truth. Should any physician do so Mr.
Blaine would not live week have never
met man who was more nearly fatalis
than Mr.. Blaine His physicians have
kept him up on false hopes and misleading
statements. If he should learn the truth
he would collapse utterly. 1t is my
knowledge OF Mr.. Blaine's real condition
that convinces me of the utter impossibiIity
of his being the Republican candidate mex
year. His nomination at MINNEAPOLIS
would be his death warrant. after Blaine
l believe the Republican nomination
WILL GO TO MIR. HARRISON BY DEFAULT.
The nomination will thus pass from Mr.
Blaine, the strongest man in his party, VIII
cannot take it, to MIR. Harrison, who il
generally acknowledged the weakest maj
in his party.
"Do [ think Mr.. Cleveland will be tn,
Democratic nominees Much will depend
upon New York People say here tina
Governor Hill has tight grip on the New
York machine and will control the dele
gates from this state. | don't apprehent
| the Democratic convention will nominate
Mr.. Cleveland over the head of New York
Mr.. Cleveland, in my judgment, will not b.
nominated if the New York delegation is
unit for Hill; but Hills nomination will
not follow in that event. 1t would resul
in the nomination Of
SOME MAN OUTSIDE OF THIS STATE.
The question is, will the New York dele
gates, even if they go to the convention TO
HILL be able to resist the pressure iron
the other states for Cleveland. Publ
sentiment, | believe, will dictate the nomi
nation of Cleveland. Should compromis
candidate be necessary, however,
PATTIsoN HAS MANY POINTS OF AVAILABILITY
Pattison has had remarkable career poll
tically. He has never been beaten. H
has carried the Republican city of Phila
delphia twice for comptroller and the stat
twice for governor. MIR. Pattison woult
give Mr.. Harrison all that he could do t,
carry Pennsylvania If Pattison and Har
rison should be opposing candidates, Penn
sylvania would be debatable state"