The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-15
When Grandson Returns the Admin
istration Will Swing Around
the Circle.
The Big Secretary Will Round Up
the Big Cities Of the
East.
Receptions at Boston, Philadelphia and
New York to Surpass Those of Poea-
tello and Snoh omisIl. ..

Do WeltinR the return OF IflnCe HuBHeil anu
the presidential party togive his newspaper
organs more free advertising. His next
sensation will probably be al offer from an
''authoritative source" to put Secretary
Blaine on the ticket for vice. president. On
the theory that Gen. Harrison will be re-
nominated it will benecessary to find can
didate for the second place. tho more so
since the republicans who aay MIR. Blaine
must be the candidate for president have
about settled on Gen. Alger for vice -presi-
dent. Gen. Alger himself still thinks he is
candidate for the first place, but his
best friends have given up that notion
since Michigans electoral vote has been
split up SO that the democrats can't miss
getting half of it. Gen. Alger's claims for
the nomination have been weakened in a
party sense. But he might safely be put
on the ticket, and "Blaine and Alger" has
winning sound that is drawing out some
free-spoken views.
The newspaper efforts to solve the ad-
minstration riddle keep up. To-day there
are three publications bearing out the
Blaine Harrison mystery. The fact that
Secretary Blaine will follow his usual prac-
tice and go to Bar Harbor in June moves
the Philadelphia Times to publish the fol-
lowing Washington dispatch:
Secretary Blaine will soon demonstrate
to the satisfaction of President Harrison's
friends that he also can make triumphant
tour, and have his path strewn with flowers
| amid the huzZas of enthusiastic republic
ans. His circuit, however, will be short
from Washington to Bar Harbor-vhere he
will go shortly after the president returns.
What the tour lacks in distance will be
made up for in intensity. 1t will be by
easy stages, and of the most demonstrative
character.
"His first stop will be in Philadelphia,
where the Union league will banquet him,
and prominent republicans like George w.
Childs, Mayor Stuart and Charles Emory
Smith, who will probably have returned
from the court of st. Petersburg by that
time. will eulogize his reciprocity program
and its advantages to the commerce of
Philadelphia. From Philadelphia Mr..
Blaine will 90 to New York, where free
trade on the half shell will be served up in
similarly aoFgeous manner by the union
| league club OF the metropolis. The next
day MIR. Blaine will go to Hartford, and
there will be there to receive him all repub-
lican Connecticut. including Gov Bulkeley.
''From there Blaine will go to Springfield,
Mass, the paradise of the mugwumps, and
those who bolted him in 1884 are confidently
expected to fall down and worship at his
| l.
day will close with triumphant entry into
Boston. From Boston Blaine will 90 to
Portland. where the republicans can shout
themselves hoarse over the plumed knight
without fear of Gar Reed, who is moving
around somewhere in the vicinity Of the
seven hills of Rome.
"While the trip is not perhaps designed
by Mr. Blaine as a campaign arrangement,
it will nevertheless, his friends say, arouse
sentiment and give reciprocity promin-
ence which will make 1t absolutely impossi-
BILE for Harrison or Harrsons friends to
block the Blaine boom. 1t will capture
protective New England"
Apropos to the general plan of smoking
out Blaine" the Washington Sunday Ga
zette, a democratic paper which gives much
attention to national politics. says: "There
is deep-laid scheme on the part of Harri-
sons friends to smoke Mr.. Blaine out In
order to checkmate the followers of Blaine
and at the same time keep peace in the
party the Harrison men propose to force the
secretary of state in a position where he
must show his hand.''
The Gazette says the Minneapolis Trib-
une's recent interviews with newspaper
correspondents, and the editorials in Frank
The New York Press Census Commits
sioner Porter's paper, says on the same SUBJ
iect:
1.-The idol of the republican party is not
the man in the White house, but his secre-
tary of state. The largest element in the
republican party, the element that domi-
mates national conventions and tnat nomi-
mated successively Hayes. Garfield, Blaine
himself ana Harrison, is what is known as
the Blaine crowd 1t was strong enough
in 1888 to have renominated Mr.. Blaine,
but Was held back by his own will and pos
tive refusals to allow his friends to use his
name. Tho Blaine element is as dominant
in the republican party to-day rs it
was in 1876, in 1884, or in 1888. 1t will
have tho power in the nation
al convention next year to deter
mine whether or not President Harrison
shall be recommended or whether a new
man shall carry the standard. 1t is not
question of Mr.. Blaine. He has not an in
innate friend in the United States to whom
he has not time and again, even in the heat
of contest from which he nearly emerged
as the president of the United States, ex-
pressed his personal preference for the
state department. over the presidency, and
yigor remains in him and Republicans are
elected president. As president he would
be one man in 65,0oO,0o0 of people. but rs
secretary of state working out the desti-
MES of the American republics, he is greater
than any man of modern times. He ia in
no sense an antagonist of President Harri-
son or any other citizen for the presidential
nomination Of his party.
No News of the Itnta.
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