The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-26
HARRISON'S BUSY FOES.
TIE PRESIDENTS FRIENDS SUsPI-
CIOUS OF BLAINE'S TRIP.

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If BE Fails to Return on Time or
Should Go to Maine it Will be Con-
strued as Indicating a Desire to See
Harrison Defeated-Hsrrison's Slate
for Minneapolis.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-The republican
presidential pot was at the boiling point to-
day. In both houses of congress, at the
white house and everywhere else In Wash
ington the Minneapolis nomination was the
uppermost topic. For the time being, at
least, there seems to be general acquies-
ence in the belief that the democratic NOM
ination is not in doubt, ex~President Cleve-
land being regarded dIasipractically certain to
get 1t unless something unforeseen happens.
Consequently democrats and republicans
alike are talking about Secretary Blaine
and President Harrison. The other repub-
lican candidates who are kept in the field
by the promises of the anti Harrison
men that if Secretary Blaine fails them
at the last moment, or If they find they can
get away from Secretary Blaine after beat
ing President Harrison with him they will
turn to ex-Speaker Reed, Gen. Alger, Sem
ator Allison, Sentor Sherman or what
ever may be the name of the
man they are talking to, are not SER
lously considered, except as possibilities, by
anybody except themselves. TIE anti.
Harrison men themselves have settled
down to Secretary Blaine as the only man
to beat President Harrison with, and Presi-
dent Harrison is likely to be nominated if
they fail to nominate Secretary Blaine.
Some of them who do not like
Secretary Blaine any better than
they always have try to make
hny1 ncaIrr xrYaH hnlf
that they can nominate Gen. Alger or SEN
| ator Allison, or some other Of the men
mentioned after clubbing President Har-
rison ito death with Secretary Blaine, but
they do not succeed. 1t is evidently fight
between President Harrison and Secretary
Blaine, fight which is TO be fought "to
finish, - and out Of which Secretary Blaine
cannot hope for a unanimous nomination,
which is the only kind he has ever even in
timated that he would take. The democrats
are delighted with the spectacle.
HARRISON MEN DISTRUsTFUL.
If Secretary Blaine does not return to-
morrow. as he told the President on Monday
he expected to do, but on the contrary pro-
longs his absence, especially if he should go
to Maine, it would be taken by the President
and his friends as indicating plainly that
Secretary Blaine is not only willing, but
anxious to beat President Harrison, and
stays away to prevent any questions being
asked. Some bitter things are already being
said by the HarrISonians about Secretary
Blaine.
HARRISoN's SLATE.
The friends of President Harrison appear
to have agreed upon the following slate for
| the Minneapolis cou vention: For temporary
chairman, Gen. Horace Porter; for perma>
nent chairman, ex-senator Jonathan G,
| Spooner of Wisconsin, to present President
Harrison's name. ex-senator John James
Ingalls, of Kansas; to second the nomna-
tion, Chauncey M. Depew of New York
These men may be shifted around, but have
all agreed to do anything they can to aid
President Harrison and will be employed in
some way in the convention. Senator In
gals is as friendly to President Harrison as
any of the Others
ALLISON DIMES CLARKSON.
Senator Allison's dinner to Chairman
Clarkson tonight had simply the political
significance involved in its being given by
one OF the men who rank themselves as
dark horses to the man who is regarded as
the official head of the opposition to Pres-
dent Harrisons denomination, as we'll as of
the two great party organizations-the ma
tional committee and the league of clubs
Senator Allison insisted to-day that he was
for President Harrison, but he smiles ap-
provingly on all mention of him as the pos
sible nominee with President Harrison and
Secretary Blaine out Of the way,