St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-10
The Secretary Of State Is to
Quit the Cabinet at an
Early Date
His Retirement Said to Have
No Connection With the
Recent Letter.
Poor Health and Need Of a
Milder Climate Given as
Reasons
Talk Of a Successor Begup
Even Before the Plumed
Knight Is Out

NEW YORK. Feb. 10.-A Washington
that Secretary Blaine's resignation
from the cabinet will, after a rtasona-
BILE interval, follow his letter of with
drawal as a presidential possibility.
For this statement the correspondent
says he has authority second only 10
that of Secretary Blaine himself. Thy
dispatch continues:
Mr.. Blaine has reached a definite de-
termination to resign his commission as
secretary OF state. Only the date at
which this action shall be taken remains
undetermined. MIR. Blaine, if he fol-
lows his personal inclination. will
tender the president his resigna-
ton at once, but he realzes
that such an act. following Immediately
upon his letter to Chairman Clarkson,
would be widely misinterpreted, and
would be construed by the opponents
of the Republican party either as an
act of issue or indicating seri-
Gus differences between president
and his premier. Therefore Mr.. Blaine
will postpone his resignation from the
cabinet until time enough has elapsed
to separate in the public mind that act
from bis announcement that his name
would not go before the Republican ma
tional convention for the DR. esidential
nomination.
The Reason
which Secretary Blaine will give to the
president for retiring from the cabinet
will be that of physical impossibility to
continue TO perform the arduous and
exacting duties of his present Office.
This is, i'll fact, the true reason
for Mr.. Blaine's determination to
withdraw from official life entirely.
Other motives may, and doubtless
will, be assigned by his critics for his
action; but it will really be based on
his precarious health. "a,
1t has been the hope of Mr.. Blaine
for several months to spend some of the
present winter in warmer eli
mate. When he left Bar Har-
Dor last fall. he did so with
the intention of going from
Washington either to extreme southern
part of Texas or to Mexico to spend the
winter. The Gillian imbroglio dragged
itself along till a trip of so great
length was impossible. Since the Chill
liam affair has assumed less Importance
it is stated that Mr.. Blaine has ex-
pressed desire to go as soon
as possible to the Bermudas and
remain till the late spring or early sum-
mer months have settled the fckle
weather of this latitude. Mr.. Blaine
has also expressed desire to visit Cuba,
and it is thought that island will be his
most probable destination after he has
resigned from the cabinet.
Announced by Agnus.
1.-THE determination of Mr.. Blaine to
retire from tine cabinet, which is here
publicly announced for the first time,
was intimated yesterday by Gen. Felix
Agnus. of Baltimore, who sale in
an interview: II should not be
surprised to see MIR. Blaine
retire even from the cabinet. Of which
he has been such an eminent member"
Gen. Agnus' words may be given all
the significance due to the utterances of
an animate personal friend of Secre-
friends is Mr.. Blaine's determination
known. .
1t is. of course, too early to speculate
as to who may succeed Mr.. Blaine as
secretary of state. The name Of ex-
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, nat
urally suggests itself, because of his
known intimacy with the president
and his great experience in pub
lie affairs, but it will be remem-
bered that Mr.. Edmunds assigned his
own precarious health as his reason for
resigning from the senate. New York
already has member of the cabinet,
which would seem to bar from consider
alton the name of ex-senator Evarts,
who was secretary of state under Presi-
dent Hayes.
1t is thought more probable that the
president would look to the West for a
successor to Secretary Blaine. In this
connection the name of Robert t. Lin
cJln, of Illinois, who was secre-
tary of war under President Arthur,
might be recalled from London and
promoted to the head of the state de-
partment.
The most important subject after rec
iprocity now before that department is
the Boring sea question, with which
Minister Lincoln's duties during the
past three years have made him thor
oughly familiar.
CHICAGO, Feb. 9.-The Daily News
tomorrow Will print the following from
Its Washington correspondent: THE
announcement by Secretary Blaine that
he would not be a candidate for
the presidency is about to be
followed by another announce
ment of even more Importance. Mr..
Blaine will resign his position in the
cabinet OF President Harrison, and will
retire from public life to the quiet
which he so much deserves and which
his health imperatively demands. For
this statement the Daily News CORE
spondent has authority second only to
that OF Secretary Blaine himself. His
determination to resign is final and alb
solute, and it only remains to be deter,
mined at what date his retirement viii
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