The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-04
The Presidents denomination at
Minneapolis Doubtful.
STRENGTH OF THE OPPOSITION
Tom Platt Miller. Quay, Dudley and Clarkson
Are the Leaders-McRinley Posi-
bIllty-The Blaine Boom.
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apols. Trhe, he is the only positive Re-
publican candidate now in the field; but it
is equally true thatthe politicians of the
party are bitterly hostile to him ard that
they are casting about for some one upon
whom to crystalize their opposition.
THE MEN WHO HEAD THE OPPOSITION.
The men who head the opposition to the
Presidents denomination are the brightest,
brainiest and most audacious of the party
leaders. Within their ranks are such clever
manipulators as ex-senator Tom Platt, of
New Y ork; ex-senator Warner Miller, of
New York; Senator Matthew Stanley
Quay, of Pennsylvania; General'W. w.
Dudley. OF Indiana; John S. Clarkson, of
Iowa; William Pitt kellogg, of Louisiana,
and ex- Governor Foraker, of Ohio. Behind
them are a host of lesser politicians who
have been disappointed in their quest for
Office, and who stand ready to do the bid
ding of the ''bosses."
THE PRESIDENT CONCERNED.
The attitude of these men is giving both
the President and the friends of his ad-
ministration no little concern. A month
sgo these gentlemen affected to laugh at
tie stories in circulation that the President
might be defeated at Minneapolis. Blaine's
letter, they said had withdrawn him from
the list of candidates, and with him elimi-
mated, the President had no one to fear.
But the opposition has gone on steadily in
creasing, and now the administration
realizes that for weeks past they have been
living in FOOLS paradise of security,
while the Presidents enemies were gradu-
ally undermining him. They find that
delegation after delegation is going to the
convention uninstructeo. A month ago
Secretary Foster and Secretary Elkins
both assured me that fully one half of the
New York delegation would be favorable
TO the Presidents denomination. They
now discover that the President will have
but few scattering votes in the delega-
ton, and that Platt and Miller will control
1t as they please.
THE OUTLOOK IN PENNSYLVANIA.
In Pennsylvania the outlook is no more
encouraging. Senator Quay is an open and
avowed opponent of the President, while
Don Cameron is not on speaking terms
with the inmate of the White House. What
is more, he hasn't set foot in the building
for three years past. The Pennsylvania
delegation, like that from New York, will
be controlled by the men who dislike the
President and at the present time appear
ances indicate that both its material
strength and influence will be exerted
against him. In Ohio The result is
even more disappointing. MIR. Charles
and made secretary of the treas
ury principally because of his
influence in Ohio politics, and because of
his supposed ability to secure united del
egstion from that state favorable 10 the
President. ! don't mean by this that Mr..
Fosters sole recommendation for the place
lay in his political adroitness, for that
would b an injustice to one of the cleanest
and ablest financiers in public life. He is
IN every sense a man of affairs, and is
making an admirable secretary of the treas
ury.
A MAN AFTER THE PRESIDENTS OWN HEART.
But the President wanted man there
who knew how to make proper use of the
patronage, and he put Charlie Foster
there TO do it. The secretary has done his
best for his chief, but the sentiment in
Ohio is not over friendly to President Har-
rison. 1t is not hostile to him, as it is in
New York and Pennsylvania, but it is in
different The state is Blaine state, and
with Blaine out of the race it would prefer
Mckinley 10 any other candidate who might
be mentioned. Senator Stanford, of Cali
fornIa tells me that the Pacific coast is
favorable TO President Harrison and Sena-
! tor Hale, OF Maine, gives me an equally
rose colored report regarding New
England. But it is noticeable that most of
the states that have held their conventions
have not instructed their delegations and
this fact is very disquieting to the admins
tration. They are afraid that when they
all get to Minneapolis an effort will be made
TO stampede them, either in favor of some
particular candidate or at least away from
the President; and this fear, think, is well
grounded.
THE ENEMT's PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
The programme OF the Presidents enc.
mics is simple but an effective one Their
purpose is to create the impression that the
President cannot be reelected. They will
base their opposition solely upon this
ground and not upon personal reasons.
They will adopt sslf-sacrlficing tone and
say that they are moved to this course be-
cause OF their interest in the party. 1t will
be fetching argument and the Presi-
dents friends are fearful that it will be
convincing. Still, they contend, good
deal will depend upon the men who take
be good or bad. according as
their personal relations with the
President are understood. For example
learned yesterday that Senator Quay re
Gently called upon Secretary Foster, ano
in the course OF a talk upon this subject
he thought an argument of this sort would
have. The secretary, with blunt western
directness. replied that the delegates were
not fools and that they would discount
anything that Quay or Plat, or Dudley OF
@ arkscn might say against the Presidents
political sprinting qualities. On the other
hand, he confessed shat if men like Cor.
Eelius N. Bliss and Chauncey Depew. Of
New York; Andrew Carnegie, of Penn
sylyania, and men of that stamp throuP h
out the country, should insist that The
chances were against the Presidents re-
election, it would have strong weight witt
til delegates. and no doubt result in thu
se.ection Of another candidate
MKINLET's CHANCES AT MINNEAPOLIS.
This reminds me that Governor McKin.
ley, of Ohio, is now regarded as the mos
4 likely person to be nominated at Minnean
oils in the event that this honor is denied
90 the President. He is not a candidate
but it is well known that he would not de.
cline nomination. From what know OF
the governor, aud from what the Ohio peo-
pie tell me- | believe him to be loyaI II
President Harrison and sincerely DESTROYS
that the latter shall succeed himself. Bu-
If this be impossible, and he should prove
10 be the conventions choice, there is DC
probability that his regard for the Presi.
dent would lead him TO decline What 5
rafting presidential contest he and Cleye-
land would make The two would repre-
sent more nearly the great principle whict
divides the Republican and Democratic
parties than any other living Americans
Y II would be fight to finish, and, all otbe,
things being equal, it would demonstra-f
10 moral certainty how majority of the