Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1892-06-02
Harrison Has Hay on His Horns.

Harrison Has Hay on His Horns.
The relations between President
Harrison and Secretary Blaine are
rapidly coming to the surface, and
all doubt as to the somewhat
strained attitude of the President
to his Premier may be reasonably
dismissed. Blaine is not playing
the game for Harrison, but he may
not be playing it entirely for him
self. Ifthat were his purpose, he
need only throw off the mask and
intimate his willingness to accept
the Presidential nomination and it
is at his call; but it is possible that
he still dreams the dream of the
Presidency for himself without the
courage to accept responsibility OF
| declaring his candidacy, and he
may be remaining silent with the
twofold purpose of leaving his final
decision until the last day, or help
ing the opponents of Harrison to
knock him out, if Blaine shall feel
that he is equal to the contest.
After scouting round the Blaine
outposts for several days, the
friends of the President have
finally decided that Harrison must
now appear in the contest as the
bull with hay on his horns, and
that henceforth it must be a fight
to the finish between Harrison and
Blaine until Blaine shall retire or
the Convention shall decide be-
tween them. It was semi officially
announced yesterday in the lead
ing administration organs, that the
friends of the President have dee
cided to take the aggressive, and
that it will be war to the knife
henceforth. All idea of the Presi-
dent retiring to give the field to
Blaine, as he offered to do some
months ogo before Blaine publicly
declined, has been abandoned, and
what has been hidden beneath the
political surface for nearly a year
past, is now becoming we'll UNDER
stood by the u%tterances of the
President. It is now an open Sc
cret that Harrison and Blaine
have not been in sympaty during
the last year; that the friends Of
each have sought to belittle the
other in all ON important recip.
rocity achievements and in the
management of the Chllian trouble
and that Blaine's omission to even
refer to the President or admins
tration in his letter of declination
was a deliberately conceived meth
cd to intimate his lack of conf
dence in his chief.
Whatever Blaine may or may
not do as to the Presidency, it il
now clearly established that he il
playing no game for the President
and that if he shall be compelled
to decline the nomination, he will
prefer some other than Harrison
and Harrison, in case of his failure
would cordially reciprocate th'
Blaine sentiment by wishing the
nomination to 60 to another thai
. Blaine. They are not now in an.
sense close political friends. It
now known that tor months pas
their political relations have no
been in any degree confidential
and Harrison is about to take tn
aggressive in the warfare againstth'
L head of his Cabinet, and will pur
sue it until Blaine declines or i
defeated by the Minneapolis Cor
y vention.
While Blaine's game is not full
understood, enough is now know
to make it obvious that he is no
seeking in any to advance the in
Interests of President Harrison. O.
the contrary, he is not for Harri
sons nominations; whether he de
" sires it himself or not, and Harr
son is not for Blaine, whethe
Harrison is in the race or out of i
Al last, Harrison appears in til
field with hay on his horns, an
unless Blaine shall speedily with
fidraw, a struggle of unusal bitter
j ness will be witnessed from. tn
time until the close of the battle i
the National Convention.-Phl1
Times.