The morning call., 1892-06-09
THE BLAINE MOVEMENT.

Harry N. Ted, THE Calls Minneapolis
correspondent, mentions Tumor which has
also gained some circulation in San Fran
cisco. Mr. Tod says;
IN great many quarters tonight the belief is
strong THAT Carlson, Quay, Plat and Filley are
not sincere 10 their support Of Blaine. but are
merely juggling with Lis name. Tie scheme, it
IS urged, is TO prevent nomination on the first
ballot, aud by this means they hope to XIII Har-
rIsOu's chances. This accomplished, they Will
endeaYor TO force an adjournment and then pick
out their candidate. Tie plan looks feasible.
In well-inIormed political circles in this
city the impression prevails that Mr.. Blaine
has never changed his mind about beiag a
candidate. The reasons which prompted
the Garrison letter in Febl nary still exist in
full force. The resignation, while looking
ike a Grange Of purpose, is not necessarily
so. Undoubtedly between February ana
June tie relations Of President Harrison to
Mr. Blame beeame somewhat strained. It
is quite possible that Mr. Blaine, without
desiring himself 10 become 2 candidate, fell
in with the idea that bis popularity might
be used TO take the nomination from Harri-
son. Tie weak point IN this hypothesis is
the presumed impOssIbilIty Of diyerting the
Blaine force TO the support Of any other
aspirant. When Blaine ceases to be a
candidate all the instructions to vote for
Harrison will recover their full force. A
Blaine boomer may try to excuse himself
for voting for Blaine or the ground that he
would not have been instructed to vote for
Harrison had it been known that Blaine
would be a candidate, but no such excuse
could be urged for vote for any aspirant the
Blaine managers may pitch upon. OF course
if there is any such scheme as this seriously
entertained the Blaine men have already
pitched upon their man. The difficulty will
be n substituting the real candidate for the
fictitious one when the time comes to do
so. The work now is being directed 10 the
decentralization OF the Harrison forces. The
remark is freely made that under the exist
ing conditions it is better to nominate a new
man. II one-third or O1e-half the Harrison
men can be induced to take this view of the
case. that One-third or oHe-half will virtually
become allies Of the Blaine boomers. Il
looks now as If the first dark horse to be
placed on exhibition will be Mckinley.
But if Mckinley succeeds it viii be because
the convention breaks away from the Quay
Clarks0n-P Plat crowd. These men have
nothing to gain by putting Mckinley in
Harris0n's place. They will use Mckinley
to reconcile the Harrison men to a new can
didate, but if they have formed the plan
cur correspondent has outlined they will
not nominate him.
To the Republican masses the selection of
candidates is largely a matter Of personal
preference. Men may shout for Blaine be-
cause they ike the man. Other men stand
by Harrison because they think ne will
stand a good chance to be elected and
know that if elected he will give the country
a good administration. But the men who
attempt TO make or unmake candidates
often have purposes which are not outlined
in the party platform. At the present time
one Of these purposes is believed to be to
name Presidential candidates on both sides
who will sg0 bill giving certain railroad
companies period of fifty years in which
TO pay their debts.