The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-24
WILL VISIT NEW YORK.
Secretary Blaine and Wife Will Pay an os
tenslble Visit to Their Granddaughter.

Secretary Blaine and Wife Will Pay an Os-
tenslble Visit TO Their Granddaughter
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. !
WASHINGTON, May 23.-Mr. Blaine will
leave here tomorrow or next day for New
York. His wife will accompany him. The
secretary, it is announced, goes to pay his
respects to his little granddaughter. At
the same time his proposed visit is the sub
iect of the liveliest speculation in political
circles, and momentous results are pre-
dicted by those who are booming MIR.
Blaine for the presidency.
The situation with regard to Mr.. Blaine s
candidacy is undoubtedly rapily approach
ing crisis. His friends have stopped ar
guing with him or persuading him. They
inform him now in plain terms that they
are going to nominate him at Minneapolis
whether he wishes it or not 1t will be for
him to say then whether he will run or not.
They go further than this. They tell
him that it would do the presi-
dent no good for him to decline
the nomination, for under no circumstances
can the President be again made the party's
leader. If Mr.. Blaine refuses, an excellent
candidate can aud will be found, they
assert, in the ranks of the anti-Harrison
men, Mr.. Blaine knows the programme
thoroughly, and his friends say it Is not in
his power now to stop the movement in
his behalf.
Friends of the president are seriously
alarmed. The most enthusiastic of them
concede that if MIR. Blaine will take the
nomination the president will not be in 1t.
The course of the New York Tribune
since the return of Whitelsw Reid from
France has aroused their gravest sus-
picions. Upon Mr.. Reid's return he came
of the week. He was with Mr.. Blaine
every day CT that time, dining with
him, driving with him and remaining
for hours at mis- house. MIR. Reid called only
twice at the White House. Since his re.
turn to New York and to the editorial di-
rectiou of his newspaper, not word OF
announcement of Harrison has appeared
either in the news or editorial columns Of
the Tribune.
The Harrison people are hard at work
They do net believe it too late for tht
Blaine boom TO be checked, but they con
fess that only Mr.. Blaine himself can do it
They are besieging him to write another
letter. They declare that he owes it Il
the president. Secretary Elkins spent th'
whole of the afternoon at Mr.. Blaine's
and there is little DOUBT that the lates
phase of the case was fully discussed
When a friend of MIR. Blaine was asked to
night why Mr.. Blaine should 90 to New
York to decide the question OF his can
didacy, he replied: "Simply to get out O
the reach of the Presidents friends"
There is still another thing of signficanc
~ this time. Father Ducev, the famou
Catholic priest of New York arrived il
Washington on Thursday night last, an
remained in town until Friday aftern Don
when he left for Baltimore. He did 70
register at the hotel where he stopped, an
this fact has been seized upon by The gossip
es indicating that he desired his presenc
in the city to be unknown. Gossip says b
came for an interview with Mr.. Blaine re
garding the correspondence which wa
printed subsequent TO the granting of d
vorce to Mrs. j. @. Blaine, il. II was II
called by the gossips that for some unknow
reason Mrs. Blaine, jr., did not carry GU
her intentions TO follow up Secretar
I3laine's letter to Father Ducey with Gel
tain correspondence which she said she ha
in her possession. Why this was notcarrie
out has never been explained by the Neyin
family. Between this fact and FatLe
Ducey's visit, current rumor tries 10 see
TO establish strong connection. The re
port is that Father Ducey called upon MI
Blaine Friday and that the trouble wa
matched ND.