The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-06-06
HARRISON AND BLAINE.
Cheers and Counter Cheers Sound
in Hotel CoriSors.
BOTH SIDES ARE RESoLUTE.
The Situation shifts Every Hour-Blaine
Denounoes q Forged Interwiew-Al-
ger Has Not withdrawn-Pettigrew
Talks shsrpIy-Mr. Eoutelle Serene.

Talks 6herpiy-mr. Soutelle Serene
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June 6.-At II
o'clock yesterday forenoon when the
bells called the devout to Christian wor.
ship, the lobbies OF the leading hotels
were filed with surging, seething mass
of excited humanity and when the minis
ter in the ighboring church led the
opening prayer the corridors OF the
hotels were resounding with cheers and
counter cheers for Benjamin Harrison
and James G. Blaine.
All day long this excitement continued
and at night the fierce competit ion of
political enthusiasm continued with in
creased vigor. 1t was day of kaleidos-
copic changes. The situation has been
constantly varying and the wave OF sen.
timent that swept over the assemblage In
one hour would be followed by a wave of
reaction the next, until in the end IL
was difficult to ascertain the true drift
of the political sentiment. In one re-
spect the day has been a surprise. The
Harrison leaders have rallied their forces
and the decentralization OF Saturday has
given place to energy, vigor and resolu-
ton.
Indeed, the administration eimenr is a.
strong in leadership, political sagacity
and organization as in the opposition,
even with It's experienced leaders. All
this has been 9 surprise for those who
have kept aloof from both factions fully
expectant that the wave of Blaine sem
timent that swept over the land Satur-
day afternoon would be irresistible and
that it would gather in its embrace all
the scattered uninstructed delegates of
the Republican party.
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to close observer 1t is apparent that
the Harrison forces are as strong as they
were "a hours ago. The Blaine men say
Harrison managers are holding the rank
and file of the delegations Loyalty to their
leader, but that when the decisive battle
comes the Blaine enthusiasm will carry
all before 1t and the distinguished son of
Maine will be nominated on the 6rst bal
lot.
The Harrison leaders laugh at these
predictions OF their opponents and say
that they are stronger today than they
have ever been, and the reason Of their
increasing strength Is that the delegates
to the national convention have become
weary of the temporizing OF ex-Secretary
Blaine and have found in his retirement
from the cabinet and his entrance into
the contest at this late hour, an evidence
of bad faith, disloyalty and duplicity
toward the president.
Meu WnOUG lOItuno ~ uhb DCeu 10 0t-
tend all the Republican conventions for
the past IS years, say that the convention
of 1892 is unique in the discrepancy
which IL presents between the claims Of
the contesting candidates.
There will be 9o2 delegates in the con-
vention. OF this number the Harrison
managers officially announce that their
chief will receive the votes OF $50, while
the Blaine leaders, though not going into
details, maintain with lofty confidence
that their candidate will receive at least
three fifths of the votes of the conven-
tion and will be nominated by acclama-
tion.
The discrepancy between these counter
claims leads many to suppose that both
are widely extravagant in their assertion.
OF one thing only is the casual political
observer sure, and that is that bitter feel
ing Is being engendered In the party
ranks with every passing hour, and that
result of the tenth Republican national
convention will leave behind it hard feel
ings of hostility towards the successful
candidate.
The fact has given rise to rumors of
dark horses and compromise candidates.
There is no doubt that the desire for q
third candidate is growing in the public
mind and against this growing senti-
ment both factions feel that they must
now compete. The name most frequent
ly mentioned among the list OF dark
horses Is that OF William Mckinley, Jr.,
governor of Ohio.
Inquiries are already being made as to
his ability to receive the solid support Of
the Ohio delegation. The vital question
"Would Foraker and his friends favor
McKinleyf" 10 answered in the affirma-
tive by many of Mr.. Foraker's friends,
but the ex-governor himself maintains
silence.
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man would be Foraker's favorite In case
the Buckeye delegation were called upon
to furnish candidate, Foraker would al
most certainly succeed, Sherman in the
Senate should the latter be called to the
presidency. Sherman, too, has hosts OF
friends in other state delegations. but he
is no more popular than the young Napo-
leon OF protection.
The name of Alger is still the watch
word Of the Michigan delegation and his
name will certainly be presented to the
convention. Most of the delegates from
his state are for Blaine for second choice,
but the generals closest friends are rath-
er cherishing the hope that recent devel-
opments may be such that the Blaine
people will rally to Alger as second
choice. Certain OF the Iowa delegates are
longing for an occasion to present Sena-
tor Allison as the candidate OF the Hawk
eye state.
oendVOr CuilOm OF llllnOls, non. Jere-
miah Rusk Of Wisconsin and Whitelaw
Reid OF New York, are also freely dis
cussed, and II 10 believed each would re-
ceive the votes of his state delegation in
case OF the retirement of Benjamin Har-
rison and Blaine. MIR. Cullom is the only
one OF these men on the ground and is
delegate-at-la from Illinois. He was
kept rather busy last evening denying
rumors OF his candidacy and insisting
that Harrison must be the man.
The trains that arrived during the day
were In from two to four sections an d all
sections were very heavy. Nearly every
section had from one to half a dozen DEL
egations and they represented all parts
OF the union.
The big event Of the day from a spec
tacular standpoint was the arrival and re-
ception of the banner Harrison enforce
mcnt-the Columbia Club OF Indianapo-
lis. Preceded by a stunning Minneapolis
escort the long line OF Columbians came
swinging up the street from the depot to
the West Hotel with bands playing and n
aunty confidence that was better than
barrels Of tonic for the Harrison legions
already on the grounds. Cheers met
them at every street corner.