Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-06
The Ex.Secretary Forced to
Send Out Another Card
for Publication.
AN INTERVIEW DENIED,
And He Warns His Friends to Look
Out for Similar Canards.
HE SPENDS SUNDAY AT HOME,
While Harrison Goes to the Church Of the
Covenant, as Usual.
PAUNCEFOTE BIDS BLAINE G0ODBY

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Mr. Blaine
spent the whole day quietly at home, ex-
cept that toward evening he took drive
into the country with Mrs. Blaine He re-
ceived few calls from personal friends,
but admittance was refused to all other per-
sons. ALI efforts to interview him were
equally unsuccessful, the ex-Secretary of
State adhering to the determination which
he announced Immediately after his resig-
nation yesterday, that he would let the pub
lished correspondence speak for itself with
out a word of explanation from him.
Mr.. Blaine has, however, sent to the As
sociated Press this evening for publication
the following autographic communication:
A CARD.
II MADISON PLACE,
WASHINGTON, June 5, 1892
The United Press yesterday sent out an
alleged interview with me, and also with
Mrs. Blaine for which there was not the
slightest foundation in truts. 1t was a
forgery. from the first word to the last.
warn nv friends that similar falsehooHs
may be expected. JAMES G. BLAINE.
The Sole Topic of Discussion.
The political situation, simplifed as most
people think it has been by the resignation
of Secretary Blaine, was topic of ami
mated discussion in Washington to-day, and
the inference generally drawn from the
Secretary's action that he will accept the
Presidential nomination if offered him elicit
ed many expressions of qualification among
his friends.
Washington is usually very quiet place
OH Sunday, especially during the warm
rnOpthS tuhap laaua tho
city. if only for the day, but to-day was a
marked exception to the rule. Everywhere
person went the first inquiry addressed to
him was in reference to the Interpretation
to be placed on Secretary Blaine's resigna-
tion and its probable effect at Minneapolis.
Most of the actual working politicians on
the Republican side of the Senate and
House have gone to the seat of war to as
sist in molding opinion in favor of their
honors. Those left behind, however, gos-
siped over the new phase of the situation
to their hearts content, and arrived at
conclusions eminently satisfactory to them
selves if not to their 1nterlocutors.
Nearly everybody in Washington reads
the newspapers, and although the resigna-
tion of the Secretary was made public in
time for the afternoon papers yesterday, the
people were eager for all the details.
Every Bit of News Gobbled.
1t was not, therefore, long before the
morning newspapers of this and other cities
were at a premium, and the newsboys
reaped harvest. The church-goers as well
as the stay -at-homes, the transient as well
as the regular guests at the hotels, all had
the momentous news of the day fully read,
had opinions to express concerning its
meaning and its probable bearing on the
Drosidapfol cituafi0p nf
news relating to the President and to Mr..
Blaine was received with an avidity that
evidenced the great interest felt. Although
the opportunity has been afforded many
times before to see the President at church,
and it has been passed by unheeded, SO great
is the interest in the latest developments in
the political armament that many persons
went to-day to the Church of the Covenant,
where the President usually attends, to see
him.
Mr.. Blaine's fine old mansion opposite
Lafayette Square, in Madison Place, within
q stones throw of the Executive Mansion,
was more than commonly an object of inter-
est, and many newspaper reporters were
among the numerous people who made 1t an
objective point during the day.
Harrison and fslaine's Sunday.
President Harrison attended divine serv-
ice at the Church of the Covenant this
morning. Rev. DIR. Tennis S. Hamlin, the
pastor, preached the sermon. The Presi-
dent walked to the church and rode home.
He spent the greatest part of the day with
Mrs Harrison, who is still unable to leave
her room. During the afternoon he took a
stroll through the White House grounds
Among the callers at the White House to-
day were Secretaries Elkins and Foster, At
torney General Miller, Judge Field, of In
diana, and a number of persons who called
to inquire about Mrs. Harrison's health.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Min
lister, called at ex-Secretary Blaine's house,
to-day, to say goodby. The Minister and
his family expect to leave this country dur
ing the coming week, for Carlsbad. Other
persons called at the house and left their
cards. The callers included General John
W. Foster and Senator Chandler and Mrs
1t is expected that Mr.. Blaine
md family will go to Bar Harbor some