Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-08
A LITTLE BIT LATE
Blaine's Friends Working
Harder Than They Would
Have Had to Do
HAD HE RESIGNED SOONER.
Manv of His Old Admirers Hands
Tied With Instructions.
ALGER'S CANDIDACY ANALYZED.
Most Vested Properties of the Country
With the President
HAD HE RESIGNED SOONER.
ALGER'S CANDIDACY ANALYZED.
Most Vested Properties of the Country
With the President.
DISADVANTAGES OF GETTING ANGRY
tFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

rFRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
MINNEAPoLIS, June Tt was the re-
luctant conclusion of several newspaper
correspondents who made the round of the
delegations in person late Monday after
noon and who brought their results to me
that evening, that while Mr.. Blaine might
get unexpected votes from changes yet to be
made in some of the delegations, he was
away behind Harrison as votes now stand.
Had Blaine not waited so long he could
have been the nominee of this convention
almost by acclamation, but every important
person you see here was told by Blaine
himself, only few weeks before the con-
vention, that he would not be a candidate.
Ex-senator Hill, of Colorado, told me
Yesterday that he had always been for
Blaine in conventions, and that five weeks
ago he saw Mr.. Blaine in Washington and
said TO him: "As you are not a candidate, 1
suppose 1 shall support Harrison" "That
meets nv wishes" said Mr.. Blaine.
Senator FELTON,, of California, is appre-
hensive of the Overwhelming passion for
Blaine in his State, of which Judge Estey
saws that none of this delegation 60 home if
it has defeated Blaine, but FELTON, saws that
he was told by Mr. Blame that under no
circumstances would he be a candidate, and
consequently he went to President Harrison
and told Harrison he would support him,
snd he must now keep his word.
The Days of Talk-Making.
Considerable of such talk is manufactured
or exaggerated, and many of these so-called
instructions were devised by the very men
who now hold that, being instructed, they
reluctantly obev "Despise instructions,
my son." might be the banner tackled across
the big avenues here.
The effect of Blaine's resignation was to
strengthen those already in favor of him at
the convention, but in some of his constitu-
encies it was not understood. and did not
help him. Mr. Holloway, the brother-in-
law of Oliver P. Morton, who is Blaine
man, wearing a Blaine badge, reports this
as the fact in Indianapolis, and others say
the same about Columbus, o.
The return of General Alger to the Presi-
dental field, after he had fully resolved to
take himself out and accept the Vice Presi-
dency under Blaine, was bad symptom
Although everybody knew that Alger
wanted to be President, his immediate
friends had announced for two days that he
had Withdrawn, and when he came back the
lame explanation was given that there we're
four Harrison men in the delegation who
would so express themselves on the first bal
lot unless their beloved Alger was in it. 1t
was generally rumored among the Blaine
men, too, that they had selected the candi-
date to drop to, and that 1t was Allison.
Why drop to Allison?" asked those who
thought that Blaine was rising with the
people
Table Made from InquIries
The staff of an ancient Republican paper
in the East went the round of the delega- |
tions toward midnight, and, giving Blame |
the benefit of all doubts, ciphered up IS of
a ma jority for Harrison, and allowed SO
votes TO be in the doubtful column. thus
setting forth the probability that if Harri-
son could get only 10 out OF those SO he
would be the candidate.
An active newspaper man from the Pacific
coast, who favored Blaine sincerely, as op-
posed to Harrison, came to me and left
his list. which, L have no doubt, was
reported without any hearsay.
This gave Harrison 16 votes
in Nebraska, six in New Hampshire,
p in North Carolina, IS in New Jersey, % in
New York, 6 IN the two Dakotas. Is in Ohio
= in Oregon, 10 in PENNSYLVANIA, in Rhode
Island, 9 in South Carolina, 20 in Tennessee,
10 in Texas, III Vermont, u in Virginia, in
West virginia, Is in Wisconsin, in Wyom-
ing, in Washington, in Oklahoma, 20 in
Missouri, in Mississippi, in Minnesota, 16
in Massachusetts, IA in Maryland, in Michi- |
gan, in Louisiana, "a in Kentucky, Is in |
Kansas, % IN Iowa, 80 in Indiana, IS in nh-
d.
ware. in Connecticut, in California.
spread this out as list which can be ex-
amined, and while the Blaine men hold that
there viii be changes in nearly every one of
these delegations in their favor, these un-
dOubtedly were the replies made upon per-
sonal inquiry of an individual.
Vested Properties With Harrison.
The vested properties of the country,
where represented in the convention, are
generally with Harrison, from the New York
Central Railroad to the Depauws' plate glass
works. said one man from Indiana to me:
Some years ago, when Harrison was in the |
Senate, an attack was made on American |
plale glass by Hebrew free trade writer in |
New York. whom the Depauws charged with |
having been Tor years paid agent of for |
eign glass makers. Up to that time the De- |
pHuws had been Democrats. Harrison in |
the Senate fought for their interests, and |
nom that day to this these Democrats have |
been in the Republican party, and are now |
in this convention"
A few words about Blaine bimself, as he is |
at the moment notably in the public eye,
may be read with interest. Tom Donaldson, |
a native of Ohio but long resident in Phila- |
delpAia, went with me to the convention |
hall Monday. He is reputed to have been |
the man who got UP the Burchard clergy |
worthy amateurs in politics fell to abusing |
each others religion as foretaste of the |
celestial harmony: Donaldson, however,
has had access TO Mr.. Blaine in criricai |
tilne and he told me follows:
My boy Blaine Donaldson, with his kodak, |
is taking pictures. l expect him to see the |
biggest Blaine nominated. Lord bless you, |
do you think Blaine would have taken this |
step il he thought he could be beaten? Oh, |
he is long-headed man. There arc just |
three living statesmen-Bismarck, Glad |
stone anu Blaine.
Scme of BIaine's PecuIiarities.
Blaine can lay his ear toward you when |
you are telling him something he wants to |
know, and as you go along he will separate |
the deslderatum from the data, and remem- |
Der 1t FOR 20 years, and will be sure at some |
time to bring it into play. He never reads a |
book. HIS experience ana memory consti- |
tute his library. His way OF reading n book
is wonderful. lie can take the inynrds ont /
OF one IN 10 ialnuJes and throw the chaff and /
straw away. As he edited his newsna per he /
reads books. They are an exchange list to /
him. He can see .arther than ANYBODY else
as to measures and acts. When he ran Tor /
President IN 1876, he landed in the Senate
llalstead, who announced that he would not \
1upport Bialne II nominated that year,
is mere now working for Blaine. He recov- /
ers ground, makes new ground, puts for
Waru new proportions, affifms old ones and /
III empiOylne or retirement he is like old
Pan playing his pipes. and the stones turn
10 human beings and turn their ears toward
him. he dla not get nominated in 1876, but
he got INTO the Senate from Maine. In 1880
he was not Il candidate, but he helped GAR
Held and became bis Secretary of State He
went out OF public life and he prod iced q
book, winch, next to Grants, had larger
SAFE and naue more money than anv book
oi the time. When he was nominated his
own States were firm, and he made away
with $4,000 OF Clevelnnu's majority in one
Stale alone. He hurled Cleveland ont OF
Presidency in lsS5, and, keepinR ont of rhe
1i.ht himself, landed in the state Denarte
ment
I.ilxins an Old Friend of Barri.,,