The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-07
HARRISON ON THE DEFENSIVE.
Trying to Hold His Instructed Dele
gates From Desertion to Blaine.


Trying to Hold His Instructed Dele
gates From Desertion to Blaine.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 6.-The sun goes
down without any decisive gain by either
faction. The Harrison managers are
holding their delegates we'll in hand while
the Blaine side is reinforced by outside in
fUence. There is no doubt the president
has the advantage of instructions which
bind majority whose choice would be
the statesman from Maine. The Harrison
| managers are displaying generalship in
keeping the forces pledged to vote for the
| president on the first ballot. They count
on nomination on the first ballot, and the
figures they exhibit are confirmed by in
| formation from other sources. There Is
no doubt that if the convention should
reach a vote tomorrow Harrison would
win. The outspoken support of Chauncey
NJ. Depew, General Horace Porter, Gov
ernor Mckinley and Senator Sherman has
| be the chief factor in keeping a majority
of the delegotes in support of the presi-
dent.
The Blaine people. while showing no
signs of encouragement, are seeking to
defeat majority vote on the first ballot,
| the policy being to bring favorite sons into
out the decision of the Michigan delegation
| to present Alger as favorable TO the plan.
| Several delegates argue that the fight be-
tween Harrison and Blaine renders the
| selection of third man a necessity. The
| number advising the selection of candi-
| date not involved in factional contest is
| increasing. "Give US Mckinley" said
| Colorado man. A winning ticket, many
| think. would be Sherman and Gresham.
| Another combination is Sherman and
| Whitelaw Reid. A proposition has been
| made to New York to drop Blaine and
Harrison and select Sherman, Rusk or
| Cullom.
Any test of strength on side issues is
sure to be injurious to Harrison, therefore
| the threat of the Harrison men to appeal
from the decision of the national COM
mittee would be a dangerous proceeding
The contest between Harrison and Blaine
is growing so close as TO make it a possi-
bility that on the decisions of the COM
mittee on contests will rest the party
nomination. The committee is now in
session. Its action is not cheering to the
Harrison men, who were counting on an
almost solid delegation from the Southern
states. In many instances they are abie
to hold their ground, but on the
whole, and in Alabama especially,
they are hard hit, the anti-Mosley
faction capturing all but three of the
contested seats. The Utah contest was
decided in favor of the regulars and
against what is known as the Salt Lake
, Tribune wing. This gives Blaine two
votes. The Harrison men are angry at
the way contests have been decided. and
threaten TO make fight on the national
committee all along the line. The Ala
bama contest will be carried before the
executive committee. The Reform Re-
publican" faction, opposed to the regular
delegation from South Carolina, was not
recognized, and will appeal to the full
committee. They say they are Blaine
men, and urge recognition on the ground
that they are the white mans and re-
spectacle colored mans party"
When the Louisiana contest was heard
ex-senator William Pitt Kellogg and ex-
Governor Warmoth headed the respective
forces. Kellogg, who appears as the reg
ular delegate, prevailed before the sub
committee, beating Warmoth, who led the
| contesting delegation in every district
except the Sixth, where the sub
committee split two votes between
the factions. This is Blaine
FACtcit. Alt w iTOkt lcAdS. tuc
committee decided should not be admitted.
The result OF the contests as whole is
| favorable to Blaine. At midnight the full
committee ratified the action of the sub
committee in several Of the contested cleo
ton cases. 1t predicted that action of the
subcommittee in other cases will be
| affirmed.
The members of the Southern delega-
tions find themselves important and
| appear TO appreciate the fact that the
Harrison men are making strong efforts
| to hold them in line, while the anti Harri-
son forces are bringing all means at their
| command to break into the South, and
apparently with effect. Fred Douglas is
| active in the anti Harrison cause He
| denounces Blaine on account of his OPP
| position to the force bill:n 1873. General
Longstreet has written the members of the
| Georgia delegation. urging them to vote
| for Blaine. Warner Miller is also quietly
| doing missionary work for Blaine among
| the colored delegates. Ex-senator Bruce,
Auditor Lynch and other colored men ars
working for Harrison. Efforts have been
| made TO win over Langston TO the presi-
dents support, but without effect.
/ The movement started at Chicago, hav-
| ing for its object the protection OF negroes
! in the South, has come to Minneapolis
| and has reached a point where it seems
likely to figure in the fight. Langston
supports, while Bruce and Lynch are op-
| posed to ii. The colored delegates have
passed resolutions demanding of the ma
| tiOnal convention a hearing and considera-
| tion of the matters contained in the
! memorial Of the National Civil Rights
| Association, the least guarantee which they
can accept at the hands of the Republican
| party. The memorial will be presented
early in the proceedings of the convention.
Ii is estimated that Isine-tenths of the
delegates are in the city tonight and the
| indications are that the claims of both fac.
tions Will be found greatly at variance
| with the exact figures when decisive bal.
lot IS taken, and every passing hour tends
TO convince the casual observer that the
contest will be bitter one and a very close
one. Conservative men of both sides are
not claiming majority of more than 100
votes, and il is thought by many that the
decisive ballot viii show that the winning
| candidate will have less than half that
| number. The presence Of a majority Of
the delegates has given an opportunity of
ascertaining the relative strength of Blaine
and Harrison. In general way Blaine
has gained in the Eas; and extreme West,
put Harrison has held his own in most Of
the lake states and the region between the
Rockies and the Aiieghanies.
The South. which was always an uncer-
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