The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-08
STILL AFTER BLAINE.
But the Candidates Will Be
Harrison and Cleveland.
SENATOR HILLS TOTAL ECLIPSE.
Republican Victory in Rhode Island
Complete-Oregon Republicans I'm
Instructed, but Favor Harrison.

WASHINGTON CRY, April 7.-TSpecial. l.
The interest is rapidly increasing in Wash
ington City regarding the probability that
Secretary Blaine will again be considered
strong possibility in the race for the
presidential nomination at the nation al
Republican convention. The Washington
City Post, which has all along printed
news articles and editorials against
Blaine in connection with the presidency,
today printed in its columns very sig
niicant article which seems to indicate that
that paper has secured information to the
effect that Secretary Blaine is not averse
to having his name brought forward as a
presidential candidate. and will not de-
cline the nomination if given to him. 1t
is stated in the Post that Senator Quay, of
Pennsylvania, will probably be able to
swing the delegation from the Keystone
state to Blaine, and that Platt and Miller
will be able to carry the New York dele
cation in the interest of the secretary of
state.
The Post prints clipping from the Balti-
more Neaus, printed yesterday afternoon, to
the effect that Blaine was forced to write
his letter of declination few weeks ago
because he was bounded by President
Harrison and his followers. In this arti-
Gle, which is claimed to be an interview
with Secretary Blaine had by a prominent
Republican politician, Blaine is made to
say that his chief annoyers were Lie Hal
ford, President Harrison's private secre-
tary, and Marshal Ramsdeli, of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who holds his position
by the will of President Harrison.
The publication of all this matter in
the Post has greatly renewed the interest
in the talk about Blaine's candidacy, and
within the past twenty-four hours the
PosT-INTELLIGENcER correspondent learns
that strong movement is on foot by the
opponents of President Harrison to bring
the Blame movement to the front again,
in the hopes that it will receive sufficient
momentum to insure his nomination.
In a conversation between Senator Quay
and one of the senators from the West
yesterday afternoon the Pennsylvania
statesman asked: "Will Blaine &C.
cept if he is nominated?'' The reply was
quick and to the point: 81 have every
reason to believe that Blaine will not de-
cline the nomination if it is rendered him,
and that he will place no further obstacles
in the way of his friends" 'If this is the
case," responded Senator Quay, ''there is
no doubt in my mind that he can be
nominated. One thing l am sure of,
and that is that the sixty-two votes from
Pennsylvania will be given to him. 1
have not any reason to doubt that the
seventy-two votes from New York will
also swing into line for him." The Sec
ond senator was seen later and the
conversation of the first senator was con-
firmed in detail. 1t was learned from one
of Blaine's adherents in the Senate today
that the plan proposed by his friends was
now to secure uninstructed delegations in
all the Western States where it was posi-
BILE. and that when the delegates came to
Minneapolis a plan would be concerted
whereby sufficient strength would come to
Blaine to insure his nomination, and it
was thought likely that the friends of
President Harrison would find it polite
and advisable to withdraw his name from
the race entirely.