Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-06
DRAWING THE LINES.
Political Forces Gathering About Two
Names at Minneapolis.

Political Forces Gathering About Two
Names at Minneapolis.
MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, June 6.-The friends
Of the administration seemed considerably more
serene and confident than they did yesterday
although they profess that their mood has not
changed whit and that it is the other people
and not themselves that worrying. Never
Iheless. some of those who Saturday and
yesterday were expressing the view that it was
going to be a close and bitter fight and that, in
their private Judgment, the President not
rs strong as some of his managers believed
were free TO say this morning that later view
of the situation hardly justified their previous
doubts and fears and that they were now salts
fed that, calculating what it is certainly
pected to accomplish between now and Thurs
day morning. there was no need of any alarm
on the part of the Presidents friends, either
here or elsewhere.
BLAINE MEN IN GOOD HUMoR.
Very much the same tenor WAS the talk at the
various places where the Blaine boom has an
habitation. The cause of the ex-secretary, it
was declared, was stronger this morning than
on Saturday night, although no figures would
be given. The Blaine people have a roster Of
the delegates with the way that each man is ex-
pected TO vote on the first ballot, and n second
roster showing how the Harrison adherents, or
many of them at least, will be certain to turn
when the proper time came, but they are not
making these documents public property for
the benefit of the opposition.
IL was freely charged this morning that the
Harrison element was making many statements
that were not founded on fact and laying claims
| that would certainly fail to be verified. The
| statement Of the Harrisonians for instance.
that they had been visited by several members
of the Michigan delegation who had yolunta-
rily promised to support the Presidents re-
nomination. although counted for Blaine, was
pronounced yarn out Of whole cloth and the
| methods of Depew, New, Kitchener and the
others simply gigantic game OF blum.
knowing their protestations of absolute con-
| fdence however the Blaineites started in this
morning to make Rome howl and they propose
| to keep up the noise until the balloting is
| reached. II is to be Blaine, and nothing but
Blaine" so far as brass bands and badges and
pictures and all the other outside paraphernalia
| Of a political campaign are concerned. The
| idea is to impress the strangers from all parts
| of the country. who are already here or will
come in today or tomorrow. with the idea that
| nobody but Blaine is being thought Of or talked
about. The badges. pictures. music, de-, can
| be had for the asking and without money and
without price.
BIG HURRAH FOR BLAINE.
Blaine clubs from a number Of points in Hi
| nois, Ohio, Wisconsin and other states will
bring achievements to Q total of several
thousand shouters during the day and every
man will be expected to use his lungs for all
they are worth In one Of the big buildings Of
| the city there are stored away 5000 white
plumes, a. many SNOWY uniforms, several wagon
loads Of flags and banners and pictures OF
Blaine and the outfit for Q band Of sixty-one
pieces.
| This afternoon, according to present plans,
this stock in trade il to be turned loose on the
streets for the benefit Of the citizens and visitors
already on the ground and Of the new arrivals.
| The whole aim and idea il to have such gigan-
/ tic howl such an Internal din and racket and
to keep it up 20 long q to make people believe
even against their own viii and sober thought
that no such man Benjamin Harrison Ii
being thought Of or talked Of, and that James
@. Blaine has everything about his own way
II it is possible to accomplish . stampede BY
this kind Of campaigning, the stampede v going
| to come.
| But the Presidents advisers In the present