The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-10

when it first beacme known that Mr.. Gull
lom was endeavoring to secure the solid
delegation of his state, he received letter
from Judge Zane, asking him if he would
like the Utah votes. Senator Cullom re-
piled that he would, and he assures me that
he will get them if the Republican party in
the territory shall be recognized at the
convention.
General Alger Is Looming up.
Especial to THE HBRALD-Examiner Dispatch.l
NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Io say that MIR.
Blaine's letter announcing that he was not
a candidate for the presidency and that his
name would not 20 before the Republican
national convention at Minneapolis was the
all absorbing topic among Republican poll
ticians to-day, is putting the situation very
mildly, to say the least. The letter, take it
all in all, has proved
A RELIEF TO MAJORITY OF REPUBLICANS,
and they clearly manifest this feeling The
Harrison men talk with some freedom and
the Blaine people are beginning to make
their second choice. 1t is more than likely
that the Republicans of this state will hear
Alger as presidential candidate during the
next four months. The strong probability
is that when the hour comes it will be dis
covered that Mr., James S. Clarkson, chair
man OF the Republican national committee,
has been an Alger man under cover for a
pretty long time. Mr.. Clarkson has good
opinion of MIR Platt's judgment, and Mr.
Platt thinks Mr.. Clarkson is person who
knows good thing when he sees 1t. Mr..
Platt, in 1883, believed that
GOVERNOR ALGER WOULD PROVE A VERY
STRONG CANDIDATE.
| There is not the slightest reason to doubt
| that this opinion was honestly arrived at
after a careful survey of the field. There
| is no more reason to doubt that this is
| Platt's view of the matter to-day, now
| that Mr.. Blaine is out of sight, than to
doubt his standing for Governor Alger in
1888. Some of MIR. Platt's very near
friends have been talking of Governor
| Alger as the coming man and the proper
| candidate for a number of days. The Har-
! rison men are pretty numerous and they
profess to consider that his nomination is
assured by Blaine's withdrawal. In this
connection it is curious to note that large
number Of the most prominent federal Off
GERS in this city are outspoken in their
opinion that
and some are just as frank in stating thai
he could not be elected. A prominent gen
tleman remarked to-day that Postmaster
General Wanamaker had said within three
days in this town that the President was
seriously considering the matter of writing
a letter declining to be a candidate before
the national convention. Though the Har
rison men are not surong in numbers, some
of them are very reSpectable-more Of
Al t1Orn L.
favors to come.
A politician of national reputation sale
in speaking OF President Harrison's candi
dacy, now that Mr.. Blaine is out Of the
field ~ see that there are already mum,
Der Of candidates announced. That is very
healthy for the party. So long as Mr.
Blaine was in the field of course it wa
useless for anyone else to think of tn,
presidency. Then the national convention
was bound to be Blaine convention b,
fifty to one.
NO ONE ELSE WAS IN 1T.
The Harrison men have professed all aIoni
that the moment that Blaine was with
Drawn that there would be no question o
, Harrison's denomination. Such a state o
affairs, if true, would have been intoler
aole. A condition like that would hav
shown that the party was dead, aud 1t
candidate would have been doomed to de
, feat from the instant he was nominated !
q MIR. Harrison succeeds in getting the nom
iuation after a fght-and he is bound t
have the hottest tight he ever had in hi
life-then there may be some chance TO
him. The party, at any rate, will be aliv
and able to do something. There will
g plenty of candidates and a strong fight
f Cullom and A llison and Sherman and Nc
= Kinley and Alger are already named, an
s there is Lincoln. The trouble with him
S that Cullom will have the delegation frol
! Illinois. There might be repetition of tn
Garfield incident in 1880, to be sure, BIT
that is not likely. No, l
DON'T THINK HARRISON WILL BE NOM
q MATED,
i but he might be. The withdrawal
e Blaine has certainly cleared the polite;
q situation wonderfully.n
- No one spoke Of Secretary Blaine's witt
y drawal without coupling with it a sugge
IL ton that the minister to England, Robe
II T. Lincoln, would be not only very stror
/ candidate, but the strongest that could /
20 named. 1t is noteworthy fact that thel
is was scarcely a Republican who did N
seem to be impressed with this idea Pos
master VanCott said, 81 think that M
Harrison could be ell, cted. But Lincoln
% the strongest name that could be thougl
"a of. His nomination would bring to
. Immediately the young men of the who
'0 country. He has never been mixed up
le the faction fights of the party, and
70 known as an able, honest and trustwortt
81 man from one end of the land to the othe
- HIS NOMINATION WOULD KINDLE AN e.
~ THUSIASM
that has been unknown in our politics f
years. He is the man to stir the peopl
. One Of the difficulties in our politics is to
q, the leaders do not as rule get near L
ha 70
le ings of the people who cast the great bu
n OF the votes. They send men in the
Il offices from here and there who SCOT
" them down and tell them things that tn
IL think will please the big men, but the {
ly sire and wishes of the voters OF the par
an don't make themselves felt"
D. General Thomas l.. James, president
d. the Lincoln bank, was postmaster gsnel
as in President Garfied's cabinet ut the til
:" that Minister Lincoln was secretary
war. No one in the country is better a
quainted with the eX-secretary of W
U. than the former postmaster general. CT
NO eral James said to-day, 1.-THE nominate
'o of Minister Lincoln
WOULD BE AN IDEAL NOMINATION
a. DO and one IN every way fit to be made.
q. one who understands him doubts for an
- slant that he has in him the best kind
~ presidential timber. The people would
cept his nomination, / think, with
greatest enthusiasm from one side of
nation to the other. Would he be succe
I'M full! To be sure he would He could ,
20 help it."
Is Minister Lincoln Interviewed.