New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-25
IT rs COMING BLAINE'S WAY
Clarkson and Hatton Are the Latest to
say that the Secretary Should have
the Nomination.
In Declining to be a Candidate he has done
his duty to Harrison and Paved the
Way to Final Acceptance.


. Cove, of Boston. ssthe original Blaine
man. says that if Harrison does not re-
ceive a denomination on the first ballot
at Minneapolis, Blaine will accept the
nomination. Mr.. Cove has just returned
from visit to Washington, where, he
saws, he had a long conference with Mr..
Blaine. He says that Blaine and Harri-
son are on the most friendly terms, and
that if Harrison can get the nomination
Blaine will not seek it. The anti-Harri-
son men are confident that Harrison can
not get the nomination on either the first
or second ballot. Even the presidents
friends admit that he will lack about
seventy-fve votes to secure the prize, ,and
if these are not forthcoming before the
convention meets, Blaine will declare
himself candidate.
Mr.. Clarkson, chairman of the Nation
al committee, is also quoted as follows:
My political judgment is that Blaine is
the strongest man in the Republican par
ty to-day and is the one man who can
. sweep the country. There are no plots
] or conspiracies against anybody or in
/ anybody's interests. We are going to
4 get together as the representatives of a
4 great party to decide after careful con-
Il IL JN SC +ho hnct to 1no1
us to victory. I am an uninstructed del
begate, and so are nearly all the others.
I'VE are free, therefore, from all restraint
or coercion, and if under the circum-
Estances we cannot choose wisely then |
Sam greatly mistaken. ....
And even Frank Hatton, who IN COM
. mon with other Grant and Conkling adj
herents has all along fought Blaine with
bitterness and virulence, now expresses a
conviction that Blaine is justly entitled
to the presidency as fitting crown for
his brilliant services to his party and his
country. Mr.. Hatton's opinion is given
to the public in an editorial in the Wash
ington Post and is given herewith:
''The Post wishes to contribute to the
fund of campaign fact and speculation a
few brief but emphatic remarks relative
to the Hon. J. G. Blaine. We have the
best of reasons for believing that Mr..
Blaine would be unspeakably graft
fled were he to receive the spontaneous
nomination of his party at Minneapolis.
Whether he would accept it we do not
know. 1t is our belief that he would,
but we wish to assert only that which we
have unquestionable reason for asserting,
and hence confine ourselves to the single
statement that the nomination, coming
to him unsought and in disregard of his
disclaimer would be an infinite pleasure
and consolation. 1t cannot be said that
in any other way the secretary has been
antago nistic to the president. So far from
asserting the aspiration hemay have had, he
the first stood firm against the solicita-
tions to do so. If any yearning dwelt in
his heart, he at least did not parade it.
Indeed he has gone out of his way to
make an ostentatious announcement of
abandonment of all and any claim, and
to enioin upon his friends the necessity
of looking elsewhere for a leader. He
might, perhaps, have done less than this
but he did not His abjurgation was
complete. But Mr. Blaine is human. In
all the vicissitudes of his astonishing
career that one overshadowing fact has
been unvaryingly conspicuous. He is a
and hasty impulses. He loves his friends,
he is grateful for affection; he appreci-
ates confidence and service; he is sensi-
tive, highly strung and full of swift re-
sponsiveness. Can any intelligent being
after a moments thought, suppose that
he would be insensible to such demon
stration as we have indicated2 Would
it not, on the contrary, appeal to him
thousand times more powerfully than to
man of frigid temperament and slug
Dish instinct? Mr.. Blaine has not reach
ed the limit of usefulness by an means,
but he is drawing nearit The last few
a ears have been saddened by domestic
Affections and embittered by i'll health.
He has had much to distress and disap-
point him. Most of all the prospect that
II career so memorable, SO brilliant, so
fraught with promise, is to stop short Of
its proper crown and elimination. Is it
possible to doubt that, in this hour of
his supremer renunciation, as he waits with