The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-29
BIATNE MEN FEAR ELKINS
oruvE SEEMS ABL s. TO TWIST JIM
AROUND HIS FING 7RS.

r,s West virginian Sure to Get
.,other Declination Out of Blaine
,<rtis Possible-Blaine's Retirement
r.orn the Cabinet Looked for in the
Near Future.
WASHINGTON, May 2S.-The departure
=, the President to-day. following the de-
O.rt,,re of Chairman Clarkson yesterday,
pps,duoed lull in presidential gossiping to-
- Bus 1t was revived this evening when
:. .r.s Harmed that Secretary Blaine really
~ rsturned from New York aud was once
are at the red house. The Blaine boomers,
10 had hoped it was true thai Secretary
elaine had intended to go to Maine and not
..,uru TO Washington. were really disap-
nointed, especially when they realized that
Secretary Elkins after bsiug announced in
.bs white house list Of those who
rould accompany the President to
pochester. had, upon finding that
secretary Blaine did not return yesterday
md would return to-day, abandoned his
,rrno,e to 60 and remained here TO see
Secretary Blaine. The thing the Blaine
hoomers have feared the most from the be-
Ginning of their open effort to beat President
Harrison with Blaine Is, namely, that the
0Io1uent Elkins, who they say wheedled the
CIsrkson letter out of Secretary Blaine.
.ouId get from him another expression
,,nrhing that In a conclusive m amer
Secretary Blaine went to New York, they
tbnk. and was going to Maine. they say to
nreyent Secretary Elkins from getting an
pptbsr interview with him, and they reioioed
wheu they thought the Maine trip a GER
tsi1ty.
AFRAID OF ELKINs EVEN NOW.
Now that Secretary Blaine has returned
h find Secretary Eikins waiting for him
thew would not be surprised il Secretary
EIfins oaioed Secretary Blaine again In
spite Of the promises Secretary Blaine has
GIVEN them that he would neither say or
write anything to interfere with them.
Roth the Blaine men land this now includes
all the anti Harrison mem and the anti
Harrison men agree in saying that no
further statement from Secretary Blaine Is
necessary if he says nothing now, that the
conditions have changed and that he has
notice. say the Blaine men,
that we propose to 20 ahead and
nominate. We assume that he approves
and will accept. II he says nothing say
the Harrison men, we shall assume that be
meant what he said when he wrote Chairman
Clarkson on Feb. 6: ~ am not q candidate
for the presidency and my name will not
20 before the national convention for the
nomination. i make this announcement in
due season. At the same time both sides
have worked hard to try to get. him to say
that he would or would not take the nomi-
nation, and the attempts to get some further
expression from him are not over vet.
Possibly Secretary Elkins may succeed. If
be fails there will be no longer room for
doubt that Secretary Blaine is fully con-
nected with the auti-Harrison movement, IL
not fully comm tied to it.
BLAINE BOUND TO RETIRE SOON.
Secretary Blaine's resignation from the
cabinet, which has been expected ever
since last spring by his colleagues In the
cabinet aud, 1t is believed, by the President,
cannot be deferred much longer. He must
retire from his present position after the
Minneapolis convention whether he is
nominated or not. for his relations not only
with the President, but with other mem
bers Of the cabinet, will not bear much
more strain than they have had. No one
IN administration circles would be surprised
If Secretary Blaine should resign before
two days, rather than two weeks are
over, for really In the circumstances,
whatever usefulness to himself, his party
or the administration he may have had has
apparently terminated. Secretary Blaine,
suy intention of resigning at present. To
do so before the convention met would be
esteemed here as equivalent to formal notice
that he was seeking the nomination, even
II he made no public announcement In con-
neotion with it,
TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT.
Some Of the Blaine boomers think Score
tary Blaines resignation now, with the as
surance it would give that he would accept
the nomination. would sweep away all re-
naming opposition to his nomination. Others
think it would simply intensity the Harri-
son opposition to him and make his election
more doubtful even if he was nominated.
There is no doubt that the latter are right
President Harrison took Secretary Blaine at
his word in the Clarkson letter, and will
not now, after permitting his friends to
commit and expound themselves In his
cause, abandon them by withdra wing. He
Will fight Secretary Blaine to the bitter end,
even II that be on election day in Novem-
Der. Naturally the increasing ill feeling
between the Harrison and anti-Harrison
men greatly encourages ex-Speaker Reed,
senator Sherman, Senator Allison and the
Other dark horses, who are more convinced
than ever that neither Secretary Blaine nor
resident Harrison can win.