Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-01
A BRIGHTER OUTLOOK
For Complete Republican Harmony in
New York and Indiana.
THE EMPIRE STATE SITUATION.
Offers Of Compromise Recently Made to
Platt and Miller.
GEN. cLARKsoN WILL NOT RESIGN NOW

NEW YORK, July 31.-tS Special ]-Presi-
dent Harrison does not want to ride down
Pennsylvania avenue with Democrat on
March next The President therefore
desires that harmony shall exist all
along the line, especially in New
York and Indiana. This harmony
will prevail if the Presidents efforts
are successful How it is to be brought
about or when no one seems to know. Ger
tainlv the Republicans with whom the
President has consulted in the last week are
not aware, but they have faith in the Presi-
dents determination to bring smooth relsr
tions and in his ability to do it.
Should the Republicans of New York
State, now at the helm, decline
to enter into the spirit of
the Presidents policy the responsibility
will rest upon them and not upon him.
But it is not believed that they will refuse
to join hands with the President. The con-
ference between the President and Chair
man Carter, ex-Chairman Clarkson, Col
lector Hendricks, J. N. Huston, of Indiana,
and others have led to all sorts of reports
Not in a BelIigerent Mood.
Private kilograms have reached New
York to the effect that the President was in
an ofish mood and that there was little proba
! bility that he and the New Workers could
come to an understanding. The reverse, it
is now said, was the truth. The
President was not ofish, it is
declared. These recent conferences
were vastly different in character than
those the President had with General Clark
son at the White House. After that event
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He wanted frank statement from the Gen
eral of the reasons why Clarkson, Platt.
Miller, Filley, Foraker and others had op-
posed his denomination.
General Clarkson frankly stated the
reasons to be that he and
his friends thought either Mr.. Blaine or
Mr.. Mckinley would be a more available
candidate. The President did not think
these reasons were good enough, and he
have charge of the Republican campaign.
Had it not been for General Clarkson's
arguments he would have been elected
Chairman of the National Committee de-
spite the Presidents wishes in the matter.
The Choice of Carter.
Then came the search for Chairman,
which ended in the election of the Hon.
Tom Carter The Executive Committee ap-
pointed by his immediate predecessor, W.
j. Campbell, was composed largely of the
men who had opposed the Presidents re-
nomination at Minneapolis. The New York
State situation was troublesome to Mr.. Car
ter. The Platt and Miller people had their
hands upon the New York State machine
and declined to let it move until some un-
derstanding could be reached.
This was the situation when Mr.. Carter, |
General Clarkson. Collector Hendricks and |
others visited Washington on Wednesday |
last. 1t is known that Mr.. Carter was ex- |
ceedingly amazed and that he favored peace. |
1t is also known that General Ciarkson went |
to Washington determined that 1t was about |
time for him to hand in his resignation as a
member of the Executive Committee. The
President was very much more af1able to
General Clarkson on this visit, and it was
said yesterday that General Clarkson had
abandoned his intention to resign from the
committee.
Had he resigned the Hon. Samuel Fes-
sender, of Connecticut, and the Hon.
Joseph 81. Manley, of Maine, and possibly
one or two others must have resigned with
him. 1t is the opinion of those just back
from Washington that the two best advis-
ers of the President have been Mr.. Carter
and Collector Hendricks
Cabinet Officers Turned Down.
Both are hardheaded politicians, and in
the language OF New YORK Republican,
s'they upset the illogical nonsense advanced
by some of the Presidents Cabinet officers "
Nevertheless it will take time to make the
New Workers forget the doings of Secretary
Charles Foster, Secretary Tracy and Secre-
tary Elkins. A friend of the President
said at the Oriental Hotel, Coney Island,
yesterday, that he did not believe it would
be advisable for Secretary Tracy to appear
on the stump in Brooklyn during the cam
paign.
81 am sorry to say it," he added, "but I |
believe the Secretary has made himself so
unpopular with his Brooklyn brethren that
he would be very literally hissed."
Since the Washington conferences,
Whitelaw Reid and Cornelius N. Bliss |
have redoubled their efforts to establish |
happy relations. Mr.. Reid is in daily COM
munication with CharlesW. Hackett, Chair |
man of the State Campaign Committee, and |
Cornelius N. Bliss in a cordial note to ex-
Senator Platt, has announced that |
at all times the Republicans of
the Empire State have valued |
the services of the Toga leader and of
Warner Miller, the Herkimer chieftain.
Chairman William Brookfeld, of the State
Committee, is also in more hopeful mood,
and Surveyor Lyon hasn't doubt that all
hands will get together.
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