Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-09


MINNEAPOLIS, June IA determined Of
fort is being made tonight tospring to the
front prominently as Presidential candi-
date Thomas b. Reed of Maine, ex-Speaker
OF the House of Representatives. Delegate
Fairchild, of Massachusetts, is prominent
i'll the movement, and he claims TO have
pretty solid backing from not only his own
delegation, but from the other delegations
from New England. Congressman Bing
ham, of the Pennsylvania delegation, Is
looked upon as u prominent factor in the
Reed cause. They are Blaine men as be-
tween Harrison and Blaine, but both are
believed to have II leaning toward a new
man. The ovation that Reed received III
the convention to-day is being used as a
reason for bringing him out as the man to
rally around should the voting develop u
deadlock between Blaine and Harrison.
FOR A NEW CANDIDATE.
There is understood to be developing q
serious following for u new candidate in
the Pennsylvania delegation tonight.
Chris. Magee of Pittsburg, District-attorney
George Graham Of Philadelphia, and
Hamilton Disston of Philadelphia, all of
whom are Harrison men, are said to be
urging the Harrison managers to take into
consideration the ACCESSIBILITY of having
second man ready to spring on the conven-
ton should the balloting reach a point
where it would become evident that Ilarri-
son could not win.
The Harrison people, however, appear
to be tenacious of the stand they took in
the beginning-that they would have no
second candidate; that it must be Harri-
son or burst. They are proceeding on the
theory that to have second candidate is
not only u confession of weakness, but
that it is an actual handicap.
The fact that the Blaine men are bring
ing forward Reed for an emergency and
that they have been considering Governor
Mckinley and Senator Allison is put down
by the Harrison men as one of the
strongest reasons they have for being SO
confident of Harrison's nomination.
NEW BLAINE TACTICS
A new movement in the game Of the
Blaine people was started tonight by the
Platt hustlers in the New York delegation.
1t is in circulating list of the names of
prominent rich manufacturers, corpora
ton people and others who subscribed
heavily TO the million dollar campaign
fund that was collected to elect Harrison
in 1883, who have emphatically avowed
that they will not put a dollar into the
coming compaign if Harrison is made the
candidate. They came to this decision, SO
it is asserted, not because they IRE espec-
tally opposed to Harrison, but from fear
they have that he cannot be reelected.
They became imbued with the feeling be-
cause of the manifest hostility the people
have to second term, and from Harri-
sons failure to create any special degree of
enthusiasm among the people, especially
among the workers of the party. These
contributors say they do not propose
throwing their money AWAY on what they
cannot help but feeling is a lost cause.
The circulation of this idea is believed TO
be causing great damage to Harrison's
prospects. There are known to be at least
Il score Of millionaires among the dele
gates. All of them were liberal contribu-
tors to the Harrison campaign fund four
years ago. They are about solid for Blaine,
denomination. The threat not TO contrib
ute is particularly effective with the negro