The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-06-15

News Advices 10 June 18th, per
o. s. S. Australia.
Sugar.

New YORK, June Cuban
centrifugal, SO degrees, 81 cents;
granulated, AZ cents.
The local market is active, but
without change.
A dispatch from Philadelphia,
dated the LIST, says: Notice is
posted in the Office Of the Franklin
Sugar Refinery of f. c. Knight q
Co., recently absorbed by the
Sugar Trust, announcing that no
more orders will be taken, as the
firm has oversold for all grades,
and the refinery is running night
and day to fill what orders have
been taken. This announcement
is taken as a move on the part of
the Sugar Trust to facilitate rise
in sugar. Among sugar dealers
the idleness of Spreckels' refinery,
which was absorbed by the Deal
ers' Trust, is believed to be due to
the same cause. A member of the
firm of Knight q Co. declared that
it was to prepare for the contin-
gency of an enforced shutdown that
the action was taken.
Some little talk is heard of Ger
man capital starting refneries in
San Francisco and handling Sand
wich Island sugar in opposition to
the trust.
American Politics.
To say that Republican politics
are just now at fever heat does not
describe the situation properly,
for things at Minneapolis, where
the convention came to order to-
day, are red-hot. Up to June 4th,
Harrison was far in the lead, and
was generally regarded as winner,
as Blaine had not yet made the sign
that meant he was actually in the
race. But, on the date mentioned,
he fired a bombshell into the con-
vention city and the administra-
ton camp that scattered all pre-
vious arrangements into chaos.
The bomb was as follows:
Department of State,
Washington, June 4, 1929
To the President /: respectfully beg
leave to submit my resignation of the
office of Secretary of State of the
United States, to which I was APP
pointed by you ON the 5th of March,
1889. The condition of public bust
ness in the Department of State JUS
titles me in requesting that my resig-
nation may be accepted Immediately.
have the honor to be, very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
JAMES G. BLAINE.
On the same day President Har-
rison sent the following reply:
Executive Mansion, l
Washington, June 4, 1892.
TO the Secretary of State: Your
letter of this date rendering your
resignation of the Office of Secretary
of State of the United States
has been received. The terms
in which you state your desires are
such as to leave me no choice but to
accede to your wishes at once. Your
resignation ia therefore accepted.
Very respectfully yours,
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
To Hon. James G. Blaine.
There was CONSERVATION at the
capital and at Minneapolis, where
the the action of Blaine, in resign
ing at such a time, was and is re-
garded as a plain declaration that
he was out for the nomination, not
withstanding his letter of declina-
ton written to his friends some
time ago.
The Blaine maniacs all over the
country have gone wild over the
event, and at the convention city
they captured the town. 1t goes
without saying that Blaine's resig-
nation sadly upset the Harrison
plans, and for the past three days
the partizans of the two men have
been working twenty-four hours q
day to get delegates united down
OIl bLIO 1lISU VI 1dICI Ud1lOUo.
Harrison's friends say that he
will be nominated on the first bal
lot, and the Blaine men declare
that their candidate will receive
the nomination by acclammation.
This is hardly probable in either
case, and it is thought by many
shrewd politicians that neither
Blaine or Harrison will win, and
that if either received the nomina-
ton the friends of the other would
defeat him at the polls. 1t looks
as though there would be a dead
lock, in which case a desperate
effort will be made to spring a dark
horse, such as Sherman, Gresham
Mckinley or Alger, and bury all
factions by leaving Blaine and
Harrison in private life. There is
a great deal of anxiety among
Republicans lest this formidable
row may result in the defeat of the
party in November.
Since his resignation, Blaine has
remained quiet, with the exception
of a statement made to the press
that he resigned purely because he
wants rest from disturbing cares
and not from any wish to influence
the result at Minneapolis. The