Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-07
SHEPARD'S SENSATION.
He says Harrison Can Prove That Blaine Is
Not the Statesman the People supposc-
He Also Vows That tho Canadian Pacific
Is Back Of the Knights Boom-A Start


He Also Vows That tho Canadian Pacific
Is Back Of the Knights Boom-A Start
ling Statement.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, June 6SThe Mall and E1-
press prints the following from Minneapolis:
The Blaine bubble has been pricked. The
resignation of the Secretary of State has col
lapsed the gas bag, and it is folded and laid
away, like the covering of an umbrella
which has neither handle nor ribs 1t is
now entirely proper to state that President
Harrison has expected that, notwithstand-
ing Mr.. Blaine's professions of loyalty and
formal written declaration not to be a CAN.
didate for the Presidential nomination be-
fore the Minneapolis Convention, Mr.. Blaine
would do something, either by resigning his
position as Secretary of State or in some
other put himself in position to be a candi-
date.
Now that Mr.. Blaine has resigned in such
a short, peremptory manner, his motive is
perfectly Transparent before the whole
country, and he has done just what the
President was sure would be one of the steps
that he would take. But behind this resi2-
nation there is another performance by Mr..
Blaine which shows his weakness vacila-
tion and vanity.
Mr.. Blaine's friends proposed that the
President should transfer to him publicly,
either by an interview given to the press or
in some other way, all the glory OF the sue
cessful negotiations of reciprocity treaties
with other nations and of the settlement
with Chde in maintaining the dig
nifty and honor of our flag;
of the Boring Sea negotiations
in compelling England to acknowledge our
rights by arbitration: and If the President
would do this and allow that Mr.. Blaine had
conducted all the negotiations. and by wire
while he was absent from Washington. then
Mr.. Blatne would take hold energetically to
secure President Harrison's denomination.
President Harrison declined to make any
not be altered; that he made no special
claim for glory, ana that he did not see how
Mr.. Blafne's reputation before the country
could be benefited by Misrepresentation.
The President has taken tine precaution to
preserve all the papers in each of the above
mentioned negotiations for the purpose of
being able to prove conclusively just ex-
actly what part he (the President) has
taken In each of them: and he did this from
desire to protect his own reputation and
that of his children and of his grandchil-
oren. The members Of the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations can testify to hav-
ing seen the original documents in Presi-
dent Harrison's own handwriting.
Clarkson Accused OF BlacksIidIng.
General j. S Clarkson, last September,
in the city of New York. used to declare that
Mr.. Blaine would make historical candi-
date, and that the Republican party should
never with his consent nominate histori-
cal candidate. At the time OF the meeting
OF the National Committee in Washington
in December last, General Clarkson declared
over and over again that the true interests
OF the country and of the Republican party
demanded that Harrison should be renomi-
mated and reelected. He also stated that
General Harrison was the best candidate
that any party could put up, because in all
his campaign talks he helped his own party
30 wisely and splendidly.
General Clarkson, Mr.. T. C. Platt and the
rest OF the Blaine contingent are very much
annoyed and distressed by reason OF Score
tary Blaine's resignation at this point and
regret exceedingly that it was not held
until next Wednesday, that the news of it
might then be suddenly sprung upon the
convention for the purpose of stampeding it
II possible to Blaine.
On the other hand Mr. Blaine IS only q
puppet in their hands. They want to see
to the Presidency, through Mr. BIaine's
sickness or 1ncompetency, or death, If he
Chimney should be elected. But, worse still
for Blaine, the opponents of Mr.. Harrison
now say they are willing that both candi-
dates should be thrown overheard and Sher-
man nominated.
Van Horne to Pay for the Blaine Boom
Hon. William C. Van Horne, President
of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is reported
to have made O contribution of the entire
expenses OF booming Mr.. Blaine for nomina-
tion by this convention. Mr. Vn Horne
was here Saturday looking after the success
of his investment and giving points to some
principal Blaine men. Mr.. Van Horne's the
ory is that the administration protective
tariff must be broken down for the benefit
OF Canada and England and so he wants the
Republicans to put up their weakest candi.
da e, whom he knows to be Mr.. Blaine, who
was defeated by Grover Cleveland in 1884
and could be again defeated, as he thinks.
by Grover Cleveland or any other respecta-
Mr.. Van Horne intends that the Canadian
Pacific Railway should also furnish money
in aid of the nomination, of Grover Cleve-
land by the Democrats at Chicago, and after
the nomination has been made by the Dem.
ocrats, that road snail furnish money 20 Sc
cure the election.
1t is well known that Mr.. Van Horne has
forsworn his American birthright and mas
become n naturaiized subject or Queen Vic
toria's and that he is'pursu1ng, first knight
hood Tor himself, and secondly, a peerage.
thus following in the footsteps of George
stephen, his predecessor as President of the
Canadian Pacific Railway, who was first
made Sir George Stephen, and since his res
ignation of the Presidency of that railroad
Sohip paHy IhS Dceu IdlSeu Cne Deeraye
under the title of Lord Mount-Stephen.
Backed by Free Trade Doodle.
Mr.. Van Horne has the reputation in Can
ada of accomplishing everything he under
takes, and particular friend of his who
has known him for years, residing in Win
nipeg, declares positively that Mr.. Van
Horne is now after a peerage, and if he can
carry the election in the United States for
the Democrats, and thus secure free trade
with our country for Canada and England,
he will be sure to get his peerage.
The expenditure of money for political
purposes by the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company is nothing new. 1t most in
timately dovetailed into the Gov ernment of
the Dominion of Canada, which guarantees
its bonds and per cent interest on its
stocks. The earnings of the company have
never been anywhere near enough for these
purposes, and the Governmant has had to
paw, which chiefly accounts for the enor-
nous debt OF $500 00O, 900, owing by Canada.
although she has population Of only about
A. 500, 900 people.
Every wearer of Blaine badge or plume
in Minneapolis at this time is spending
Canadian Pacific Railway money, even
though he may not know it; yet he does
know that those things are furnished to him
without any cost to himself. The English
origin of the plumes is un Willingly let out
of the bag by their being made up OF three
ostrich feathers, which Is the crest of the
Prince of Wales.