Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1892-06-08


in error regarding their respective
strength, to give the Michigan candi-
date the balance of power. 1t is known
that one or two votes will be cast for
Mr.. Sherman and there may be a few
votes scattered among others. The
Blaine men have practically had
things their own way during
the day, and as predicted in
the United Press dispatches at the close
of last week the eve of the opening of
the convention was the signal for a gen
eral round up of the Blaine votes. 1t
has been day of Blaine music and
Blaine hurrah; of wavings of plumes in
numerable; of 'Blaine, Blaine, James G.
Blaine;" of professions and pyrotechnics
that were made so familiar in the mem
orable campaign of eight years ago.
The friends of the president We're will
ing to lie low, to be neither seen nor
heard, but they do not concede that
their opponents are single delegate
stronger than they Were twenty-four
hours ago, while they are further in
| chned to assert that the tactics OF the
day have in reality redounded to their
own advantage,
Mr.. Harrlsons cause showed great
strength during the day the natural re-
| action from the Blaine boom, but be-
| tween the hours of s and p. IN. a
change in the feeling Of the crowd oc-
| CURED. This change was indefinable.
No one could explain it but it was ap-
parent as the cool breeze following the
first rush CT re>in III q thunder storm at
the close Of a sultry day. 1t was all
pervading. One saw 1t in the faces of
the Blaine legion; one felt it III. the Sc
rious expression Of the Harrison men.
Gradually a ru1nor spread. It came
from no one knew where. It was the
story that the Southern states delegates
were renouncing their loudly proclaimed
allegiance to the president and were
tiocking around the Blaine banner. Ten
nessee was the first, then Alabama, then
Texas.
''Here are four Tennessee delegates in
structed for Harrison but now for
Blaine" shouted wild eyed noun
taineer, leading his three followers to
| the Maine headquarters. The cry was
heard and repeated from mouth to
mouth and so the story grew. Close in
vestigation failed to prove that any large
number of delegates had changed in
| their purpose, but substantiated the
story of break in the Tennessee and
Alabama delegations and this was
enough to alarm the Harrison and elate
| the Blaine shouters. It was the news of
| the evening and was an interesting evi-
dence of how quickly the temper Of q
convention crowd can change.
| The selection of Mr.. Fassett for tenn
porary chairman having been discounted
| in advance failed to create any appre-
ciable excitement, though the anti-Har-
rison crowd claimed it as victory. A
significant development of the evening
| was the declaration of Ex-Governor
Richard Oglesby, one of the delegates at
large from Illinois, that he would not
regard his instructions as binding in the
event Of fair number of ballots de-
veloping the fact that the denomination
of Harrison was not possibility. He
took the ground that it would be his
duty to look at the situation as it would
| be regarded under the conditions exist
| ing by the convention that selected him
as delegate, supposing that this body
was still in session. He would not say,
however, that he would vote for Blaine,
but contents himslef with the statement
that if he was compelled to cease voting
for Harrison his vote would go to the
candidate who appeared to enjoy the
best chance of success.
William Warner, of Missouri, also
made a significant statement. Major
! Warner is one of four delegates at large
instructed for Harrison. He said:
"When at the state convention the dele
cation was instructed to vote for Har-
rison, the instructions were put in this
language: in view Of the fact that the
name Of the distinguished J. Ct. Blaine
is not candidate for the presidency
etc. That is all I can tell you. Blaine
seems to be candidate now"
Of the midnight runors, one of the
most interesting is that some of the dele
gates from the South, which have been
claimed for Harrison, will record their
votes for Mckinley after the second bal
lot as something in the nature Of feel
er. This would be repetition Of the
history of the Chicago convention of
four years ago.