The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-12
HARRISON'S HARD FIGHT.
DANGER IN THE LACK OF ORGANI-
zATION OF his FORCES.

HAI1ON OF HIS FORCES,
Raids by His Opponents Made Posi-
ble-The Leaders He Had Four Years
Ago Not With Him Now Blaine's
Real Position in the Scramble Still q
Conundrum,
WASHINGTON, May 11.--While President
Harrison's chances OF a nomination are
better than the chances OF any of the other
aspirants, and while it is even probably
true, as President Harrison thinks, that he
now has majority of the delegates elected
to Minneapolis. there is good ground for the
expectations of the and-Hsrrison leaders
that they will be able to raid the Harrison
forces so successfully that they will prevent
his denomination, unless they are speedily
organized as they are not organized now.
1t is this lack of organization among the
Harrison men which more than
anything else encourages the anti
Harrison plotters. Four years ago
President Harrison had the best organl "a
tion at Chicago. W W. Dudley. John g.
New, James N. Huston, George w. Steele,
A. l.. Michener and few others had the
Harrison strength so well in hand that it
Was pEdGtlChAly Ludk Wu6u lu6 0llOEJs
to nominate Secretary Blaine by acclama-
tion closed President Harrison would be
nominated.
KNEW WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT,
They knew Just what to do and how to
do it, held all tho votes they started with
! and gained more steadily. Their campaign
was planned months in advance. and they
| executed it on the lines of their plans. This
year there is not so much executive man
agement with the Harrison campaign.
None of the five men named is a Harrison
man this year except Mr.. New,
although Messrs. Steele and Huston were re-.
warded with the governorship of Oklahoma
and the United States treasurership respect
lively, which they have since resigned. Mr..
New will be back next week from his con-
sui generalship at London, but will be ham,
pered by his very office in the efforts he
will make. Here in Washington there is no
head to the campaign except the President
himself, who seriously cannot do many
things which another man or set OF men
could do. Delegates or others seeking the
Harrison managers are referred to Secre~
tary Elkins or Secretary Foster, but neither
of these is such manager as Is needed and
| both are hampered by the fact that they
are in the cabinet.
ACTIVITY OF THE OPPOSITION.
The anti-Harrison candidates and plotters
among the republicans OF the Senate aud
House keep up their activity. They worked
as hard to-day as though they had just be-
gun. Ex-Speaker Reed, who seems TO
suffer more acutely with the fever than any
| OF the other candidates. was over at the
Senate comforting with Senators Quay and
| Cameron. Senator Sherman and Senator
| Allison were over at the House, and all the
others were telling and writing anti-Harri-
son information of the most varied
1 IL -srNSa ,0 l2Aa
making common cause until the
common enemy shall be defeated,
| and the bosses, who, being practical poll
ticians, want to land on the winning side,
are not committing themselves publicly, so
that it is difficult to see on the surface any
thing more than the opposition to Presi-
dent Harrison and a concerted purpose to
boom Blaine, but indirectly Senator Sher-
man appears in the lead, although it is per-
fectly we'll understood that there is little
more sincerity in the support of him than
there is in the support OF Secretary Blaine.
ALL AT SEA ABOUT BLAINE.
Either Secretary Blaine is saying contra
dictory things or his friends are misquoting
him. Some of his friends are as indignant
at Joe Manley for declaring Secretary
Blaine absolutely out Of the presidential
race as they were with Eugene Hale, and
they intimate that in both cases that Secre-
tary Blaine has been deserted for President
Harrison.
Representative Boutelle still believes that
Secretary Blaine may be nominated,
and if nominated will accept, and to-
night Representative Milliken is quoted
as saying, after stating that he had seen
Secretary Blaine very recently. that Secre-
tary Blaine said that if nominated by the
Minneapolis convention he would feel conf
PEELED to accept the nomination. He said
that he meant every word of his letter to
Chairman Garrison, and that 1t still stood
but that il the convention nominated him
in spite of it he would have to obey his
party's call, especially as his health was
no W fully restored. He added, according to
this statement, however, that he would
not accept the nomination IL the platform
contained plank opposing the force bill.
The probability is that Secretary Blaine
will feel compelled, by the circulation of
the contradictory statements attributed to
him, to come out in some authoritative way
with statement of his views.