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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
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MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, June S.-No bal
lot will be taken in the convention until
next Friday or Saturday. It is barely
possible that it may be delayed until
Monday, for it is the intention of the
anti-Harrison men not to take vote if it
can possibly be avoided until it is certain
it would be fatal to the Presidents
chances. Up to the present time, they
have demonstrated their ability to take
every trick of the game and they conf
IDENTIFY assert that they have the strength
to bring about as much delay as may be
necessary to secure success for their own
plans. In the first test, the selection of
temporary chairman Of the convention,
they came out victorious. The second
entrenchment carried was the committee
on credentials and today they gathered
the third trick by securing, In the con-
vention, the adoption of rule by which
nothing can be done towards securing a.
ballot until all the preliminary work has
been disposed of.
The Harrison men are sadly nOnpluSsed.
They came here with the avowed inten-
tion of rushing the business through with
wild hurrah, to force the fighting from
the start and march on to victory with
colors flying and without giving the
enemy time to recover from the body
blows that were to be administered
in quick succession. Instead of the
short, sharp and decisive engagement
which they expected, they have been
forced to enter waiting campaign and
this, too, when they realize that every
moments delay puts nail in their coffin.
CIarkson. Platt and QUAY, on the other
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09

wards Inat IN the conference every lead
er present was unanimous in advising
all possible delay.
Consequently
AT the Blaine Headquarters
no one can be found who is willing to
admit that an early ballot will be taken.
1t would not take an extraordinary
amount of activity to settle the contest
SO that vote could be taken on Friday,
but the ancient superstition that Friday
is an unlucl1y day prevails just as strong
ly with politicians as it does with sailors
who go down to the sea in ships. So
MI. Platt said this morning that, even
if the convention should be able to make
ballot on that day, it was not unlikely
that by common consent nothing would
be done until the following day. AS
long as superstition works Mr.. Platt's
way he is not likely to interfere with it.
There is no reason to change today the
review of the situation telegraphed last
night that more than two candidates
Nor is it believed that the estimate of
regarded as high. The figures showing
the majority for one candidate
or Of another are based upon
the presumption that only two
men will receive the votes of the dele
gates. AS stated last night the estimates
are of little value. So widely is the SEN
timent in favor of independent action
spreading, that the privates in the ranks
propose to take a hand in this fight
themselves. The managers of the two
campaigns naturally will not admit, ex-
cept in the inmost recesses of their hearts
that there islany possibility of third man
being nominated. They are following
out the instructions of that veteran poll.
tician, Zach Chandler, to claim every-
thing in sight and to persist in claiming
what they know they have not. They
hope, by showing bold and confident
front, to bring into their ranks the weak
minded brethren who have no anxiety
about the matter other than to get on
the winning side. They make claims of
large majorities that they know are
false They know that their claims are
full of water, and on both sides they are
dreading that time when the water is to
be squeezed out. 1t would be sensible
thing, say the delegates who would rath-
er see a Republican president elected
next November than either Benjamin
Harrison or James G.. Blaine nominated
in June, to end the present struggle by
electing a new man. It is these men
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who are now talking about Mckinley,
who are suggesting and who are taking

"tiO tblO INV OdlhllS l1DO0U
who are suggesting and who are taking
Their Own Measurement of Reed.
One hears today, even more frequently
than yesterday, the names of Lincoln
and Rusk. The Republican party seems
to have discovered, as if by sudden in
spiration, that they have whole forest
of presidential timber, and the members
are arming themselves with axes to be-
gin the pleasant work of telling trees.
The developments today in this direc-
ton are significant. Vermont, who has
been uncertain to whom she should give
her votes, has been counted in the
Harrison column. Now the state will,
in all probability, cast its vote on the first
ballot for Mckinley. Massachusetts,,
which dallied for a while with the magic
of McKinley's name, decided this after
noon to cast its vote on the first ballot
for Reed, General Cogswell being the
only one in the delegation to decline on
account of his close personal relations
with the President to enter into this az
rangement. AS has already been stated,
the Mckinley leaven is working in the
Pennsylvania delegation. All of this of
course is serious matter to the men who
elected, but it is by no means
so unpleasant or harrassing
to those who have, with more or less
vociferation, protested that Blaine ought
to be the nominee. As it becomes more
and more apparent that Harrison is de-
feated, men who have advocated
Blaine are changing about and
admit that so long as the President can
not be nominated, they will accent
gny one else who may be named,
Harrison is beaten,'' said Senator
Walcott to the PRESS correspondent this
afternoon, ''and that is all / have been
waiting for. I would like Blaine nomi-
mated, of course, but if the convention
decides otherwise I shall acouiesce
Personally would like to see McKinley
nominated" The fact that the commit
tee on credentials spent the entire day in
the consideration of the solitary case of
Alabama is but another evidence of the
procrastinating policy which is now being
pursued. While the committee admitted
the Harrison delegates-at-large it took
good care to admit also all the delegates
who had been elected in the four dis
tricts as Blaine men. That the commit
tee do not propose to lose any points is
shown by the fact that they have practi-
cally decided to give half vote to con-
testing delegation which has appeared
from Maryland. In that case young
man named S. F. Supplee, resident of
Baltimore, who was anxious to attend
the convention as a delegate and who
was shut out by the regular organization,
appealed to the committee. On the pre-
sentation of his credentials, he will un-
dOubtedlV be given half vote
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
Dead on the Track.

BANGOR, June S.-This morning, as
the train was hauling out of Winn, the
brakeman saw the body of woman ON
the side track. 1t proved to be that of
Mary Newell, an Indian woman, thirty
five years of age. She had been struck
by train during the night. She was in
an intoxicated condition during the eve
ming before.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
OBITUARY..
John Mullen.

The friends in this city of Mr. John
Mullen, of South Boston, will be panied
to hear of his sudden death, which
occurred at that place yesterday morning
of heart disease, Mr. Mullen was a
member of the "Owl Club of Boston.
who recently entertained the 'sEmeralds''
of this city. The Emeralds last evening
sent an elegant floral tribute in the shape
of harp with the letter ''E'' upon it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
Scenes Interesting and Amusing in
the Hall at Minneapolis.
BLAINE FORCES GARRY ON THEIR
CAMPAIGN OF DELAY.

The Convention Adjourned After an
Hours Session Having Done Practically
Nothing-There Was skirmish but
the Battle Was Again Postponed-The
National Committee Announced-Last
Nights Developments-B1aine Man.
ayers, Like Koko, Said to Have a Little
List-It Contains the Names of Office
Holders.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
Drifting on the Rocks.

RocKLAND, June 8.-This afternoon
the steamer Emeline, from Carver's har-
Dor, broke the connecting rod of the en-
gine and was drifting on the rocks before
a strong wind. The cutter Woodbury.,
Capt. M. L. Phillips, went to her assist
ance and towed her to Rockland.
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hand, have pursued
a policy of delay.
After the Blaine con-
ference of last night,
which did not end
until an early hour
this morning, Sena-
tor Gallinger stated
to the PRESS cor
respondent that he
would be willing to
bet even that no bal
lot would be taken
until Saturday, and it
was learned after
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09

the wiser heads and
more experienced
leaders planned the
order of battle. The
delegates were rous-
ed to enthusiasm
only by Gov. Nc
.Kinley's name and
speech. They seem
ed to instinctively
realize, too, that
there was nothing to
be done today for
they struggled list
|lessly into the hall.
Gov. Foraker receiv-
led a little demonstra-
'tion when he entered,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
Chief Justice Fuller,s Vacation.

CAMDEN, June 9.-Chief Justice Fuller
of the United States supreme court has
rented for the season the cottage ''Sel-
borne," the property of Hon. j. B. Stew
evs, about two miles from Camden vii
loOo
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
Lots Of Presidential Timber in the
Political Forest.
AGAIN THE CRY OF ANYTHING TO
BEAT HARRISON.

1t May Even Lead Blaine Followers to
Lincoln and Rusk One of the Tickets
Mentioned, While the Talk of NTcKin-
ley Is Always Heard and Delegates are
Still Thinking of the Ex-speaker of
the House.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

Page 1.
Weather Indications
General telegraph news.
Obituary.
Page 2.
Mr.. Blaine coming home.
Convention proceedings.
Page 8.
Maine towns.
Aneloquent Hoosier girl.
The Viking ship.
Senator Villas of Wisconsin.
PACED.
Magazine Notices.
Editorials.
Music and drama
Portland and Rochester.
In school and college.
Weddings.
The Congregationahsts
wit and Wisdom. rage ''
Page =.
Marine news.
Financial and commercial.
Personal
Brief Jottings.
Henry Feeney in the tolls for abusing horse,
Names Exhibit at the Worlds Fair.
Resignation of President Fernald of the State
The Danish Lutheran Church.
Reception to the Bicycling Architects.
Terrible accident.
Inc mile track to be built
More doctors in council.
Page 9.
Deeds Of. the. Berdan rifle corps.
Washington letter.
Page 10.
Story: Old Father Peters.
Page II.
Story: tcontinued.)
Page liz.
Articles on road making
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09
DAHA's sARsAPARILLA co. BELFAST, ME,
MARY NEvENs-BLAINE AGAIN.
Mr.. Blaine Denies a Story That He Has
Paid for Letters.

New YORK, June s.-The World will
tomorrow print the following:
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
June Sth, 1892.
To the Editor of the World:
Will you please state in your columns that it
is utterly false that /, or any one for me, or in
my name, ever paid or offered to pay Mary
Nevens- Blaine, or any one for her, one cent or
other sum for any alleged letters that she holds.
never heard of the subject, directly or indi-
rectly, except in the newspapers.
Respectfully,
JAMES G. BLAINE.
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THE WEATHER.
It May Be of Several Kinds.

It May Be Of Several Kinds.
WASHINGTON, june S.-For Maine:
Clondiness and showers; west winds;
warmer in the south portions.
BOSTON, June S.-Local forecast for
New England for Thursday: Fair;
warmer; south and southwest winds.
Local Weather Report.
PORTLAND, ME, June s, 1892.
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was in the seat which
he occupied yester-
day. George G. Cor
ham, who has come
from Washington
because when Mr..
Blaine's name is
mentioned he is
like a war horse that
shifts the battle
from afar, sat near
Governor Mckinley,
and was surrounded
by a group that in
cluded the handsome
and enthusiastic
Do-+ol1o 4bo 1-l>;4o
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09

Mean daily ther. 62.OI Max. vel wind... 18 SW
Maximum ther. II. .0ITotal precip. 40.
Minimum ther. -. $40
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09

n. H. Fassett has been appointed post
master at'Riverside. Me-. vice G. L. Ran
+ dali.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09

haired and rotund RUSSELL. A. ALGEs.
Senator Sawyer, the rubicuned Higgins
of Delaware and the nervous diminutive
power of Montana. Representative Bel
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-09

wards that in the conference every lead
er present was unanimous in advising
all possible delay.
Consequently
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-21

with a botanical garden, or a park, or q
garden where lions roar, bids fit about and
elephants carry troops of jubilant in iantS
on their backs, where the majority of
leisurelv people flock daily and take coffee
or lunch under the lindenS and listen to the
band playing, not severe but lightsome
music, and watch the children rOmping
with their nurses along the winding walks.
The theaters for the evening, perhaps. but
lndispensably the geological or botani-
when the sun is out. The world
of this domestic round is small,
but the inhabitants are broad miude d
enough 20 be cOntented with it. 1t Is a
microcosm OF nature for them, and why
travel farther when you may have book in
eye. The cranes fly about, with legs stream
Ing behind. under the lattice wire stretched
as high as the high trees, where they are
rearing their young; small birds fit about
by thousands in roOmy cages, where they
may be studied and not scared on their
perches; the carnivora are 10 comfortable
pens and only growl to entertain visitors
and all the plant-feeding or tish-swallowing
tribe are studiously considered. SO, one
does not wonder that these old Dutch
painters sometimes attempted to make an
animated composition out Of the garden OF
Eden. and made Adam and Eve sober in
color compared with gorgeous macaws.
1t is to one of these painters we owe the ar
tiStic coloration of the dodo, long extinct
and only otherwise identitabe by few
bones. To understand the Hollander in the
towns 1t must be mentioned that these
strolls into the gardens are part OF his daily
life. and Mt least part of his Sunday life.
He would as soon part with his pipe as with
this astime. There, in seclusion, he chats
or dreams, and watches his children play
across the sunshine. brighter to him than
the avs of thousand suns.
Tie Hague, as the capital Of Holland. is
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acters of Russian peasant life. The ordinary
village has but one roadway and this is more
like road cut through the fields than sn
American street. 1t is generally about 100
or more feet wide, and the houses stand
along it at all angles and with no regu-
larity or order. There are no gardens
In front OF them nor behind them. They
have no front yards fenced off from the
road and have not yet seen any sign of
sidewalk of any kind in any village have
visited. The street is not paved and the
only part free from grass is the center,
where the wagons have cut ruts into the
black soil. The remainder is a lawn of
good solid turf on which the cattle Craze,
the dogs and the children play, and upon
which the people meet in the evening TO
gossip and chat. Now and then you ind a
tree or so In one OF these village streets, and
under these on the ground there may be a
woman with her babies about her and with
other babies tied to the branches Of the
trees in the oblong, shallow boxes which
constitute the cradles of Russia. Other
women may be sitting about, spinning or
sewing. and on the steps of the huts or In
tie doorways you will see old men and
shock-haired children.
There is little difference In the houses OF a
Russian village. They are all Of one story
and the average hut is not more than 20 feet
square. Its log walls are about eight feet
from the ground at the top where they meet
the ridge roof of brown thatch, and this
thatch is of straw and is often IL inches
thick. 1t is put on so we'll that 1t will
last for years, and during the past winter
great many OF the houses were unroofed
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rapidly which no other nation could ap-
proach, and that somewhere on the south
ern coasts these vessels are accumulating
anu undergoing trials of speed with results
more or less approaching the speeds which
were promised, before joining the squad
Iohs which are to hold 1.-THE gates OF our
enemies" But OF the gradual accummula-
ZION OF naval and military productile or
ueIehsiye power on our southern coasts
me only frontier on which we are at once
reminded. by the evidence of the past and
present preparations for defense and at
tack, that we are not an isolated commun-
ny IN iillmitable ocean-thereis little printed
evidence TO remind us.
rev Londoners. for instance. realize that
tney live within an hour by rail of first
ciass fortress, and that within that fortress
there Is Tor the moment fleet of the most
modern and formidable construction, built
manly during the existence OF the present
government Yet, until some such estimate
as we nave suggested is presented, the new
iorts which protected Chatham may still
De as forgotten as the sheep farms on the
great chalk hills on which they lie; aud
the new fleet. built and building in Chat
nam yard, may remain. as it is now. mainly
an object Of solicitation to the Chatham
policemen.
Yet the scene In the building sheds at
chatham and in the granite bOrdered lakes
on which the new vessels are now floating
is one which no Englishman can view with
n't..' "'u oCSoeoiuH VI hdtlOHdi pIiuc-
1 ne whole scene suggests the immensely of
the nations growth-for round the new
ships lie the ancient fortresses, like old
suits OF armer. outgrOwn, but too solid to be
thrown off; yet Chatham Lines" with
THEIR bastions and bitches cut 30 feet into the
chaiK, are now as obsolete as the walls Of
opnoF castle, or whose shooting according
TO Mr.. Pepys. the Dutch ships made no
more OF than fly" The new forts are far
away on the distant hills, whilc along the
stone quays there lies, bow touching stern,
q measured mile of ironclads and cruisers.
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MADCAP MAUDE.
The Youngest Daughter of the Prince OF


The Youngest Daughter of the Prince OF
Wales.
The little Princess Maude has all of her
fathers liking for good time. She de-
lights in running and riding and rowing q
boat, all Of which she can do very WE'LL As
yet her attention to books is the result Of
the desire on her part to be obedient to her
mothers wishes. She is q healthy, rosy
checked, brown-eyed child. and is very fond
of the companionship of her father. Some
one remarked to the Prince on one occasion
that he was often seen VITA this daughter,
to which he replied: "0h, yes, Maude and
/ are great chums."
The young Princess Vietoris. who is the
eldest daughter of the Princess of Wales, is
very much like her mother. both in appear
ance and manner. She shows her Seandi-
navian ancestry in the rather remarkable
combination of black hair and blue eyes.
She is very pretty girl and very close
student having all of her mothers love for
books. The Queen is said to be fonder Of
the Princess Victoria than of any of her
other grandchildren.
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which falls to below her knees. sometimes
being belted in at the waist and sometimes
left to fall over her full bust without being
so tied. In addition 10 these she has rag
stockings reaching 10 the tops OF her calves
and pair of bark shoes In many cases
she dispenses with the belt, apron and the
shoes, and as she tucks up her dress rather
high while at work you have constantly be-
lore you here In the fields the pictures of a
comic variety show without the relief Of
tights or the bald-headed bachelors under
the footlghts.
The habit OF wearing the same clothes
DAY and night and tile lack of underclOth-
ing would naturally make you think that
the Russians must be the dirtiest of races.
i DO not ind them so. and it seems TO me
that they have been greatly slandered In
regard TO their uncleanliness, How they
keep themselves so | cannot see. but thew
are not half so dirty as tile Chinese and
they viii rank In cleanliness with the other
very poor people of the world They do
not wash as often as we do, but when thew
do wash they make a business of IL. and
clean themselves with the famous Russian
bath. No man or woman who does not
take either Turkish or Russian bath now
and then ever gets clean. / venture
that ninety-nine hundredths of the
readers of this letter have never known
what 1t is to be really clean. The pores of
ones body are the sewers of the system and
the ordinary soap scrubbng which most
people call washing only touches the mouths
OF these and does not reach the interior of
the million odd sewer-pipes OF the system
at all The only way to clean these Is by
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Of what we would call garden
stuff, and in the famine parts of Russia,
where the people are still being largely sun
ported by charity, there are vast quantities
OF greens going TO waste which would be
used erePdily in any other part of Europe
or IN the United States. In the black plain
which | have described as the garden OF
Russia and as the most fertile part of
Europe | visited village where found the
bake oven of a large landed proprietor going
night and day baking American corn meal
and flour into bread for the people. There
were hundreds of loayes Of this black
bread in the ovens. and the villagers
came every day to get food. Still in driv-
ing over the fields to this place / saw great
quantities Of weeds which we use for cur
tables in the shape of salads and vegeta-
bes going 10 waste. and such things as
green peas and the hundreds of other vege-
tables which we raise these peasants don't
eat Their only vegetable outside of cab
bages and cumbers seems to be potatoes,
and as to farming, they raise the same crops
from the same seed year after year.
FRANK q. CARPENTER