Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-01

not come out fat-footed and unequivocally
| in his favor before the convention meets
But the Premier will do nothing of the
| kind. His letter to Mr.. Clarkson was writ
ten in good faith, and be is not man who
believes in reiteration. And neither Is he
Republican who will sacrifice the interests
of his party to his own personal comfort.
To save the army he will be Leonidas
and will not finch, even though he knows
his election to the Presidency means bis
death warrant
The administration supporters are moving
heaven and earth to secure a word from
Blaine, but no one leaves the State Depart
ment or No. II Madison place 'one whit the
wiser as to the Secretary's intentions If
he were in the hands of his friends things
would be different, but he realizes he is In
the hands of his countrymen, and that he
could not, If he had the power, stop the
tumultuous pulsation that throbs from
Maine to Mexico and from California to
Cape Cod.
Many Millions for Blaine.
Clarkson was right when he said 1000, 900
Republicans demanded Blaine's nomination,
only he did not include the million of
young men who think for themselves and
decline to absolutely subscribe to the entire
doctrines of either party, but who toss up
their hats and veil themselves hoarse when-
ever Blaine's name is mentioned That Is
the thing that is making his nomination
more probable every day.
Mr.. Harrison has made splendid Presi-
dent, but his administration has been cold.
One has needed winter underclothes in
July when the President was to be ap-
preached. The air in the White House
has been refrigerating in its character ever
since Mr.. Harrison entered it. One Of
Green B. Raum's patent refrigerators could
not have increased its chilliness an iota,
and perhaps the natural frigidity of the
President caused him to have that wonder
full sympathy which has sustained the Com
missioner of Pensions through all his trials
and tribulations and caused him to order
out his executive streetsweeper to remove
the avalanche of mud that threatened to
overwhelm the Pension Office, and which,
all the corridors and oozed into the room of
Raum himself to leave an indelible stain on
the occupant.
Harrison's Car an Ice Wagon.
For verify, Mr.. Harrison's triumphal
car has been an ice wagon with fire ex-
tinguisher attachment which has been
worked so effectually as to drown out every
spark of enthusiasm so thoroughly that the
bellows cannot kindle it back to life again.
He has no sounding brass or tinkling cym-
pals. His p8an in heard from mufled
lrums, and no matter how much the stick |
Tielders snare them up, or how energeti- |
ally they pound away, they can bring |
iorth only lugubriously doleful sound, |
ike the foghorn playing the Dead March |
rom Saul
On the other hand, Blaine's name is the
alisman that opens the gates of exuberance |
md makes the dancing elves throng forth |
n fantastic array. His name is as exhila-
ating to the masses as moonshine liquor is
o a Kentucky mountaineer or religion is to
darkey camp meeting. It makes men
eel good and jump up and shout and do all
orts of things, and if all signs do not fail
t will have just such an effect next week
n the delegates who will assemble in
If the programme at present agreed upon
y Mr.. Blaines friends is carried out at
the convention will be brief
fair. Alabama will be called first, and
o candidate will be named. The same
purse will be pursued with Arkansas and
Then Colorado will be called.
woIcott to Nominate Blaine.
Senator Edward o. wolcott is delegate
90 he electrified the Senate and the coun-
y, by bis attack on Mr.. Harrison. Calmly
I'D deliberately, and with an oratory that
Icels that of any other man In either
-ouse of Congress, the Colorado Senator
roceeded to dissect, or rather vivisect,
resident Harrison, and put red pepper in