St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-02

Dwight, the owner of the big Dwight
farm in North Dakota, but resident of
New York, and Il delegate to the comm,
convention from the Twenty-eighth dis
trict of the Empire state, was on hand
yesterday at the West and discussed the
situation from the Blaine standpoint.
Il have not polled the New York delega-
tion," sail Mr.. Dwight 'but | am certain
that Il majority of our delegates are for Mr.
Blaine l know that am for him, and that
my whole district is, and believe he will be
nominated. Blaine has the hearts of the
people as no other man has had in our gen
Grafton, if in the history of the country. All
OF us concede that Harrisons administration
has been good, able and clean but Mr. Blaine
is the personal choice of the Republicans OF
the country, and his nomination is the only
one that will satisfy them.
In Spite of His letter.
II am, as have said for Mr.. Blaine, and
take his letter seriously / think he meant 1t
and means it now. This letter gave Harrison
and all other candidates all the opportunity
in the worl0 to secure the delegates to this
convention, but since they have been elected
a great many have expressed their prefer
ence for Mr.. Blaine, and want him anyway,
and for this reason / think that, under the
circumstances, if he is given the nomination
by good majority by the convention next
week, he will accept. Many of us were for
him when he wanted our support. and he
cannot refuse 10 accept the honor now tnat
we want him.
The Blaine workers place their oppo-
sition to Mr.. HarrisOn'S nomination OH
the ground that he cannot be elected il
nominated. Some of them talk this
openly, while others tell of their devo-
ton to Blaine, but under it all there is
bitterness and spirit of antagonism that
will have its effect before the convention
meets. The presence of so many fed
eral OffceholderS has given the Blaine
men a good lever, and they are using it
for all they are worth. The announce
ment came yesterday aftern 0On that the
Texas delegation will be solid for the
present occupant of the White house.
"Of course it WILL" remarked one of
the anti-HarriSon leaders sarcastically,
land pray, why should this not be the
case? The members of it are nearly all
federal officeholders, appointed by MIR.
Harrison. 1t can also be predicted that
nearly every other Southern state will
be for Mr.. Harrison. They will not
furnish us single electoral vote. but
If Harrison is nominated it will be due
to the support he receives from that
section"
The arrival of Michener. Gen. Dud-
ley'S old law partner. with half-dOZen
more stalwart Indiana friends of PreSi-
dent Harrison, and the fact that they
AtOnce Commenced Work,
took the Blaine men by surprise. and
today they Will establish headquarters,
if William Henry Eustis has to do it all
himself.
Where, oh. where does the Mime
sofa delegation stand?
| Although every one of the eighteen
men elected to represent this state i'll
the national convention next week is
fully aware of the fact that ninety-nine
out of every hundred of the non-office-
holding Republicans in Minnesota are
tor Blame first, last and all
the time, and under all circum-
stances, it is now certain that
President Harrison will have at least
ten of these votes, even in the event that
the fact becomes well known that
Blaine will accept. The latest man to
climb upon the Harrison band wagon
and give every one nutice of the fact IS
x-Ceogressman S. p. Snider, of Min
neapoliS. This detection Of the gallant
captain almost broke the heart of Mr.
Eustis, who knows how strongly the
Republican, heart of Minneapolis beats
for Blaine, but this did not move Mr.
Snider. Itis bound to be hard fight,
and, if Mr.. Harrison wins, as see ms
likely, it will not be a yaluacle victo ry.