Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-10
TALK OF THIRD MEN.
Gath Thinks Only Sherman and Alli-
son Are Left on the List
WARMATERIAL NEARLY ALL GONE
The Ohio Senator Not Considered Strong in
the Western States.
ARMATERIAL NEARLY ALL GONE
HARRISON LEADERS AFRAID OF DELAYS
rFRoN STAFF CORRESPONDENT

AhuAsOAl lnOlhAlAS DAOhN eN ee'-SseANN
personal issue, though some judicious men
regarded Blaine as unable to make it. and
hesitated as 10 whether Harrison could do
so. While the Harrison vote seemed to be
rising in some directions, the number of
delegates increased who wanted a new man.
That idea commenced in New England,
had followers in New York and Pennsylva-
mia, was decided in Delaware under con-
sideration in Maryland, and in Ohio and
Iowa was matter of reflection. Not many
professional politicians were from Massa-
chusetts and adjacent States, and these could
not resist the great temptation to manufac-
ture new quantity whose gratitude could
be made conveniently small.
Reed and Mckinley were both considered
in New England, and some other names
were talked of. as Platt, of Connecticut;
Proctor, Aldrich and Hawley. One brilliant
idea was to put Lew Wallace behind Blaine
to insure Indiana, but this idea did not get
very lar. Wallace thinks Harrison the
next man in the world to Gladstone.
Nobody about New York but Depew
seemed to arrest attention. While Depew
has gone out into the country making ora
tions Tor the high and low and has been
liked, Warner Miller is not active in the
convention, though present every day. The
fact is that the Republican party is a good
deal out of biography. The war material is
nearly all gone
On'y Two Really Good Place Horses
Gresham is not represented here; Alger
is lighting for place No. 2; Cullom does not
materialize; Robert Lincoln is named by
outsiders, but not by delegates; Mckinley
hardly helped himself by his speech at the
opening OF the convention, which led to the
! ,.ra N q riff IVa a II he knew There
remain, half concealed, the names OF Sher-
man and Allison. The suppositions are that
Foraker's men would like to nominate Sher-
man in order to make a vacancy in the
Senate, for which Foraker could try.
II sherman had any chance the solid Ohio
delegation would thus go for him. In Penn
sylvauia lie has a family strength, and as
son OF New England would be remembered
there. The western delegations continue
to talk about Jerry Rusk, but Rusk's men
are partly tied up with Harrison.
The contest this morning was between
Harrison and Wait, the opponents of Har-
risou believing that time was solvent and
would thaw out the situation. Hence the
belief that Harrison is still stronger than
Blaine because his men have been willing to
vote every day, and some think that Mckin-
lev served Harrison's purpose when he in
noccnrly proposed yesterday to "take up the
next business, which was nominations Tor
President, when the rules just read had
affirmed that till credentials were settled
the biz issue should lie still. Therefore, the
idea also grew that Harrison's leaders were
afraid OF time Perhaps this is the solution
that time may kill of both candidates
Iowa One of Blaine's Strongholds.
Iowa is a numerous delegation and it
nominated Harrison four years ago when it
Withdrew Allison. Throughout Iowa Blaine
Is the popular fayorite, while Harrison
has tied up the delegation, and If the
Eastern men would seriously come to ALI
sons support big nucleus might be made
n helm Illinois and ALL
the States between the Lakes and the
Rockies. Allison IS also less Objectionable
To the Pacific States than Sherman, whose
prominent advocacy OF gold cofn continued
during the session of the convention, may
not have been good electioneering
Scientific truth in all conventions has to
probably Tor hard money, but they are also
Tor a President and some of the most tire 1
silver States, like Teller, Wolcott and Jones. |
Teller, who WAS against Blaine and for |
Arthur eight years ago, has been Secretary |
OF the Interior and Senator, has re- |
sources and address, and figures in this con- |
yentiOn Blaine man. To every positive |
pole there must be a negative, and of course,
senator Hill is for Harrison because Teller |
IS against him. The law which puts neigh |
Dnrs in rivalry breaks the arch of society.
If we are TO suppose that Mr.. Blaine has |
Withdrawn from the Cabinet and directed |
his name to he used here in order to accom- |
lli-h a vacating of the Government Office |
rather than TO nominate himself, the situa- |
JiOn in Minneapolis will look consistent. |
How Harrison Was Nominated.
When Harrison was nominated it was by |
the same tactics his opponents now adopt. |
Wr. Elkins was one of his opponents Mr.. |
lkins was one of his captains at Chicago |
aud New and Michener were also there, and |
they prevented the nomination of Blaine. |
which was imminent, and SO much SO that |
Nj Elkins said to me one day when an ad- |
-uurnment was mad after few minutes |
session: Don't you see the situation? The |
one man they all want they cannot get, and |
they won't go away without him." That |
1,;.5 Elaine In timc Wisconsin and Iowa |
We're affected. and they followed the leader
ship OF New York for Harrison, who won by |
time
In reality, there is no more straining of
fairness In this convention than in any body /
OF Bishop electors or Masons. The Alabama |
case was not disposed of as the Harrison |
men insnuated. After all the growing |
cause that case seemed to nave fairness in it. /
The Blaine delegation was too much like |
FaIstaiTs band. But when it came to the |
Louisiana contest the real leader of the |
state, Kellogg, a stormy petrol of nearly 80 |
wears OF reconstruction, obtained the dele /
cation. Governor Yarmouth was merely |
chief of the Custom House. kellogg had |
with him some of Harrison's officeholders.
I took part of dinner with Kellogg just |
before he went TO the committee, near 10 |
o'clock at night He was Lincoln's appointee 1
70 be Chief Justice of Nebraska and Collec-
tor Of the Port Of New Orleans. The day |
Lincoln died he had kelloggs commission |
under his hand to sign, and the Treasury |
Department confirmed hisintention.
Lost in a Louisiana jungle.
Here is a man with abundant resources, |
who, had he remained in Northern State |
and developed in the line of politics, might |
have been Presidential quantity at this |
moment Bnt in the tropical Jungle of |
Louisiana politics neither he nor his oppo- |
nents come within the public range.
Many years ago assassin shot into |
Kellogg's carriage, he turned to fire back, |
when Burke, who sat beside him, held his |
arm, saving, For Gods sake, don't shoot. |
OF there Will be q fusilade into the carriage" |
Years passed on and Burke transferred |
Louisiana to the Democracy. and then be- |
came refugee in Central American /
where he still is.
said Mr. Kellogg TO me: "When / was a |
boy l5 OF IA years old, at Montpelier, VT, nay
1ather COngreEationalist minister a |
bright, shiny-skinneG, tall mulatto young
man came TO my fathers house. Ny father
and most OF our neighbors pitied slaves and |
helped them on the way to Canada. He
called me down stairs to look at this ne
CulEtIly humble, sturdy specimen of the 4
black man, lying from his country. To-day
! saw that boy with his hair all white like
mine, called Tor by the convention 1t was
Frederick Douglass, and while / have gone |
into the South, from which Douglass came
he has been living 40 wears in the North, to
his great profit and independence
said Oliver Z. Mort0n's brother-n-law |
Holliday; You ought to see the Indian |
npolls Js1TnHt of four years ago when Har-
Ilson only received the nomination by hold
ing the convention over till Monday. Hal
ford, New and some four scribes were writ |
ing dispatches denouncing the New York