The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-05-18
The Harrison Movement Still in
Danger of Being Hurt by
". Blaine.
A Correspondence OF the A~ntis-Carter
After Sanders se~r-Tammany May
Yet support Cleveland.

nifty ZOE MA Interesting AAAsso6A VI q AA1
convention at Minneapolis. Harrison feel,
secure enough, with all the oficeholdinf
force at his back. composed of men who
wish to hold on as long as there appears .
chance of assuring retention by fidelity,
but the power Of the Planned Wizard from
Maine to %conjure up delegations at the last
moment is sufficiently feared to make the
u~ninstructed delegations seem TO be import
ant. The sending or ex-senator Bruce to the
south. Immediately after Plat left to at
tend that ''irou" meeting. is taken as indi-
eating the fear of what may happen to the
unmatched colored brother. Thers is no
doubt that Blaine is willing to attract pub
lie attention, and that he seized the oppor-
unity of going to Barnum's show as much
for the exhibition of his physical ability 80
undergo the fatigue Of the occasion as for
the pleasure of seeing Kiralfy's version of
tho discovery Of America by Columbus.
nc be sure, he declined to 60 to the top Of
the circle, where his seats were located, be-
cause the effort Of climbing up the difficult
steps was too much for him, but he got into
the show without having a setback. which
was something OF a wonder. A number of
persons have come forward to ~corroborate
the statement recently made about Blaine's
induced him to write the let
Der of congress from Maine who commune
Gated to more than ono person the expluna-
ton referred to was Milliken. one of
Blaine's most devoted friends. The two
members of the cabinet whom Secretary
Blaine spoke of as ~"hounding" him n
writing the letter were Elkins and Tracy.
1t is furthermore stated that Congressman
Hit, who for years has been known as not
only a friend but in many things a conf
dant of Blaine, was brought in to assist the
two cabinet officers and others who were
eager for Blains's withdrawal. It is not
known by some of the wiseacres that the
advent Of Elkins in the cabinet was chiefly
thing essential to Harrison. Although
Elkins and Blaine have been for years close
friends in politics and business, Harrison's
intent to appoint Elkins was not COM
inundated to Blaine, who did not hear of it
except by common report before the new
offlccr's name was sent to the senate. 1t is
now known also that Harriso n and Elkins
both had great expectations of the latter's
appointment, but although he has labored
faithfully for the objects in view, the prin-
cipal OF which was to get Blaine out of the
field, both have been sorely disappointed.
So far from Blaine being down and out"
he has steadily advanced, his supporters as
sert, and his position is to-day \ menace to
Harrison that ls likely to prove fatal. Thore
is greater likelihood at the present moment,
they declare, of Harrison getting ont of the
field than there is that Blaine will abandon
it. There is further confirmation also of
Blaine's hostility to Harrison. The late
outpouring as from the mouth of his father
by Russell Harrison of Blaine's animosity
Aorarlr - h+,u ip 1914 ~,hrnA Tod 1s-o 81
declare that he would beat him for the
nomination if he had to take the
field himself, was kindness of
the gentlest soft compared with
the feeling Blaine ia said to have expressed
towards Harrison since his son Kussell's
outrageous statement, on the authority of
President Harrison. of Blaine's wreck"
and ',inabecility," coupled with further
statements, also on the authority of the
president, that during much of the time he
has been in the white house he has done
most of Blaine's work aa secretary Of state,
and that virtually Blaine had ''gone to the
dogs'' and nothing WAS left of him of value.
Persons who have known Blaine during his
public career will understand what effect
such language from the lips of young Har-
rison, spoken on the authority OF his
father, must have had upon him. Since
primes" Harrison's assault on Blaine Il
republican leader, whose words are scarcely
second-handed from Blaine himself, has
said that little moro was needed to ''place
him in the hands of his friends" as he did
in 1884.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Record sends his paper this: The secrets
of the antl.HarrisoD conference last Satur-
day are gradually coming out. One of the
interesting ones Just disclosed was that the
conference was held at senator Cameron's
house, right next door to Secretary Blaiue's,
and TINT fhrau wkn ,,rScny ryorn e1u
mally invited to come by Senator Cameron.
Another interesting secret is that Plat wac
more emphatic than any one olse has been
in saying that Harrison couldn't be re-
elected, and another was that Plat thought
Sherman more likely to get the support OF
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio in this
convention than any ono else against
Harrison, if Blaine was to be con
sldered out of the way, as he admitted be
must be except for pre-convention purposes.
Quay and Cameron agreed with Plat that
Sherman was the most available man tC
beat Harrison with. Mckinley and For
aker, who were thought by some who were
tolled oil, Plntt explained, by promises OF
the nomination four years hence for Nc
kinley and Of the senatorship to Foraker
He announced that he had already SEM
these promises to Mckinley and Foraker
and believed they had been we'll received
Plat. while counseling encouragement tt
all booms, gave as his personal opinion
that neither Reed, Alger nor Lincoln wa,
available. Reed made no impression ap
parently on Platt. Platt's intimations e
Sherman in his interview with him buoyel
him up.
To the st. Paul Pioneer Press its CORE.
spondent telegraphs as follows: One o
the reasons given here why COMMISSIONS
Garter intends to resign is that he intends
to enter the campaign IA Il candidate 70:
senator against Colonel Sanders. That wa
indicated in the exclusive announcement
made in these dispatches that Comnis
sioner Carter intended &c resign on july |
For some time past Sanders and Carte
have not hitched very we'll. Commodor,
Power has been also more or loss oppoaet
to Garter, but it 10 believed that bstwee,
the two gentlemen he would favor Carter
on account of what he terms Sunders
timldity and facilitating course on man,
contests that have arisen in the Distribute,
of patronage in Montana. Commis
against Sanders and Power an
in the end Sanders would be Obliged t
come over to his way Of thinking, but onl
after it was positively shown that Carte
WAS cure to win in the end. Power alwny
expected to have Carter against him, br
he really expected Sanders to stand by hi,
in some of the contests he made. Now
il rumored that there has been aomethin
of d disagreement between Sanders an
Carter. and that the latter is really m
truly out for Sanders seat. He may be ir
fuenced romewhat by tho probability TIL
no can make a better race before the pei
pie Of Montana for the ssnutorship ths
could Sanders. on account of the fact thi