The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-30
BLAINE A PUZZLE TO ALL.
ELKlN5 AND PLATT HAVE TALKS
WITH THE SECRETARY.

NO information as to the Outcome of
the Elkins Conference ObtainabIe
Harrison Men Looking for On An
nouncement That Blaine Is Not a
Cendidste-Blsine Boomers Boast
That 1t VIII Only Be q Withdrawal
From the Cabinet.
WASHINGTON. May 29.-Although this
was Sunday and although so many of the
republican statesmen were out of town
there was apparently as much talk as ever
about the nomination to be made at MInne-
apolis next week Most of it, which was
not repetition of what had bsen said before.
was about the Presidents speech making.
or about the talk which Secretary Ekins
was said to have had with Secretary
Blame to-day, as to which neither Secretary
Elkins nor Secretary Blaine would talk
tonight, even as much as to say whether
such conversation had taken place.
THE PRESIDENTS sPEEcHEs.
AS to the Presidents speeches the Har-
rIsoDlans expressed great gratih hcation. as
great as that with which they read the ac-
counts OF the popular demonstrations which
they thought proved the claim they are al
NAANAASs OL41G LLo p6Opl6 are LOT dar-
rlson, even II the politicians are against
him: As to these statements, ex-Speaker
heed is reported to have said tonight: IA
candidate for a presidential nomination
must have the politicians as well as the peo-
pie with him, assuming that this particular
candidate has the people with him."
LOOKING FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
The accredited version of the EIkins.
blame conference is that the Secretary of
war spent long time with the Secretary
OF State, and that no conclusion was
reached which could be ANNOUNCED before
the return of the President. AS neither of
the two secretaries will talk about 1t, it is
not possible TO verify or harmonize the
conflicting accounts given of the interview.
There is no doubt that the Harrisonians |
expect some announcement from
the Secretary Of State. As Sunday |
night seems to have become his night for |
making announcements, they expected |
that it would come tonight. On the other
side the anti-Harrison men say that this is |
a vain hope, unless indeed Secretary Blaine
should announce that he proposed to re- |
sign, which they think is not the kind of |
announcement President Harrison Is hoping |
for.
PLATT RUSHEs OVER TO SEE BLAINE.
Ex-senator Tom Platt came quietly into |
town tonight without registering at his |
hotel: He came, he says, to take his wife.
who has been visiting here, but he is be~
lieved to be here to see Secretary Blaine
once more, now that Secretary Eikins has
had chance at him. 1t is perfectly evil
dent from what Mr.. Platt says, as from
what the other Blaine boomers say, that
as yet Secretary Blaine has not given them
the assurances they desire, and that they
fear he may slip away from them and give |
the nomination to President Harrison vet.
even If Secretary Elkius did get nothing
from him to-day, finding him, as the Blaine
boomers do a listener.
FLoRIDIAN FOR HARRISON.
Judge John G. Long of Florida, delegate
1t large to the Minneapolis convention.
Is in the city. He says that his delegation
will vote solidly for President Harrison as
ong as his name is before the convention.
He says he has always been a Blaine man.
and in the convention Of 1884 voted for Mr.
blalnes nomination from the first ballot TO
The last, and was the only one in his deleRa-
ION who did so, and that he is as much an
ldmirer of the Plumed Knight now as then,
)ut Mr. Blaine having prior TO the
assembling OF any state convention.
ook occasion to notify the republicans
throughout the country in advance that he
I'D not desire the nomination and that his
lame would not come before the conyen-
ion, left his friends no other alternative |
han choice between other candidates.
lis timely declaration on this important
question should be accepted in good faith.
Anything short of this would cast refec- !
ion upon MIR. Blaine.
Besides this republicans everywhere are
'leased to point with pride and enthusi-
site admiration to Mr.. Harrison's superb |
administration, and it will go into history as
ne OF the strongest and best the country
as ever had, coming up to the full meas
re Of every promise of the party platform
1852 ,