Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-06-05
A PERSONAL MATTER.
mr. Harrison's and MIR. Blaine's Fool
Friends and Their Utterances Seem to
Be the Cause of the Resignation.

Be the Cause of the Resignation.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June $50 far
as can now be learned the resignation
volunteered by Secretary Blaine to-day
had not been preceded by any notice or
intimation to the President that 1t
might be expected.
Mr.. Blaine has seen the President
only once this week, which was during
his half hours attendance at the Caoi-
net meeting yesterday, when he made
report concerning his conference with
the Canadian commissioners, and re-
turned to the State Department to re-
sumo 1t.
The resignation appears, therefore,
to have been determined upon very
Suddenly, but for some time there have
been various facts known to close OBJ
servers in Washington, as sort OF
"open secret" which warrant belief
that the resignation, though undouot-
edly precipitated by occurrences OF
very rece ut date, had It's origin q long
while ago and in causes essentially per-
sonal, rather that political.
These causes may be briefly summar-
lied as incompatibilities of temperament
developed and emphasized at times by
important disagreements over public
questions such as the management OF
the threatening difficulty with
Chile, insiduous comparisons and
comments on the part Of
injudicIous friends concerning
the credit due to either for the enact
ment and the execution Of the reciP-
rocity project and the general conduct
OF the foreign affairs of this government,
including the management Of the Bering
Sea controversy and the lack OF cordial
relations between their respective fam
lilies.
These causes had undoubtedly cre-
ated feeling OF constralnt in the per-
sonal relations OF the President and the
Secretary Of State months before the
writing Of the letter In which Mr.. Blaine
declared that he was not candidate for
the Presidential nomination and the
recent publications authorized by
various members OF the Cabinet con-
corning Mr.. Blaine and the Presidency
closely following other published state
ments attributed to member
of the Presidents family and
to some OF his close political
friends regarding the Secretary's
physical and mental condition, ETC., are
understood to have made him feel
that longer continuance In President
Harrison's Cabinet would be intolerable
to him, wholly irrespective OF any
questions Of right or duty to accept the
Republican nomination for the Presi-
dapcvif taDdered him
But whatever may have been the gen.
esis or the Immediately impelling cause
of Mr.. Blaine's resignation to-day,
there seems to be no doubt whatever
among his friends in this city that by 1t
he has placed himself in aposition OF
readiness to accept the nomination.
1t Is said that the announcement OF
Mr.. Blaine's resignation was great
surprise 10 the members oi:the Cana
dian conference. At any rate the de-
liberations were brought to sudden
close and the Canadian commissioners
were passengers on an afternoon train
bound for the Dominion Capitol.
Persons who saw them at their hotel
prior to their departure say that they
were in a very unpleasant frame Of
mind, and were quite free In stating
that they had not been fairly treated By
the administration.