St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
PLAYING FOR TIME.
Blaine Schemers Deferring action
on Credentials.

The committee on credentials assem-
hled between 4 and 5 O'Clock, and then
adjourned to meet again at p. IN. at
the rooms of the national Republican
committee. The reason given for the
adjournment was that the room provid-
ed for the committee was not suitable
for their purposes. The Harrison dele
gates who claimed they were beaten out
of their seats in the committee
rooms sighed and remarked that
the committee Oh credentials must
be fond of close quarters. Stufy air and
noise, and said they feared that in those
quarters they would not be able to
make themselves heard to any better
advantage than before the national
committee. One of them said he had
attended four national conventions, and
that be had observed that the commit
tee on credentials Invariably followed
the same pf0gramme-meJ and adj
iOUTned to some other place until there
was no time left 10 make an inyeStiga-
ton Of the contests, and then the ac-
ton of the national committee would be
adopted as the report of the committee
OH credentials.
This is HI" was his somewhat
pathetic and profane closing remark.
The committee reaSSembled at
O'clock. pursuant TO adjournment. in the
room of the national committee. and i'm
mediately went into executive session.
The question was the order of business,
which took more than an hour. 1t was
stated that one had not yet been ar
ranged, and none of the contesting dele
gates had been asked to enter the room.
The hall outside was a Seething mass of
humanity, SWplterlng IN the humid ad-
mosphere, vainly endeavoring-not to
keep c0mf0Ttahle-that was out of the
Question-but TO avoid having their toes
crushed and pet cornS trampled on.
The unfortunate contestants and con-
testees, who were wearily waiting for
the summons to appear and present
their cases, were inclined to accept the
statement that long and tedious delay
was before them as part of the scheme
10 affect the vote Oh the presi-
dentia nomination. The Harrison men
say they had become satisfied since
morning that they could not secure a
majority for their candidate, and that
the committee was playing waiting
game.
Senator Sawyer, of Wisconsin, was
feeling somewhat discouraged tonight
over the probability that the Blaine ele-
ments would make a strong effort to
pTOlOng the proceedings of the c0nVen-
tion in the belief that such a course
would be to the best interests of their
candidate. He remarked to one of his
trends from Milwaukee, that he was
very much afraid that the longer the
Dall0ting WAS postponed the less TOvOra-
bic would be Gen. HarriSon's prospects.
The visiting Wisconsin people are
very much incenSed at the action of the
delegation in allowing a Blaine man to
slip in Oh their committee of creden-
fialS,, in which the waiting game will be
played, if it is played at all. There are
only six Blaine men in the delegation.
and all the committees were filled from
the majority element.
a far Western member of the COM
mittee OH credentials said this evening,
before the committee went into session,
that it had lot of work before it, and
praposed to take its time and do it care
fully and Thoroughly. He also eX-
pressed the opinion that it was a ques-
ton whether its reports would be made
up until Thursday, and possibly not
before Friday This would necessarily
delay the permanent organization of
the convention to the END of the week,
in which event the final ballot would
not very we'll be reached until Monday,
precisely as was the case in Chicago
four years ago.
The committee adjourned at 10:30
O'Clock &ntil 9:30 tomorrow morning
without having accomplished anything.
From this arose the report that the
Blaine men had captured the com
mittee, which is very probable. The
adjournment came as anticipated for
the reason that the national committee
had not prepared the papers in the sew
eral contests for the committee on
credentials. 1t is asserted that this
feature by the national committee is
part Of the scheme 10 delay proceedings.
Around the Harrison headquarters it
is denounced as tilibustering.
THE DECISIVE VOTES!
Report on Credentials AIl-Im-
portant Now.
The prolonged suspense of uncertainty
in the presidential situation is having a
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