Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

Plat told Mr. Foster that he ought to have
said that Senator Sherman would certainly
feel that New York should have place in
his Cabinet, but Foster said that he could
not conscientiously make such statement :"
Elkins' Ride With Plat.
'All this time" continued the Senator,
"Stephen b Elkins was watching Tom
Platt He had heard of the dinner and he
understood the situation as well as the
Sherman men did. As soon as Platt left
them be called and took him out driving.
What transpired during that drive L DC not
know. Platt is said to claim that Mr.. Elkins
offered him the Secretaryship of the Treas
ury if the New York vote should be cast
solidly for President Harrison and bring
about his nomination. Mr.. Elklns, L am
told, denies that be made this offer, and the
President saws he never authorized any,
thing of the kind to be made if 1t was made.
At any rate, Platt did not get to be Secre-
tary of the Treasury.
"Another curious thing about the conven-
tion and the New York delegation was that
the most of them were willing to give Ali
son q vote at one time rather in the way OF
compliment than ANYTHING else, but that
Depew, whom they had made withdraw on
account of the objections of the Changers,
and if the Grangers objected to him, he
would be hanged if he would go with the
Changers, and with that the vote was given
to Harrison with the idea of afterward COM
ing over to Sherman"
HOW Hayes Was Nominated.
1 called on Judge James n. Tyner, At
torney General of the Postofice Depart
ment, the other day and asked him to tell
me the inside history of the nomination Of
President HAYES in 1876. Judge Tyrer was
at this time. as he is now, one of the Lead
ing politicians of Indiana He was then
Assistant Postmaster General and shortly
afterward Postmaster General under Grant
and he was noted as being the chief ieuten-
ant and adviser of Oliver P. Morton. Nor
ton was one OF the leading candidates before
the convention, and it was the throwing OF
the Morton strength to Hayes that caused
the stampede in his favor and resulted in
his nomination. Judge Tyner was at first
reluctant to speak of the matter, but finally
he gave the story as an interesting piece of
unwritten history Said he:
"For some time before the convention, it was
evident that Blaine would be the strongest
candidate to come before it. He had an en-
thusiastic following and when the conven-
tion met at Cincinnati We at once saw that
it was Blaine against the field. The rela-
tions between Senator Morton and Senator
Blaine were by no means friendly ones
Morton thought
Blaine Had Injured Him.
and next to his hope of receiving the NOM
iuation himself was his hope that ifhe could
not be nominated that the nominee should
not be Blaine. For a number of reasons I
did not deem it wise or safe thai Blaine
should be our nominee, and I thought that
some other candidate would be more accept
able to the people. There were 756 votes
in the convention, and 379 were necessary
to choice. On the first ballot Blaine had
291 votes, and Morton came next to him
with 125. Then followed Bristow, of Ken
lucky, who was still in Grants Cabinet as
Secretary of the Treasury, but who was not
at all in harmony with the President. He
had lib votes, and next to him stood Conk-
ling, whom Grant was anxious to see nom-
mated, and after Conkling came Hayes, of
Ohio. and Hartranft, of Pennsylvania. The
Blaine forces were solid. They were well
organized, and they were In the fight to
stay. We cast five ballots, the candidates
not varying much from their original
strength. But at the end of the sixth bal
lot it was evident to me that a break was
bound to come very soon, and that a straw
one way or the other would result in the
nomination of the candidate toward whom
it went"
Morton's Telegram of Withdrawal.
Mr. Morton before left Washington, in
which told him we would nominate him if
We could, but that thought it would be a
miracle if we succeeded in doing So 1t is
your physical condition, said l. that will,
in all probability, defeat your nomination.
There will be great opposition to the nom-
ination of a candidate however great who is
in the physical condition that you are If
you could stand upon your feet as you once
did, nothing could defeat your nomination.
Still, there is a chance, and we will stick to
you as long as there is the least possibility
of our success, but if at the last mo-
ment We see that that possibility has
gone by, want you to give me the right
to vote for the. person think can be nomi-
mated. 1 will telegraph you at that time,
and would like to have the authority for
your name Senator Morton
said he was perfectly willing to take my
judgment in that matter after comforting
with his other friends in the convention,
and so at the close of this ballot, when saw
that the next ballot would either see
change or would result
or Bristow, I telegraphed Senator Morton
at his hotel, the Ebbit House, at Washing
ton, telling him that his nomination could
not be made, and asking the authority to
his name. Mr.. Morton had rrl-
vate wire to his room in the Ebbitt House,
and the answer came quickly back. 1t was:
Don't you think there is chance for me
yet?'
ITO this / replied, No. and within a
short time 1 got another telegram, which
read as follows:
"T leave the matter to you and my
friends, but see that our vote counts.
THAT telegram brought about the NOM
ination of Hayes. At the beginning of the
seventh ballot rose and asked that the In
diana delegation be allowed to go out of
the convention and consult. The whole
knew what this meant 1t meant
that the Morton strength would in all prob
ability be thrown so some other candidate,
and it was seen that this would decide the
fate of the nomination"
Poor Gas Fixtures Fixed Blaine.
ft1n the meantime the Blaine strength
had fought hard against the field, and it was
all we could do to keep the forces of the
other candidates in their ranks. At one time
when the Conkling strengti, was waverine, a
number of the other candidates loaned him
votes to keep his strength up and to keep
them from going to Blaine, and during the
first days session we forced an adjournment,
for we saw that another ballot would result
in Blaine's nomination. We accomplished
this adjournment b. a trick. We knew that
the Blaine men could outvote us on the
question of adjournment, but the man who
had charge of the convention hall was
a friend of Earns, and II henan 10