The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-06-10
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVEN-
TI0N.

ton met at Minneapolis on Tuesday
and organized by electing Major Nc
Kinley chairman. The fight for the
Presidential nomination is between
Blaine and Harrison, with Mckinley,
Reed, Alger and Sherman as possible
compromise candidates. Thursday
morning dispatches state the situation
thus:
MINNEApoLIs, June S.-Of the two
distinguished Americans who have
been so assiduously weighed by his
friends the past week for the presiden-
tial nomination, neither one to night
seems to have assurance of sufficient
votes to effect a nomination.
The seeker after accurate informa.
ton as to the relative standing of these
two candidates is compelled to discard
as extravagant and quit. misleading
the figures issued from the headquart-
ers of each, and a careful analysis of
the expressed preference of all the
delegations, together with classihca-
'on Of the uncommitted delegates,
lows that the two leading candidates
e each from twenty-five to fifty votes
,ort of the nomination. The balance
Il power, if ballot had been taken
to-day, would have been found to have
rested with General Russell A. Alger.
Of Michigan, who would certainly have
received from fifty to sixty votes, and
thus prevented either of the leading
candidates from receiving the requisite
number for nomination.
DELEGATES DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED.
This is the tenth national conven.
ton held in the history of the Re.
publican party and is the end of the
fourth decade Of the party which has
played such an important part in the
history of the American republic but
it can safely be asserted that the past
quarter of century has never witness
ed a convention where there was such
rapid subsidence of enthusiasm as is
noticeable here on the eve of the criti-
cal day which should decide the con-
test.
All the ardor and enthusiasm and
irresistible convict on which the rank
and file of both forces have constantly
displayed to-day are significantly absent
to night In the h.st place, the average
Republican has been deeply dlsappoint.
ed at the very leisure manner in which
leading spirits of the convention have
postponed the effectual business for
which the delegates are called together
and the feeling that if the program of
delay succeeds, ballot may be taken to
morrow.
The leaders of the Blaine fac ton
are tonight contemplating a move.
mcnt which is
VERY BOLD PLAN
and which. if carried out, will be a
farewell greeting to the short lived
harmony and good feeling of the past
twenty-four hours, whatever its effect
may be in controlling the nomination.
They have agents carefully going
through the state delegations and Sc.
'ecting therefrom a list Of delegates
and alternates to the convention who
are Office holders under Harrison.
lhey expect to compile this list and
add thereto the names of all the adj
minstratlon office holders who are on
the ground as helpers in the effort to
renomlnate the president and who are
not delegates to the convention.
ms list will be ostentatiously given
out al indication of the pernicious ex.
ample that is being set by President
Harrison of the effort OF an admins
tration to perpetra.e itself in power.
The Blaine managers also insist with
good deal Of vigor that ex Senator In
gals, who has been unusually loyal TO
the president, has been promised the
Russian mission. The Blaine people
state this evening that it is not yet de.
cided that the name OF their candidate
will be presented to the convention at
ALL