Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-12
THEY ALLVANTBLAlNR
Very Few Republicans are at Heart
in Favor Of Harrison.
M'KINLRY, SHERMAN, ALGER AND
Reed ara All Preferred 70 the Present Incumbent
but Blaine is tho Nan They Want-Blalns
Would Prefer Reed to ANY Of Them.
Republican Political Gossip.
Snsctag Tsgenan. o ths R.gistsr.

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WASHINGTON, D. c., May 11.-One
can hear any kind of Presidential Cos
sir In Washington these days. 1ester-
day Mr.. Blaine was entirely out OF the
race. To-day as he is in it and he is
going 20 stay. Mr.. Blaine does not
want the nomination, neither does he
want Mr.. Harrison TO have it. Those
men whe are of mind with him as TO
the latter proposition have decided that
The surest way to prevent Harrison
nomination is TO have Blaine's name
presented to the convention, aud they
are ready TO all but compel him TO per-
nit the use OF his name. The only eX-
euse they would accept would be that
OF physical incapacity. That they
would accept with very great reluct-
ance, and there now seems less reason
for it than there has been in
the recent past. In a confidential
expression of opinion hardly one in
twenty of the active and prominent Re-
publican politicians in Washington but
will say that he believes Blaine will be
nominated. In interviews for the press
and in public they do not talk so freely,
but under their breath they give this
opinion. All the talk Of Sherman, Lin
coin, Alger and Mckinley is well
enough for gossip, but the nomination
OF neither is in contemplation by the
men who are pulling the strings. The
Opponents Of Harrison want as many
favorite sons in the field as they can
get. They will welcome the candidacy
of Mr.. Sherman or Of Mr.. Mckinley or
any other msn who might draw votes
from Mr.. Harrisony but no man they
have any control of will stand for a
moment in the way of Blaine's nOmina-
ton. Alger will not Standsin his way
| The nearest approach to the
serious consideration OF any one as an
understanding to Mr.. Blaine, to take his
place should the consideration OF his
health compel him to decline, Is the
talk of Mr.. Reed. II is very well known
in the inner circles that, though Reed
and Blaine have not been friendly IL the
past, each would prefer the nomination
OF the other to that Of Mr.. Harrison.
Reed is willing TO work for the nomina-
tion of Blaine, in fact is working for 10,
and it is known that Blaine would favor
the nomination of Reed if he decided
not 70 take il himself. As far as the
wirepullers are concered, the talk OF
other candidates who have been men
toned a great deal Of late is a mere
blind.
Though Miss Anthony's sixteenth
amendment 10 the constitution may
never be adopted, women, certain
women, do and will have q considerable
influence on political events. Though
all the efforts of the leading politicians
might fail to hold Mr.. Blaine up to the
mark, a woman's quarrel may furnish
the final influence which will accomplish
it. Mrs. Blaine aud Mrs. Harrison en-
terrain no friendly feeling for each
other. Their relations are practically
no relations at all. 1t is well under
stood 10 official society that Mrs. Blaine
feels that Mrs. Harrison is disposed to
exact from her q full recognition Of the
superior rank Of the wife of the
President to that of the wife Of
the Secretary of State, and Mrs
Blaine refuses to accord the def
erence desired. The relations of the
TWO families, not including the Presi-
ident and Mr.. Blaine, are not friendly.
1t is a matter that has been great deal
talked about that Mrs. Blaine has since
's4 opposed her husbands taking the
Presidential nomination, aud it has been
conceded that this had much, perhaps
everything to do with his declinatiOn in
IS. That little woman's quarrel, how
ever has, it is asserted by those who
pretend to know, not only made Mrs.
Blaine willing, but even anxious for her
husband TO show Mrs. Harrison that the
Harrison family cannot hold monopoly
of honorS. She has, therefore, with
drawn her opposition to Blaine's being
candidate.