St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-02
with him before this convention is over.
OF the situation i'll New York he said:
New York Situation.

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Tom Platt controlled all the appoint
ments made by Harrison for New York state.
Warner Miller got nothing. He was pro-
posed for Il place in the cabinet but wars
turned down. From the time Miller was
disappointed until the time when he found
il practically useless TO be active in politics
Platt run everything TO suit himself. When
the nomination of governor was necessary,
the Platt crowd at first thought they ought
10 give Miller another chance Then when
Miller didn't care particularly for II Piatt
took up raSSetL who made a sort of skip jack
candidate. and succeeded in being defeated
by 5o,0D, the worst defeas since that of Fol
ger by Cleveland. The Miller men just con-
cluded to let Platt run it. The registration
was the largest ever known and the Repub-
hcanS thought they had an easy victory
ahead, but on election day oue-half of them
stayed al home.
Now if Platt Is running the machine
again the Miller meT will stand aside and let
Platt see if he can carry New York without
him. IL would be hard for Harrison TO carry
New York, quite as hard as for Fassett. as
the conditions would be the same the Miller
men retaining their antipathy 10 Harrison
And yet BlaileS nomination would bring
about so many new conditions that he would
have almost equally as hard time of it. |
assume that Cleveland will be the Democratic
candidate. As against Blaine he Will have
much OF his old support from the old anti
Blaine crowd. With any Western Democrat
rs lliO CoUQlQdlG alUlOSl ANY OEG lIe pun
licans nominate could carry New York.
Hill! Oh. he doesn't figure any more in any
degree"
S. f. johnson and w. c. Mcbride
represent the Cincinnati ENQUIRER. Both
are veterans in their line and both are
on the Enquirer staff at Washington.
Johnson is the right-hand man of
Johnny Mclean and represents all the
conservatism there is in his publication.
He is a sort of managing editor at the
capital, and is frequently called to head
quarters to run the paper. Mcbride is
one OF the wiriest of political ferretS
and uEearthed many of the most start
ling sensations that have Illuminated
the pages of the Enquirer.
Among the other newspaper men al
ready in the city are Col. Frank Rich
ardSOn, of the Baltimore Sun: Walter
Wellman and Charles Lederer, OF the
Chicago Herald; {. B. Barton, of the
Denver Times; r. d. Sanders, of the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch, and representa-
tiveS of the New York World and Phil
adelphia Press.
Gossip of the Gang
Along in the afternoon most OF these
writers were gathered in the lobby OF
the West, discussing the convention
and its probable results. That Harri-
sou would be nominated few had any
doubts, but, as Col. Burr expressed it.:
"This will be the hardest fought of any
of the series, and all the fighting will he
done beween this and Tuesday morning.
When the convention meets it will have
been settled"
81 hope you are right" remarked
Gath. "fOr there ought to be national
injunction against unanimous cOnven-
tiOns. They are too mOnOtonOus for any
good work. The st. Louis convention
of 1888 was about as devoid of interest
as any large gathering ever attended, u
Il don't think you can find CORE
spondent in Washington" remarked
Dunnell, "whO believes there is any
thing in the Blaine boom. Some of
them send out lot Of Blaine stuff 10
suit their papers, but personally they
know it is all wind and water
''UnIess Blaine lays down on the boys.
it certainly looks like HARRISON" said
Burr.
"Who has Blaine got" asked Town
send, Ito present his name? | mean
some man who can make the right kind
OF a speech. OF course"
Foraker, to be sure" answered
Burr, land he could not find a better
OUt, lTy dS IdIu do llc Ill2Hl.
"Yes, but Foraker is under a sort of
political cloud just now and might not
do" pursued Townsend.
'In spite of the Harrison OrganiZa-
tion," said Burr, lit seems that all of
the talent of the Republican party is
arrayed against him. believe Blain5
actually wants the nomination, ana has
no legatee for his influence and follow
ing"
Charlie Barton, of the Denver Times.
does not think his state will be very en-
thuslastic for either party this fall.
"Our people," he said, "want free sill
yer, and they want it bad. 1 cannot see
that they will get it through either
party, and they will be disappointed all
around. We rejected Harrison on the
silver question, though they would Ger
tainiy do no better with Blaine; and on
the same ground they are opposed to
Cleveland. l don't think either con-
vention will place a silver plank in its
platform, and there may be not even an
effort in that direction. There you are.
Now, what is Colorado TO do?'