The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-02
ADD A HOST TO ms ENEMIEs.
BLAINE is A CANDIDATE.
The Recent Attacks by harrison and His
Friends Causes Him to Consent

The Recent Attacks by Harrison and His
Friends Causes Him TO Consent
Especial to THE HERALD-Exnminer Dispatch.l
WASHINGTON, June Senator Quay
win leave Washington today for Minneap-
oils. and he expects TO carry with him the
direct assurance from James G. Blaine that
he will accept the presidential nomination
If it is offered to him.
Mr.. Quay and the men who are inter
ested with him in the Blaine movement
feel satisfied now that their candidate will
write no letter Of declination, but viii
make assurance doubly sure. Senator
Quay will have last talk with MIR.
Blaine this morning. This visit is quite
unnecessary, for there is no possible doubt
that within the last three days, since he
returned from New York Mr.. Blaine has
not only told several Of his friends that
he would accept, but he has revealed to
them the fact that
HE DESIRES TO BE CONSIDERED AS cANDI-
DATE.
All of Mr. Blaine's intimate personal
friends and each member of mis- family, in
Guiding mis- SOD Emmons, and his sister in
law, Miss Dodge, or "Gail Hamilton"
coincide in the opinion that he ought to be
candidate. and they desire for him 10 ac-
ccpt II nominated, so says the New York
sun correspondent
The person, however, whose influence
upon the secretary has been more potent
than that of all the others combined is
Benjamin Harrison That gentleman's
unintentional interview Of last Friday, ex-
pressing, as ii did, his honest sentiments
in attacking the Blaine men as
DISAPPOINTED OFFICE SEEKERS
and Blaine himself as a borrower of the
laurels of craftsmanship has served to re-
move the last spark Of friendly feeling be-
tween James @. Blaine and Benjamin Har-
rison, and tonight they are political and
personal enemies. There is no effort to
conceal this feeling en- the part of either.
Close on tbs heels of the presidents at
tack upon the Blaine men came that of At
torney General Miller, less diplomatic in
tone, sbut no less singing in substance,
and today the climax is reached by care
fully prepared assault by the secretary of
the treasury, written IN the treasury de-
partment and sent broadcast through the
agency Of the press association.
Blaine was surprised when he saw Har-
rison's slur, and convinced OF the hostility
of bis official chief when he read Millers
endorsement of it, and
FIGHTING MAD
when Fosters awkward onslaught made
it's appearance. If Mr. Blaine had any in
clinatlon, however slight, to refuse to be-
come candidate, 1t has disappeared with
the i4Rignation caused by the unprovoked
fight u the administrator upon him, and
it is now q war 10 the knife Dstween Har-
rison and Blaine.
The first blow against the president un-
der the new order OF things was struck by
Mr.. Blaine when he conspicuously abb
scented himself from the cabinet meeting.
His remaining away was not an accident;
it was premeditsted notice TO Harrison
that hereafter
He MUST MEET BLAINE AS A FOE.
That meeting will not take place, unless
the exigencies of the public service compel
il, until after the meeting of the Minneap-
oils convention.
While the president sat this morning
surrounded by his so-called advisers, every
one of whom is political Jonah, except
Jerry Rusk who is for Blaine, the secre-
tary Of state sat is his library stones
throw distant, talking with Republicans
about the prospects of his being made the
Republican nominee.