The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-13

1t was developed to-day soon after the
departure of ex-President Benjamin Har-
rison for the Adirondacks that his recently
renewed alliance with Senator Stephen B.
Elkins of West Virginia, while ostensibly
for the purpose of getting themselves
placed respectively first and second on the
National ticket, is now being used, ten
months prior to the Presidential conven-
ton, to dethrone ex-senator Thomas G..
Platt and Senator Matthew Quay from
the leadership of the Empire and Key
stone States.
If Quay's opponents come out on top he
is quoted as saying he would expect the
delegation to the National convention to
support him and Elkins, and Wannamaker
is reported to have assured him that he
need have no little anxiety about that
When General Harrison reached this
city Thursday afternoon his visitors were
all adversaries of Mr.. Platt. General Hor-
ace Porter, president of the Union League
Club; Cornelius n. Bliss, Elihu Root, Will
liam Brookfield and others, identified with
the anti-Platt movement, alone associated
with him.
Mr.. Platt did not go near him. Neither
looking out for the interests of Senator
William B. Allison of Iowa. Neither did
Richard Quay, son of the Pennsylvania
Senator. nor, indeed, any of the old Blaine
guard who are now in town.
Over in Pennsylvania, according to the
assertions made to-day by opponents of
Harrison and Elkins, this team of shrewd
politicians is backing the Hastings-Martin-
Magee-W combination. Harrison.
IT. was whispered last night, when in Phil
adelphia the day before, had long talk
with x-Postmaster-General Wannamaker,
and told him that he was very anxious
that Quay should be defeated.
General Clarkson was guest at the Hoff-
man House, but he did not walk across the
street to call on the Indianian, Dick
Quay was auartered at the Fifth avenue.
where General Harrison was a guest until
he departed from the city. Quay had no
message for the Hoosier, neither did he
send up his card. Indeed, Harrison seems
to have been studiously avoided while here
by friends of Platt, Quay, Reed, Allison
and Morton, and to have had communica-
tions alone with his own Presidential
boomers or those of Mckinley.
Said Western politician, who has been
watching the acts of the Harrison Elkins
alliance from the day of it's formation. to
a reporter to-day:
lit has become firmly established fact
that both Harrison and Elkins are doing
all they can through their friends in New
York and Pennsylvania to loosen the hold
OF Platt and Quay in their respective
States. Platt knows about it and so does
Quay.
''The plot was known almost from its in
ception, and arrangements have been made
to circumvent it. My prediction is that
Senator Quay will be victorious in Penn
lvania, and that he will prove more pow
erful in politics than ever after the battle
there next month. AS for Platt, his friends
have rallied around him here, and at this |
moment the fight against the State organi- |
zation, of which he is the real chief, is on
the wane."
General Clarkson, whose headquarters
are in the Postal Telegraph building, is
daily there in consultation with Eastern
and Western and Southern friends of his |
favorite for President To-day he received
q visit from ex-senator Wilbur Saunders
of Montana, Mayor William B. Eustis
of Minneapolis, and a score more
from the great Northwest. All seemed to
be much interested in the progress of the
Allison Presidential canvass, ard General
Clarkson was willing to tell what he knew
of it.
II am not here" said General Clarkson,
''as the accredited personal representative
of Senator Allison, as some newspapers
try to make it out. Iowa is for Allison,
and SO am /. We propose to present his |
name to the next National convention, |
and we are hopeful that he will be se-
lected to head the ticket. A more splen- |
didly equipped man for the Presidency |
think it will be very difficult to find. On |
the tariff he certainly is as able as McKin- |
ley or Harrison or Reed, while on finance |
be is the equal. certainly, of Sherman.
: "Do you remember what Blaine wrote of !