SUMMER RESORTS Advertisements page 10 to-day. Best list or hotels at leading re sorts will be found there. THE ADLETS Wore than doubled last month. Tho figures are as follows: May, 1892 8,004 May, 1891 3,770 Increase 4,234 f Ije PttJwrjg FORTY SEVENTH YEAR. PITTSBURG. FRIDAY, JUNE 3 1892-TWELVE PAGES. THREE CENTS mv&n BLAINE WANTS IT AID WILL ACCEPT In the Opinion of Gath, After a Careful Sizing Up of the Situation, ONLY TWO TALKED ABOUT By the Cohorts at Minneapolis, With Ho Second Choice as let. Steve EUdns Blamed for the Publication of Alger's War Record The Vice Presidency the Last Thing: Thought Of If Harrison Should Be Nominated an Eastern Man Will Be His Running Mate Nobody Knows Who Would Be Blaine's Second The Situation as It Appears at Present How Some Booms Have Either Been Prost-Bltten or Otherwise Killed Off. trKOM A. STATT COBBESPOJfDENT.J Minneapolis, June 2. Clear and in spiring weather; and noted visitors coming in on all the trains to see; the names of State headquarters and associations spread across the streets, and a flow of bunting from every building without regard to party. Minneapolis is diridednto two sections of the Republican party at present, even the Democrats being arrayed on one side or the other, and only two men are talked about Harrison and Blaine. If Blaine's managers have any designs toward a third candidate they will find it hard to reconcile the crowd to that man. Among the local Republic ans, especially the juveniles and young men.BIaine is overwhelmingly the favorite. The early arrivals are nearly all of the Harrison persuasion, and the fag ends ot the departments and bureaus at Wash ington are to be found among those who de clare that it is an outrage and a rebellion for any one but Harrison to be considered. The Indiana element is strong, and some of them have very little manners. One man all day yesterday went up and down the floors of the principal hotel talking in an excited way against Blaine and every other man who had any other proposition than Harrison's nomination. He was a delegate, too, and if this is the feeling in administra tion circles, the nomination of either Blaine or Harrison is probable to be followed by ill feeling. Family Relationships in Officii The son of Attorney General Hitler, Sir. Harrison's law partner, is here, and he is also the private secretary of Mr. Elkins, the Secretary of War. The administration cannot be accused of want of military sajacity, for In nearly evrv Cabinet camp it nas attaches of its persJual family. Mr. Foster, of Ohio, who was for Arthur against Blaine long ago, throws his shadow over the Secretary of State whenever Blaine's name omes up. Mr. Elkins was once a pestifer ous member of the Blaine crowd, and now he is taken into the opposite camp, but he will bear watching. The Jerry Rusk boom is going around town with idiotic good nature in its face, saying not a word, but everybody knows it to be the Jerry Rusk movement by the open, red-headed smile it wears, and the tacit expression of "Why, we are for Blaine and Harrison, became we are loyal to everybody." Unquestionably, Rusk is the expectation of the Blaine men for the second place on the ticket The Vice President, whose nomination was easily obtained by New York four years ago, is hardly referred to now, his four years having been purely domestio recreation, and nobody knows whether he ib to be kept on the ticket or not. Pre sumably, the nomination of Blaine would take the Vice Presidency West, and that of Harrison wonld carry it East, but it is un certain that New York now wants any part of the ticket. Wiping Oat the Name of Blaine. Four years ago the New York leaders presented a remarkable case of harmony, and one term of power has broken them all to pieces. Depew, following the conserva tive and commercial interests of his rail- road employers, wants the President re nominated, and, like many -others, has reached on tip-toe with a sponge to wipe out the name of Blaine, which he has been several years painting at the top of politi cal show-bills. The gilt of speech remains to Mr. Depew, who, four years ago, I saw in the window alcove ot his little parlor in Chicago, sleep less and almost tearful, considering whether he would be the candidate for President or not. Although a big-salaried railroad man, the posing lor political honors has always possessed Mr. Depen's imagination. He has had the misfortune of being on the side of the weaker faction all his life. He began by believing that the New York Tribune was the Republican party, and held that faith until Horace Greeley was set up for Presi dent and Depew on his ticket for Lieutenant Governer. As long as Conk ling lived this record was pointed at and Mr. Depew nailed to the floor with it. The nail was taken out when Conklmgdied. Meantime Mr. Depew had been Blaine's' worshiping friend. But the New York Tribune went into office, and Harrison pre ceded Blaine among its devotees. Now Depew, it is supposed, is to present, on be half of New York, Harrison's name for two terms, and he is doing all the arguing as he advances toward Minneapolis against doing Mr. Blaine the great despite of bringing him forward against his chief. Piatt Back to His Former Favorite. Mr. Piatt, who told me a year after the election that ho believed nobodyV could have been elected that year but Harrison, has gone back to his choice of four years be fore, when he announced on the platform at Chicago that Blaine was the only man he believed could carry New York and the country that year. In this instance Piatt represents nearly the whole of the old Conk ling element, which can be polled almost to a man, and it is for Blaine, and the reason no doubt is that the constituency beneath them is also for Blaine. The moment Conk ling's pressure was removed by death the natural wishes of New York found a full representation among the politicians, and even some of the Conkling family have declared for Blaine, but the officeholder and the merchant hare remained the imponder-J able factors in politics. The power of a President and the fear of not doing a sea son's good business, control these elements at all times. The extraordinary results of the Civil War, a national sovereignty and emancipation; and the permanent suprem acy of the Northern States, found no sup porters on the old officeholding class nor among the merchants. The city of New York tried to see Lincoln elected lest a year's business might be gone, and it was the unreflecting millions, with whom busi ness is permanently bad, who threw the country into the convulsion, went forward instead of backward, and produced this ex travagant multiplication of railroads, cities and new States, which is the wonder of the age. Clarkson's Triumphal Entrance In Town. The entrance of Buffalo Bill in Minnea polis, who, by the way, is to be here hardly matches the procession of Clarkson into town. Allison and Kirkwood and Wilson are never heard of in these days. Clarkson fills the entire show bill of Iowa, and yet, it is possible that his village quantity, in voking with the name of Blaine, if he be in earnest, might produce reports which would naturalize the satire attending his high self-esteem. Blaine has ever been in need of strong, firm, guiding hands in times of conventions. His unquestionable popularity and undis puted genius cause him to be espoused by those who aforetime were called publicans and sinners. Young men like Chandler, Elkins, Chaffee, McCormick devoted them selves to Blaine like disciples, appear at all the conventions for years in his favor, and then some marriage alliance or stroke of fortune gathers them into another olass and they are found working for Grant or Harri son or somebody else than Blaine. The issue of the present convention is be tween popular enthusiasm and sagacious self- interest Drawing confidence from Mr. Har rison's positive, if limited nature, his emis saries appear here like policemen with clubs, telling the populace to move on and to mind tneir business or they will pres ently be in the lockup. The Blaine element has to look either for new men not yet recognized, to lead their favorite to the nomination, or must depend on some of the old hacks in politics, who, by the vicissi tudes of ebb and flow, have laid hold of Mr. Blaine's popularity to curb Mr. Harri son's temerity. f Blaine Men Also Conservative. There is a conservative side to the Blaine men, too. They sav that a single term of General Harrison is just enough, and more would be a surfeit, and they get favor with the Democrats when they say that if two terms are to be the meed of every political accident, let the Constitution cease to be a satire, and lengthen the term out It is strange that in a time like this, when Blaine is sick and Harrison more respected than popular, the usual crop of inferior candidates should not appear at all. I passed a little shop yesterday which threw out the banner, saying: "Ohio Headquar ters," and I saw two handsome pictures of the handsome McKinley, subscribed with his name. What wishfulness may not be under that noddle at this moment, when it seems so easy for a third quantity to cleave between Harrison and Blaine, the one nominating himself by his power of office, and the other nnwilling to say whether he will run or, not perhaps hardly knowing. 1 do not see a picture of John Sherman as yet in Min neapolis. Nor do I see a picture of Speaker Reed. Four years ago General Alger ran up to near 150 votes in convention, bnt a spell has been thrown over his candidacy, and the Michigan delegation is said to be for Blaine. I asked an intimate friend of Aleer, yesterday, how the record of the War Department upon Alger's unfortunate leave of absence came to be given to the press. Steve Elkins Blamed by Alger. "Why," said this friend, "Steve Elkins gave it out He will do any kind of a job demanded of him. "What was the object of Elkins giving it out?" "Because Harrison thought that Alger had worked up a popularity among the soldiers greater than his own, and was, by virtue of his commandership of the Grand Armv, in Harrison's way." "Then the Government, you believe or General Alger believes took this transcript from the record for a mere political end?" "Exactly so. Harrison may have not Erompted it, but Elkins paid the price of is appointment to the Cabinet by this superserviceable act, which, however, failed of its intent,for if it weakened Alger, it only made him go over to Blaine with Michigan and all his friends behind him," "Is General Alger coming to the conven tion?" "I think not I do not mean to be Al ger's spokesman, but he has been altogether too hardly treated. If Sheridan allowed that record to be made upon war books when he was General of the army, General Alger is heaping coals of fire upon his memory by contributing to his widow's and family's support, aud the very Custer who "effected that evil transcript has reason in what he lett behind him to remember Alger's generosity. The simple fact was that Alger went home with out taking sufficient pains to get a leave of absence, and Custer, who was his superior, got even with him for not making an ap pointment ont of Custer's family in his regiment by marking hi in as deserted. Sheridan, who was fond of Custer, let the scandal stand, and Harrison's administra tion gives it to the press because General Alger is popular with his fellow soldiers.' General A leer Still Doing Business. "Is Alger in active business now?" "You bet he is. He is at work in many a direction, for he is one of the tireless men of commerce, who got his beginning in the Civil War." Everybody has endeavored to pierce the veil and discover if anybody be concealed behind Blaine. Some have gnessed that Alger was the concealed man, and that certain political leaders would rather nominate a rich man than elect a poor one, provided the rich man stakes his campaign well with sheckels, but it seems hardly probable that Alger can come In. Then, it is suspected that Sherman may be the quantity lying back, and that Cameron and Quay have joined forces with Piatt, who never would give Sherman a chance to present him to the land. I am bound to say I have not heard one word against John Sherman here, even the old saying repeated, that he is cold. Concession has gone so far as to admit him to be warm, or to ignore the question of his temperament altogether. The solid old men in the party, especially those who have been around "the Senate, say, as If it was a great piece of candor, "Why, Sherman would make a splendid candidate." But here is the multitude thinking no more about Sherman than if he was the deceased Tecumseh, his brother. Blaine still fills the show-bill. Center of tho Greatest Cariosity. The greatest curiosity is developed to know how Blaine can.be brought forward if he will not bring himself and whether they will nominate or merely vote for him and shatter the pride of Harrison in the first ballot they fling. The newspaper men have been so long toasted before the fire of Blaine or anti- LBlaine that they hare merely a medical student's interest in the present dissection. I should think that four-fifths of them were in favor of Blaine, if for no other reason than that he is going to be a new quantity compared to Harrison. In short, there would be nothing of Blaine here but that be is a living quantity in the popular mind which is disposed to have gratitude for any body who will give him a chance. It is my own belief that Mr. Blaine sinoerely desires the Presidency, and that his situation before this convention is the result of a revised view by himself and those dearest to him that he may as well be highly employed as highly under-employed, and that the relations between him self and the President will probably close out his acreer if Harrison should be either renominated or re-elected. The Blaine Boom NoDody's Trick. The sudden coming forward of Blaine's name was not a trick on anybody's part, but took countenance from the reawakened ambition of the man with the electrifying help of a better appetite and eiroulation. He saw Harrison nominated by the support of his friends and then elected, and every body said: "If Blaine had taken it he would have gone through this year, for he made the campaign from the very outset" After four years interval Mr. Blaine finds not the least concession made to his wishes or aspirations, but the administra tion is quietly getting itself together to ?lay the Republican party for rule or ruin, he announcements from Washington that Mr. Blaine would accept if nominated were not guesses, but derived authenticity from the household of the Secretary of State, if not irom nis own countenance, surely it would be cruel for Blaine to leave all the people who are supporting him without any champion and in no other way could the Secretary of State more completely rob himself of his past popularity than by lying down at this moment He must see that the population or his sagacity has been overestimated. Here are men who have faced the Presi dental power and know how retaliatory it is, with the name of Blaine for their shield. Here are thousands ot steadfast men who never form a friendship to give it away like politicians and who think that Blaine's life has been lengthened for this opportun ity, and that they can vote for him once more. Issue Between Harrison and Blaine. Is Blaine to publish some letter at this juncture and say that it has all been amis take throughout, and that he never meant to run? I do not believe it I believe that the issue is to be made here between Har rison and Blaine, and that if any third can didate comes in it will be by the aid of one of the candidates withdrawing and assemb ling his vote upon another person. We see no such a person in sight The nearest approach to such a man might be Allison or McKinley. The late conference at Allison's house, which gets emphasis from the denial made of it by General Haw ley, would indicate that possibly Clarkson is attempting to bring Allison in this time as he was for Allison before and then the Iowa delegation from Harrison to Al lison, thus achieving the nomination. Clarkson, hQwever, has been inclining to ward Blaine for a good while past When he was in Europe, nearly a vear ago, he de clared that in his view Blaine was the only man who could carry the country next time. His late visit to President Harrison may have had for its purpose to extenuate or excuse Mr. Blaine. If we would suppose that Harrison, like Hayes, had declared firmly at the outset that he wonld not run for two terms,, what now would be the situation at this convention? None of Harrison's cabinet except Blaine seem fit for the Presidency. , Thi President's Only Strong; Opponent. Unquestionably,!! Harrison himself were not running, Blaine's nomination here would be unanimous. Reed could not op- Eose him, being of his raising. Sherman as lost his chance these many years, through the popularity of Blaine in Ohio dividing the delegation. We understand that Foraker will be here and will exercise a strong influence on the floor, for we are to understand that these conventions are not held for the benefit of the public, but as partialments where every man is entitled to what influence he can get among those who shall cast a ballot Foraker, therefore, will not be judged in this convention by what the newspapers have said of him, but by thedirect Influence he can have among the delegates. I under stand that no one else is forthcoming to do. the Blaine talking; Foraker will do it He still represents the old radical, fierce mili tary element which went into the war in childhood, and is not much given to mag nanimity. Time has made him tough and hardy; he is able to maintain himself well in the world, and laying down the Govern or's office, gets plenty of practice. As the Blaine leader from Ohio be masks McKin ley. To men of this temper Blaine is much preferred over men like Allison, who let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" like the old velvet-footed cat in the adage. Blaine Never Too Well Treated. Said one of the richest men in this city yesterday: "I think that if Harrison could have been magnanimous and remembered what Blaine had done for him, we should have had here a very harmonious conven tion, and presented Blaine's name to the country with the full signet of the Repub lican party upon it The President's treat ment of Blaine, from the Very beginning of their official partnership, has been half hatred. He has faced Blaine at times in Cabinet meetings, and put a query to throw the Secretary of State off his argument. Changes he has made in the Cabinet, such as the appointment of Elkins, he did not notify Blaine of it at all. Blaine has feminine characteristics; he is sensitive, and as he gives his whole temperament, he expects a full return. This antagonizing has gone on until, from very different mo tives than what might have been expected, Blaine is a Presidental candidate. If he is nominated the President will not stand as still as if he had let matters take their own course. If the President is nominated by the aid of these rotten boroughs in the South, the election of the ticket can hardly be, and Mr. Harrison," said my friend, "knows well himself how this nagging ex asperates a man." Sounding the President's Temper. When Arthur selected Gresham for his Cabinet, Harrison raged and John C New was almost afraid to go and see him, for fear of the temper he wonld shew; yet Mr. Harrison reaches over into Blaine's cap and takes Elkins. and gives him the War De partment, and fetches out Depew and His cock and McKinley from Blaine's follow ing. He must be able to understand, there fore, that Blaine has a motive for running for the Presidenoy. If nobody else can excuse Blaine for running this year, Harri Bon can." As far as can be ascertained the Harrison men have no person in reserve. Harrison has never considered any other person sufficiently to raise him to the Presidenoy. Some thought he had Tracy in his mind, but Tracy has b'een very active to secure Harri son's nomination. It is freely told around here that he endeavored to sett Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, to entrap, under Urn cover of friendship, a declination from BHine. The Hltts are up-and-down Blaine people, and Hitt refused. Blaine said, as I understand, just after he came ont with the celebrated Clarkson letter: "Half a dozen of them wanted to get it from me and take it as a scalp to the White Hpuse, but I made up my mind, as I gave it for the sake of peace, that none of them should get any benefit from it, and I sent itrfo the press direct." At that time, it is believed, Mr. Blaine was to have been pushed out of the Cabinet unless he wrote that letter, and by writing it under duress he gained time to bring about the present situation. The getting of the letter has been of some benefit to Har rison, but if Blaine should be nominated it would be better that Harrison never ex tracted that letter. Senatorial Feeling for the President. Mr. Hiscoek, whom Piatt and BeldenJ elected to tbe Senate, and thus defeated Warner Miller, has, like the Senatorial temperament in general,gone over to Harri son, When Senators are given all they ask by the President, they have eeoured every thing but the Presidency. In the meantime, both Belden and Piatt appear te have left Hiscoek. Depew, by bis adherent nature, which exudes gum and sticks to everything be touches, is of course for Harrison, out he is not going to get mad over any result which happens here. After Warner Miller had been beaten for the Senatorship by Piatt, and lost the Gov ernorship which was tendered to him as a compensation, he retained power enough in the State of New York to defeat all the sub sequent Republican tickets. It is presumed that he prefers Blaine to Harrison, who has never given him anything. At any rate, the big four from New York came here un settledbut it is believed that in the coun cil which is expected to be held the anti Harrison men will come to some under standing. It is no doubt the fact that Har rison's term has brought to his support a great many individuals who would formerly have been reckoned as for Blaine. These are to be found in Maryland and Pennsyl vania and New York, especially. The continued silence of Mr. Blaine down to the present time has strengthened his hold UDon the Imaginations of people here. Some of them begin to see that nis running is a matter of purpose, and that he will not be withdrawn, and believes, with Prince Arthur, that it is as good to die and go as to die and stay. Ge'obge Alfred Townsend. SEVERAL SMALL STRAWS. Joe Manley Added to the National Commit tee A Surprise to Both Factions Powell Clayton and B. C. Kerens Join the Administration Forces. BY ASSOCIATED FIHSS.l Minneapolis, June 2. One sensational incident ot the day was a telegram from II. E. Southard, Chairman of the Maine State Republican Committee, notifying General Clarkson that J. Manchester Haynes, the Maine member of the National Committee, had resigned, and his place had been.filled by the election of Joe H. Manley, ex-Postmaster of Augusta. Such was the plain an nouncement, bearing no great significance on its face, but much in its possibilities. "Manley will be made a member of the Executive Committee," said General Clark son. Thus the most trusted of Blaine's per sonal friends at the very last moment be comes one of the Executive Committee, which will have the potential influence over the preliminary proceedings of the conven tion. It is repeatedly stated here that no man lives who sustains more confidential re lations with Blaine than Joe Manley. He was selected by Blaine to go on the trium phal tour through the States, and of all Blaine's Maine supporters Manley has been most devoted. It is generally accepted that Governor William McKinley, of Ohio, will be Per manent Chairman of the convention. He is the choice of the Harrison element, and for political reasons is likely to be opposed by the Blaine managers. Indeed, Colonel Conger acknowledges that it is quite proba ble that McKinley will be the choice of all factions for Permanent Chairman. The Governor has been apprised by telegraph of his coming honors, and his friends expect he will leave Ohio to-morrow night for Minneapolis. , The formation of the platform is already being discussed, those having pet measures to be Indorsed being among the first ar rivals. An indorsement of protection and reciprocity is, of course, to be embodied as the chief principles. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, was among to-day's arrivals, and is. considered a strong addition to the administration supporters. He savs: "I do not believe Blaine would play fast and loose on such an important question. J believe he meant all he said when he wrote his letter." "Do you think he has changed his mind?" he was asked. "He has not said so," was the terse reply. Hefurther expressed the opinion that it would be a great misfortune to nominate a man who might decline. R. C. Kerens, of St Lonis, of the Cotton Belt Railroad, a close friend of President Harrison and .a delegate at large from Missouri, arrived to-night and joined the Harrison forces. IOWA FOB 8ECBETABY BLAINE. Governor XArrabee Says He Is the Only Kan Who Should Be Nominated. Chicago, June 2, Special Ex-Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, was one of the Blaine boomers m town to-day. "Blaine," he said, "is the only man the Republicans can afford to nominate. Iowa is for Blaine, and the Harrison boomers will find it out when the vote is cast The majority of the delegates, too, have declared for Blaine. When they were selected it was thought that Blaine would not allow his name to be presented. Since then affairs have changed, and had the State convention known what everybody knows now, the delegates from Iowa would have been instructed for Blaine. "There is no doubt but Iowa will be safely Republican if Blaine is named, and he can carry the State against any Demo crat, not excepting even Governor Boies. With Harrison as the candidate, however, there would be grave doubts about the Re publicans carrying our State. I think Blaine has enough delegates in the conven tion to nominate him." MILLER JOB THE WINKER. He Will Support the Victor at the Minne apolis Convention, New York, June 2. Warner Miller has written a letter to John S. Kenyon, Secre tary of the Republican State Committee. The letter is dated May 29, from Galves ton, Tex. In it Mr. Miller says: "I am heartly in favor of the candidate who re ceives 451 votes in the convention." This is received as an indication that the Herkimer statesman is ready to support the Republican ticket loyally, without allying himself to either of the two candidates who lead the race for the nomination. A CHANCE TO SPECULATE. Thirty Thousand Dollars Ottered la Waters on Blaine's Acceptance and eotIon. New York, June 2. Special F. T. Adams offered to make some remarkable wagers on the Stock Exchange to-day. He offered to bet $5,000 three times that Blaine wonld accept the nomination. There were no takers. Then he offered to bet 5,000 three times that if nominated Blaine would be elected. Steed Won't Act as Chairman. WAflHnrGTOir, June 2. Special It has been learned to-night that Representa tive Thomas B. Reed has notified the National Republican Committee that he will not be a candidate for the office of Temporary Chairman of the Minneapolis Convention. He-will attend the conven tion, but merely as a spectator and advisory counsel, and it is understood that he does not desire and will not accept either of the Chairmanships. St. Louis Preparing for the Worst St. LOUIS, June 2. The Mississippi river will rise four feet more here, so the old river men claim. Higher water is re ported in the upper rivers. The surpassing of the flood of 1811, the greatest on record, is now predicted, and the outlook is gloomier than ever for the afflicted. THE SOLDO IN IT, Hoosier 6. A. E. Men at Minne apolis Pnlling Ont for the President. THE EAELY BIED AT WOEK. The President's Friends on the Scene m Force, and No Time Lost BY GEN. NEW AND LIEUTENANTS. A Caucus Held to Talk Oyer the Tempo rary Chairmanship. TBE COLORED TOTE MAT BE APPEASED WHOM A BTXTT C0BBESP0SDK3TT.I Minneapolis, June 2. Hoosier State politicians are devout believers in the story of the early robin and the fishing bait While there is no lack of enthusiastic Blaine boomers in Minneapolis to-night, the Harrison hustlers have secured a point by being first on the scene in force, and the emblems bearing the picture of the present occupant of the White House are just now largely in the majority about the political resorts. One feature already very evident is that the President's well-worn army record is once more expected to do yeoman service in his behalf. Long-haired Indiana veterans, with a G. A. R. badge on one side and Harri son button on the other, are making more than innuendos as to the distinction be tween a man who fought for his country un til he was made a General and one who sent a substitute. All this indicates that the Harrison man agers now here have no intention of permit ting the loss of the second-term nomination without a desperate struggle, and that they are willing, if necessary, to make an open attack on the statesman so long recognized as the chieftain of the Republican party. Indeed, some of the President's support ers are already giving utterance to words more likely to retnrd than advance the chances of the candidate of their choice. Selecting a Temporary Chairman. At noon to-day the Republican National Executive Committee held a meeting so quietly that very few even of the politi cians knew it was in progress, or know yet. Chairman Clarkson, Secretary Fassett, Payne, of Wisconsin; Hansbrongh,of North Dakota; Conger, of Ohio; Sanborn, of Mich igan, and Hyde, of Massachussetts, were preent Tbe most important subject under discussion was the naming of a Temporary Chairman, and the merits ot the legion of candidates mentioned for this honor were informally considered. No definite choice can be made until the meeting of the full National Committee on Tuesday, but those present at to-day's conference nave cheer fully assumed the duty of a preliminary in vestigation. r One member of. the committee said to The Dispatch to-night: "PersjnfJly, I am not in favor of Fassett, Reed'iloliin ley, Cullom, Ingalls or any of those who are most talked of for Temporary Chair man. I think the convention should go to the South for one of its presiding officers, as that is about the only honor that can go to that section. I shall be not at all sur prised if such action is taken by the com mittee on Saturday, and it may be decided to recognize the South and the colored vote at one and the same time. Langston would make a good Chairman." General New in Command for Harrison. The last prominent arrival on the Harri son side of the fence to-day was General John C New, who has practically assumed control of tbe second term propaganda. He confidently assures all comers that Blaine is not in the field at all; that Chaun cey M. Depew will present Harrison's name in the greatest effort of his life, and that the nomination if only a matter of calling the rolL "What isyonr estimate of the President's strength in the convention?" queried The Dispatch correspondent "He has a majority of the delegates," was the reply, "he will be renominated, and that is the sum and substance of it Mr. Blaine's letter removes him from the race. That letter, written February 6, holds as good to-day as it did then. Not only did it remove him from the range of possibility, but it also caused Senator Sherman, Secre tary Rusk and Senator Blair to give pub lic utterance that they would not be candi dates before the convention. They then conceded the renomination of the President It would not be just to all these, as well as to the President, for Mr. Blaine now to come in and reverse his intention. Had he remained a possible candidate every one of them would also have organized their friends and respective States with a view of being candidates before the convention. Now it is too late. Mr. Blaine understands the English language, and we must take his letter as he wrote it He took the people into his confidence, and surely not to be tray them." The President Wants Another Term. "Have you talked with President Harri son about his renomination?" "Certainly I have; several times. He wants a second term, as a matter ot course. He feels that he deserves it I can't say that he has any resentment against Blaine personally in the matter, but he may have toward those who are most active in it" The announcement is made that either Governor McKinley or ex-Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, will second Depew's speech naming Harrison. This arrangement, of course, will have to be changed if the pro tection champion is chosen as permanent chairman of the convention. Spooner is already on the ground, and is taking a determined stand in favor of a second term. In giving his opinion to night he said: "Common fairness and justice demand the renomination of Mr. Harrison. I am sure he will be elected. It is conceded on all sides that the present has been one of the wisest and most con servative administrations in the history of the country. I do not see how Mr. Blaine can allow his friends to seriously think of bringing his name before the convention. His letter to Mr. Clarkson, it seemed to me, was final. If he did not mean it he was cer tainly insincere. V do not see how he can accept the nomination in any event, unless it comes to him unanimously. I think Mr. Harrison will be the nominee." Harrison's Friends Very Confident. John K. Gowdy, Chairman of the Indiana State Central Committee, predicts Har rison's nomination on tbe first ballot, if not by acclamation. Said he: "I think Mr. Harrison will be nominated on the first ballot, if not by .icclamation. His friends regard Mr. Blaine as a brilliant as well as an honorable man. The Blaine men are using his name for the purpose of defeating Mr. Harrison, knowing that if Blame is nominated he will not accept tbe nomina tion. Then they can unite on some other candidate." The above are fair specimens of the claims ot the Harrison managers, and they are made with an air evidently intended to carry with it the effect of supreme confi dence. .Bnt, oh, what a difference around the Clarkson headquarters! The National Chairman repeated the statement made to The Dispatch at Chicago last evening with added emphasis. On some points 21 hours ago he was hesitating and coy, but now he would not admit that there is a vestige of a shadow of a doubt as to Blaine's nomination. Clarkson estimates that the Maine man will have 600 supporters in the convention and Harrison not over half that number. The latter's strength, in his, opinion, came from -the South and from the officeholders. Of such, such men as His coek, Depew et al. were exceptions, which proved that the almost universal Harrison strength lay with the men who made np the vast Republican machine. Blaine the Strongest Candidate. "We want to nominate the strongest man in the party," resumed Chairman Clarkson, "and I think James G. Blaine is the man. The present campaign will be one of the fierce j t ever known in American politics. In my judgment it has been a certain belief of the masses of the party for two years that Blaine should head the ticket in 1892." "What is the cause of Mr. Harrison's un popularity?" was asked. "Unpopular is not tbe right word to be used in that connection,' was the reply, "because it is decided that it might be bet ter not to nominate him for the second time it does not follow that Mr. Harrison is unpopular. It simply means that, in the opinion of the majority, the interests of the party will be best subserved by the nomina tion of some other man. The doubtful States of New York, Connecticut, Wiscon sin and Indiana will have the largest influ ence on the convention. I have talked in New York with nearly all the leading men and in my judgment 40 or more of the dele gation are oonosed to the Vt -t's re- nomination, amy ot tnem w or -Diaiue, lur lucre is no irum 4fy- lfc, that Piatt is the only prominent SHlfhjjQ Republican for Blaine. Warner Mjj, George ge West, A. a Cheney, ex-CorfgressOft.- tn Durham, and in company with Burleigh and J. Sloat Fassett are all f" va . "!j n late Corporation Clerk of man Blaine men. But here is Fassett, now; he win tell you all about it" Fassett Positive It Is Blaine. Yes, I think Blaine will be nominated, without any question. In fact, it looks to me as if the old tickets. Blaine and Cleve land, would be nominated this year," said Mr. Fassett Colonel Conger sprang a new construction to-night, bv suggesting that Sherman might be induced to take second place on the ticket with Blaine, making what Conger calls "an all-star, unbeatable aggregation." Some evil-minded individual intimated that Conger's idea was simply another one of the schemes to create a vacancy in the Senate for the fiery ex-Governor of the Buokeye State. Henry C. Payne, of Wisconsin, said: "I think our delegation will be divided about evenly between Harrsson and Blaine, Should it be a go-as-you-please convention, our people will pull lor Jerry Rusk." On one point the two factions are har monious. Each professes to neither expect nor desire another letter from the Secretary of State. The Harrison people say that the brief document of last February was very satisfactory and all-sufficient, while the Blaine boomers announce that all they want is for their favorite to keep quiet for a few days longer they will do the rest Colorado Hen Against Everybody. The delegates from Colorado are decorated with a badge, the principal constituent of which is a silver dollar with the legend "Unlimited Coinage" on a blue ribbon un derneath. These delegates are loudly de nouncing all candidates and both parties. They are particularly severe in their ar raignment of President Harrison, and are expected to eventually land in tbe Blaine camp, although not without protest. Pennsylvania is practically unrepresented as yet-jln the convention city. Senator QnayiSxpected to-morrow, and the poli- ucian,"specially of the anti-Harrison per suasion, are awaiting his arrival with inter est The Senator is depended upon to outline the final steps in the movement to relieve Mr. Harrison of thedntiesand vexa tions attendant upon the occupation of the White House. Bancboft. 130 DEAD, 280 MISSING. Dynamite Stored In Bohemia's Bnrnlng Mine May Increase the Horror. Vienna, June 2. One hundred and thirty bodies have been taken out of the Birkenberg mine in Bohemia, and 280 are still missing. The bodies were raised in batches of three. No one was rescued alive to-day. The faces of the victims are scorched and blackened and show traces of a desperate straggle for life. The scenes at the pit's mouth to-day were heart-rending. One woman fell dead and another went mad. The rescuers were encouraged in their work this morning by hearing a bell in an adjoining pit, where a number of miners are known to be imprisoned. The rescuers continue to work fearlessly, though at great risk. Many were overpowered by the smoke to-day and had to be drawn up to the surface. A panic was created to-day when it became known that 120 pounds of' dynamite were stored in the mine, though the manager declares that the explosive is placed where it cannot be reached by tbe fire. COUNTY OFFICERS WANT THEIR FEES. An Appeal to the Supreme Conrt Attacks the Constitutionality of the Tax. Harbisbtjrg, June 2. Special Ben jamin M. Nead, counsel for the Register and Recorder of Westmoreland county, has en tered an appeal in the Dauphin county court from a settlement made by the Auditor General. The appeal raises some very important questions, in which nearly every county officer in the State is inter ested. Under the law, as interpreted by the Auditor General, every county officer has been compelled to report ail fees which he collects, and the State has exacted in each case SO per cent of the amount of these fees remaining after deducting necessary clerk hire and office expenses and a salary of $2,000 for the officer. The appeal in the Westmoreland cose attacks the constitu tionality of the tax, and if the Court shall sustain the position assumed hy the de fendant in this case it will relieve all county officers from paying this excess of fees into tbe State Treasury, Taking Action on the Poor Farm Bids. It is probable that the Committee on Charities will assist Chief Elliot in the ex amination of the properties offered for a oPoi Farm' The Chief yesterday submitted to City Attorney Moreland all the bids re ceived who will examine them to see if they are in accord with the regulations and re turn them to-day. The examination will begin next week. THIS MORNING'S NEWS. Topic Fage. Gath Buys Blaine Wants It....i 1 The News From Minneapolis 1 Boyer Gives Ball In Bntan's Salt 1 Tbe Mayor Once More Overridden 2 Hot Weather Booms Snlclde 3 Tost Sick or the I & O. 3 Eastern Men Talk Hlaine 3 Editorial Comment and Society Chat 4 The Republican Party Past anil Present.. 4 Florida In the Grip or the Alliance S Revenge of a vi oman Scorned. ........... 6 Details of an Electric Bailway 7 Ball Scores and Kaoe Records 8 The Moonshine Murder Trial 8 Rnmors That Blaine Will Beslgn O News of tho Business World O Another Western Express Robbery O Chess and Checker Problems 10 Work of he County Courts 10 PII and Commercial Markets 11 Reciprocity and Silver Talks 13, BOYER BlfES BAIL To Answer Entan's Sensa tional Charges, and at the Same Time Says HE IS GEEATLY SUEPEISED A Lawyer Hints at Sensational De yelopments That Will REVEAL AND REVOLUTIONIZE. The Ei-Senator Has a Bod in Pickle Quay and Morrison. for WHAT THE LATTER IS ACCUSED OP rSFXCIAZ, TILEGBAM TO TITE DISPATCB.1 Philadelphia, June 2. Ex-State Treasurer Boyer lost no time in meeting the charges of'unlawfully using and benefit ing by SJate funds while in office," brought by exScate Senator James S. Rutan before Alderman 3Iawrer in Harrisburg yesterday. ' J e met the issue promptly this morning by -'nir ball in the sum ot fl.uo oelore theW iv va a vuibVi ivva. uuuu train for -arrisbnrg, where a preliminary hearing in the suit will take place to-morrow. During the past few weeks Mr. Boyer has been recreating on his father's farm at Ziegler8ville, Montgomery county. His first knowledge of Mr. Rutan's charges was derived from the papers, and he decided to act at once. The decision bronght him to the city. Mr. Boyer had barely reached his office in the Land Title and Trust build ing before Constable Tom Anderson ap peared with two warrants from the Harris burg alderman's office. Boyer an Accommodating Prisoner. "I suppose you know me?" said the con stable. The query came as if Anderson felt very sorry in being just there. "Yes, you are from Harrisburg. Sit down a bit," replied Mr. Boyer. "I presume you also .know the nature of my errand?" "Yes; you have a warrant for me." "That is it I have; but there are two of them," introducing the papers to sight, "and you may look over them if you care to." The ex-Treasurer had the curiosity to gaze over the contents of the instruments, and found that tbe first warrant included charges as to funds deposited in the Alle gheny National Bank, from which it is al leged he received $11,000 in interest money. The second warrant alleges a similar act re specting the Beaver Falls Savings Bank, where the deposit amounted to 200,000. The Allegheny National Bank had $600,000 and the Enterprise National Bank of Alle gheny City bad $100,000 of State funds dur ing Mr. Boyer's term, but there was the single specification of $11,000 paid by the Allegheny National only mentioned in the warrants. No benefit is named touching the other two. Mr. Boyer rea'tfie warrants carefully. Then he bunded them back with the re mark: "I had just prepared this dispatch to Alderman Maurer, telling him that I would leave the city on the limited for Harrisburg to-day to anticipate your sum mons when you came in, and I guess I had better send; it now. We'll step over to Magistrate Durham's office and fix the bail." Magistrate Durham accepted $C0O bail, separate on each charge. Says It's Rldlcnlons but Surprising. Mr. Boyer talked briefly about ex-Senator Rutan's course, and said: "The whole thing is ridiculous and absurd. The action is very much of a surprise to me, and it is hard to analyze what he is after." "Rutan says $25,000 were spent to defeat him in the Allegheny primaries." 'I note that," continued the ex-Treasurer. "I can conceive that he is disgruntled and vexed oyer his defeat, but I cannot ap preciate or understand how or why he should think I had anvthing to do with it He charges Senator Quay, Morrison and myself with dropping $25,000 in his district to defeat him, and the real truth is just here, I know as much about the district as I do about a district in Ohio, and that is nothing at all. And another thing, $25,000 is a big sum, a great deal more than I could afford to use for the purpose he charges. If I had a lump sum lam mighty sure it would not be spent in that way." Touching the specific charges in the twin warrants, Mr. Bover conrteously declined to speak. He said they would be discussed before the State's law officers. If he de mands a full hearing in Harrisburg to-morrow the Alderman will fix the time for some day next week. Meanwhile the witnesses for the Commonwealth will be subpoenaed, and among them some leading Pittsburg bankers will be present Ex-Treasurer Boyer's friends declare Rutan's charges to be nonsensical, and that he will have no trouble in refuting them. Ex-Senator Ru tan says he has just begun. A Revelntlon and a Revolntion. A Harrisburg special, after repeating Mr. Boyer's denial, states that Colonel A. J. Herr, of the counsel for Rutan, says his client claims to have corroborative evidence of a very strong and substantial character. "If Rutan is sincere, and I have no reason to doubt either his sincerity or determina tion to pursue the several suits he intends bringing, he will not only make a revela tion, but a revolution," said Colonel Herr to-night "Rutan has not yet brought suit against Senator Quay or State Treasurer Morrison. He says he will wait a few days." Rutan claims strong evidence to prove the charges which he will bring against Senator Quay for ofienses alleged to have been committed during his term of State Treasurer and since. As' to Morrison, Rutan alleges that while he was Chief Clerk of the House he carried on the pay roll as employes the names of three young men, one of tnem a son of ex-Congressman Covode; that he certified that they were regular employes, when, in fact, they were not in Harrisburg or in the employ of the State at any time during the session of the Legislature. The District Attorney will assist Colonel Herr in prosecuting the suit against Boyer. Rutan left for home this morning, accompanied by his brother, who is an employe at the arsenal here. The prosecution is not ready to proceed, and Mr. Boyer gave bail for a hearing at 10 o'clock in the morning, which will likely be postponed. The Home Bankers Say No. The officials of the Allegheny National Bank refuse to talk about Senator Rutan's charges against ex-State Treasurer Boyer. The cashier of the bank, however, said that they had never paid Mr. Boyer anything for the use of the money he had deposited in the Allegheny National Bank. J. L. Clark, Cashier of the Enterprise Bank, said: "We had on deposit about $125,000 of the State's money under Mr. Boyer's administration. We never paid him a cent of interest and he never asked us for any. When Mr. Morrison became State Treasurer the deposit of the State with our bank was increased to $200,000, but the bondsmen are worth five times that amonnt No; we never paid the State Treasurer any interest on the State' de- posits." 1 Jm?m
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