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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY 'JUNE 6. 1892L
BLAME THUNDER
OFTBORROWED.-
One of tlie Reasons Wliy-tlie
Ex-Secretary Is a Private
Citizen Again.
A MAN OF, GEEAT GENIUS
Taken Into the Cabinet to Over
shadow All of His Colleagues,
Oath Sizes Up the Situation in Minne
apolis on Sunday Evening He Thinks
Earrison and Blaine Have Each About
200 Votes and 500 Are in the Balance
A Good Deal of Talk About a Third Man
Alger's Sails Trimmed to Catch
Blaine Wind McKinley Not the Dark
est of Dark Horses Excellent Record
of the Ex-Secretary.
FROM A ETAFP COItnESrONDENT.
Minneapolis, June 5. Blaine's resig
nation is the only item of news to mark this
convention. The President's determination
to get his terms is responsible for this and
all the other complications at Minneapolis.
Following the bad precedents of most of
our chief magistrates the formation of his
Cabinet was with reference to assent made,
and Indiana, where politics is the house-
hold interest as much as if the State was a
military camp instead of a city of homes,
adjured Harrison not to take a man of
genius like Blaine into his Cabinet, who
would be sure to do something splendid and
to draw away the popular applause. But
all the American people, and especially the
Democrats,, watched Mr. Harrison to see if
he could be capable oi this cross dis
courtesy and ingratitude. He felt that ho
must make a concession, but he never made
it with the full markedness of a man who
had resolved to let one term exemplify
.his life. That second term was still pulling
at the President's brain and heart
The Itlalno Side on Top.
For a brief time there was the appear
ance of friendship for Mr. Blaine, but it
was soon felt to be unnatural on both sides.
Blaine would not fail in anything, and the
State Department continued to rise like a
balloon at which all the people looked,
while the administration band of music on
the grounds only got the attention of the
band masters and a few cock-eyed men.
Blaine had 'a way ot taking the initiative,
and before the Cabinet could get a reproof
ready for him it was always found that the
people sided with Blaine. The tariff was
the principal subject of debate in the Har-Ht-on
campaign, and the country, not ready
at that time to make a sacrifice in its ware
house and purchasing credit and manu
facturing conditions, let Harrison come in.
His name sounded like William Henry
Harrison, Tippecanoe and hard cider, and
many men who had led the Republican
party, remembering their early -votes for
Clay and Seward and "Webster, went back
and voted for Benjamin Harrison.
McKiiilfT llio IIIb1" Tariff I'ool Secretary.
Forthwith, a higher tanfi than ever was
clapped on the American people by Porter,
"Wells and McKinley. This tariff was made
in a very small pool, McKinley being rather
the secretary of the pool than its prime
mover. Mr. Harrison allowed this tarifi to
be made, and at that time lie and Speaker
Heed and McKinley were all conjoined.
They did not see how such an excessh e
tariff would lose Congress to the adminis
tration and revive Cleveland and make his
issue the main issue in three years,- but
Blaine, with an old editorial eye, trained in
the Legislature of as cute a State as Maine,
and conversant with the feeling all over the
land, came out with reciprocity, and in
vented South and Central America as a new
world, thereby attractins more attention in
England than any public man we have ever
had on questions of trade and revenue.
Up to this time Blaiffe had not appeared
to be statistician, publicist and financier.
He incurred the immediate resentment of
Heed, McKinley and Harrison. McKinley
represents this feeling now at this conven
tion. Reed A I no Dealt a How.
Heed at the time was training for the
the Presidency, and he, like Harrison,
looked upon Blaine's interference with the
billion tarifi as an impediment to his hopes.
But before the joint powers could plan
any campaign it became apparent that the
whole land welcomed the reciprocity movement-
Even Mr. Cleveland had to take
notice of it, and claimed that it was part of
his platform which Blaine was trying to
swim ashore.
The infuriated British and other foreign
ers hastened to pour their money into the
Argentine Confederacy, where it was lost
and the British nation nearly wrecked, and
the sequel showed that France and the
"United States were better ready for a finan
cial panic than any other nation. The panic
struck our shores and rebounded. "We had
a large amount ot additional money in cir
culation through our silver certificates, etc.,
and had learned the currency notes of
credit, and had a continental elasticity, so
that if New York recoiled the shock trans
mitted from city to city was soon lost in
the infinite distance of American inter
State free trade and transportation.
Blaine an Uncivil Genius.
Blaine assumed the appearance in the
Cabinet of a mysterious and uncivil genius.
The Indiana mind became alarmed lest the
hat of the grandfather should turn out to
be a parachute by which Harrison would be
let down from Blaine's baloon.
Then came the New Orleans riot, pre
senting an entirely new question, and
Blaine cut the difference by stigmatizing
the barbarity of the act at home and noti
fying the Italian Government that our
confederacy was still in a provincial and
soft condition, the State rights not yet as
similated in the system.
Senator Spooner told me during, this
convention, though he is for Harrison, that
Blaine's attitude was much sounder than
the President's. The Secretary of State,
besides, had such a personality that the
foreign Ministers, if they went away with
their portfolios in a dudgeon, confounded
Ulaine with the United States, and thought
that after all we were an amicable set.
Other rt.h in Blaine's Xet.
The Bering Sea and the Newfoundland
fisheries questions came along, and though
we seemed tabe always on the eve of going
to war for a string of fish with our cousin
in civilization, we never did strike a blow
because the soft answer which turned away
wrath was in the State Department. That
man of marvelous tactics, of original tem
perament, of the diplomatic and the Amer
ican natures combined, was able, by his in
tercourse with the British Ministers and
their Cabinets, to bring to arbitration what
in worse times would have been settled
with a dagger.
Blaine was all the time gaming strength,
and it was manifest that merit of this kind
must pestiferously stand in the way of a
second term, especially as the President
was not happy in his intercourse with his
fellow-politicians. The man who wanted a
second term was quite averse to conferring
large favors upon other States than Indi
ana. Mr. Blaine could look a man in the
eye while talking to him, and could help
him out of a false position and anticipate
his excuse.
Ulalne's Manners Called Conspiracy.
Maimers rule the world. Unfortunately,
at the White House, the better Blaine's
manner grew the more of a conspiracy it
was interpreted. Why should he have a
better complexion than the President, a
brighter eye, more warmth in putting out
his hand, more suVgestlveness, imagination,
and all which make up the accomplished
man of society. His household were marry
ing into the army, into the high musical
circles. The man of fame with the baton to
woo Blaine's daughter found information
there upon his own art.
The various representatives of Central
and South America, whose self-estimation
was inversely strong to the size and repute
of the country, saw Blaine preside among
them and looked up to him with the inter
est of the junior class in statecraft at a
clinic by Grotius or some of the old mas
ters. The President had a strong power of
expressing himself from the shoulders up,
and was slightly illuminated when address
ing a crowd, but the moment he came face
to face with an individual he looked as if he
wanted the interview to terminate and let
his mind get down to the agreeable topic of
a'second term for himself.
JThus are men more than blessed accord
ing to their expectation made unjust and
miserable by ambition.
Caot-Offs Picked Up by Harrison.
As time went on the President began to
gather into hiB Cabinet the cast-ofi satel
lites of Mr. Blaine, who had been assidu
ous in their intentions until they had seen
Mr. Blaine once defeated, and the virtue
went out of them. Much of the shew
bread, which was fit only for the priests to
eat, had been given to the editorial frater
nity in consulates and missions, and so
forth, and the press on one side was pretty
well muzzled and the Blaine workers were
brought into this Harrison radius, and thus
it seemed that the event at Minneapolis
must come out right. The respectability of
the country which is opposed to any change
of Presidents as an error which disturbs
the peanut trade had on the whole made its
courtesy to Mr. Harrison.
About four or five months before the con
vention was to meet the President, who
had been to the war, while Blaine had not
volunteered, resolved to put home belliger
ency into his platform. Chile was to be
tackled. Now, Blaine at that very moment
was impressing the South American States
with their natural mutuality of interest
with ourselves. He had for a year or two
been boring himself with signers and sig
norita, fixing up sensibilities in Mexico,
putting the glass eye snugly back in the
head ot Guatamala, and dusting with his
best clothes-brush the tearful deshabille of
Venezuela. The President was bent on
war; Mr. Blaine observed here and there
that he thought there was no occasion for
war.
Groat Interests Well Preserved.
The naval officers all lost their promotion f,
but to the great relief of the country, we
did not throw away a hundred to a thousand
millions of the guana interests and the
horned cittle toward Patagonia. When the
Chilean issu was settled by the State De
partment it was too late for anv other large
business but to get from Blaine a letter
promising not to run against Harrison. To
this great stroke of policy was the Govern
ment of the United States brought by the
insane ambition of the discoveries of yester
day to bcome the dynasties of to-morrow.
As pertinaciouslv as old Maurice of Hol
land forced conclusions upon John Oden
Barneveldt, the President and his Cabinet
coterie undertook to pick the pocket of
Blaine of a document that he would not run.
They were all after it, from Tracy to El
kins. Each man, when he got it, was to
kneel upon one knee, kiss the President's
foot, and be made a knight tor having got
from a poor sick man persecuted by the
death ot his children and contrariety of
events his abnegation ot hope and desire.
And ail this from an individual whom
Blaine had manufactured, clothed, pano
plied and blessed. The treatment of Joan
of Arc and her white plume by Charles
VIL was quite analagous.
Dlalne in a Debtor's Cell.
The letter was at last obtained, the man
of dangerous popularity had given his note
and was in the debtor's cell. What can he
do now? Nothing, but he can still bi
popular. All those who had not admired
the President's style, those who thought
that he looked more like Phillip IX than
Charles V., and those who thought that the
play of politics would be as tedious as a
Quaker meeting for four vears more of Har
rison, began to say: "Why, this old fellow
Blaine, whom we have fought for so long,
is all w have left to meet the combination
of patronage, design and dull mercantile
conservatism. We know how he is
treated, we know how his family feels, we
know the spurns that patient merit of the
unworthy takes, and let us run him at
Minneapolis I
This produced a revolution in the Indi
ana council. Lew Wallace was called upon
to see if anything in "The Fair God" or
"Ben Hur" would meet the situation.
Chauncey Depew was sent for, and the ever
handsome Hiscock. It was resolved that
they must get another letter from Blaine;
the first letter, saying "I am dead," was not
enough. They wanted him to write an
other, saying "I am damned," hut every
friend ot Blaine's in former days had
become already ingrateful, and only one or
two had the audacity to suggest to him to
write another letter.
Most Afraid ot Blaine's Family.
They were not exactly afraid of Blaine,
though still aware that they deserved to be
kicked down his front steps, but there was
a shoot of the eye of Mrs. Blaine and some
of the small children in the hallwav of the
Blaine house, which iproduced a veritable
panic among the Harrisonites.
Alas, that Itussell Harrison, the prince
expectant, had squandered his opportuni
ties and could not tickle Blaine, like the
advertising solicitor of yore, and get from
him a letter at contract rates, to be kept
standing, and to say:
0 friend most dear, I am not here,
I have no place, no part
In dwelling more by sea or shore
jjus oniy on tny cnart.
Addressed to B. Harrison. As the mo
ment for the convention drew near, and the
foreign consuls, carpet-baegers and three
fifths of all other persons were in the Min
neapolis muster, the treatment of Blaine
became such that he could not longer go
through the farce of being a member of the
Presidental lamily. There was a rebellion
in Dotheboy's Hall. Smike was in open
revolt Everybody, however, was instruct
ed at Minneapolis to say that Mr. Blaine
had given his honor, had written one letter,
aud though they could not get three ont of
him, it was hoped that one handcuff would
hold him.
The Shackles Off Officeholders.
The shackles were meantime taken off all
the Senators, revenue officers and sub
ordinates, and they were told to go to Min
neapolis and swell the cry of mediocrity
at large for two terms. The hope was that
Blaine would at least do nothing.also of a
startling sort After the nomination he
might be removed from his place, or at the
month after the election, provided it were
successful. If unsuccessful, Mr. Blaine
was to be accused of having lost the cam
paign. So things went along until yesterday
afternoon, when the following day was Sun
day and but one day for work intervening
before the convention. Meantime, from all
parts of the country delegations and elubs
were hastening toHinneapolis. They awoke
on Sunday morning to find that Mr. Blaine
had taken his traps ont of Mr. Harrison's
house. He had got tired of living in a
Cabinet of dependents and servitors, where
he had no man of his social and intellectual
rank to,confer with. Noble, Miller, Wana
maker, Rusk, Faster, Elkins, Tracy this
outfit one might leave and not break his
"heart, but at the announcement Minne
apolis went wild. All the lving in favor of
a second term went to the winds. Mr. New
and others had talked themselves hoarse
that they knew Blaine would not run. In
the rebound it was apparent that a vote
that night would have sent Blaine into the
Presidency.
The Present Outlook at Minneapolis.
What is the situation? If President Har
rison would withdraw from this race, the
result might not be Mr. Blaine's nomina
tion, but as long as Harrison demands his
second term it will probably be unsafe for
those opposed to him to congregate on any
other person than Blaine. There are un
questionably greedy people here trying to
push in this man or that The Alger folks
have some votes, and entertain the hope
that their candidate may succeed. In my
view bucu u movement mignt ieaa to .Harri
son's nomination. Nor do I see any other
person than Alger working within the
Blaine lines for the support of Blaine's
friends.
Alger intended a few days ago to attain
the Vice Presidental place, and let the
ticket be Blaine and Alger, aud this seems
to me to be the probable solution if Blaine
now remains quiet Some of the agricul
tural people hoped that Busk would go on
the ticket, but Busk has spoken one day too
early for Harrison, his master. The "Vice
Presidency, however, is a strong fortress
with a sick President, and John Sherman or
Mr. Allison or Mr. Cullom might be glad
for it The managers in such things have
to lok out lor financial support when thev
come to run their ticket, and therefore I
think that Alger is liable to go behind
Blaine. If a soldier is as necessary upon
the ticket as a farmer Alger will da
Callom and McKlnleys Chances.
On the other hand, there are men back of
Harrison who secretly hope to get his
assets, and among these may be Cullom and
McKinley. Critics think that Cullom
made a bad break in declaring for Harrison,
a few weeks past McKinley has played
his nart verv delic&telv. and it is sunnosed
has been worked into the eligible situation
of presiding officer, which is sometimes im
portant in a convention if there is a deadlock.
An Ohio element has always been hopeful
that McKinley would come in just as Gar
field did, by presenting his Napoleonic top
to the galleries and looking pale and inter
esting, as it he cared that somewhere in
the house old Samuel, with his hnrn of oil,
was drawing a bead upon him and sayine,
"William, if there is room for any more oil
on thee, hasten to catch my horn." Thus
the McKinley bill, the little tin cup, etc,
would be the'issue ot the campaign.
The improbable withdrawal of Harrison
from this contest would simplify Mr.
Blaine's relations to it, but I think that
men do not play these large games of hazard
for the benefit of their junior partners.
Harrison wants the office, and has
been in slavery to this term to come
during the four years he has already
served. He has served four years with
Leah', only in order to marry Rachel; he
has given away one holiday to have a sec
ond one of the same length at the end of it.
Greshamltes Getting Sarcastic
As personalities increase a few dis
gruntled Indianians are referring to the
similarity between Harrison's treatment of
Gresham on the bench and a popular hope
that Harrison would be magnanimous
toward his fellow-statesman have been
heard, with a deaf ear at the White House.
The belligerency ot Harrison is referred to,
as when his appointee, General Porter, had
made a speech somewhere in Indiana, and
Harrison waited at the foot of the stairs to
give him a drubbing therefor. The tone of
Harrison's supporters here is in keeping
with this pugnacity. He has, however, so
far got control of his State that one of his
principal opponents told me to-day that if
he were nominated he might carry Indiana;
the Democrats bad imposed a great many
unpopular taxes, and were out of favor this
year.
Said I: "Nevertheless, the Indianians
have not supported the Administration
since Harrison prevailed, and terribly
Knocked out his congressmen.
Until Blaine resigned the universal argu
ment for Harrison was "Blaine is not a
candidate." This morning thev are say
ing "Blaine has injured himself by this
step."
"How injured himself," we ask, "if he is
not nominated?"
A Blaine Letter of Another Kind.
Early in the morning one ot Alger's
friends told me that Blaine was expected to
send a letter of acceptance to his son Em
mons during the day. The dark horses
have probably maneuvered for a position
since Blaine resigned, and the Alger and
McKinley men, are supposed to be particu
larly active. Foraker, having been selected
to nominate Blaine, commences the usual
fight in Ohio, fo the prejudice of McKin
ley's aspirations.
Up in the Northwest, where so many
Maine men have become prosperous, there
is as close a feeling of State pride for
Blaine as for Harrison among the In
dianians. Nearly every Maine man in
Minnesota is badged for Blaine, and they
do not intrude upon strangers, but are bold,
faithful and fast
This is what John G. Moore, the eminent
New York broker, said tome: "Maine is,
always has been, and always will be proud
of Blaine, as her great exponent for genius
and leadership."
The postmasters from all over the Union
are here for Harrison, each of them contend
ing that his delegation will not have as
many Blaine men as reported, nor can I see
that Blaine has within seventy to a hundred
votes of the number required to nominate,
unless the other delegations can be broken
up.
Said a St Louis journalist to me who is
a Democrat: "The old Star Route crowd is
running Harrison here, in behalf of Mis
souri, with Kerens managing the campaign
next to John C New and Clayton in Arkan
sas, the smaller half ot Kerens."
Kerens Working for the Southerners.
Mr. Kerens to-day has been busily en
gaged in interviewing his colored support
ers from all parts of the South.
Said Mr. Cunningham to, me, long of the
New YorkJEtenino- Pott, "In my judgment
Blaine resolved to be a candidate after he
saw the action of the New York Syracuse
convention, which sent a full contesting
delegation to Chicago. Perhaps you are
now "aware of the situation in New York.
For the first time in the history ot the
Democratic party we have two State organi
tions resolved to exterminate each other.
Grace, with plenty of money, is bound to
beat Hill and Murphy. While these two
organizations have the same electors, they
are going to destroy each other, if possible,
for all the State offices. Now Harrison has
as good a chance to carry New York as be
fore." "Butj" said I, "Mr. Grace is especially
an admirer of Blaine, and told me last
month that if Blaine were nominated he
would be elected. At the time he supposed
thatlBlaine was too sick to stand."
"I think," said Mr. Cunniugham. "that
Blaine saw how Sew York could be car
ried after the action of that convention, and
that he then held that there was a chance,
aud that he would take it"
"Well," said I, ''was that not sagacious
politics? How many in the New York del
egation will prefer Blaine ?" ,
"I understand there are 35 who are
Blaine's."
Breaks on Both Sides,
"In the East Harrison has extracted
many of Blaine's old men from his stand
ard, and some of the Western delegations
hitherto for Blaine, like that of Iowa, are
disposed to give Harrison at least one bal
lot" '
Mr. O'Brien Moore, of St Louis, says
ibat Filley, who has gone over to Blaine in
spite'ot his instructions, controls the dis
trict delegates more than any man here,
and that he anticipates a rupture of the
delegates in Blaine's favor.
The Blaine men rather incline to Ingalls
for Chairman, while the Harrison men are
winking ioward McKinley. There is as yet
no clear light on the solution. Harrison
seems to have the most votes pledged,
Blaine is the most in the bush, and the town
is filled with Alger portraits, while Mc
Kinley is being held half way in the dark,
while the question is innocently put: "How
would he run?" It is feared that the Mc
Kinley bill is too heavy a saddle for him.
An extraordinary number of Bepubllcan
newspaper publishers are here, more or less
related to public printing, and their tune
this morning is: "How Blaine has injured'
himself!"
Concert of the Antl-Blaineites.
A concert of press and office-holding
worthies, equal to the largest chorus of a
burlesque opera, is going about striking the
note, "How Blaine has injured himself 1
Don't you think so?" To which I reply,
maliciously: "You told roe Blaine was not
a candidate, and as not a candidate, surely
he is not injured."
It seems apparent that the Republican
complications are encouraging dark horses
for the Democratic raoe. William C.
Whitney, as a compromise candidate to
carry New York, is a good deal discussed.
Minneapolis keeps cool and complacent,
the rich men tellinc stories on each other.
Lowry and William Washburn are two of
them,' of whom it is said that when a super
intendent on the Soo Railroad, of which
they have been successive presidents, was
asked which made the best President, he
said: "Naythar of thim knows a dommed
thing about it, but Lowry, he knows he
don't, but Washburn, he thinks he da"
Said Pillsbury, the miller, who has
rounded up a life highly important to the
bakers of the world: "I came to Minne
apolis just at the right time, when a revolu
tion had taken place in milling. We had
substituted the French bolting system lor
the old millstone at our mills. I suppose
that the burr stone or millstone has gone
out of the mill forever.
Brand New Men llio Itest
"We are now working on the Austrliaan
Elan of rolling the flour, and thus twice
ave I taken everything out of my mills
and remade them. We do not want to em
ploy men who have been millers among the
millstones. We had rather take men who
never saw flour ground. The first lesson is
to forget all you ever knew about milling.
If you remember anything of it you are not
a miller in these days."
Said I to Mr. Pillsbury: "I have not seen
the protection or tariff question mentioned
in this town."
"Why," said he, "one-half the Repub
lican party here is low tariff, to say the
least Our Minnesota members voted
against the McKinley tariff and were sent
back again. For myself, I regard the Mc
Kinley tariff as tariff run mad. We are
Republicans, however."
Strange sorts of people are seen here in
this new Stockholm making investments.
Sol Smith Russell, the actor, who is thought
to make f 1,500 a week the year round, drops
it into Minneapolis real estate; "Oliver
Optic," who writes boys stories, has come
out from Boston to this place, and still
writes books and keeps his eye on corner
lots.
A Good Anecdote of Mr. Blaine.
Said a Washington friend of Blaine, look
ing around upon the renegades to his cause
who were shedding crocodile tears and re
gretting that they were instructed for Har
rison, having written the instructions them
selves: "Those fellows remind me of a say
ing ot Blaine's, some time ago, when he
was vilely traduced by n certain man: 'I
do not know,' said Blaine, 'why he hates
me, for I have never done him a favor, "
I met one of the most eminent men of
California, a Republican candidate therefor
the highest nomination, who said: "I have
been quoted as in favor of Harrison, and I
believe he has been a good President, but
he cannot carry one side of California, He
Eromised us a Cabinet Minister, between
is nomination and election, and we gave
out all over the State, and he made no effort
to redeem his promise, but set afloat the
story that there was strife in California,
which was not a fact As we came up from
St Louis yesterday," said this man, "the
people were gathered sal around the sta
tions hurrahing for Blaine. When I got to
the West House, in "Minneapolis, the lob
bies were full, and an Indiana band and
club entered, singing a song for Harrison
and cheering for him and calling for cheers,
and not a dozen persons outside of them
were heard. As a matter of compliment he
may deserve the nomination, butthey tell me
that all of these States west of the Missis
sippi are in doubt if he is nominated, while
Blaine is a new quantity and gives us some
hope.
The Worst Kind of Sarcasm.
"Mr. Harrison," continued he, "has been
challenged many times to know who were
his friends, and we have found but one man
who alleges that he is a friend, and that is
Attorney General Miller."
This gentleman wanted the Nicaragua
Canal approved by the platform, and said
that the silver question would have to be
straddled in the platform.
One of the men , here in much trouble
about how he shall vote is Judge Robertson,
formerly Colfector of the Port of New
York, under Garfield and Arthur. He has
been for Blaine every time, and to-day
Sheridan Shook said to him: "I am sorry
to see you against Blaine, when it was you
and I and a few others who arranged to
resist Grant's nomination for a third term,
in 1880."
Robertson did not speak, and looked dis
tressed. Warner Miller came here to-day from St
Louis, and while the Harrison men claim
him, on the ground that George Sloane, of
Oswego, is for Harrison, yet persons with
Miller tell me that he is for Blaine, and
that the big four will be two and twa
Quay isjeeeping dark, and Magee, while
soinewhat'tronbled about Blaine's letter,
still thinks he will support Harrison.
Clinton Wheeler tells me that there was
no admiration between Blaine and Elkins
after the campaign of 1881, when Blaine
observed that the campaign had been run in
a silly manner from headquarters. This may
account for B. F. Jones being on the
Harrison side, who was Blaine's selection
for Chairman of the campaign
Oath's Size-Up of the Situation.
The fact of the situation seems to be that
nobody knows how many votes either Har
rison or Blaine can get; conservative men
are talking about taking up a third quan
tity; some of the Blaine men are advocating
Rusk for Vice President with him, as a
necessity to carry the Northwestern and
agricultural States.
The weather out here continues delicious.
Clarkson failed to get more than one of
the Iowa delegates for Blaine, and, it is
said, frill be turned off the National Com
mittee. I should say that the indications
at present are that Harrison has consider
ably more than 200 votes, and Blaine near
200, which leaves about 500 votes uncertain.
The Blaine men claim.that they are break
ing up the Southern delegation.
GEOP.GE ALFKED TOWNSEND.
Father Cronln's Tnrn at Denying;.
Washington, June S. Father Cronin,
editor of the Buffalo Catholic Union and
Timet, denies emphatically a published
statement that Mr. Blaine sent for him to
obtain his views as to the effect of the
Ducey letter upon Catholics and others.
He declares that bis visit to Mr. Blaine
was purely accidental, and had no political
purpose. He merely called to pay his re
spects, and in the interview, the "name of
Father Ducey was not even mentioned.
lantern Parade.
The Pittsburg Cycle Company, of 8 Wood
street will open their Ease End salesroom
June 11 witb. a lantern parade, In wnloh all
cyders are Invited to participate. Lanterns
will be furnished free to participants, as will
also refreshments after the parade. Leave
orders for lanterns nowat 423 Wood street.
A Proof of Financial Security.
The late Mr. E. J. Anderson was Insured
forSSO.OOO n the Equitable Life Assurnnco
Society. The entire amount, was paid by
this society In less than 18 houis alter death,
notwithstanding the fact that the check hud
to be sent from New York. This is a 10
markable record. The manager of this
company for Western Pennsylvania is
EdwabdA. Woods.
516 Market street, Pittsburg;
THEY'RE JOLUK IN,
How the Noisy New Arrivals
Made the Seventh
Day Lively.
PENNSY WHOOPS IT UP,
And the Blaine Eefrain They Sane;
Caught the Crowd.
MOST OP THEM EOR THE KNIGHT.
The Banner Uarrison Contingent Strikes
Town and Causes a Stir.
SPECTACULAR FEATURES OP THE MEET
FROM A STAFF COBKESPONDEKT.
Minneapolis, June 5. The Pittsburg
and Allegheny delegates are now ojj the
ground, the majority ot them prepared to
vote for Blaine on the first ballot C L.
Magee and his wife arrived this morning.
An hour later a special car containing the
Tariff Club voters came in over the Chicago,
Burlington and Northern road. In the
party were City Water Assessor George
Miller, Councilman John Paul, Joe Bing
ham, Chief Clerk in Bigelow's office; Dep
uty Sheriff John Doyle, Judge Grlpp,
Harry P. Ford, President of Select Coun
cil; Dr. R. J. Black, of Crafton, and others.
The parties registered at the Ryan
House, St. Paul. Dr. Black is the alternate
for George Von Bonnhorst, Judge Gripp is
second for Chief Brown, H. P. Ford stands
next to G. L. Magee, and Lemuel Goosins
will take Senator Flinn's place if the latter
should not be able to take his seat
The Pittsburg contingent was waiting all
day for the arrival of Henry W. Oliver and
his party. They got in at 4 o'clock this
afternoon, eight hours behind time. They
came in President Oliver's private car,
Annapolis, over the Pittsburg and West
ern. In the party were Chief Brown,
George "Von Bonnhorst, Senator Flinn,
Charles S. McKee and Chief Bigelow. Sen
ator Flinn was emphatic for Blaine, Re
corder Von Bonnhorst was undecided how
he would vote, and Mr. Oliver was inclined
to be factious. He said he would cast his
vote for John Sherman, and then he smiled
mysteriously.
Sam P. White, of Beaver Falls, is here
with the Beaver crowd. He still has his
eye and seat in the State Senate, and he
hopes the Washington county people will
stand aside the next time he competes for
the nomination. Israel.
PENNSY'S BLAINE BOYS.
Bow They Made Bom. Howl on Their Ar
rival A Refrain That Is Fall of Hits
and Hamor It Caocht on and Helped
Blaine's Boom.
Minneapolis, Minn., June 5. One of
the most euthusiastic as well as the noisiest
delegations arrived at 2 o'clock this after
noon. They were the stalwart Blaine men
from the great state of Pennsylvania, The
citizens of Minneapolis were not long dis
covering the political complexion of this
delegation, as the heard the following or
iginal refrain, which was composed en route
by the various enthusiastic yonng Blaine
men:
We are for the man from Maine,
He will get there just the same:
Pennsylvania's here to stay,
And she stands by Matthew Quay.
Chorus: Ta, ra, ra, boom, ta, ra.
Jerry Rusk for seoond place;
He will help ns win the race.
Won't thoy make a dandy pair
For the Presidental chair?
(Chorus.)
Jim and Jerry are the stuff, x
Benjamin has had enough.
There are no flies on M. S. Quay!
Beeder will help us win the day.
(Chorus.)
Minnesota's a dandy State,
She'll help to break the Harrison slate.
Republicans all throw up your hats,
Claikson will beat the Democrats.
(Chorus.)
Protection and reciprocity
Our battle cry on land and sea.
Honest money's bound to win
McKinley aud American tin.
(Chorus.)
That Jim Blaine knows what to do
With State questions old and new;
Italy, Chile and Johnnie Bull
Have been taught a lesson full.
(Chorus.)
Jim will break the solid South,
Carry the news Irom mouth to mouth;
New Jersey will Join the crowd,
Make the victory clear and loud.
(Chorus.)
West Virginia will fall in line.
We wilt have a grand old time.
David B. and Giover, they
Are in the consomme. (Chorus.)
Tin, tin, American tin,
That's the stuff that will make us win !
Ben goes out and Jim goes in,
All on aocount of McKinley's'ttn!
The delegation started from Philadelphia
Friday afternoon on the Columbian ex
press, General Frank Beeder, Chairman of
the Pennsylvania Republican Committee,
being in charge of the special car assigned
to the delegation. At Harrisburg aud
Pittsburg two other special cars were taken
on occupied by delegates and their friends,
including the wives oi several of the party.
There were in all about 175 in the nnrtv.
They stopped about five hours in Chicago,
devoted to sight-seeing. The delegation
arrived here on a special train on the Mil
waukee and St. Paul road, and marched to
their headquarters at the Nicollet Hotel.
After a short stop there they formed in
line and marched to the Republican head
quarters to pay their respects to Senator M.
S. Quay and to make formal announcement
of their arrival.
The singing of their yerses on Hennepin
avenue as they marched up to the hotel at
tracted the attention of large throngs, which
were both amused and enthused by the stir
ring refrain. Oddly enough, the verse re
ferring to Minnesota was struck up just as
the delegation arrived opposite the entrance
to the Minnesota State headquarters. As
they reached the national headquarters, at
the West Hotel, the first verse was being
sung, telling the story 01 the delegation and
its preference.
Enthusiastic cheers greeted the new ar
rivals, and the corridor of the hotel was
instantly a mass of enthusiastic cheering
Republicans. Attempts were made to
drown out the Blaine shouters from the
Keystone State by the Harrison men, and
wave after wave of 'alternating Blaine and
Harrison choirs swept over the crowd now
and then, the other sentiment seeming to be
the prevailing one.
General Beeder said-, in speaking of the
reception of the news at Chicago- last night'
that Mr. Blaine had withdrawn from the
Cabinet, that in his opinion it would have
no effect upon the sentiment of the Repub
licans in Pennsvlvania other than to inten
sity their intention of doing all they could
to secure his nomination.
MASSACHUSETTS FLOPS,
A Delegate Says Blaine's Kesicnatlon Will
Only Hrlp Harrison.
Minneapolis, June 5. The Massachu
setts delegation is also among the day's
arrivals. Delegate Winslow says, as to the J
complexion of the delegate), that they
started from home for Blaine, so far as the
majority of sentiment was concerned, and
that when they arrived here, and as a direct
result of the resignation of Blaine, from 18
to 20 are now for Harrison. Ex-Governor
Brackett says: "I am a Harrison man, and
the sentiment of our delegation is now for
Harrison. The resignation of Blaine has
not helped him, but has served to strengthen
Harrison."
CALIFOBHIA'S CONTINGENT.
The Blaine Forces Strengthened by the
Golden Gate Shouters.
Minneapolis, June 5. The California
train reached the city at 5 o'clock and was
met at the Union depot by the Flambeau
Club, as have been the other delegations.
The ladies and a few others were taken to
the hotel in carriages, but the delegation as
snch marched from the depot to the West
Hotel, waving their red, white and blue
plnmes and their white hats, and arousing
considerable enthusiasm along the route.
As the Flambeau Club, followed by the
bands and the delegates from the Golden
Gate.marchedinto the lobby of the hotel, the
band's music was well nigh drowned by the
cheers of the crowd, who seemed to see an
increase of the Blaine forces approaching.
As the gav pampas plnmes were waved by
the enthusiastic delegates the cheers for
Blaine were taken up and shouted across
the corridors, intermingled with almost
equal enthusiasm with the cheers for Har
rison. The delegation did not stop at the West
Hotel, but marched immediately through
thecorridor and out a few doors west to
their headquarters, in Masonic Temple, and
from there scattered to their various loca
tions. Chairman Spence, of the delega
tion, after they had arranged for a confer
ence some time during Monday, the time to
be set by himsclt later, stated tc an As
sociated Press reporter that there had been
as yet no polling of the delegation taken,
but he was of the opinion that at the pres
ent timelt stood, as between Harrison aud
Blaine, about equally divided.
THE EABB1S0N YELIEBS.
An Indiana Band That Created Commotion
and Cheered Drooping; Spirits.
Minneapolis, June 5. The big event
of the day from a spectacular standpoint
was the arrival and reception of the banner
Harrison reinforcement The Columbia Club
of Indianapolis. With light gray bats and
long linen dusters, preceded by a stunning
Minneapolis escort in scarlet, the long line
of Columbians came swinging up the street
from the depot to the West Hotel wifti
bands playing and jaunty confidence that
was better than barrels of tonic for the
Harrison legions already on the ground.
Cheers met them at every street corner.
TheColumbians presented splendidly dis
ciplined appearance as they marched
straight into the thickest of the fray the
rotunda of the West Hotel and proceeded
to take possession of everything in sie'nt.
Around the solid white phalanx formed
by distinctive hats and dusters of the Col
umbians surged a black-hatted, dark-clothed
mob of delegates and camp followers, yell
ing like Indians, the uproar alternately
sounding loudest first for Harrison and then
drowned momentarily by shrieks for Blaine.
The Columbia Club members held their
ground manfully in the rush of friends and
foe, and struck up a rousing Harrison cam
paign song. The burden of the ditty was
that the President was a vote-getter of
superhuman degree, and in the chorus "Man
irom Indianer" rhymed to "Matter with
Hanner."
THE FAIR SEX THESE.
A Unique Spectacle Which Causes Old
Campaigner to Ponder.
Minneapolis, Minn., June 5. The
unique spectacle of lady delegates to a
National Convention is a matter of unceas
ing interest to-day to the old-time poli
ticians of the Republican party.
Mrs. G. C. Carlton, one of the two women
delegates from Wyoming, was the recipient
of numerous calls to-day from the party
leaders, and received congratulations on the
triumph of her sex in obtaining political
recognition in the far West Mrs. Carlton
is of medium height, rather slender,
and is a decided brunette. Her voice and
musical enunciation are her greatest charm,
and few women are so well fitted for public
speaking.
"For twenty years," said Mrs. Carlton,
"Wyoming has enjoyed woman suffrage, and
the women voted as naturally as they ful
filled any of the duties of life. There was
never anything in the least disagreeable
connected with going to the polls. The
right was exercised freely as a matter of
course." Mr. Carlton is quite up on the
political situation and appears to know all
tuai is going on.
A DAISY SUBE ENOUGH.
The Minneapolis Flambean Clnb Doing
the Grand in Great Shape.
Minneapolis, June 5. The Minneapo
lis Flambeau Club, which has been used to
day as a reception committee for the city for
all incoming delegations, has been in exis
tence for a number ot years and is famous
as a thoroughly organized and well-drilled
clnb, and with the bands of music that are
used in connection with it, both local and
outside, has added greatly to the reception
tendered the visitors.
It marched back and forth between the
Union depot and the West Hotel, the first
point to which the incoming delegates
march, attracting much attention by its gay
uniform and in all its decorations giving nb
preference to one Presidential delegation
as against the other. The local committee
men, in addition to the Flambeau Club,
were on hand, not only at the depots in this
city and St Paul, bnt had gone out some
distance from these cities to meet the
trains, and the delegates who reached the
city were furnished with information as to
where to go and where to get to their
quartern Their baggage was also cared for
by the local committees.
DEMANDS OF COLORED REPUBLICANS.
They Ask the Minneapolis Convention to
Guarantee Protection to Their Race.
Chicago, June 5. A large number of
colored Republicans from Texas, Arkansas,
Iowa, Ohio and Illinois met in this city to
day pursuant to a call for a National Con
ference. The purpose of the meeting was
to adopt a plan for the redress
of wrongs which the colored people
of the South are said to be subjected to.
A long set of resolutions were nresented,
calline upon the Republican National Con
vention at Minneapolis to "inculcate in the
platform of the party a plank guaranteeing
protection to the negro in the South and in
all the States."
As a result the conference organized the
National Colored Men's Protective Associa
tion, whose first convention nill,be held at
Indianapolis, September 22. The debate on
the resolutions was a heated one.
Indies, bend for Ono.
The handsome souvenir book just pub
lished by the Marshall Kennedy Milling
Company of Allegheny, Pa., can be secured
by sending a 2-cent postage stamp to them.
It is printed on elegant enameled paper,
contains beautiful halt-tone pictures, and Is
the handsomest ever published in the city.
It also contains many valuable hints about
flour and bread baking. Send for one.
EOD
Lantern Parade.
The Pittsburg Cycle Company, of 413 Wood
stieet. will open tlieir Ease End salesroom
June 11 with a lantern parade. In winch all
C clei-a are invited to participate. Lanterns
will bo furnished tree to participants, as will
also lefieshments alter the parade. Leave
ordeis for lanterns now at 423 Wood street.
Attractive Prices Silk Glores and Mitts
For ladles and chlldern, all colors and black.
2So. 35c, 50c, 76o, $1 00 and $1 CO. AH are pure
silk, guaranteed.
A. G. Caxfbell & Sons, 27 Fifth avenue.
HE HAD TO WRITE,
r
The Ex-Secretary Forced to
Send Out Another Card
for Publication.
AN INTEKYIEW DENIED,
And He Warns His Friend3 to Look
Ont for Similar Canards.
HE SPENDS SUNDAY AT HOME,
While Harrison Goes to the Church of the
Covenant, as Usual.
PATOCEFOTE BIDS BLAINE GOODBT
Washington, June 5. Mr. Blaine
spent the whole day quietly at home, ex
cept that toward evening he took a drive
into the country with Mrs. Blaine. He re
ceived a few calls from personal friends,
but admittance was refused to all other per
sons. All efforts to interview him were
equally unsuccessful, the ex-Secretary of
State adhering to the determination which
he announced immediately after his resig
nation yesterday, that he would let the pub
lished correspondence speak for itself with
out a word of explanation from him.
Mr. Blaine has, however, sent to the As
sociated Press this evening for publication
the following autographic communication:
A CARD.
17 Madisov Placs,
Wasuisotos, June 5, 1S32.
The United Press yesterday sent oat an
alleged interview with me, and also with
Mrs. Blaine, for which there was not tho
slightest foundation in truts. It was a
forgery, fiom the first word to the last. I
warn my friends that similar falsehood
may be expected. James G. Blaise.
The Sola Topic of Discussion.
The political situation, simplified as most
people think it has been by the resignation
of Secretary Blaine, was a topic of ani
mated discussion in Washington to-day, and
the inference generally drawn from the
Secretary's action that he will accept the
Presidental nomination if offered him elicit
ed many expressions of gratification among
his friends.
Washington is usually a very quiet place
on Sunday, especially during the warm
months, when so many persons leave the
city, if only for the day, but to-day was a
marked exception to the rule. Everywhere
a person went the first inquiry addressed to
him was in reference to the interpretation
to be placed on Secretary Blaine's resigna
tion and its probable effect at Minneapolis. '
Most of the actual working politicians on
the Republican side of the Senate and
House have gone to the seat of war to as
sist in molding opinion in favor of their
respective candidates for Presidental
honors. Those left behind, however, gos
siped over the new phase of 1 the .situation
to their hearts' content, and arrived at
conclusions eminently satisfactory to them
selves if not to their interlocutors.
Nearly everybody in Washington reads
the newspapers, and although the resigna
tion of the Secretary was made public in
time for the afternoon papers vesterday, the
people 'were eager for all the details.
Every Bit of News Gobbled.
It was not, therefore, long before the
morning newspapers of this and other cities
were at a premium, and the newsboys
reaped a harvest The church-goers as well
as the stay-at-homes, the transient as well
as the regular guests at the hotels, all had
the momentous news of the day fully read,
had opinions to express concerning its
meaning and its probable bearing on the
Presidental situation. Every scrap of
news relating to the President and to Mr.
Blaine was received with an avidity that
evidenced the great interest felt Although
the opportunity has been afforded many
times before to see the President at church,
and it has been passed by unheeded, so great
is the interest in the latest developments in
the political firmament that many persons
went to-day to the Church of the Covenant,
where the President usually attends, to see
him.
Mr. Blaine's fine old mansion opposite
Lafayette Square, in Madison Place, within
a stone's throw of the Executive Mansion,
was more than commonly an object of inter
est, and many newspaper reporters were
among the numerous people who made it an
objective point during the day.
Harrison and Ulalne'a Sonday.
President Harrison attended divine serv
ice at the Church of the Covenant this
mornine. Rev. Dr. Tennis S. Hamlin, the
pastor, preached the sermon. The Presi
dent walked to the church and rode home.
He srent the greatest part of the day with
Mrs. Harrison, who is still unable to leave
her room. During the afternoon he took a
stroll through the White House grounds.
Among the callere at the White House to
day were Secretaries Elkins and Foster.At
torney General Miller, Judge Field, oi In
diana and a number of persons who called
to inquire about Mrs. Harrison's health.
Sir Julian Pauncelote, the British Min
ister, called at ex-Secretary Blaine's house,
to-day, to say goodby. The Minister and
his family expect to leave this country dur
ing the coming week, for Carlsbad. Other
persons called at the house and left their
cards. The callers included General John
W. Foster and Senator Chandler and Mrs.
Chandler. It is expected that Mr. Blaine
and family will go to Bar Harbor some
time this week.
AN OHIO RIVER SCOURGE.
A Mild Typo or Smallpox Prevalent In
Many West Virginia Border Towns Tho
Ohio Itoard ot nealth Takes Action
Vaccination Enforced.
Columbus, O.. June 5. Special A
special meeting of the State Board of
Health was held in Columbus to consider
measures to prevent the spread of smallpox
from infected districts all along the Ohio
river. Official reports up to to-day show
smallpox present as follows:
Minersville has one case; Pomeroy, 2S
cases, five of these having recovered and
one died; Chester, one case; Middleport,
one case, and Gallipolis, one case. In West
"Virginia there are three cases at East
Letart, 11 at Mason City, two at Clifton,
three or more at Point Pleasant, an un
known number at Lione, and cases un
officially reported at Buffalo and Charleston.
1 In Minersville, Pomeroyand Middleport,
houses containing the disease are strictly
guarded night and day. Most of those
who have been exposed have been vacci
nated. Nearly all the towns along the river
from Ravenswood to Gallipolis have quar
antined against each other, and business is
almost at a standstill.
The character of the disease so far has
been comparatively mild, and bnt two
deaths occurred. Rigid measures to pre
vent the further spread of the disease will
be enforced by the Ohio State Board of
Health. Dr. Probst, Secretary, will meet
the Secretary of the West "Virginia Board
to-morrow, and rigid quarantine regulations
will be put in force at once. A notice is
beinc sent to all Boards of Health in the
State, advisine that all unvaccinated per
sons aud all who have not recently been
vaccinated, should submit to the operation
at once.
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Don't bay one dollar's worth or goods until
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