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| J. H.ESTILL, President. (
MIAMI
Rival Factions Fight on
Faraik
BANNERS IN TATTERS.
Hi Reptilicaiis oa tin
Verp ol a Bis Raw.
Harrison Men Tired of tire
Game of Freeze Out
A Big Kick Apt to Bo Made on the
Floor of the Convention—Scores of
Delegates Disgusted With the Meth
ods of Clarkson, Platt, Quay and
Their Gang—No Noticeable Change
in the Strength ot the Two Leading
Candidates—Alger Supposed to Hold
the Balance of Power.
Minneapolis, June 8, 11:45 P. m.— There
was a small factional riot to-night in Hotel
West. The younger members of the Blaine
party announced that they would purade
through the streets. The Harrison men got
up a counter demonstration, and Anally
both parties marched through the principal
streets, and finally both headed for the
rotunda of the hotel. There they met and
marched around in circles to the tune of
discordant yells and rival shouts for Blaine
and Harrison. At the bead of the Blaine
columa was a banner carried by an In
diana man bearing the Inscription,
"If Blaine is nominated he will carry
Indiana by 10,000." Another Blaine
nmu carried a similar banner bearing
the still more irritating inscription, “if
Harrison is nominated he will lose Indiana
by 20,000." These banners excited the ire
of the fiery younger men of Indiana and a
sudden rush was made and before the
Blaine people had an opportunity to defend
their colors the banners were pulled down
and torn to pieces.
BLAINE HEN RETALIATE.
Instantly the Blaine people retaliated by
an onslaught on the Harrison forces anil
their banner, bearing a portrait of the Pres
ent, and some inscriptions certifying to his
political grandeur, were also pulled down
and torn to pieces and trampled under foot,
Of course, all this provoked a
great deal of bad feeling and
'or a time it seemed as
though there would be a general fight.
There was a great deal of souffling and mon
were jostled against the marble walls and
there were two or three flatie of
short duration, but the riot which for a time
was feared by all the cooler heads was hap
pily averted. For two hours hot heads of
rival factions thronged the hotel rotunda
and made it impossible for guests to pass in
or out of the hotel, but shortly after 10
o’clock they finally dispersed without any
personal damage to anybody, but after hav
ing created a great deal of serious discord
in the ranks of the Republican party,
Particularly of the rival factions of the
Hoosier state.
the diplomatic skirmish.
Minneapolis, Minn,, June B.— The Har
rison weather has cleared up, but the polit
ical situation has not. Although two days
of the convention have gone by no one can
to-night whether President
harriton or Mr. Blaine, Gov.
-'i'-'K tiley or Senator Sherman will be
Dominated. To-night President Harrison is
Dhead. If the first ballot was to be takon
to-morrow morning he would be nominated,
out the first ballot will not be taken before
nday morning. If the anti-Harrison men
Dau prevent it will not be taken before
Saturday. Boss Platt said to-day, "‘We
s na!l be here a week longer.” It is quite
Krue that Bobj Platt may reckoning with
-ol|t his host. There are significant indica
ions that he may find it impossible to keep
ho convention from balloting.
HARRISON MEN MAY SHOW FIGHT.
It may be that the Harrisonians may
fco ‘ s troug enough to change their acquies
-061106 in the Platt programme for prelltni-
Dsnes into aggressiveness. They may at
npt to force a ballot to-morrow, and may
tuccetd, or they may verify the supersti
-1 -us fears of those delegates who are say-
j L * "It will be just the luck of the un
,uclty convention to make its nomination on
n !ay.” But the anti-Harrison bosses, who
csucns day and night in the rooms of the
Dationai committee, from which Harrison
k “, with just as good a right to occupy as
uemseives, are as r ig l( jiy excluded as is
- Portrait of Benjamin, are, ta ~en
°gcther, more skillful strategists than their
exponents, and being uuewbarrussed with
scruples, may be depended upon to use all
the tricks known to their trade, and invent
a few new ones, as they sit under the inspir
ing portrait and plumes of the ex-Bec
retary of State. Their purpose to beat both
Mr. Blaine and President Harrison abso
lutely demand delay, and they will stretch
every nerve to its utmost. Tnev find their
task increasingly difficult, however, as their
plan of campaign becomes known.
the game known at last.
L ntil to-day most of the delegates did not
realize what the Harrison managers have
understood all along, that the plan of cam
paign included Mr. Blaine only us a club to
beat President Harrison. Most of them be
lieve that the theatrical booming of Mr.
Blaine was siucere. Last night and to-day
knowledge of the truth began to spread
from delegation to delegation, threatening
the success of tne scheme of
course more and more at
every additional delegation. It got out,
as was almost inevitably, through
the attempts of the anti-Harrison bosses to
bring forward dark horses by way of pre
venting a decision In the convention until
they could defeat President Harrison and
select the particular dark horse who would
win. In the Michigan delegation, whioh
contains some honest countrymen who pre
fer Prosidont Harrison to Mr. Blaine, the
truth was talked right out at a meeting last
night called by Col. Duffield, Gen. Alger’s
spokesman, at the instance of ex-H*nator
Platt to see whether two independent farm
ers who bad announced that they should
vote for President Harrison on the first bal
lot could not le driven into voting for Gen.
Alger. When coercion was applied to one
of the Harrisonians he exposed what he
called “the bunco game” of the anti-Harri
son men to use Mr. Blaine to beat President
Harrison. He said that he saw plainly that
Gen. Alger’s oandieacy was only being used
as part of this game, but that he proposed
to vote for President Harrison on the first
ballot. Thereupon four others came out
and took the same position, and even de
manded that Gen. Alger’s name should not
be presented to the convention.
PLATT WORRIED.
Mr. Platt was disturbed when Mr. Depew
brought him the news of the revolt and
was still more concerned when this evening,
after the delegation had held two more
meetings, Mr. Depew reported that there
were now ten rebels who were doing every
thing they coull to prevent the presenta
tion of Gen. Algor’s name and threatened
to vote for President Harrison on the first
ballot. It is essential to Mr. Platt’s play
for preventing a decislou on the first ballot
to have Gen. Alger formally presented and
it is essential that Gen. Alger should have
the solid support of Michigan. Messrs.
Platt and Clarkson and Duffield, who has
Gen. Alger’s power of attorney,
will do everything in their
power to preserve this portion
of this programme, but it would not be sur
prising if they failed at this point. The
auti-Harrison bosses are having better fort
une in their other dark horse scheme.
Gov. McKinley and ex-Spoaker Heed are
helping them with the boomers, Mr. Reed
openly and Gov. McKinley covertly. Mr-
Reed’a efforts on the different delegations
have produced many reports, as that pub
lished but promptly deuied this evening,
that he would get a nearly unanimous vote
from Massachusetts on the first ballot,
Messrs. Cogswell and Gove being the only
exceptions. Gov. McKinley is saying less,
but he is doing quite as much. He is so
anxious for the nomination that he
seems nervous. His two mistakes at
to-day’s session, first of including the tin
plate bill and exoluding the binding twine
in his enumeration of the tariff bills passed
by the present House, and second of an
nouncing that nominations for President
and Vice President were in order oontrary
to the express lauguage of the rules just
adopted, to which the ambitious Cullomand
the cay Stic Ingalls characteristically called
attention, are charitably set down to presi
dential feverishness.
SHERMAN THE DARK HORSE.
While Mr. Reed and Gov. McKinley got
many compliments and much applause,
although the longest applause for either as
yet, that for Gov. McKinley in the conven
tion to-day. was only twenty-five seconds
by the watch, and while their names are on
most tongues, and Gov. McKinley even ap
poared to-day on badges, Benator Snerrnan
is still the candidate of the antis Harrison
managers, who realize not only that he
is the strongest man, but that the great
delegations of New York, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio can be most easily united for him.
Less was said to-day about Senator Allison,
Secretary Kusk and the other dark horses
who are regarded as of more doubtful avail
ability.
While the anti-Harrison men have gained
a whole day by preventing action in the
committee on credeniials and the committee
on platform before the convention met, the
proceedings in the committees since the
convention adjourned to-day apparently
indicate that they cannot be relied upon
for much more as-istauce in the filibuster
ing enterprise. They may help the Blaine
ites out to-morrow, but apparently will go
no further.
THE ALABAMA CONTEST.
The decision by the chairman’s vote of
the Alabama oontest, the only serious one
before the committee on credentials, was a
surprise, for tne votes are valuable to the
Harrisonians. The Harrisonians ware de
lighted not only with the fact that they had
gained unexpected votes, but with the
promise that they would have a chance to
uie them while they were still valuable.
The Harrisoniam are as anxious for a bal
lot as the anti-Harrisoulans are for delay.
While the Harrisou forces have stood with
wonderful firmness and have been constant
ly under fire, they cannot be expected to
stand indefinitely. Even their southern
contingencies, which have so far
been loyal, are not above
suspicion, and Individuals in these might,
perhaps, succumb to pecuniary temptation
should they lot their stock of expense money
give out. Then, too, the dark horse idea is
stronger for every day's delay. Telegrams
by request from the headquarters of both
sides are pouring in, every one saying that
Blaine or Harrison, as the case might be,
cannot be elected if nominated, and every
day the bitterness between the two factions
is dwelt upon by the dark horse talkers the
more effectively for these telegrams.
THE ANTIS ALSO SUFFERING.
The auti-Harrisonians of course suffer
for every day’s delay and by the spreading
exposure of their tcheme, which of itself
gave President Harrison his additional
strength to-day, and will also include Illi
nois on the part of poor hut honest delegates
who cannot afford to stay here for the
whole week. They hope to gain more in the
end by the fabian policy. Their hopes are
largely based upon the general belief that
President Harrison will be stronger on
the first ballot than on any other
subsequent one, unless Mr. Blaine with
draws. This belief is of course predicated
on the fact that many delegates who were
instructed for President Harrison on the
strength of Mr. Blaine’s letter to Chair
man Clarkson feel that after voting once
for President Harrison they will bo free to
vote for Mr. Blaine or anybody else, now
that Mr. Blaine is apparently an announced
candidate and his name is to be presented
by ex-Gov. Foraker to the convention.
The absence of enthusiasm continues to
be a subject of constant comment. It
w ould be strange if there were any.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1892.
OPENING OF THE DAY.
The Harrison and Blaine Forcea Both
Stand Firm.
Minneapolis, Minn., June B.— The
opening of the day found no significant
change in the presidential situation. Both’
sides were still apparently as confident as
ever. Gen. Alger was still in the field and
no less thau half a dozen other distinguished
republicans of national reputation were
mentioned as possible compromise candi
dates. The whole progress of the conven
tion appeared to be dependent entirely on
the action of the committee on credentials:
This organization practically oontrols the
political situation, as it is within its power,
in case that power isexeroised unscrupulous
ly, to seat or unseat enough delegates to ex
ercise the balance of power in the conven
tion. It was very manifest this morning
that the proceedings of that committee wore
not to be characterized by that harmony
which had been so strongly urged on all sides
for the preceding twenty-four hours. The
Blaine people have control of the committee
but the opposition has a very large and ag
gressive minority and every vantage point
is contested stubbornly and eloquently. It
has generally been the oustom that the com
mittee on credentials, which is appointed on
the first day of the convention, has been
prepared to report on the opening of the
second day, but that was not the case this
year, and no one knows, not even the secret
managers of the Blaine forces, when that
committee may deem it advisable to expe
dite its business and present its report.
GAINS FOR HARRISON.
The Harrison people were maintaining
this morning, with a considerable show of
plausibility, that they had made gains
within the past twenty-four hours In certain
of the northern and eastern states. Par
ticular stress is laid by them on the state of
New York, where they claim at present
that they will receive 2!t votes on the first
ballot. The claims of all the candi dates and
estimates and Indications carefully gleaned
from all quarters, showed that the Blaine
and Harrison forces were of almost equal
strength this morning. The Blaine people
had the advantage of the organization not
only of the convention but of important
committees, but the Harrison managers
oertainly succeeded in keeping their forces
well together to prevent the slight
est appearance of demoralization.
The knowledge that McKinley was to he
the permanent chairman of the convention
added somewhat to the presidential boom
of the governor of the Buckeye state, which
is being widely discussed by the more con
servative delegates, and there is evidently
a movement iu some quarters to spring his
name as a dark horse. When occasion seems
to indicate the probability of the success of
such action Hon. Jeremiah Rusk. Secretary
of Agriculture, and Senator John Sherman
of Ohio, Senator W. B. Allison of lowa
and others are mentioned as possible candi
dates, but neither the Blaine nor Harrison
people have thus far evinced the slightest
indication of abandonment of their candi
date to turn to a dark horse in order to de
feat the opposition.
The administration men were worsted
last night in their efforts to keep the cre
dentials committee at work until they could
reach a decision, but to-day they fared a
little better (perhaps because the Blaine men
did not want to make another fight) for the
committee decided to oontinue in sessiou
and hear the Alabama fight while the chair
man wens to the convention to report.
SESSION OF THE CONVENTION.
A Detailed Report of the Day’s Pro
ceedings.
Minneapolis, Minn., June B.— The pro
ceedings in the convention to-day were
opened with prayer by Bishop H. P. Whip
ple of Minneapolis.
Hon. L. E. Walker ot Beatrice, Neb., on
behalf of the Nebraska delegation, pre
sented the temporary chairman, Mr. Kas
sel t, with a gavel from trees grown on the
first homestead in Nebraska. The gavel,
he said, was of wood of hardy growth and
was inlaid with silver. "I desire to return
my thanks to the delegates from
Nevada for this gavel,’’ said Chair
man Fassett. [Groat laughter greeted
thiß mistake of the chairman,]
"I mean Nebraska,’’ corrected the chair
man quickly. "There was so much silver
in his speech that my mistake was involun
tary." [Laughter.]
Tne next thing in order was the report of
the committee on credentials, and Mr. Cogs
well of Massachuseets, by direction of the
committee, asked for further time and per
mission to sit continuously.
Mr. Spooner of Wisconsin was on hl9 feet
iu an instant in behalf of the administra
tion men to spar for advantage, and put
some interrogations to Mr. Cogswell, who
was also an administration man, but tied
and bound fast in the committee
by the adverse majority. Mr. Cogs
well had, in the committee, endeavored
to bring about a report of the uncontested
rases before the permanent roll was made
up as to the contested cases. Mr. Spooner
asked when the convention might reasona
bly expect a re nort.
Mr. Cogswell’s report was dry. It was,
he said, a matter of personal opinion, but
if its proceedings were attended with rea
sonable success, they could not hope to re
port before to-morrow.
Mr. Spooner then inquired if the commit
tee could now report in the uucontested
cases, aid in this merely got from Mr. Cogs
well a declaration that the question almost
answered ltseif, as of course the committee
was ready to report the unoontested cases.
M’KINLEY GIVEN AN OVATION.
Hon. E. C. Lockwood of Idaho presented
the report of the committee on organization.
A wild sseue took place when the commit
tee reported Goy. William McKinley of
Ohio for permanent chairman.
Hon. Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut,
ex-Senator Spooner of W isoonsiu and Gen.
William Itahone of Virginia were ap
pointed a committee to escort Gov. McKin
ley to the chair. A magnificent ovation
greeted the governor when he stepjied upon
the platform. Temporary Chairman Fas
sett introduced his successor, and when
Chairman McKinley led off by saying that
republican conventions say what they mean
and mean what they say the sentiment re
ceived enthusiastic applause.
Temporary Chairman Fassett said:
Gentlemen of the Convention— Before pre
senting to you the permanent chairman,
the chair desires to thank you most hear
tily for the kind forbearance which you have
extended to him. I now have the honor
and distinguished pleasure to introduce Hon.
William McKinley of Ohio.
Chairman Fassett retired amid applause
aud there was prolonged and renewed cheer
ing and waving of banners, after which
Gov. McKinley addressed the convention.
M’KINLET S SPEECn.
“Gentlemen of the convention,” began
Gov. McKinley. [Cries of three cheers for
McKinley.] The vast ..audience arose and
shook the building with cheers. After the
applause bad subsided Gov. McKinley pro
ceeded as follows:
I thank you for toe honor of presiding over
this convention of the Republican parly. [Ap
plause.] Republican conventions mean some
thing. They have always meant something
[Applause ] Republican conventions say what
they mean and mean what they say. [Ap
plause.]
They declare principles and politics and pur
poses, and when entrusted with power execute
and enforce them. [Applause.] The. first na
tional convention of the Republican party was
held thirty-six Years azo iu the city ot Bhijadel-
phla. The platform of that convention reads
to day more like sn Inspiration than the affirma
tion of a political party. [Great
applause.] Every provision of that
great instrument made by the fathers of
our party are on the public statutes of our
country to-day. [Applause.] Every one of them
have been embodied into tne public law and
that cannot be said of the platform of any
oiher political organization In this or any other
country of the world. [Cheers ] Whenever
there is anything to be done in this country aud
by this country, and for this country, the Re
publican party is called upon to do it. There
Is one thing that can be said about our organiza
tion that cannot be said about any other, it
can look backward without shame or humilia
tion, and it can look forward with
cheer and exultation. [Great applause. [
That cannot be said of any political organiza
tion other thau ours iu the United Slates. Thus,
gentlemen of the convention, we are here to
day to make a platform and ticket that will
oommend themselves to the conscience mid in
telligence and judgment of the American peo
ple, [prolonged applause], aud we will do it.
[Cheers. ] Whatever is done by this convention,
either as to the platform or as to the ticket, will
receive the approval of the American people in
November of this year. [Great applause J We
have already tieard some ol the notes
of victory, for this is > republican year
Rhode Island has spoken. [Applause] only
yesterday Oregon spoke, electing three repre
sentatives, three republican representatives, to
the congress of the United Bcates, and when we
get through with this convention its conclusions
will be the law of republican action, as they will
be assurance of republican victory. [Ap
plause.j
THE TARIFF.
We are for a protective tariff and
for reciprocity. [Great applause. I We
propose to take no backward step
upon either one bf these great repub
icau principles. [Applause.] We stand
for a protective tariff because it rep
resents the American home, the American fire
side, the American family, the American girl,
the American boy, and the highest possibilities
of American citizenship. [Applause.] We pro
pose to raise our money for public expenses by
taxing the products of other nations rather
than by taxing the products of our own. The
Democratic party believes tn direct taxation,
that is, in taxing ourselves; but we do not
believe In that principle so long ns we can find
anybody else to tax. Our protective tariff uot
only does everything which a revenue tariff is
doing, raising all the needed revenues, but the
protective tariff does more. The protective
tariff encourages and stimulates American in
dustries and gives the widest possibilities to
American genius and American effort. Does
anybody know what tariff reform is* ["No,
No," and laughter.] And that is to be the plat
form of our political opponents this year what
does it mean 1 You say study President Cleve -
land’s utterances from the first one lie inado iu
New York, when ho said he did not know any
thing about the tariff, until his last one in
Rhode Island, and you come away ignorant and
uninformed as to what tariff reform means.
Since the war there hove been three great tariff
reform bills proposed by democrauo leaders,
none of them alike, DOither of them with the
same froe list, neither of them with the same
tariff list, neither of them with the same rates
of duty, but all made by the Democratic party
upon the same principle to symbolize and re
present the tariff reform. You rnavgotoMr.
Mills, you may go to Mr. Springer, and you will
find they differ totally. You may go to the
Housn of Representatives at Wo Kington, which
was elected distinctively upon what they call the
tariff reform issue, with a two-thirds
majority in the House, and what
do you find? They pass three
bills. Let me name them: First, free tinplate,
leaving sheet steel, from which it is made,
tariffed. That is, the finished product free and
the raw material bearing duty; second, froe
wool to the manufacturer and tariffed cloth to
the consumer; third, free cotton ties to the
cotton states and tariffed hoop iron to all ttie
rest of the states. That is their Idea of tariff
reform. Gentlemen of the convention, how do
you like ft? This contest that we enter upon is
for the maintainence of protection and reelp
roeity, [Applause.). And I want to say here that
there is not a line in that tariff bill that is not
American; there is not a passage that is not
patriotic; there is not a page that does not
represent true Americanism and the highest
possibilities of American cittzanship. [Great
applause]
We are to declare ourselves upon other ques
tions here to-day. We are to declare ourselves
upon the question of a free ballot and a fair
count. [Applause] No platform should ever
be made that does not reiterate that great con
stitutional guarantee; no republican speech
should ever be made that does not insist firmly
and resolutely that that great constitutional
guarantee shall be a living birthright, not a cold
formality of constitutional enactment,
but a living thing which the poor
est and humblest may confidently enjoy,
and which the richest nnd most powerful
dare not deny. [Applause.] We oan well leave
to the committee on resolutions the duties of
making a platform that shall represent the best
thoughts and best ideas and best wisdom of
tho Republican party. When we go out of this
convention upon o true republican platform we
go out marching to victory, no matter wbat
name may carry the banner." [Great applause ]
At the conclusion of Gov. McKinley’s
speech, calls for Hon. Fred Douglass (col
ored) elioitea simply a bow of acknowledg
ment,
Hon. Henry Bingham of Pennsylvania
presented the report of the committee on
rules, and it was adopted by acclamation.
Ex-Gov. Foraker arose in response to the
call for the oommittoe on resolutions and
the convention burst iuto applause that
continued for some time. When the com
mittee requested further time to oonsider
the resolutions, an extension of time was
granted and the roll of states was called for
the names of the new national committee.
When lowa was called and the re-eieotlon
of Chairman Clarkson, the Blaine loader,
was announced, cheer after cheer followed
from the Blaine delegates.
A similar demonstration greeted tho re
port of the names of J. H. Manley of Maine
and Gen. William Mahone of Virginia, nnd
when Missouri was called and William
Warner presented the name of Richard C.
Keerins, the Harrison delegates made a
grand oounter demonstration.
Various resolutions and petitions which
had been introduced and sent to the olerk’s
desk were read by title and referred to the
committee on resolutions.
“The next thing on the list Is the nomina
tion of candidates for the presidency," said
Chairman McKinley.
Senator Cullom of Illinois arose to ques
tion the regularity of this order of business,
but the convention, supposing he had arisen
to plaoe someone in nomination, compli
mented the distinguished Illinoisan
with prolonged applause. The sen
ator was slightly embarrassed, but
quickly recovering he stated that he
arose to question the regularity of the pro
ceeding to make nominating speeches before
the adoption of the reports of the com
mittees on credentials and resolutions. A
glance at the rules showed that nominations
could not bo made until the reports of the
committees bad been received, and on
motion of Mr, DeYoung of California the
convention adjourned until 11 o’clock to
morrow morning.
ALGER HOLDS THE BALANCE.
Both of the Leading Candidates Lack
Enough Votes to Win.
Minneapolis, June 8. —Of the two dis
tinguished Americans who have been more
assiduously urged by their friends the past
week for the presidential nomination,
neither one to-night seems to have assur
ance of sufficient votes to effect a nomina
tion. The seeker after accurate informa
tion as to the relative standing of the two
candidates is compelled to discard as ex
travagant and quite misleading the figures
issued from the headquarters of each, and
a careful analysis of the expressed prefer
ence of all the delegates, together with a
classification of the uncommitted delegates,
shows that the two loading candidates are
each from 25 to SO votes short of a Domina
tion. The balance of power, if a ballot bad
been taken to-day, would have been found
to have rested with Gen. Rusjell A. Alger
of Michigan, who would certainly have re
ceived from 10 to 60 votes, and then pres
vented either of tho leading candidates from
receiving the requisite number for nominat
ing. This is the tenth national convention
held in the history of the Republican party
and is the end of the fourth decade of the
party which has played such an important
part in the history of the American repub
lic, but it can safely be asserted that the
past quarter of a century has never wit
nessed a o invention where there was such a
rapid subsidence of enthusiasm as is notice
able here on the eve of the critical day
which should decide the contest.. All the
ardor and enthusiasm and irresistible cou
viotion of success whioh the rank and
tile of both forces have con
stantly displayed to-day are signiflcautly
absent to-night. Iu the first place the
average republican bas been deeply disap
pointed at the very leisurely manner In
which the leading spirits of the convention
have postponed the essential business for
which the delegates are called together, and
feel that if the program tie of delay suc
ceeds, a ballot may uot even lie taken to
morrow.
TO BE WON BY STRATEGY.
It has caused every fnotion suddenly to
realize that the citadel of the opposition is not
to be carried by assault utier all, and each
now awaits the result of the ballot All
this lias bad the effect to dampen the en
thusiasm which pervaded the soul of every
loyal republican a day or two ago, and now
people, who but twenty-four hours since
were hilariously parading tho streets, are
walking dejectedly to and fro and
wondering bow the thing is going
to end after all. There Is
evidence of a consciousness on the part of
the average layman that he is something of
a prophet in this,battle for political mastery,
and that it is the leaders in conference iu
the upstairs rooms who have beon directing
his enthusiasm and who are likely to profit
by the results. Uf course these refieotious
are not very gratifying to the sovereign
American elector aud lie is disposed to re
sent this assumption by another man ot
control of his political nonentity, so that
to-night it is not uncommon to see walking
around arm in arm through the streets or
quietly conversing ou the curbstones, a
couple of privates who but a day or
two ago were arrayed In
opposition factions and fiercely combating
the factional affiliations and presidential
preferences of each other. As they get to
gether to-night and compure notes each
one finds our, that tho other does not know
much about themysterious motives and uu
fathoinable purpusos of tho gentlemen who
are the ruling spirits of this particular
crowd. And so the loyal toot of the horn
and triumphant blast of the bugle aud the
Inspiring music of bands that buoyed the
enthusiasm of all has almost departed from
this contest.
A GAME OF WATCH AND WAIT.
It is a quiet game of watch and wait, and
which is to gain the greatest benefit from
watching a*d waiting, or whether an un
known candidate, whoso star bas not yet
risen above the political horizon Is soon to
burst forth in an efficient blaze of glory, no
one oau possibly tell. The diplomatic
triumph of the Blaine element iu securing
control of the convention and of the commit
tees which are to play such au Important
part in its labors is the sensation of the day.
No one, not even the lenders of the Harri
son forces, appears to know exactly when
the cionspiraoy had its birth or how it oar
rloil Its execution, hut it bas forced itself ou
every man, as a surprise that there Is a
deep motive in this and that the plans of
tile Blaine leaders have been cautiously
laid. In the failure of the Harrison man
agers to carry their fight against Fassett
from the national committee to tho lloor of
the convention the Blaine leaders by the
vory default ot their enemies were enabled
to seoure the first decisive victory. The
most is made of this advantage by the con
stantly reiterated declaration of the Blaine
managers that, as they tiave oontrol of the
convention, they will be able to ooutrol the
nomination. The commltteo on creden
tials, whioh is a Blaine committee, is pro
ceeding slowly and is evidently intending
not to make any report until an opportu
nity is offered to judge of the Importance
which their recommendations may have in
determining the result of the convent! m.
Of the ooutests so far disposed of by this
committee the Biaine delegates have been
seated in every instance, although in sev
eral of these contests there was no differ
ence os to the presidential preferences of
the contesting delegates. The Alabama
contest was decided in favor of the Blaine
delegates, the vote standing 24 to 23.
ON THE EVE OF A BOW.
The Harrison Mon Apt to Lose Their
Patience.
MinniSlpolis, June B.—lt is a possibility
that the committee ou credootialß may not
be ready to report by to-morrow, and if this
should be the case there is pretty sure to be
a row in the convention whan its chairman
submits a request for further delay. The
Harrison leaders are very much irritated
over the Blaine policy of delay, aud ap
pear determined to force a ballot as soon as
possible. It Is stated to-night that when
the committee on credentials, at 11 o’clock
to-morrow, makes Us partial report, as it
probably will, and requests further time,
the Harrison people will move to adjourn
for an hour or two, with instructions to the
committee to wind up its business aud re
port to the convention at that time. This,
of course, will be contested by
the Blaine delegations, and may af
ford opportunity for the first direct test
of strength between the two tactions in the
convention. But by their skillful manipu
lations the Blaine majority have at their
command various expedients for delaying a
ballot if they find it to their advantage to
do to. Not until after the rules and regula
tions wore adopted to-day was it observed
that under their provisions the report of the
committee on credentials must bo disposed
of before the report of the committee on
platform aud resolutions is acted upon, and
that tho report of the oommittee on plat
form and resolutions must be disposod of
before the convention can proceed to the
nomination of candidates for President aud
Vice President.
FORAKER ABLE TO HELP THEM OUT.
Thus, even if the convention should force
a prompt report from tho committee on
credentials, Chairman Foraker and his
Blaiuecolleague) of the committee on reso
lutions would have it within their power to
delay balloting by delaying the report of the
committee on resolutions and forcing an ad
journment for another day. Evon tho
presentation of candidates, according to the
rules, caunot be made until after the re
ports of those committees are disposed of,
and thus tho very nominating speeches can
not be cleared out of the way uuloss tho
Blaine people permit a suspension of the
rules. Th > day has shown but little change
in the relative strength of the candidates.
The Harrison people claimed to have gained
a couple of Texas delegates, who yesterday
went over to Mr. Blaine, The Biaine
managers state that the plumed kuight has
made gains in the statu of Kansas, Illinois
and Rhode Island as well in several other
states which they failed to mention.
A LIST OF OFFICE HOLDERS.
The leaders of the Blaine faction are to
night contemplating a movement which Isa
very bold plan, and which, if carried out,
will be a farewell greetlug to thd shortlived
harmony and good feeling of the past
twenty-four hours, whatever its effect may
be in controlling the nomination. They
have agents carefully going through all
the delegations and selecting therefrom a
hfct of delegates ami alternates to the con
vention who are office holders under Presi
dent Harrison. They expect to compile
thoir list with the names of all
the administration office holders who are
on tho ground as helpless iu
the effort to renominate the President
and who are not delegates to the conven
tion. This list will lie ostentatiously given
out as an indication of the example that U
being set by President Harrison of the
effort of an administration to perpetuate
itself in power. The Blaine managers also
insist with a good deal of vigor that ex-
Seuator It.gulls, who baa been unusually
loyal to the President, has boen promised
the Kussiau mission recently vacated by
Hon. Charles Etnory Himth.
THE NOMINATING SPEECHES.
The Blaine people state this evening
thut it is no) yet decided that the namo of
their candidate will be presented to the con
vention at all. It may be found advisable
to vote for him without the formality of a
nomination, but in ruse it is decided to
place him formally in nomination ex-Uov
ernor Foraker of Ohio will certainly make
tho loading speech. President Harrison
will be placed in nomination by the
venerable ex-Beoretary of the Navy,
Richard W. Thompson of Indiana,
and tho nomination will be seconded
by Mr. Depew of New York, "on behalf of
the groat American nation." Other nomi
nating speeches will probably be made by
ex-Beuator John U. Spooner of Wisconsin,
John V. Massey of Delaware, Louis E. Mo-
Comas of Maryland, and possibly by ex-
Senator Ingalls of Kansas and others.
The Alger leaders had another conference
to-day and came out of It firm and loyal for
their candidate. Col. H. M. Daffield of
Detroit, leader of tho Algur foroes, says that
thmr candidate bos 75 votes assured, that he
will reoeive GO on the first ballot, aud has a
certainty of 15 more ou tho second. He
agrees with Presldeut Harrison’s poople
that ttie Blaine policy is one of delay, but
holds that, the strength of Michigan and the
scattering votes which Henator Mhertnan,
Goy. McKinley, Secretary Rusk, ex-
Speiker Reed, Senator Allison a id others
are likely to receive will be sufficient to
hold the balance of power and thus prevent
a nomination on the first ballot. After
that he entertains hopes that the Wolverine
candidate wilt gain iu popular favor.
Gov. McKinley still continues to be a
favorite among all the compromise candi
dates whose names have been mentioned.
He received a flattering ovation to-day
on his ascending to the chairmanship of the
o invention, and his well chosen speech to
the convention created much enthusiasm
and evoked the good will of all tho dole
gates.
THE SILVER PLANK.
An Attempt to be Made to Straddle
tbe Issue in tbe Platform.
Minneapolis, June B. —The silver men
have been very aggressive from the very
beginning of tbe gathering and have given
the committee on resolutions a groat deal of
trouble. The New York aud New England
members of the oomtuitteo proved too
strong for anything like a flat-footed declar
ation for unlimited coinage or anything
similarly radical. The Ujishot was an
agreement that the second plank should
ileal with the silver question.
The compromise as ts language was
that the declaration should be substantially
as follows: "The American people are bv
tradition and Interest in favor of bimetallic
coinage of gold and stiver, but one dollar
should bo us good as another dollar, that
silver should be coined at tbe ratio to bo
fixed by legislation, and that the forthcom
ing International conference Is indorsed as
probably fnrnlshing a satisfactory solution
of the foreign question of financial rela
tions.
Asa concession to the silver men, who also
represent wool growing states, the com
mittee agreed to tho insertion in the tariff
plank of an earnest protest against the
action of tlm democracy in singling out lead
and wool as articles to be placed on the free
list.
A free coinage resolution, pure and simple,
was voted down in tho subcommittee on
that branch of the platform by a vote of
three to two—the plnnk above given was
formulated. It is still subject to revision.
Following is the silver plank of the plat
form which will be submitted to tho con
vention:
The American people, through Interest and
tradition, are iu favor of bimetallism and (le
man I that both metals shall be used as standard
money under such regulations and provisions
us may be established by the legislative depart
inent of the government to establish and main
tain purity of metals and to make each dollar,
whether of gold, sliver, or paper, tho equal of
any other dollar.
\Ve corameud the wise and p atriotic policy
Inaugurated of calling an international confer
ence to establish concurrent use of gold and
sliver throughout the commercial world.
A FIGHT OVER A CONTEST.
s
The Blaine People Shaken Up in the
Committee on Credentials.
Minneapolis, Juno 8. —The Blaine peo
ple met with a surprise this afternoon in tbe
committee on credentials. They found a
counterplan at work to defoat thoir purpose
to approve tbe proceedings of the national
oommittee in the matter of contested seats,
and when a vote was taken on delegates at
large and one district of Alabama, whioh
ware contested, they found themselves iu a
minority after having confidently looked to
a victory Iri all the contests, the pre
vious votes having showed that
they were in a majority, aud
controlled the oornmitfee by a majority of
s x votes. It was only one vote by which
they lost, and subsequently they pulled
themselves together and oarried a motion
to adjourn with another motion to recon
sider pending. The Blaine men on the dele
gation said it was a eet-baok, but they pre
dicted that things would oome oat all right
in the ond, and before the report woe pre
pared for submission to the convention
it would t>6 found that they
were atain in a majority.
They said that to-night the fight would be
renewed and that they would carry their
point aud seat the anti-Motely men in tbe
convention, who had been given the seats by
tbe national committee. The news, how
ever, gave a great deal of satiifaction and
encouragement to tho Harrison men, who
up to this time have been bitterly complain
ing of the way in which they were being
treated by the committee on credentials.
Some of their leaders expressed a
fear that the committee did not pro
pose to report at all and were
in favor of fighting tho committee on the
floor of the convention. From this they
were restrained by the fact that defeat
almost inevitably meant loss of prestige,
and they realized that on an indirect propo
sition on which the delegates were not
bound by instructions they were weaker
than on a ballot. Borne votes, it was evi
dent. would also be lost through an indis
position to condemn tbe party leaders by
such a rebuke as would noces*arily be im
plied in an attack on tbe committees con
stituted in the regular way.
THE SECOND SESSION.
When the committee reassembled this
afternoon it proceeded with a little more
expedition aud by the time for adjourn
ment for supper had almost completed con
sideration of the Alabama contests, whicu
were the worst. It le not probable, how
ever, that the work can bo completed and a
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a night session to-morrow must be ordered,
j by the convention if tho third day of its ses
sion is toseo it permanently organized and
in full working order. This will throw th*
nominating sjieoobes over until Friday and
later if there should be a hard fight waged
against tbe report as bos been threatened
by tbe Harrison men. The first case called
was from the Eighth district and
here the report of the national
oommittee was approved with substantial
unanimity. The anti-M osely delegate*
were permanently enrolled. A fight was
made on Hendricks and Fitzpatrick, repre
sentatives of the faction headed by Stevens
and Gee of the "new idea,” and known as
the “anti-Moselys” in the Third Alabama
district, but the poll showed 27 Blaine to 21
Harrison votes, and they were also enrolled.
In the Fourth district it was also demon
strated that there was a good working ma
jority, and Bland aud Wilson, anti-Musely
ites, were sustained on their rights to tne
seat.
The Fifth district was also carried, but
when it came to the delegates at large and
the oontest over one seat in tbe Ninth dis
trict, the administration forces mustered
strong and surprised the other side and car
ried the duy temporarily for Mosely, or the
office-holders’ faction, by a vote of 24 to 23.
In describing how it was done, one of tha
members of tbe committee said that a
c mple of follows suddenly jumped over to
the other side, one sneaked and another was
absent. A motion was made to reconsider
and an adjournment was carried until B:3d
o’clock, when the motion to reconsider
again came up, but It was passed over for
tbe time and other cases were taken up. In
speaking of the Alabama oases, one of tha
committeemen who had been listening to
tbe arguments all day said they were ter
ribly mixed up, anil tlmt It was a miseranle
fight ail nroiiod, which ought never to havo
come here at all.
HARRISON CONFIDENT.
Hlb Friends at tbe Capital Think He is
sure to Wtn.
Washington, June B. —Public business la
practically suspended, among the repub
licans, pending the decision at Minneapolis.
Tbo friends ot the President are In a more
confident mood than at any time sinoe tha
resignation of Mr. Blaine and steadily in
sist that the President will be rouuminatod.
They think they have votes enough to carry
him through in spite of the efforts of the
anti-Harrison leaders to divide the adminis
tration foroes. Many of the friends of
the President believe that tha
anti-Harriion workers never intended to do
anything with Mr. Blaine exoopt to use hi*
nameus a club to kill the President The anti
liar rison leaders nearly nil belong to tha
old “stalwart" element which opposed Mr.
Blaine so bitterly In other campaigns and
contributed the decisive votes to defeat hint
at tbe polls in 1884. Having used Mr.
Blaine’s name to conjure with, the oppo
nents of the President intended, It ts
thought, to bring forward a now namo and
accomplish tiio defeat of President Harri
son by indirection. The steadiness with
which tho Harrison foroes are holding to
gether is a groat souroo of gratification to
the President and the members ot the cabi
net. [Secretary Elkins declared to-day that
Mr. Blaine was out of the raoo and he has
no longer any doubt of tho reunmination of
tho President. The members of the oabiuot
oome and go at the white house and fre
quently bring encouraging dispatches re
ceived from friends at Minneapolis. Bee rota
ry Elkins and Becretary Foster are the ablest
politicians in the cabinet, and they were in
very good humor to-day ovor the outlook.
Blaine at Boston.
Boston, June 8. —Hon. James G. Blaine,
Mrs. Blaine and Miss Abigail Dodge arrived
ip this city this morning from New York
on tho New York and New England train.
The train arrived at <1:50 o’clock, but 1 1*
party did not leave tbe oars till about 7:15
o'clock, when they wore drivon dirootly to
the Hotel Brunswick, whore apartment*
had been engaged iu advance. It is under
stood that tbe ex-secretary will seok strict
privacy during bis stay iu tho city.
Blalna and the Nevlns Lsttere.
New York .June B.—To-morrow's World
will print this letter from ex-Secretary
Blaine:
Boston, Wednesday Evening, Juno 8, 1892.
To the Editor of the World:
Will you please state In your columns that It
Is utterly false that I, or any one for me, or in
my name, ever paiil or offered to pay. Mary
Novins Blaine, or any one for tier, one cent or
any other sum for any alleged letters that slio
holds. I have never heard of the subject, di
rectly or indirectly, except In the new (papers-
Respectfully, James O. Blaine.
APRIL’S CHOP REPORT.
Becretary Rusk Makes a Statement
Concerning It.
Washington, Juno B.—ln reeponse to an
inquiry as to the truth of the statement
which has appeared in several papers to tb
effect that in the April crop report of the
department of agriculture, it was stated
that “the cotton crop for this year would
exceed the world's demand over 2,000,000
bales," Secretary Rusk replied as follows:
"No such statement was ever made
in the April crop report of the department
of agriculture, or in auy other
report Issued by this department. The only
statemeut made authoritatively by this de
partment in regard to the cotton crop of
this year is that hosoi upon reports of our
correspondents in cotton planting, the re
sults of which are stated as showing a de
crease in the cotton acreage this year of
from IS to 19 per cent. That is all that has
been said in any report of this department
relating to the cotton orop for the present
year.”
COL. POLK ILL.
Hemorrhages of the Bladder Resulting
From a Tumor.
Washington, June 8. —Col. L. L. Polk
of North Carolina, president of the National
Farmers’ Alliance, is dangerously ill at his
residence in this city. Col. Polk has been
ill for about tea days, suffering from hem
orrhages of the bladder, caused probably
by a tumor. This has caused blood-poison
ing, and it is now thought that there is no
hope for his recovery. His son-in- law, Mr.
Denmark, is with him, and Mrs, Polk has
boon telegraphed for.
At a late hour to-night it was reported
that Col. Polk had rallied slightly, and his
physicians think it probable that he will
live through the night.
EMiN PASHA DEAD.
Smallpox Sail to Have Carried Him
Off in Africa.
Berlin, June B.—The Tagblatt to-day
confirms the recent rumors of the death in
the interior of Africa of Emin Pasha. If
it is true that Emin is dead, the natural sup
position is that he has fallen a victim of
smallpox, from wbloh disease the trust
worthy reports received in April stated he
was suffering. At that time it was said
that Dr. Btuhlman, with the greater part
of the Emiu ex edition, had arrived at 3u
koba and that Emin himself, who was ill
with smallpox, was slowly folio wing in
the direction of Bukoba.