Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — MR. BLAINE DRAWS OUT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MR. BLAINE DRAWS OUT.

IS NOT NOW A CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENCY. Hl* Formal ;Letter of Withdrawal Sent to Chairman Clarkson—Various Views as to How It Will Concern Other Possible Candidates—Political Gossip. Effect of the Declaration, Blaine is not a candidate for the Presidency. He has made this official announcement in the following letter to Chairman Clarkson, of the Republican National Committee: Washington, D. C. Hon. J. 8. Clarkson, Chairman of tbe Republican National Committee. Dear Sib—l am not a candidate for the Presidency, and my name will not go l.e!ore the Republican National Convention !or the nomination. I make this announcement in due season. To those who have tendered me their mpport I owe sincere thanks, and am most jrateful for their confidence. The> will, I am sure, make earnest effort n the approaching contest, which is ronlered especially Important by reason of

llie industrial and financial policies of the Sovernment being at stake. The popular lectslon on these Issues is of great moment ind will be of far-reaching consequences. Very sincerely yours, James G. Blaine. In speaking of his withdrawal Mr. Blaine said: “I don’t suppose any man ivho lias once sought the office can

truthfully say he doesn’t care for it. I confess I would like to be President, but I will never again risk my health and life in seeking it. The office of Secretary of State is a broad field for me during tho rest of my public career.” Democrats agree with practical unanimity that

Blaine not being in it, nothing can prerent President Harrison’s renomination, ind Republican Congressmen are mostly if the same opinion. Members of the idministration naturally will not diskuss tho situation for publication." FAVORITE SONS TO THE FRONT. While no one in Washington, writes >ur correspondent, questions that the lltimate effect of Mr. Blaine’s declina-

tion will be tho relominationof Presdent Harrison, the 'immediate result will be to start up nil the favorite son tandldacles. Senator Cullom’s expectation of a Cullom ielegation from Illinois, with some Support from the newj States in the North-j west, has already! been set forth, and it is said the Illinois Senator will now

itart in as an avowed candidate and will lave his name presented to the Minnetpolis convention. Senator'Allison has lot got to this point yet, but in the end Ye will probably give the lowa delegation Yermissiontonamehim. Gen. Alger, in ipite of Michigan’s divided electoral vote, is a full-fledged candidate. Ho may try to rally all the disaffected anti-Harrieon elements around him, and look for votes in New York and the East as well as in the South. It is xpore than probable that ex-Speaker Heed will take advantage of Mr. Blaine’s declination to seek a New England delegation for himself. Mr. Heed really has the Presidential

ambition and wants to get in training for a nomination. Tho only possible candidacy that excites much attention is John Sherman’s. Mr. Sherman himself is a stanch supporter of President Harriso-n’s administration. But Senator Sherman’s colleagues say he has a notion that the course of

legislation on silver and the tariff may make him an available candidate. Some of the Ohio politicians of the Republican faith who have been here during the last week have in common with

everybody else been question as to whether or not Mr. Blaine would withdraw. The nomination of Mr. Sherman at Columbus in January left some ill-feeling on the part of the Foraker people to the administration, and itwas generally supposed that a gr. at and interesting fight between Foraker and Sherman for the

delegation to Minneapolis would be inevitable, with McKinley only secondarily in the race. The opinion lately expressed by the Ohioans shows that the bitterness between the factions has been decreasing. The Foraker men, who have been quietly organizing since the recent Cnnotorio I nnnfnof

Senatorial contest to control the Ohio delegation to Minneapolis, are badly broken up over the announcement. They are knocked out of the fight b y the losb of a candidate. The Foraker following unquestionably had a s their object the nomination of Blaine or anybody to beat Har-

rison, and the effect of the withdrawal at this time may allay the bitter eontest promised over the election of delegates. Blaine’s withdrawal is exciting politicians all over the country, and both Democrats and Republicans are expressing themselves freely as to the outcome. As to Senator Allison, a Des Moines correspondent sends a telegram, saying: “There is no one here who is in position to speak for Senator Allison, but it is known that when he was In lowa during the campaign he spoke in terms of high praise of the administration of President Harrison, and expressed himself as favoring his renomination. His friends is this city say they think that there is scarcely any question that Senator Alii-

eon will give Harrison cordial support for the nomination, and that lowa will go to Minneapolis ready to vote for him for reuomination." A prominent Minnesota Republican says: “It is difficult to foretell what the

Republicans of the State will do under the changed condition wrought by the publication of Mr, Blaine’s letter, but Mr. Blaine’s withdrawal will probably add quite a number to those who favor the renomination of the President. Judge Gresham has always been

very favorably regarded by the Minnesota Republicans, and it would not be surprising should a very large proportion, if not a majority of them, transfer their allegiance to the distinguished jurist, now that Blaine is no longer a possibility. ” Henry C. Payne, Chairman of the Wisconsin Republican State Central Committee, safd that if a new man is to be nominated it may be Secretary Rusk. Since it became generally understood that Blaine was to decline, Rusk's name, he says, has been very prominently mentioned in the East, and now with Blaine’s possitive withdrawal many of Blaine’s strongest supporters, he thinks, will favor Rusk. Some of Senator Cullom’s friends on being interviewed expressed themselves as being confident that the Illinois Senator would receive the solid backing of his State at Minneapolis, and would be the leading candidate before the convention. One of the Senator’s supporters offered to bet SSOO against S2OO that Senator Cullom would be nominated at Minneapolis and $250 more that he would win his bet. Senator McMillan, of Michigan, said: “General Alger is now a candidate for the Republican nomination and will go into the contest with the solid delegation from his own State, with support from many other States and with a stronger following than many people and better chance of success than most people thinlc for.” It is the unanimous opinion among Republicans at Indianapolis that the letter takes Blaine entirely out of the question as a Presidential quantity and leaves the President with a practically clear field for the party nomination.

JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE.

W. B. ALLISON.

S. M. CULLOM.

JOHN SHERMAN.

J. B. FORAKER.

JEREMIAH RUSK.

W. Q. GRESHAM.