Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — BLAINE NOT IN IT. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE NOT IN IT.

Secretary of State Blaine Said to Have No Presidental Asz ' . pirations. He Does Nu: Want the Presidency and Is Displeased With the Overzcaloafc--ness of His Friends.

The announcement from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., on the 28th, to the effect that .Mr. Blaine would not be a candidate for the presidential nomination next year, would not suffer the use of his name In connection with the nomination, and would soon say so over his name, while creating no surprise, was the subject of general comment in political circles this evening. Such a step on the part of the Secretary of State has been expected for some time, and proceedings like those at the Cincinnati League convention last week will only hasten the day when hewill announce that he can not accept the nomination. Th® ardor of his friends will yet prove the disaster of their hopes. On every hand the question has been asked during th e past three or four days; “If, a s ex-Governor Foraker says,Mr. Blaine’s administration is proving so satisfactory, why would it not be policy to, continue it another four years?” Congressman Bouteile, of Maine, and ex-Congreeman Thos. M. Payne, of Pittsburg, both most intimate friends of the Secretary of State, who had charge of his campaigns in the last three national conventions, have within the .last month told their friends, in private conversation, that Mr. Blaine would not only not be a candidate for the nomination, but that he would, if the agitation continued, very soon announce over his name that he could and would not accept the nomination if it should be tendered to him. Mr. Blaine, it is well known tn Washington, hopes that he will not be placed in the embarrassing position of making this statement at this early day, but it may as well be stated now, and with some positiveness, if not not authority, that if the friends of Mr. Blaine do not cease their untimely agitation, he will take himself out of the line of possibility before the campaign for th e nomination fairly opens.