Show HARRISON AND BLAINE THERE is a great deal of speculation about the relations between harrison and blaine it has been beau reported that the president not only pays little attention to the suggestions and recommendations of the secretary of state bbate but takes pleasure in going against them it is stated that appointments hive have been made the vieland vie wand intention of snubbing the man of maine and of ass asserting efting the individuality and independence of the tee head of the administration we teke take very little stock in these rumors and suspicions for they are little else elRe it does not follow that they are correct because they are repeated in the associated press dispatches they may have originated bated in the minds of some pointed office seekers whose name nanae is legion and have been uttered in spleen by enemies of either the president or Sec secretary or both james 0 blaine is recognized as the strongest man in the republican publican Be party it was pretty certain however that he could not have been elected to the presidency his very strength made him enemies within the party to which he be belongs lie he was vulnerable too in important points the convention showed wisdom in the selection of some other if weaker man for standard bearer but the recognition of his merits and abilities exhibited in his selection for chief place in the cabinet was eminently proper and it was evidence rather of the strength of mind than otherwise of the chief executive it was claimed that harrison would be dwarfed by blaine that the government would be dominated by the secretary of state and that the president dared not select him for this thi very reason but president harrison did the proper thing regardless of the of the politicians he has haa exhibited similar determination and resolution in other appointments he has nominated such men for office as seemed proper to him after considering an all the circumstances cum stances and the candidates there is no reliable evidence that in doing so he has haa purposely snubbed mr blaine it may be that the gentleman has haa favored some applicants who ha have ve not succeeded or he may have appeared to do so not wishing to offend them after the fashion of politicians generally in neither caw case does it follow that the president has offended the secretary of state in taking his own course and following his own judgment we think the maine statesman too sensible to become angry anar y if toe the executive acts upon his own milad and aloes not adopt suggestions no matter who wh 0 rhy may be their author the president is responsible for his own nominations and a blunder would reflect upon him not upon the person who proposed an improper candidate it is generally perceived now that president harrison has boa a mind of his own add th that at he Is 61 following lowing his own counsel but the reports that his ac action ti on offends mr blaine blain and has haa proceeded from a desire to slight the man whom he has chosen to the highest position in his cabinet appear to us mere m ere opinions without good reason and are most likely inventions mentions vent ions no evoked by disappointment or to make press dispatches interesting if not sensational |