Show I ELAINE AND McKINLEY I It has been remarked that none of the friend of Secretary ELAINE are manifesting manifest-ing any interest in the Ohio campaign notwithstanding not-withstanding the fact that the most important im-portant political contest of the year is being be-ing waged in the Buckeye state Some of tho BLAIXE admirers it is said have been asked to do something to make Major McKINLEY Mc-KINLEY governor and they have all found excuses for declining It has also been observed that the executive committee of the national Republican committee the majority of the members of which are friends of BLAIXE and not of HAiutibOX is doing nothing the apparent intention being to let the state go by default On the other hand the friends of the President are manifesting deep > tin t-in Ohio and some of tho gentlemen occupying occu-pying high positions in the administration are expected to take the stump next month I in behalf of the apostle of high protection All of this furnishes confirmation of tho general belief that Mr BLAIXE was never in sympathy with the MCKINLEy bill It has also revived the famous interview between i be-tween Senator BLACKBURX and the New York llcrzll correspondent the publication publica-tion of which created suca a sensation in political circles It was printed in THE HERALD at tne time but will be almost as interesting now as then hence it is here reproduced Secretary BLAIXE called at the room of the Senate committee on appropriations ap-propriations for the purpose of discussing with Senators ALLISoN HALE and BLACK CRX the expenditures of his department for the following fiscal year and what occurred was detailed to the correspond ent by the Kentucky Senato as follows and has never been denied The secre ry was in rather neglige cos tunic as salted the temperature said Senator JLACKBCHX except as > to a particularly glosSy and irreproachable bilk hata bran new fining plug The tariff bill mina you had nothing to do with the subject in hand but In a casual way I broached it after the usual greet lags had been exchanged Probably I asked Mr h3Lsin how he liked it Imagine my surpriseand shall I say cratlflca onJ when he launched forth a torrent of in ectivo against the act that McKiMEY fathered This bill is an infamy and an outrage out-rage said Mr BLAIXE it is the most shameful shame-ful measure over proposed ton civilized people Go on with it and it will carry our party to per dition hI was cont lued Senator BLACKBURN reeling considerably interested and said 1 wish you were in the Senae Mr ULAINE to announce yourself in such terms I wish I ere he answered If so I would stamp it under my feet and spit upon it and then ad ancirjg towards Senators ALLISON and HALE he snapped his fingers in the face of each I alternatively and with rising inflection said Go on with your driveling idiocy and see to what destruction it will lead tha Republican part1 Pa this bill and in 1S9J there will note > not-e a man in all the party so beggared as to accept cept your nomination for the presidency Then he began to dissect the bill mercl essly particularly the sugar schedule This he inveighed against with all his force I reminded re-minded him that theSenate had improved upon the labors of the House as regarded sugar that to protect an American industry involiing the I enormous labor of boring a hole in a maple tree and boiling the juice the Senate had agreed to give the maple sugar growers of New England a bounty of2 cents This was the first he had heard of it and he seemed hardly able to credit i what I told It Isnt true he said i ALLiSON and HALE confirmed me I suppose sup-pose this was done at the solicitation of MaR I lULL and EDMUSDSi he inquired Mr ALLISON I replied in the affirmative hIt is a sample of the breadth of their statesmanship states-manship said the Secretary and then the climax cli-max came Mr BLADES new bcaverwas lying on the table in easy reach With a sudden blow he I brought his clinched hand down on it with such force as to mash it flatter than a pancake and then seizing the battered chapeau ho hurled it against the wall violently I never saw such an ebullition but it only emphasized the deep carnestnesa with which the secretary argued against a policy which his opinion as then given now seems prophetic Mr BLAIXE did not love Major Mc KIXLET then and nothing has since occurred curved to indicate any change in his feelings feel-ings The secretary was opposed to the blll > then and the operation of the measure ball been such as to confirm tho opinion of the Maine statesman that the law would be bad for the party and bad for the country Tho reciprocity feature was in traduced as the result of Mr BLAmEs personal solicitation among his friends As the bill passed the House there was nothing in it about reciprocity but that clause was inserted in the Senate and agreed to by the House Tols is f all history I t > r r 1 and explains why the BLAIXE people are holding aloof from the MCVIXLET campaign cam-paign The fact is they > do not want to see I Major McKiXLET elected governor as such election would be an endorsement in Ohio of his tariff law and hence a repudiation I of Mr BLAmE Besides were McKiXLEr successful this fall he would loom immensely im-mensely as a candidate for the presidential nomination It is all very amusing to the disinterested onlooker and it all bodes of Republican defeat in ISitt |