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Show BLftlHE WILL ACCEPT t William R. Grace Makes the Asser-' tion and Says that the Secretary of State Will Not Deny It. He Can Do So and Act in Perfect Harmony With His Letter and in Fidelity to His Chief. INTHE INTEREST OF SILVER The Denver ''Hews" Suggests a Plan to Western Democrats to Throw the Election Into the House. TO DEFEAT A GOLD BUG. A Desperate Remedy that Commends Itself It-self to the "iews" "Boss" Gorman will Ketire from the Democratic ' 1 National Committee The I Flower of New York. N'kw Yokk, April 18. William R. Grace, president of the Home and Country Protective Protec-tive Brotherhood of Workingmen, has sent a long communication to t.e Herald in whreh he says James G. Blaine will accept the nomination from the Minneapolis con-vention con-vention as promptly as would President Harrison Har-rison or any other candidate. In doing so he can act in perfect harmony with his letter of declination to be a candidate, and in perfect houor and fidelity to his chief. Grace, when questioned as to the author-j!' ity for the statement, said he had nothing whatever to add to it, but he would be will- . ing to put up a certified check of $5000 as a j wacr that Blaine would not deny his asser-l tion. He says he had three interviews w ith the Secretaiy of State while in Washington recently. A Democratic PruKiainiiie. Denvek, Colo., April 18. The Denver Rocky Mountain Xeirs, in a leading editorial this morninsf, puts forward the silver democratic dem-ocratic plan of campaign to be followed, should Cleveland or an equally pronounced gold bug be nominated. It says: "There are thousands of republicans in Colorado who will not vote for Harrison, Harri-son, and thousands of democrats who will not vote for Cleveland. Yet driven from their own parties by the nom- iiiees wearing the yoke of Wall street, they .s ill be disinclined to vote for t the nominee of the Omaha con- -1 vention, who, though sound on silver, L will also represent so many issues that their j judgment cannot assent to them. Let the r democrats in slate convention, if the action c at Chicago shall force it, nomiuate electors pledged to vote against Cleveland and for such free coinage democrats as Senator Mor- d gau of Alabama and Congressman Bland of i Missouri. As the state convention is held ( after the national convention, it is ip the j power of the former conventions to choos r only those electors who will vote for a silve t ; man, notwithstanding who may be nomim if, ted by the national convention." It urges that this course shall he pursue by the democrats of California. Coloradc w Wyoming, Iowa, Nevada, Washington an Oregon, also by those of Kansas, Nebraska and certain southern stales. By this court the integrity of the democratic orgauizati will be preserved, and the election for prefl - -dent thrown into the house, in which evel 1 a free coinage candidate would ultimatelj1 be elected, aud the free coinage sentimelj 6 produced by such a canvass would insui the election of a free coinage congress. Tl course of the Cleveland contingent in No 1 York is urged as ample warrant for the i f regularity. The article closes as follows: "This dernier resort for the free eoina; men is worthy calm and earnest consider P tion. That this suggestion will be passe if over lightly, the gravity of the silver situ i tion forbids. That the tens of thousaui ' who signed the pledge of the silver leuguj'V look for some such practical plan, by wide! j they may constitutionally and consistent! B exercise that suffrage effectively in a caus so important, is demonstrated by their acts n The movement, if undertaken, will demon 1 strate that democrats and republicans ar no longer hewers of wood and drawers i water for Wall street plutocrats, who no' almost entirely dominate one political part H and have paralyzed the free coinage majojR ity of the other. c . , : ii 'Bom" Gorman Will Retire. Baltimore, April 18. A close persot th and political friend of Senator Gorman sa i to a representative of the Baltimore Sun th ' . . it is probable Gorman would not be a de pn gate to the national democratic conventin R aud that it is not likely he will continue as a member of the national committee froi. M ryland, as he is physically unable t Sa stand the labor aud strain which will be pt lis upon him in the campaign. r . - . The Flower That Blooms in New for! 1 Albany, April 18. The Telegram says Hu , u Hill will not likely be a candidate, but if tl ! Chicago convention cannot agree on an 3l other. Hill's name will be presented. Tl j paper further states that if Harrison is r nominated neither Cleveland nor Hill coul carry New York, and that Governor Flow j j, is the only available man. , u tit; Must Speak Out on Silver. PlTTSBtTKO, April 18. General A. J. WraV nor, the Ohio representative on the execuy tive committee of the National Silver asso-. ciation, who was in the city, says that it is intended to put the silver question thoroughly thorough-ly before both national conventions, and compel the parties to define tueir positions thereon. - j - |