Show MR BLAINES POSITION MR MB blames blaines letter declining to be a 2 candidate which he addressed to chairman jones jenes of the republican national committee before the can vass opened is now belna being set down as a shrewd stratagem strat exem egem it is beginning to be widely believed that blaine wrote the letter and remained in europe in IB order to carry out a scheme by which to secure the republican publican Ke nomination and the scheme promises to be successful mr blaines seem led all of his rivals riva s to betray their strength and fully ful y commit themselves the result is s ar a demonstration of the tact fact t that not one of them has a national to following while blaine hu has so be clear clearly y hiss has this been shown to be the case cas and ad so clearly does it appear that thi t Blai neds the strongest living reau bli can that the time has come for him to drop the mask and work for the nomination without pretense of indifference the following Howins to from toe the philadelphia times an independent journal sustains this view I 1 I 1 Velam Reid Wm walter phelps chairman jones congressman milli teen charles emory smith and all who are in a the confidence ol 01 of blaines friends know that as at present advised blaine will accept the nomination if it shall be tendered to him they mean to have it tendered to him blaine tnora that they mean to nominate him andee and lie and they are in entire accord in the conviction that he should not and will not decline the callif his bis party to lead in another national contest te he has hai not said so in informal formal letter nor ti 0 r will he be do so nor is it st at all necessary that he be should do so but the leading friends of blaine have gained their great overruling blaines declination and they are tow now pressing his candidacy with the nil fall knowledge of his pur purpose ose to accept the nomination it ic is 9 only ory natural that blaines friends should do as they have done dene it is only natural that blaine should assent to the movement when in vermont t and massachusetts his enemies were made to call callior his nomination and there is now noth nothing ilig left for the blaine commanders 4 bofto but to unmask their guns and lines and pass the order along for fer a general advance lid vance they have the abeld in their posses possession ion and only lee ice or stupidity c can a ef eat chicago stop halt halting ing corteg silly avoidance and us furl u flignor fieg fer victory at C chicago hie agaj |