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Will Enter The Field

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
May
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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The Times of Philadelphia recenlly . lished the following letterfrom a gentleman in New York, which it endorses as coming irom the most authentic source. The letter sayg: "I have eutirely reliable information that the friends of Blaine have within the last three days, received direct from him his assent to an aggressivo movement for his renomination for president and the assurance that if nominated in the face of his Florence letter of declination he would not feel at Hberty to decline. "A general and sy stematic eff ort has been made Dy Blaine's closest friends, such as Chairman Jones, William W. Phelps, Whitelaw Reid, Charles E. Smith and others, for two months past to get Blaine in the position of a passive candidato. The Washington conference was only part of varied methods by which influencehas been brought to bear upon Blaine, and the publication of his portrait, freshly taken from life in Italy and issued by Judge this week was decided on more than a month ago as the starting point for the avowcd effort to make Blaine the candidato. "Every posaibie pressure has been put upon Blaine to get from him the direct assurance that he will not decline if nominated, and that assurance has been received in this city from Blaine within the last three days. In a very few days it will ceaso to "bo secret that Blaine is in the hands of his friends, though Blaine leaders will at once come to the front and make an aggressivo campaign for his renomination. This movement has been pretty clearly foreshadowed for some weeks in suehBlaine organs as the Tribune of this city and the Philadelphia Press, and all affections about Blaine's candidacy will now soon bo thrown off and the battlo made an aggressive one. Part of the orieinal procram. was .the tion of Charles" Emöry Smith as a delegateat-large from your state and the failure was a great disappointment to the Blaine Junto in this city; but Mr. Smith gives the assurance that Blaine can command a majority of the Pennsylvanla delegatíon i under any circumstances, and that ií Blaine's nomination shall seem to be assured the delegution wiU be solid for him. "The unexpected expressions in Massachusetts and Vennont íor Blaine were not accidental, nor were they unexpected to Blaine's friends. When all of the antiUlainc men were reposing on their arma j because they regaxied Blaine as outof the i fight, the friends ol Blaine were most ener; getic in their work in the two auti-Blaino New Kngland states and they gotpossesBion i of Vermont and Jdassachusetts while the others were sleeping in fancied security. It was the expression of three hitherto antiBlaine New England states that made Blaine cast aside his doubts and assent to the importunities of his friends for his renomination. ! "It is now a positive fact that Blaine is In the field ; that his friends have his assent to ; a movement in his favor, and that he wiU be nominated at Chicago if hard work and plenty of enthusiasm can accomplish it."

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Ann Arbor Democrat