Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-08
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. LOOKING LIKE CLEVELAND. His Chances Even Against the
 Field. NEW YORK SOLID FOR HIM. The Vote Must Go as a
 Unit. BUTLER MAKES A PROMISE That He Will Support the
 Nominee.
POLITICAL.

The Crowds at Ch1eago-New Arrival:
 Pouring in by WhOlesale-The Con-
 vention Hall Ready For Business
 Cleveland Gaining Strength Every
 HOur-His Chances Good Against the
 EteId-The Chances of the Various Candidates.
 CHICAGO, July 7.-Delegates, clubs, par ties and individuals poured into Chicago this morning like rain out of a water spout. Every incoming train was loaded with men who had weighty business here, and men whose only object was pleasure. The hotel counters were inaccessible to everybody ex- cept stalwart pushers who made their way to the register and held it courageously against all corners. Among the delegations arriving at the Palmer House to-day were 8 number of Maryland men and the rest of the delegates from Minnesota, West Virginia, Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Iowa and Mississippi. The convention building is now completed and in readiness for the open ing to morrow. The north and south ends, which are reserved for invited guests, are cut of from all communication with the square space in the center devoted to delegates alternates. Solid partitio ns five feet high effect this result and are too high to climb over and contain no opening. There is only one entrance for the delegates. This door Is nearly ia the center of the build ing and through it the delegates and altern- ates reach their seats and cannot possibly get anywhere else than in the space allotted to them. The members of the press enter at the same point The press tables are on an E. -l. -.kI-
 speakers stage downward. kThe dele- gates seats are plush. covered opera chairs, while those of the alternates, which are separated from the delegates by three-foot fence, are plain. The decora- tions are completed. They are quite hand some. Above the stage mammoth flag is draped in large folds with smaller flags for borders. Pictures of Washington, Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and Horatio Seymour are placed upon them The full length of the galleries are decorated with strips of red. white and blue, with the shields of the vari- ous States taking up the loops and very large national flags unfurled at intervals of 20 feet from each rafter the entire circumference of the building. About two-thirds of the dele- gations and visiting clubs made 8 street pe- rade this afternoon on the invitation of the Cook County Democratic club. Over six thousand men were in line and fifteen bands furnished music. The visitors made fine appearance and received an enthusiastic greeting along the route. MT. Randall will arrive here tomorrow morning. The Penn sylvania delegation is solid for him.
 The general situation tonight is practical ly unchanged except that Cleveland probably has added considerably to his strength dur ing the day. It is now certainly Cleveland against the field; with the chances more in favor of the former than ever before. The Indiana delegations are urging Mcdonald for first place and claim that in the event of a break they will be sure to succeed. On the other hand the Randsn and Bayard men are confident that if break should come their respective candidates will be looked to in preference to a western man. The speculation respecting the Bayard Mcdonald ticket heretofore referred to continues and this Is conceded on all hands to be the most fRvora- ble combination that could be made, except that perhaps of Randall and Mcdonald. Either Randall or Bayard appears to be well | thought of by all the delegates and it Is safe l to say the delegation of New York, if it Is found that Cleveland cannot rally strength enough to secure the nomination, will support cheerfully either one of these gentlemen who can muster strength to warrant it. Dark horses are not spoken of to- night.
 The New York DelegatIon-A Caucus To Determine It's VOte-Cleveland Gets a Majority of Ih' DeIegatsG- l The Delegation to Vote AS a 1 Unit.
 | CHICAGO, July 7-The caucus of the New 1 York delegation has, of course, been the l event of the day. As 8 prelude the anti Cleveland men met in John Kelly's room. There were twenty five of them and they
 issued protest against Grover Cleveland's
 candidacy. In it they brought out with very strong emphasis the statement that he could
 not carry New York, that he would lose the State to the Republicans by clear majority 1 of one hundred thousand votes and that any man the convention might name. whether he
 should be Flower, Bayard, Randall or some 1 western man, would be more acceptable to 1 the rank and file of the New York DemocrG- | cy than Cleveland. Under the head Make
 no mistake'' some weighty arguments sci
 forth in an anti-Blaine publication received
 the meetings endorsement. Then Kelly sub-
 mitted resolution which will cause reve-
 lution in the convention. It states that 1 Whereas In a contest such as the New York
 State Democracy is now engaged | in the unit rule in the convention
 makes it impossible for delegates in tht
 minority to represent the wishes of their constituents, the unit rule is an unjust | measure, since it denies the exercise of indi vidual and personal preference, and therefore | they are resolved to oppose the unit rule ir
 the meeting of the New York delegation, and
 that if it is ineffective to prevent the choice | of a man for the Democratic candidacy fol President who cannot carry his own Stat l the fight will be then taken into the nationa
 convention. In speech John Kelly ssi
 that this measure was the only way to defea
 Cleveland With the Kings county delega
 ton for him he would have forty-five dele
 gates. They were majority and suficien l without two-thirds rule to vote for the del
 egation, the vote being cast as 8 unit. Mi Kelly said that the national convention c
 1868 ordained that the unit rule could b
 dispensed with at any time at the option c any subsequent national convention. Tn
 resolution was promptly carried to oppos
 the unit rule and endesvor to defeat it in tn
 deleestien resolution was alao adopte
 that if the Cleveland men were too many i
 the State meeting and voted dow
 8 resolution for a two thirds vol
 on the unit question to be offered b
 Kelly, the Flower and Tammsny delegate
 should withdraw and hold meeting to de
 eide what next to do. The meeting then ad
 journed and agents immediately went aroun
 to see whether the other States would wor
 to overthrow the unit rule in the convention
 To their surprise they found that several (
 the States were ripe for it. Massachusetts,
 Iowa, Kansas, Delaware and dozen other
 manifested their willingness to go into th
 scheme and all to-day the matter has bee discussed by the different delegations. Tn z scheme was the last resort to beat Cleveland It had been thought over carefully and at g meeting of the anti-Cleveland leaders th . proposition was made: Cleveland has no
 forty-fiYe delegates. They are 8 majorit . and can go into session and without us vo !. to have the vote of the entire delegation ca
 for Cleveland. We as the minority will ha, , no voice. We must resolve on some plan DO into the convention and show that u State is not unanimous for Cleveland. IT | onlv way open is to break the unit rule. Tt