The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-08
GossIp OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.
Using Money to Secure Votes-A Belief tina
Cleveland WIN Be Defeated.

Using Money to Secure votes-A Belief that
Cleveland WIN Be Defeated.
.Gath's'' Tefeeram.
No doubt some money is being used here Mr..
Flower beat the richest man in New York for
Congress. and he is now the richest man in this
invention, and there are some poor men here.
Three days before the convention met found
5eggars asking for money from the delegates.
The most expert politicians on the spot believe
Cleveland will be defeated. The newspaper re-
porters generally think he will be nominated
The former argue from his chances to be elected,
and the latter from the votes they see on the
spot The situation seems pretty bad if Cleve-
land is taken; but if anybody else is taken it
seems worse. Bayard is the next candidate in
Importance. and the only one besides appealing
to the Republican kickers, But the Democrats
are aghast at his peace speeches. and the papers
here to-day contain interviews from men as far
as Missouri who were in the Delaware line,
showing that Bayard said and omitted to do all
sorts of injurious things
Mcdonald is privately regarded as foo-foo.
old and bald and voluptuous, and hardly up to
the Yice-presideney Ia force of character. and is
now dreadfully afraid that Hendricks is not
going to nominate him. Randall, by taking one
side Of the tariff fight has killed himself as much
as Morrison ON the other. The convention might
in this desperation leap into the dark and take
hold of some scarcely mentioned man-like
Slocum or MCPHERSON or Thurman Yet after
taking the round Of the candidates, and finding
at every point some objection, they come back
to Cleveland again, and say perhaps it must be.
was in the Palmer House when Butler ar
rived He presented striking likeness TO Henry
Ward Beecher. especially about the mouth and
chin, and in the complexion; and with his breath
made short by being pushed and hustled, and a
kind of enjoying look around the face, he looked
like the wellfed Beecher of to-day, so much
that if had not known who he was and had
only seen his head should have thought it was
Plymouth pulpit He wore a straw hat with a
black band, and his old black swallow tail silt
Scattering cheers were raised for him, the stair
ways were crowded. and women rushed to the
verandas in the entresol Among these women
wars Anna Dickinson.
Butler is the most remarkable quantity here
Cool as May morning, and he never opens his
mouth but he saws something. talked to Book
walter and others who came part way with But
Ter, yesterday. from New York He WAS very
affable and talkatiye. and as they came through
Canada on the Canada Southern route, with its
backward agriculture and old, overgrown fields
Cutler looked to the map and said +All this is
mistake. The boundaries ought to have been
lrawn here and he showed by his finger that
he space to the north of Lake Eriewas the most
alnable part of Canada. and projected far into
our boundaries Thus Butler demonstrated the
popularity OF jingoism.
Hendricks at dinner yesterday, was asked if
he had his speech prepared for Mcdonald, and
he said: ''Oh, mol these speeches are not Of
much consequence
Yon are going to nominate McDonaldW
.'0h, yes said he. II suppose so.p
Judge Niblack, of Indiana. is here looking out
for tho Vice presidency for himself Thus Me-
Donald is receiving the medicine he endeayored
to administer to Hendricks four years ago and
Hendricks is receiving the medicine he admins
tered to Tilden. This seems to be great medi-
cine uow-1yow