Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-17
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pire state.
SARATOGA, n. Y, June lG.-The Hon.
Roswell p Flower arrived tonight, accom-
panied bv his wife and daughter and
Lieut.. Sears. of Tioga county Mr.. Flowers
family are on their wav to Watertown, JEFF
ferSou county. Mr. Flower will remain at
Saratoga till the Democratic Convention
decides whether the New York dele
cation shall present the name OF FlJwer
or Cleveland at the Chicago Convention
lie is hopeful and even confident, that his
friends have secured for him a majority OF
the PSI deldga:,S who will assemble here in
convention on Wednesday He has been
warned by personal friends who regard his
Presidential aspirations with respect, but
those of Gov Cleveland with positive favor,
that great deal of lying has been going on
all over the State. and has been told that he
must not feel bitterly disappointed il many
delegates who have been secured in the
name of Flower eventually fall into line
for Cleveland:
will Not Instruct.
AsSemblyman William Smith, of Clinton,
does not apprehend any pronouced contest
in the convention itself He voices the
views of many of Gov ClcvclandS friends
when he saws that it twould be extremely
unwise for the Democracy to permit any
thing to occur at this time to create the ap-
peararcc that the party is divided. Who
ever he believes. Is discovered to have ma
iori,v OF the delegates should be- promptly
sunnortad hv the friends Of the opposing
.aidAatc. Mr. Smith is q supporter of the
.s Z l.. l,.,r, will
no demonstrated thar Mr. Cleveland will
have minority of this convention. As the
law partner of ;. NJ. Weed he has had op:
portunitie> of verifying his Judgment by IN
tercoursc with that shrewd political manipn
la,or. Mr. Weed has an abiding brGctthat
the Governor will be the choice Of the con
yen,iou. A. the unit rule will be urged and
adcutcd n usual the solid delegation ct -
yo;rs will be behind the man who secures
majority of that delegation.
The Machine.
judge Schoonmaker, of lister and Johu
O'Bricn. Of DutchesS, who were passengers
on the Saratoga special, entertain no doubts
of the result of the convention. They are
friends Of Governor Cleveland, ant Ii they
were at all given to betting would give odds
that the Governor will be the choice
of the delegation. Congressman DOrshelm-
er got of at Poughkeepse and drove overto
his summer residence at Hyde Park. tie
is expected to be present at the Convention.
The result of the canvass for Mr. Flower
NAV have the effect OF demonstrating to the
managers of the Manning machine that the
ex-Conrressman and his friends will have to
be taken in ont of the cold il they would
continue 10 run their machine without that
friction that has been so noticeable IN It's
movements during the last three years.
That a machine is q pretty formidable
thing to butt against will doubtless be dehn-
itely ascertained by many Democrats before
the convention. is over. The machine this
year is backing Cox. Cleveland, and those
engineers who understand its cogs and
wheels and workings the best declare that
it Will have less difficulty in overcoming
opposition this wear than it did IN the nom
ination OF Judge Maynard in preference to
Mr.. William Purcell and John O,Br'en as
against William 4. Poucher last Fall
A Southern Breeze.
Lieut.. Sears, who has been pushing the
Flower boom in his Southern tier, ventures
the assertion that his chief may have per
hans 2iO or 80 delegates in the conven-
ton. Should this prove TO be the case,
then. iudeed,would the machine be smashed
II Is against all the traditions of the Demo
cratic party 10 allow its machine to be
smashed in a Presidential year.