The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-08
John Kelly, Beaten in His Delegation, Threat
ems to Make Fight on the Unit
Rule in the Convention.
McDonald's Friends Promised Substan-
tial Support from the Far West.
Butler Throws the Greenbackers Over, and
Will Support the Nominee -RumOred
Movement for Hendricks.
CLEVELAND AGAINST THE FIELD.

CLEVELAND AGAINST THE FIELD.
The Attitude of KeIly-A Struggle Over the
Unit Rule.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO, July THE Democratic national
convention does not keep its promise of being
either larger or more interesting than the Re
publican assembly of last month. While the
big guns of the party are Hendricks,
Thurman, Butler Carlisle, Morrison, John
Kelly, and dozen others of more or less ma
tional reputation, and while in that re-
spect it is more notable than the Repub-
lcan convention, there are neither the numbers
nor the interest that were here the day before
the meeting of the body that nominated Mr..
Blaine The Palmer House, where prac-
tically all is concentrated is great
crowded, but the Grand Pacific,
the Sherman, and the other hotels do not seem
to be fuller than upon ordinary days in this
modern Babylon, and there is but little being
done There are a number of marching clubs
with bands, that parade the streets and throng
the hotel lobbies with their noise, but those do
not count The delegates the leaders, the men
who have the arbitration of things in their hands,
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the floor, and little or nothing can be put into
out of the way. Not only is
his counterfeit presentment to be seen every
where, but he perYades everything and rides the
wholeconvention as the .0ld Man of the Sea- did
Sinbad But by no means is this pervasiveness
at all favorable to the doughty Governor; the
most noise and the most work is being done by
those who are opposed to him, headed by John
Kelly, seconded by Butler, and thirded by Car
ter Harrison, of this city, who is credited with
aspirations to be on the ticket with the hero of
Tewksbury. Can Cleveland be nomin-
ated, or will Kelly kill himl
Until these questions are settled all
else is of minor Importance. Speculations as to
any one else's candidacy can only become of in
terest when it is settled that Cevelands star has
set. Cleveland has the political workers for him,
and he has disorganized field against him, the
strength of which is as yet undetermined In
this respect the situation now is almost coun-
terpart of that of last month. when Blaine, as
the decided favorite, faced like unorganized
and unorganizable opposition. Cleveland has
the bulge but whether he has the
strength that will give him the two-thirds
vote is question John Kelly has
not shown the strength to-day that he has been
credited with The action of the Kings county
delegation, which has been regarded as anti
Cleveland, gave the Governor an undoubted ma
iority of the whole State. The vote stood AZ
out Of Y on the first test vote, there being three
These latter votes went to Slocum, to see wheth-
er CleYeland's strength could be broken, but
without avail When he polled but forty-seven
votes, Kelly shifted his position, assert
ing that he had not a two-thirds
vote Of the whole delegation, and
therefore the unit rule could not be enforced;
but when he received fifty votes that settled
that point Kelly then made an effort to have
the unit rule rescinded, but that motion received
only seven votes out of the seventy two. Butler
has backed Kelly in his fight thus far, and it is
now understood that the Tammany sachem will
carry the war into the convention by moving to
rescind the unit rule, hoping to provoke heated
debate, in which there will be opportunity to
ventilate all of Cleveland's alleged weak
nesses In this he will be supported
by Butler, and Harrison, Of Chicago, according
to present arrangements, in which event an i'm
portant and interesting debate will ensue, the re-
suit Of which, whether it breaks down the unit
rule or not is hoped to be the defeat of Cleveland
by his opponents. That the Cleveland men fear
this is evident though they claim he will receive
sixty four or sixty-6ve votes from New York
should the delegation be called name by name.
FEELING AGAINST BUTLER AND KELLY
There is very deep and bitter feeling among
certain elements Of the convention towards
both Butler and Kelly. These disturb
ers of the peace hurt the amour
propre Of the respectables and the old party
nabobs In the South, particularly, there is de-
veloping feeling that New York is hopelessly
beset with feuds, and that, after twenty years
trial of New York men, only to be defeated: it is
time to drop New York, take up another man,
and let the Empire State like it or lump it, as
it pleases, There is a good deal of this sent
ment, and in certain quarters it breaks out with
decided violence They say that they are
tired Of being the hewers Of wood and
the drawers Of water; that the
time has come for the assertion Of their man
hood as free and independent citizens, and to
cease following servilely the Northern De-
mocracy. This feeling, what there is Of it, is
crystallizing about Mr. Bayard, whose Dover
speech rather helps than hurts him with this
class. Mi, Kelly is smart enough to see this
and so he and his immediate clan are for the Del
aware statesman. This evening there has been q