The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-19
The Friends of Mr. Cleveland Too Timid to
Force the Fighting, and the Delega-
ton Goes Without Instructions,
Except to Vote as a Unit for the Can
didate on Whom They May Agree.
Mr.. Flowers Supporters Feel Encouraged by
the Result, and Propose to Resume
the Struggle at Chicago.
NEW YOEK DEMOCRATS.
A Convention Which Does Nothing to Solve


| the Problem.
| Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
| SARATOGA, n Y, June $3.50 far as the
Saratoga convention is concerned, it settles
nothing, beyond the certain fact that New York
goes to Chicago with fight on its hands. When
the central committee made its report, last night,
at late hour, and refused Tammany the
quota it demanded all the discordant
elements of New York were fixed in
their opposition to Cleveland When
the advantage. The disaffection in Tammany
gave courage and cohesion to all other disgusted
elements and the friends of Cleveland rapidly
gained strength. He opposed in Kings
county by the Brooklyn men, for the reason, as
they claimed, that political appointments
could be made there unless indorsed by
Seth Low, the Republican mayor
Tammany opposed him because he
has done nothing but oppose it since
he came into power, and the Irish Catholic ele-
ment felt enraged at his veto of the bill granting
funds for certain Catholic charities which have
been allowed for years without a question. To
this detection was added strong opposition in
various portions of the State, led by Pur-
CELL of Rochester, and based on ami
mosities of long standing which Pur-
cell claimed would weaken Cleveland
as presidential candidate There was no
straw to indicate what way the wind would blow
till after the convention had organized and the
various committees retired to- make up their
| reports 1t then appeared that the anti Cleve-
land element controlled the credentials commit
tee by nineteen to fifteen, and were
| certain to seat contestants in harmony
with their views. This caused a Cleve
land stampede. A conference was at once
held between Manning commander-in- chief of
the Cleveland forces, and Boss Mclaughlin, of
Brooklyn. Mclaughlin said that it would be
policy to proceed in harmony with the action of
the convention and keep the animosities down if
possible. He represented that his delegation
was about evenly divided between Cleveland
and anti Cleveland men, and that he could not
vote them for Cleveland in body The Man
ming faction had hoped that, by granting Tam
many all it asked, which was unanimously
done in convention over the heads of the com
mittee, the anti Cleveland feeling would be al
layed, but this hope failed. John Kellys per-
sonal preference for Bayard and open hostility
to Cleveland solidiied the disaffected element of
New York Manning spent hours there in a
careful canvass of the situation, and hoped to
break the enemys line. This was found to be
impossible. The Flower men were quiet but
determined, and all the balance of the
nti-Cleveland strength fought the Governor
over Flowers shoulders.
The allimportant point came on the unit rule.
For many years this has prevailed in New York
conventions, and all elements to-day were ia
vorable to maintaining it now This was done
by unanimous voto tonight, but the keystone
of the whole situation lay in the ability of one
or another faction to follow this unit
rule with instructions that would def
at Chicago Manning discovered that the COM
bined elements against him were dangerously
strong, and no attempt was made to instruct
Tammany opposed itbecause it will go to Chicago
for Bayard, and Brooklyn opposed it because its
delegates had been instructed for Slocum, and
preferred to go unpledged.
WHY MANNING HEsITATED.
Manning says tonight that it was given up
merely because there was no wish to provoke
hostilities at Saratoga, and not because the
Cleveland element too weak to carry its
point 1t must be clear enough
that Manning would have pushed the vote if he
saw his title clear-but he did not; and no move
of this kind was made on Flowers part
because, while he has majority of the dis
affected elements, he did not have sufficient to
control instructions for himself There are two
things that weaken Mannings claims. In the
first place, if Cleveland had the necessary
strength at Saratoga there was no logical reason
him. as it had instructed in 1876 for
Tilden. This would have taken the State out
of the doubtful column at Chicago and given a
tremendous life to the Cleveland boom. In the
second place, it now turns out that the PROPOSE
tion to divide the delegation at large evenly be-
tween Cleveland and anti Cleveland came from
the Cleveland side Senator Jacobs, of Brook
lyn, and Purcell, of Rochester, therefore, two of
the delegates at large will go to Chicago on the
platform of any but Cleveland. Had
Manning been able to control things he would
at least have captured all the delegates at large
1t is also significant that Manning, in the make
up of district delegates forced to accept an
equal division with Brooklyn
REVIEW OF THE FIELD,
After adjournment, shows two factions making
precisely similar claims, and the Dem
ocratic world is left to settle the
dispute at Chicago. Manning contends that
if the vote on instructions had
been taken by personal roll-cal Cleveland would
have 250 ofthe delegates, and thathe now has fifty
of the seventy two booked for Chicago This is
positively denied by the opposition. The Cleve-
land slate is as follows: Delegates at large, 2;
Brooklyn, 6; New York city, s; country districts,
2s; claimed but not named, 8; max
ing toal of 80. They yield