New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-08
TIE OUTLOOK 1T CHICAGO.

Mr.. Cleycland's prospects ut Chicago appear
TO be improved by the action yesterday OF
the New York delegation. After long ses-
sion. which was anything except harmonious,
Mr.. Cleveland received II out of the II votes.
Under the INIT rule to the enforcement of which
his friends alone look for success. Mr.. Cleveland
Will receive all the votes of Newly rk. his
will naturally, considering the peculiar ideas
that rule most of the delegates at Chicago give
the Governor a good lead in the convent on.
The one qualification demanded in
candidate is that of availability; and
to be available he must, as far as possible
be removed from any suspicion OF having
assisted the party in its past conflicts or OF
having strong convictions on any question ex-
cept that OF turning one hundred thousand
men out of Office 10 make places for that num-
Der of hungry Democrats. Mr. Bayard has
apparently more friends I'm the convention IMAM
| Mr. Cleveland has. Ilu he has long been idcntl-
| fed with the party In Congress, ami IL known
| 10 have positive convictions on National Pues-
lions. hence his chances Of receiving the nonlna-
tion are not counted good. For similar reasons
| Thurman, Mcdonald. Randall and other candi-
! dates make little Roadway against Cleveland,
| who boaAta thnt he mover voted any ticket ex-
cont the Democratic. aud that he has always
summarized hia party including the time when It
lnat met In Chicago. In the critical
pctIod of the war; which It then declared
| failure
Int Mr.. Cleveland has had the good fortune
not 10 become known IN any way which would
Disclose tho inct that he had any idonS on
National qucstions, aud In the estimation OF
the men who are pushing his canvass ut
| Chicago that N the one requisite 10 deceive the
American people and give them control OF the
! Government. In this haste to run away from
their record it seems probable that the conveh-
ZION will adopt platform which will straddIe
the tariff question, thus acknowledging that
the party has made another great mistake III
bring ing that subject forward i'll Congress after
the Republicans had acted upon 1t.
Mr. Cleveland has an advantage also over
other candidates in having a skiliul machine
at his back In this way his candidacy was
carefully worked up under cover OF the olu
ticket His entire support from this state
comes from Il at element. OF the II votes
he received in the meeting yesterday OF the
| NeW-Y0rk delegation, 10 came IRON the
Thompson and Davidson wing OF the machine
in this city, 9 from Boss McLauEhiins ma
chine, Is more represented State patronage
and other votes were given him by such re-
formers as Smith ". Weed and Legislative
Agent Wiley. The two-thirds rule, however
may vet defeat Cleveland, as it has leading
candidates in other Democratic conventions.
General Butler promises to be central
figure in the convention. If, as in
timated, ex-Mayor Prince, Of Boston, i'll
sists on passing a resolution binding all dele
gates to support the nominee of the conventlon'
there may be some fun. In that event, General
Butler will probably reply, as did Mr.. Curtis III
the last convention, that it is an insult to offer
such a resolution and that he enters the con-
ventlon as a free man, and will leave it IN the
same way. The point of the matter is that But
Ter has already accepted the nominations OF two
other conventions Mr.. Curtis, however, took
with him in his bolt no other delegate. But
Butler controls every delegate except one from
Massachusetts, and many from other States.
Between his bolt and that led by Mr. Curtis
there would be marked difference.