The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-11

of the Different Candidates.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
CHICAGO, July 10.-This convention is torn
and rent with feuds and dissensions. The public
sessions show great deal of the internal fires Of
discord, but after all they give but faint idea
of the deep-seated and irreconcilable differences
that appear in the room of the platform com
nltteee, and in the private talk of delegates and
the somewhat more formal caucuses of delega-
tions. The committee on platform are abso
lutely unable to agree. When the convention
met this morning it was announced that the
platform could not be reported until Z o'clock.
The divergence of views which led the committee
to cast eight en- votes for Morrison and eighteen
votes for Converse for chairman still continues
and anything like an agreement that will
harmonic and unity the factions is beyond the
hope of possibility. OF course, there will have
to be some sort of deliyerance on the tariff, but
whatever it may be, it will have to speak with
the tongue.of the Delphic oracle, or be the ex-
preston of but one faction of the party The
bitterness of feeling growing out of
the candidacy of Grover CleYeland was
made more apparent than ever this morning
Cleveland unquestionably has the majority of
the convention, as he has the call on local en-
thusiasm and display, but with the lapse of time
the problem of his nomination grows more ques-
tionable The faction war is developing so much
intense bitterness that the feeling increases
among the conservative managing politicians of
the party that it will be better to go outside of
New York for candidate to head the ticket
This feeling will be, and is, added to by the pro-
longed disagreement over the platform. It will
not do to have personal row over the candi-
date as well as a split on the resolutions, argue
the men who sit on the rostrum among the Dem
ocratic gods Of high Olympus and assume to
direct the battle on the floor between their sew
eral followers. Whether this feeling shall prove
strong enough to prevent Mr.. Cleveland from
receiving two thirds vote is not yet determine
bic, but that it is growing the outside. if not
among the delegates, is undeniable Such men
as Roger A. Pryor and Senator Vance, of North
Carolina, who watch the currents and counter
currents with reasonable impartiality, say to-
day that Cleveland is already defeated As
said yesterday, that will be settled by the story
of the second and third ballots
POSSIBLE COMBINATIONS.
The favorite tickets that are named as posi-
BILE combinations after Cleveland are Thurman
and Slocum, and possibly Randall and Villas
The latter is not great favorite yet, because
Mr. Randall is understood to stand for tariff
idea as decidedly as does Mr. Carlisle, and he
can not easily be accepted as compromise; but
still the couple are talked of somewhat Bayard
and Villas are more likely, if the Southern States
should stand together. The probable success of
Cleveland will be brought about by the Hoadly
votes Of Ohio and the Mcdonald votes of Indi-
ana
It is too apparent for any question that there
is no sincerity in the advocacy of Mr. Mcdonald
by Indiana There is not delegate, whether or
not he be sincere in his desire, who is sincere in
his hope Of McDonalds success. Hehas no more
chance Of the nomination than Of being struck
by ligltning. On the contrary, Bayard is a
strong rallying point Butler withdrew in his
favor, and this morning, in an effective speech
Massachusetts seconded his nomination, Mr.
Cummings asserting that Bayard could
as certainly carry the old Bay
State as General Butler could. The trade
between Butler and Bayard is com
plete and solid. What Old Cock
eye means by it is hard to say, but the
general feeling is that the hero of Tewksbury is
ready to do anything to defeat Cleveland. If
the New Yorker is the nominee, Butler will CON
tinue as an independent candidate.
More effective work was done this morning in
the convention than yesterday, but the oratory,
as whole, was stale fiat and Improbable.
When Powell, Of Ohio, named Hoadly, there
arose a wild yell for Thurman Thurman as 50
noble old Roman stands well in the conven-
ton, and there is no sympathy whatever with