Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-10
CLEVELAND, UNLESS A MIRACLE

Shall IHteTvcne---How the Various Candi.
dates Were Nominated indications nj
Midnight.
CmcAGo, July 9-Midnight.-[ Exclu
sive This has been by far the
most interesting and exciting day
since the convention began to
assemble. The work that has been done
for or against the various candidates is be-
ginning to show its points. In seme in
stances it has been effective; in others,
without result. The one noticeable fact of
all is the position Of the field to combine.
There is a large, struggling, incoherent
mass Of opposition to Cleveland, but it has
utterly failed to unite, and there is no rea-
son now to look for the generalship' that
would enable it to do So They are con-
stantly antagonizing Cleveland on points
on which they are not themselves united
They are uniformly besten, and in every
instance their own forces assist TO make the
Gle, eland Success Certain
aHd more emphatic. The result is to give
Cleveland a percentage than properly be-
longs to him. 1t is welEknown that the
fed is fighting for delay so, to say when the
Committee on Resolutions notified the con
vention that they would be Unable to report
unta tomorrow When molten 10 adjourn
was made Cleveland's friends opposed it
and the friends Of other candidates blunder-
,nglE aided in voting down the adjournment.
Their the field antagonized motion 20 have
he nominating speeches made to-day, bah
loting to the deferred until atSer the adop-
tion Of the platform. Again the field d.
videa and 3 victory was credited 70 Cieve,
land The roll Of States was then called
and the nominating speeches tired. The
noticeable efforts were those of
Hendricks In Behalf of Mccopaid,
Mckinney. Of Kentucky, for Carlisle,
Hooker, Of Mississippi, for Hsyard and
Cochran. Tamn,apy Democrat, N behalf ot
Thurman Hendricks left the impression
somehow that there was part. Of the old
ticket stilf ready foT business, at the old
stand geKeazeyr brilliant young Ken.
,uskian, made u,agnifcent es6rt. Hook
er shared with him the honors- of oratory.
In the opinion Of sany, the WI; patAOs and
elsauense of the Tammany kishmnn enti-
ted him to the pain At the oonchlsioh ot
the speeches, the Convention ads sOurned
anti to-morsew l. was painful to. see low
Thurman fA,ed 10 the nominating speeches.
Breckenridge whe nominated kun, was
nervoas and ineffective Dublin Ward could
not ss heard and the msgni6eenk effor
Of Cochran came too. hte to retrieve
Ths Old Ran.an's Falling FDrtuaeS-
His bosm Is about at an, eId Sadly
resEEing the words ofose Of tAe orators
that these are the days Of new men hereto
fore unknown in the politics u the coUn-
try. Cleveland not only has majority Of
the convention as first or second choice.
bat he had the cro~d to-day by an iU-
nesse prepondeyaRce. The applause when
Lockwood Of New York, in presenting him
10 the convention. first mentioned his name
was universal, stroRg and grand. For sew
| eral minutes the orator was slieRced, and
when. in some hull n The Stoym. ne woald
essay to speak the cheers and shouts would
rise
With y Roar
and compel him to suspend. There were
SYMPTOMS now and then Of Just the least DIT
of arrangement In sll this, but whatever OF
art there was in il was very effective, The
day closed with Cleveland far ahead. and
his opponents out fought at every point
Mr.. Randall is the only man in the field fol
whom there now seems the slightest chance
He has not been much in the way Of the
hard blows that have been falling to-day
and Is il better plight than either MeDon
aid or Bayard.
To sum up, nothing short o
a miracle can preven, Cleyelsnds nomi
nation. When Tilden's dechnstion va
printed the REGIsTEE Of that mornin!
/ pointed out the strong probability tia
/ Cleveland aud Mcdonald would cOmpos
the next Democratic ticket. There is no'
a very strong probability approaching Ger
! isiniy that the REGIsrER prophecy viii scOI
be history. The Committee on Resolution
is now in the tbsaesof parturition. Frou
present indications 4 vii be twins-
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