The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-22
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.
Saratoga Swarming with Delegates-Bliss
and Morton the Leading Candidates.

SARATOGA, Sept. 21.-Delegates to the Repub-
lican State convention are arriving in large
numbers to-day and the quiet of Saturday and
Sunday has been changed to scene of hustle
and activity and political wire-pulling. The
"booms," and there many of them, are being
pushed in the hotels, at the springs, on the
streets, and everywhere else. There is no con
centrarion of strength upon any one candidate
worth chronicling There have been about
twenty five names mentioned for the first
place on the ticket but. of course,
the greater number of these will not receive,
and do not expect, anything more than com
p!imentary vote in the convention The promi-
nent candidates are AlonZo B. Cornell Cornelius
N. Bliss, Ira W. Davenport, J. w. Drexel, Jos.
B. Carr, Levi T. Morton, James d. Warren,
William H. Seward and James Wadsworth
New York county is said to hold the key to the
situation, and the city delegates are hard at
work endeavoring to harmonic upon a candi-
date
A quiet movement is said to be on foot to
make Col. Fred Grant the nominee for Secre-
tary of State.
LATER--Delegates fairly swarmed into town
on the afternoon trains and the scenes about the
hotels tonight are decidedly animated. At this
hour (ll P. NJ there is no change in the situa-
ton from that indicated earlier in the day, ex-
cept that Cornelius N. Bliss and Levi P. Morton
have taken the lead leaving Cornell good
third. While this is fact, it is
very apparent that Cornell blocks the
way to reaching an amicable arrangement
can be got rid of by friends of the other two
gentlemen. they will have hard work in carrying
out their wishes. 1t is understood that Cornell
holds sufficient number of votes in the New
York delegation to embarrass Bliss and Morton,
and it is probable this may necessitate the nam
ing of Drexe or new man.
MIDNIGHT-The Kings county (Brooklyn)
delegation held conference tonight and ap-
pointed committee to confer with the New
York county delegates with view to selecting
candidate upon whom both delegations could
unite. The State committee tonight held
meeting and decided to recommend the selection
of Senator Warner Miller for temporary chair
man.
The New York committeeman adjourned
their conference without uniting upon a candi-
date The scheme is now said to be to take an
informal ballot tomorrow upon all the candi-
dates that may be placed in nomination, and
then to. adjourn and endeavor to settle upon
some particular candidate
The correspondent of the New York Tribune
tonight telegraphed that paper as follows
Several persons have been preparing pianks
for the platform, and an effort will be made to
have it concise, and at the same time embrace
the issues upon which the party will appeal to the
voters. Senator Miller proposes a protection
plank which will accept tho revised tariff as
settling the tariff question until new census is
taken, and deprecating any further agitation
of tho question until trade is better, and the
wages of iaborers higher. Corporal Tanner will
propose civilse plank, which will declare
that war veterans should have priority in GER
tification after passing an examination A sep
crate resolution will charge violation of the
principles of civil-servce reform by the recent
appointments in the New York custom
house, and in other ways. Another plank
will be proposed declaring in favor of the stop
page Of the coinage of the silver dollar Other
planks will declare in favor of municipal re-
form and legislative reform and will demand
that the colored voters of the South be given the
right to cast their ballots and to have them fair
ly counted. If the convention should last be-
yond one day, as seems probable, the plat
form will not be reported tomorrow