The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-22

- anxious ~ ever to push Senatsr Sherman's
candidacy. He win unquessiouabiy stand by his
convention, but after q break In the column oc-
ours he is free to act as he may think best This
would mean another loss 70 the Gresham total
How Chicago Works Up the Gresham Boom.
Chicago Times
Mere lookers-on hero in America Father from
the trend Of events that the St. Louis couven-
ton will certainly nominate President Cevsr
land, and that CONCERNING the Chicago conven-
ton nothing further can be said with confidence
than that the number OF uninstructed delegates
appointed exceeds largely the number Of In
structed delegates, and that while sundry names
In . field uncommon,y large will receive votes
complimentary IN some cases, earnest and per-
sistent in others, an Immediate choice 10 not
probable, and that the outcome. IL IL be not the
presentation Of Blaine's name, Is Q matter Alto
gether beyond human ken This 10 an nm
biased view. But when one looks at the situa-
no difficulty in making 1t suit
his desires. The newspapers that have
undertaken to boom Judge Gresham make no
more doubt Of his nomination at Chicago tnau
Of ClevelanGs nomination ut ST. Louis List
but an Eastern delegate inquire kindly about
Judge Gresham, and he Is Instantly set down a.
. champion of Gresham to the death. Indiana
instructs for Harrison The Gresham boomer
discovers in the fact . Gresham movement.
The Hoosier delegates get together and decline
to make any agreement looking 20 the substitu-
ton of Gresham for Harrison nc any stage OF
the balloting, and the Gresham organ immedi-
ately counts the Hoosier delegation for Gresh-
am. Nobody but the boomers correspondent
mentions Gresham at Buffalo. A canvass shows
that il New YorK Republicans are not for
Blaine they are for Depew, and NOT
q single delegate to the State cou-
veution proposes Greshams name. yet
the Empire State is reported a. rising IN its ma
jesty TO demand the nomination of Gresham.
If anybody persists in the statement that he has
q first choice who isn't Gresham, the Gresham
boom factory turns him out speck and span
second choice for Gresham. and no mistake All
the Sherman men are Gresham men In disguise.
All the Aiger. Harrison. Allison. Rusk. ingalls,
and Phelps men but await the signal to throw mp
their hats for Gresham. The Gresham organ
claims everybody. but has mot ventured as yet
o representation of the first ballot IL the
than seventy-fve votes out Of more than 800.
where are theyl
Thus booms are made. Thus. ,also. newspa-
pers are discredired.
Weakness I'm Minnesota
st. Paul Letter in New York Press.
The free-trade element in Northwestern Re-
publicanism was sctive and vigilant in Judge
Gresehm's behalf. Editor Medilr sent his Chi
cago Tribune everywhere with its columns
teeming with praise of his candidate. and one or
two other papers followed his example. Some
Of the leaders. glad TO take mp a name after Mr..
Blame naQ WltoraWu DIS. joined IN the cry lor
Gresham, and the result was that for several
weeks it looked az though he would be the can
didate Of this section Of the country.
But it didn't last The rank and file of the
party were moro courageous than their leaders,
and began TO demand that they take q strong
and positive stand on the tariff, and that their
choice for President should be equally firm in
his views A compromise candidate, they saw,
would mean defeat; one whose opinions and po-
sition needed no explanation meant success.
Still the Gresham boomers kept pushing on,
and in several counties throughout the State
succeeded, because they had no opposition. In
a~rousing some enthusiasm for their candidate.
As the time for the county conventions an
preached the talk for Judge Gresham grew less,
and it became apparent to everybody who looked
into the situation that Mr.. Blame suited the Re-
publicans of the Northwest better than any
other presidential possibility. Prob
ably one-third Of these county conventions IA
vored JCdge Gresham, but even that Ia . high
estimate. The papers which are persistently
disappearing the Gresham strength in this
section Of the country are weakening him i'm
measurably - . candidate. 1t 10 true that nc
other name but his has been doomed before the
| people out here, aud true also that those en-.
gagged in 1t are tho men who have done more
than all others combined to make these States
| doubtful on the tariff issue. Ii is not true, how
ever. that the Gresham strength is sufficient to
l control the delegation, or to get more than a
third Of their votes on the first ballot, and lose
them all Immediately after. So far as i can
| learn the temper of the party his candidacy
never reached any more promising stage up
| here than this