St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-06
TO BEAT THURMAN.
HoOsiers Are Straining Every
Nerve to Galvanize the Gray



Corpse.
Special to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, June 5.-No sooner had
the convention adjourned and dinner
been disposed of than the Gray men
resumed their old tactics. Congregat-
ing in solid mass in the center of the
Lindell's rotunda, they whooped and
shouted and cheered and yelled with a
vim that would have convinced an I'M
sophisticated stranger that the Indiana
governor was the man of the hour.
Ever and anon some individual yearn-
ing for Oratorical honorS would be
pushed up on platform, and would de-
nounce with fiouriShes the dictation Of
the far-off East and the extreme West,
and declare that upon the nomination
of Gray depended all hopes of Demo-
cratic victory. Then the Indianans
would cheer and the Thurmanites, way
ing their bandanaS, would guy and
shout ironically for more. From the
headquarters at the Lindell big-lunged.
broad-chested detachments were sent
out to the other hostelries with in
structioms to
GALVANIZE THE CORPSE
for all it would stand. They did their
work well, not only in the hotels, but
on the streets. at the corners, every
where that there was any chance for
getting a responsive cheer. Everybody
knew that the boom was dead past res
direction, and that its final interment
had been delayed by the postpOnement
of the nominations until tomorrow.
The red bandana is flying high to-
night, and nothing short of miracle
can stop the tide. II any proof of this
were needed it is afforded by the en-
thusiaSm that was manifested in the
convention this morning when the
California delegation hOiSted the Ohio
emblem on the top of its banner, and
more than half of the other states fol-
lowed suit. 1t is now anything to beat
Thurman with the Gray men. and they
have been banking on the theory that
it will be impossible for him to gain the
two-t thirds vote which, under the rules
of the convention, is necessary to
a nomination.. They are perfectly will
ing to throw Gray overheard and go in
for dark horse if the Ohio statesman
can be beaten by that means. and even
this mornings experience has failed to
these will not do. They have no oppor-
tunity to cry ..machine'' at Thurman's
boom. 1t is spontaneous and
comes from the people. A month
ago it was among the extreme
impossibilities; to-day it counts
among its warmest supporters
many of the leading men and orators of
the party, who came here with their
eyes turned in other directions. Taking
eX-GOv. Leon Albeit, of New Jersey,
for instance. Sunday he was OH the
fence; tonight he says: ut looks more
and more like Thurman. What do we
want with Gray? They never heard his
Adam, and if his name was placed OH
the ticket it would
ACT LIKE A WET BLANKET
to New JerSeymen, but they know
Thurman, and his name will whoop
things up. Besides this, we want
man who has been Democrat all his
life, and had it bred in his bone. MIR.
Gray may be good man, but you know
how long he has been in the party Now
look at the contrast. Everybody knows
Allen g. Thurman, an Out-and-Out Dem
ocrat from way back. In New Jersey
we want an Old-fashiOned Demo
crat, one not imbued with such
rot as civil service reform
etc. Thurman is that man. These
old-fashioned Democratic sentiments
are we'll known, and our state will go
heels over head for him. Some of our
old Democrats who hate Cleveland like
poison will vote the ticket because of
Thurman being on it. ~
Much in the same strain everybody is
talking tonight, except the Gray con-
tingent, and even its support is growing
beautifully less.