Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-07


At meeting Of the Ohio delegation to-
night several speakers Expressed the be-
lief that Judge Thurman WAS sure to be
An interchange OF views
soon demonstrated the fact that the
members were Of the unanimous opinion
that the time had come that Ohio, in
Justice to her candidate and party,
should assume active ard aggressive
interest in behalf Of the Old Roman, and
his candidacy will no longer be left to
take care OF itself, nor will California be
allowed to carry of all the honors OF
presenting his name to the Convention.
II was finally agreed that Gen. Thomas
II. Power should second Judge Thur
mans nomination on behalf Of Ohio,
Immediately after he has been nominated
by Tarpey, of California.
The Republican will print tomorrow a
long interview with Chairman Barnun1,
OF the National Democratic Committee.
He said in part. My choice is Don Nj.
Dickinson for Vice President. He is by
far the brightest man in the Cabinet. 1t
is probably too late to do anything to-
wards nominating him, but | wish
it might be done, both for the good
Of the American people and the benefit
of the Democratic party. In my opinion
it is not good policy nor for the best in
terests Of our party and country that
either Thurman or Gray should be nom
mated the former, because of his great
age and the latter, because of his inabil-
ity to fiji the position satisfactorily.
1t is true Gray has some ability; we are
all good for something, but are not
all fit for the vice-presidency and neither
is Gray. He is smart enough to get
control of the machinery OF his State,
but that is no criterion of superior
ability. He is all right in his way,
perhaps, but it is bad way and we
don't want such man. He has no
strength outside of bis own state,
though he will undoubtedly strengthen
the party on the Coast, but even
he is no stronger than Dickinson,
who, aside from the President, is the
most popular man in his party to-day in
the East. Thurman will be undoubtedly
nominated. Everything seems to be
going his way to-day. The whole Con-
vention is practically with him. He has
now four-ffths of its votes, but what
fear is the reaction afterwards"
Speaking of the platform, he said;
Eyes, they are having considerable
trouble over the platform. / think they
will adopt the platform of 1884, though
they may be forced into making some
changes. I'm my opinion they
should let we'll enough alone. That
platform carried us through to
one victory, and it will serve equally
well this time. The tariff is very
tender subject with us down East. /
am a protectionist. and don't want to
see all our commercial willis thrown
down. This practice OF taxing people
immense sums for which there can never
be reasonable or honest use and locking
itup in the Treasury to be used for cor
ruption and trickery, must be stopped.
But let us be not too much in a hurry.
The platform OF 1884 is good enough for
us now, and it will be time enough in
1892 to make radical changes"
s DETERMINED GRAY MEN.
Governor Gray's friends made an ef-
fort to-day to take advantage of the Cir
cumstances which led to the adjourn
ment OF the Convention until tomorrow.
The Indianans have displayed some Of
the spirit of the Grant 306 of
1880, and have been fighting with
great desperation and persistency. Even
with twothirds Of the Convention
against them, they have managed to
keep up an outward show Of hopefulness.
On Tuesday, when they were so COM
pletely overshadowed by the COM
bination Of party sentiment and
the political power Of the admins
tration, they only asked for another
days time, and claimed that if the bal
loting could be postponed twenty-four
hours, surprising change would come
upon the situation. That afternoon
their opportunity came, and they were
not long in improving it. The
National Committee is under some
sort OF a bargain with the
Local Committee Of Arrangements, and
has endeavored to carry out lis part OF
the compact. BY every means under its
control the National Committee has
sought to delay the proceedings and
postpone the conclusion OF the Conven-
tion's labors. The delegates have
discovered this scheme, and the
vast majority OF them went into session
to-day, determined to remain there till
the nominations had been made and the
platform adopted. 1t is well understood
that if the matter had been forced to an
lbSu6 tiil5 dltcIlOOly oIdy udult
would have been pushed by his
supporters. The influence OF the National
Committee was holding back the report
of the Committee on Platform and
new danger here presented itself. IL
was that the majority in the Convention
would 60 ahead with the nomination for
Vice President, and this done, majority
of the delegates would leave for home
on the night train. 1t being nee
essary for the Convention to take
a recess without the Vice President, the
Indiana men were smart enough to seize
upon the advantage and make the most
OF it, promptly sending their men out
through the hotels. They claimed that
theunexpected delay oftwenty-four hours
was victory for the opposition, and that
the slate would yet be broken.
They renewed their visits to other dele
cations, and repeated their now we'll
worn arguments. Some anxiety was felt
by Thurman men whenit became known
that another meeting Of the Ohio delega-
ton was called for the even
ing. Fear was expressed that they
would try to re oke the action by which
Thurman was endorsed. No such action
was taken, however. Allconsidered, how
ever no doubt now exists in anybody's
mind but that Thurman will be nominated
on the first ballot by acclamation. Gov
ernor Gray's supporters admit that he has
more than two-thirds, and it is not likely
that Gray will be placed in nomination
at all. The Convention is expected to
finish its labors in an hours time to-
morrow morning. The platform, as
agreed upon by the committee tonight,
is compromise between the wofactions,
compact between Scott and German
to secure for the President an en-.
dorsement that would be satisfactory
to him and yet not weaken the party al
the polls in doubtful States and was strong
enough to force some concession from
extreme tariffreformers, and at the same
time the latter had votes enough to com.