The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-04
DBHOCRACY'S CIRCUS.
Prospect that Everything may
not be Harmonious
pOss SCOTT MOVING SLOWLY.
r,o ,,o,irc Body Is Looking to him
,oicad,ncm by the Nose-Douhle
pcnllng with Thurma"-op-
rosiog SCOTS Policy

races yesterday 'i''e' lI''-
,%e hotels deserted. Congressman Scott
a,Jor,J ',r around through the corridors
oi,bo southern, most gloomy and Pc
a,ior figure. lie made his first appear
snno there ut an early hour in the morn
,a,. ' INF there were few who knew him
n,,ooauy "s Now and then he seized
y. nronaintance, walked with him
,,,y % 10 the end OF the billiard
.oom a talked for a while, and re-
armed This recognized agent OF the
administration was not bothered with
..on,ion For halfa an hour he sat alone,
within sight OF hundreds OF people, pull
IN, ri. mrstache and staring at the cold
,%re goor Before the proceeding here
s,D', ,oy1r more people will know Scott
,bon s now enjoy his acquaintance. He
JiIn't 20 right TO hustling as sooh US ne
So, here. He considerably pretended
;Got he wanted to know what others had
:" t,.s s,v during the day he found scatter
;Os irlcpalrs from Maryland, Indiana,
C@rncr,icrt. California, Oregon and
Voy1la With the exception OF those
irom tItc Pacific the sentiment was gen
cr,IIy against Thurman, but willing to
an inr linn il Cleveland said 80.
DOUBLE DEALING WITH THURMAN.
Scott himself said nothing and it was
M, 4 great while before it was quite gen.
or,Ily suspected that the flyer in behalf
n Thurman on the part OF the Admin
;.traiion cotcric was intended for blind
and tEat il would he used to accomplish
,wo nrrposcs-to wipe out several both
sTsom" and undesirable candidates and
tccn the talk about the Ohio man going
Mi the Administration managers were
ready to bring to the front the man they
reaIly wanted. This has been made even
stronrrr by conferences which Scott has
held this evening with German, OF Mary
land. senator Davis, of West Virginia;
Wot,rrson and others. Scott himself
lives nobody the impression that he
rrolly cares Tor Thurman, having used
thc name to display before the country
that Cleveland had not forgotten the
oII.line Democrats and desired to have
them represented on the ticket. The
idea was that Thurman would not ac-
cent, and now that he has said that he
c0nld not decline there is evident en-
barrassmcnt. 1t may not be so easy to
.rt rid of the sentiment that has been
walked up for him on the belief that he
was Clpycland's choice, and some OF the
delegates are already emitting red-hot
words about what they think is double
dealing.
Bnt there are n number Of States that
could not BE- Countcdupon for Thurman,
even il the Administration had really
wanted to nominate him. One OF them is
Thurman's own State. Maryland is an
other, and she took action to that effect
to-day, while Kentucky has given notice
that il is for Stevenson. Colorado is for
Black; PENNSYLVANIA will follow Scott,
Of course: Illinois is divided, and In
diana could not be driven from the
support OF Gray, even for the sake OF
harmony. Whom the Administration
bosses will finally produce MS their candi-
tate will be better known tomorrow or
Tuesday, and it may still be Thurman.
There is Il great deal ofbelief that it will
turn out to be Don Manuel Dickinson,
the Postmaster-Ccneral, but l am now
disposed to think that Gray is in the
best position tosweep in the nomination
finally. Scott adhcres to his policy OF
clearing the tracks and making the NOM
ination Of the candidate without opposi-
tion. The present difficulty of doing
this makes him backward about posi-.
lively deciding his choice, lest it should
finally fail.
OPPOSITION TO scOTT's POLICY.
There are plenty who do not favor
scotts policy, and think that an open
contest would do the party good and
put some life into the situation, which
it sadly needs. They would be grateful
for chance to exercise their own judg-
ment on one or two questions involved.
An open contest now would bring in
half dozen candidates, three or four OF
whom hold office under the Ad-
ministration, and this spectacle is
what the Administration is desirous
OF avoiding. OF course it can pull
these people outif he wishes, but there
is some doubt as to which way the most
harm would be done. Ifthe convention
is eventually allowed to so to free bal
lot there would be pretty struggle
around Gray, Thurman and Stevenson,
with their strength in about the order
named. Unless somebody exercises au-
thority and gives the Presidents wishes
on the subject, this is what will be done.
The merely individual influence OF the
managers here will not be sufficient to
prevent it.
As the evening progressed Thurman
GOT hammered more and more. The ac-
lion OF the Maryland delegation in de-
Claring against him, ,ostensibly on account
oi his age, was known and talked abolt
with effect. 1t has been freely said that
ii Cleveland could not pull through
without Thurman's respectability and
character and old.time Democracy to
hold the party up he does not deserve to
go through at all. The assertion is also
made that, il elected, Thurman would
not be able TO perform the duties Of the
office. 1t is rather grotesque to hear
some Of the inside talk OF Democrats
about Democrats.
THE PLATFORM PROBLEM.
There has been more discussion to-day
about the platform. While it is very
certain that it will be finally made to
suit Cleveland on the tariff question, it
snOt to be done without some trouble
IN the Committee on Resolutions, Inter
State Commerce Commissioner Morri-
son, who is n delegate-At-largeSrom llli-
nois, expects to be chairman OF that
committee, and he is Openly-as every.
body can know-ior the most radical
declaration. The Pennsylvania and
Kentucky resolutions, which do not ma
terially differ, are what he wants. Wat
ierson is now on the same track. Scott
has produced the Pennsylvania plat
iGrm in his several conferences this
afternoon, us what he thinks would be
the right thing and also as presumably
what the President wants, German,
while smiling n little, announced that
so lar as he was concerned there would
be no opposition To any declaration
which the administration desired to
nave made. Itwillbe great day when
tRe Pennsylvania Democrats make the