The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-23
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE
The Convention Will Be Held July 8, but the
Location Is Yet Doubt.

The Convention WIN Be Held July 8, but the
Location Is Yet In Doubt.
Special to the Indianapolis journal
WASHINGTON. Feb 22-After day Of hard
work and excitement the national Democratic
committee adjourned this evening till 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning, without selecting a place
for holding the presidential nominating conven-
tion. 1t was not very difficult to decide that
the convention should be held on the Sd of July,
the President had made a request to that eff
feet before he departed. yesterday, for Florida.
There were several ballots with view to de-
Gliding upon place for the convention. and at
the hour Of adjournment San Francisco led as
favorite. while Chicago and ST. Louis came in
second and third choice. respectively. The
hotels are crowded with delegates from various
cities working for the convention. and late to-
night there is every possible speculation as to
the probable outcome tomorrow. 1t is impossi-
BILE to predict with anything like accuracy. The
San Francisco people are well organized and
determined, and having much ready cash as
they have pluck. il is not improbable they will
get the prize. The throat-cutting is between
St. Louis and Chicago. The San francisco peo-
pie have steadily kept in good humor,
but thar old business rivalry, which has
amounted to nothing less than i'll feeling for
years, has cropped out between the Mound City
and Lake City. The San Francisco people hope
that this feeling between ST Louis and Chicago
will become SO bitter during the night that the
full strength of one or the other will 60 to them
and give them the convention when the commit
tee meets tomorrow morning. Ii there is
dlsIntegration of strength of either one of these
Cities it is generally believed it will be that of
St Louis, because the weather there is so in
tensely hot in July that not many want to go
there. It is said that the members from the
Territories favor San Francisco as second
choice, and the people from the South west. who
have been voting for either ST Louis or Chicago
will vote for San Francisco on second choice The
Golden Gate needs but seven votes to give it
the prize. Congressman William L. Scott, of
Pennsylvania, is working for Chicago. and he
undoubtedly Is doing at the direction of the
President as he is recognized the mouth
piece of the administration So far the work of
the railroads is not in the committee.
Most people believe night that San Francisco
has the best chance for securing the convention,
and that if il does go there it will be secured
by Chicago. The reason New York does not
figure for the convention is because the Presi-
dent has requested that it shall not be held in
his State. S. S. Cox. who made
eloquent appeal to the committee for New York,
is said to have spoken IN the interest of Govern
or Hill.
Late tonight the fight between St Louis and
Chicago has grown so bitter that many men of
good Judgment say New York will come in
COMPROMISE. II San francisco cannot De
agreed upon after the first ballot tomorrow.
New Workers working with a vim, espe-
cally the Hill men. for New York city Indiana
Democrats say that ex-senator Mcdonald who
is the committee Austin Fl. Browns
proxy, is working to have the convention held
at San Francisco, so as to cut off Governor
Gray's boomet for the second place the
ticket. If the convention is held at either st.
Louis or Chicago. they say, large number of
Gray's friends will attend, but if it goes San
Francisco only few of them will be there, and
Pacific slope man will be nominated for the
second place, probably Ex-Governor Coleman.