The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-15
OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH.

A Baselsss Associated Press Story About q
Harrison-Gresham Combination.
CHICAGO. June 1.-THE very first combine
ton between tho friends Of any two candidates,
and therefore the FIRST real politics Of the Repub-
lican nstiona; convention. was brought to q cul-
m;nstion to-day. Its importance will not be
lessened by the fact that news OF
the move will come ss total sur
prise to the great mass Of people who
have been listening to tho bswildering
idle gable that for nearly week now has been
making the hotel corridors here fairly rseonnd.
The business which. likely enough. may be the
determining factor in the final result Of the con-
vention was not transacted In the noisy bedlam
that every hotel lobby has become. Away from
the mob Of loud.voced, self.important corridor
takers and their gaping groups of listeners. of
in . quiet room. less than . dozen
men. all personal friends. but happen
ing to be also leading advocates
OF two OF the most prominent candidates before
the convention, came together with tho utmost
informally. They had been-several of them
patiently waiting for some time for the opportu-
nifty. Cigars were lighted, there was free IN
terchangs OF opinion in purely conversational
way and within fifteen minutes the thing had
been done. The forces of Harrison and Gresh-
am had been harmonzed 1t was an Indisna
family gathering. Among tho Harrison leaders
present were Attorney eeneral Michsner, ex-
Congressman Peelle and Secretary Of State
Griffin Gresham's representatives included Mr..
c. W. Fairbanks, of Indianapolis: State Senator
Robert Graham and Col Henry Drew. The ap-
parently strained relations between the follow
ers of Harrison and Gresham were mentioned,
and both sides recognized the folly Of the
friends of two Indiana men coming to Chicago
and fighting each other. The feeling of those
in the conference was that the part
Of good sense lay in the dirsc-
ton OF some sort Of union, not In antaeonism.
chat the friends of Harrison and Gresham
should not attack or attemps TO undermine each
other; that both sides should do the best they
could for their man. but oil In the friendliest
vote solidly from start to finish. When the
time came--a time expected by all Gresham
men but not acknowledged 40 probable by Gen !
eral Harrison's phaaux--tne time when
il should become evident In the con-
ventiou that Harrison could not be the nominee,
then Gresham should be accorded the support
OF his native State IL was not stipulated that
meeting of the Indiana delegation should be
held to determine whether the time had arrived,
IL being the purpose to make the matter 90 fair
moment when the delegates should. ia such
contingency, IL the contingency arose, begin
voting for Gresham. was lsft to the honor OF the
delegates themselvsa
THE foregoing statement was called to the
attention of some Of the most prominent Of
General Harrisons supporters now in Chicago,
and the reply was received that the story was
entirely without foundation; there WAS no oeca-
sion for any combination or contsrenee.-ED.
JOURNAL.
A livslier scene than that presentsd Ia the
Gresham headquarters this afternoon aud even
ine. could scarcely b. imagined. The rooms
were crowded constantly. Tina tall. wiry figure
OF G. w. Fairbanks seemed evsryw here. nov
pleasantly greeting some old lnd;anian or cor
daily graspine the hand Of the distin euishsd
Chicagoans and others no less DISTINGUISHED from
outside States who came Ia to cheer on the Gresh-
am boom Mr. Fairbanks took pains to correcs
the reports circulated. ~ he said by the friends
of other candidates, for their own profit that
there were other than the frlendliess fsslings
between the old friends Of Blaiue and the sun
portsrs Of Gresham. Why said Mr. Fair
banks. the real feet y that Grsshams greatest