Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-06-21
good feeling. Many OF the delegates feel
that the Depew candidacy

good feeling. Many Of the delegates feel
that the Depew candidacy
WIS A BLUNDER,
Destroying the only chance New York
had Of uniting on candidate who could
succeed ,and thus exercising controlling
influence. 1t will be impossible to unite
New York on another candinate. About
half the delegation is likely to go to Har-
rison. Hiscock favors the Indianian, and
Platt is about to give up Alger and join
Hiscoek. Phelps, Of New Jersey. an d
Elkins are in the Harrison combination.
Warner Miller is still inclined toward
Sherman and if Depew should join
him the delegation would split in
two parts Of about equal strength for
Harrison and 81 erman, with scattering
votes for other candidates. While no
absolute pledges have been made, New
Jersey, Maryland and parts of New Eng
land are for Harrison, and he will show
up strongly after the Complementary bal
lots are finished. At the same time Har-
rison is losing rather than gaining
strength on this discussion OF availability
or 81.
VOTE GETTING QUALITIES,
Which is now so general. 1t is seen that
the predominating thought in the Con-
vention is to get a man that can be
elected A large number of organized
labor men from Indianapolis and other
cities are here favoring Gresham. The
latter is now called "the tin pail candi-
date"
Some of the strongest influences in the
country are at work for Harrison. 1t is
conceded that he has the best corps OF
political workers in the field. The In
fIuence, energy and adroitness OF such
men as Elkins, New and Duffy are not to
be despised, aided as they are by Senator
Hiscock and VIM. Walter Phelps.
The Harrison campaigners made their
first mistake this morning. Up to this
time they had handled the situation in
their own State with great style. Though
it has all along been known to insiders
that the Indiana delegation, while APP
parently solid for Harrison, has within
it eight or ten Gresham men, the Harri-
son managers, by letting Gresham
delegates lone and carefully avoiding all
formal controversies, had succeeded in
convincing the Convention that the State
was solid for their man. To-day they
made blunder by calling the Indiana
delegation together and attempting
to pass a resolution to the effect that
Indiana should vote solidly for Harri-
son until the majority indicated wish
to change to another candidate. This
resolution was received with much dis
favor; some of the Gresham men present
declared they would not be bound by the
resolution il it passed. 1t being appar-
ent that the Gresham men and conserv-
ativts delegates opposed to the unit rule
were iElhe majority, the resolution was
withdraw Thus by a blunder the
Harrison Men have made it apparent
that Indiana is not solid for Harrison,
and
MORAL VICTORY
Is with the opposition. One of the cards
which the Gresham managers have been
relying on is the break OF the Indiana
vote, and, il they should spring this on
the Convention simultaneously with the
change OF Wisconsin from Rusk to Gres-
ham, it might start a stampede to the
latter.
That the selection OF Estee to be Per-
manent Chairman was the result of an
agreement that in consideration of
this honor California was to aban-
don her Blaine, became more than
ever apparent in the Convention to-day
when Estee indicated that California had
no candidate. Some of the California
delegates refused to ratify the bargain to
give up Blaine, and it has been found
impossible to carry out the programme
arranged by the leaders to unite on STAN
ford for complimentary ballot. A COM
promise has now been arranged by
which California will not put Blaine in
nomination, but some Of her delegates,
led by Raymond and De Young, will
vote for him from the start.
EsTEE's OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.
Chairman Estee this evening received
the following dispatch from his old school
teacher Of forty seven years ago:
GIRARD, Pa, June 20.
To M. N. Estee, Chairman: Accept
congratulations from your old teacher in
the hemlock school house in Concord, Pa.
(SignedD o. LOGAN.