St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-14
CAMPBELL WILL WIN.
Ohio's Governor Apparently
Has a Sure Thing on a.
denomination. r
Kline, the Cleveland Lawyer,
May Be Favored by Neal
Votes.
Outlines Of the Platform That
Will Be Adopted Wednes-
day.
Matters With a Political CoE<
oring Of More or Less
Interest.

| CLEVELAND, o., July 13.-The deles
| gates to the Ohio Democratic conyens
tion are rapidly congregatiDg from ALI
sections of the state, and as the decisive
| day draws nearer interest in the event
! deepens with every passing hour. 1t is
now conceded by all the neutral and
unprejudiced that Gov. James E.Camp.
bell will be renominated for governor /
on the first ballot. His opponents are
Lawrence T. Neal, of Chillicothe, and
Virgil P. Kline, of Cleveland. Up to
this time Neal has been bis principal
competitor, the only apparent follow
ing of Kline being the Guyahoga county
delegation, which was instructed for
the Cleveland lawyer largely as mat
ter of county and city pride. But the
leaven Of politics works queer results,
and the boom in a few brief hours
has assumed proportion when
makes that gentleman apparent
ly the only formidable opponent of Gov,
Campbell. The logic of the situation
has caused all the anti-Campbell men to
combine under the battle cry of ''any-
thing to beat Campbell" and the Ques-
ton with them is no longer which of
the governors competitors has the most
votes, but which is the most avaIlablei
candidate and the most likely to suc-
ceed as dark horse? To this query
there is little division of sentiment.
Kline is absent, on his way to Europe,
too far away to give
Pledges and Promises.
and his promised low tariff convictions
and eminent campaigning qualities
mark him as the most available candi-
date of the opposition. since the feud
engendered between the Neal and
Campbell factions gives the former a
little hope of increasing his strength in
the convention. MI. Kline has man
aged his campaign with consum-
mate diplomacy. When his home
received the news jocularly and gave
no evidences of being an earnest aspl--
rant for gubernatorial honors. On the
contrary, he was on terms of warmesti
friendship with both Campbell and
Neal. the leading competitors, and one
of the most serious charges which the
absence of the Cuyahoga county candi-
date makes it impossible for him to
answer, is that he recently, on sepR-
rate occasions, pledged his support to
both Campbell and Neal. He has left
Armstrong, of Cleveland, which viii! be
read in the convention On Wednesday,,
declaring his willingness to serve his
party if selected by the convention as
the candidate for governor. 1t now
looks as though the anti-Campbell dele
gates, when nominations are declared
in order Wednesday, will ask for an in
formal ballot, but that the governors.
friends will oppose this and demand
business and formal ballot. In this
event Campbell will be found, before,
the roll is called, to have tbree-hfths Of
the votes of the convention. But the
result will not be announced without
many changes. The Neal men, 1t is
understood, will, with the consent OF
their leader, desert their candidate and
Go SOIidly to Kline
in the hope of creating a stampede Of
lukewarm Campbell delegates to the
Cuyahoga county candidate and insur-
ing his nomination. If the logic of the
situation does not happen to suggest Mr.
Kline as the most available candidate.
the strength of the opposition may be
thrown either 10 Gen. John A. Nc
Mahon, of Dayton, or Hon. Tom L.
johnson, the free trade congressman OF
Cleveland. Despite all these clever po-.
litical maueuvers, however, the indlca-
tions are that the Campbell phalanx
will remain practically unbroken, and
on the first ballot. ''1n my opinion"
said Chairman Norton, of the Demo-
cratic state central committee, tonight.
Campbell will be nominated on the
first ballot. The opposition will en-
deavor to combine. on Kline or Mc-
Mahon or some other dark horse and!
try to enforce stampede, but thew
will be unsuccessful. The people,
have spoken, and Campbell already
has the delegates, and the result OF
this convention is now simple question:
of addition, not Of enthusiasm" There
are candidates for various other state
offices to be nominated, but the chief in-
terest naturally centers in the governors
ship. If Lieut. Gov. NJ. Y. MarquOis,.
of Logan county, expresses himself as
not desiring a denomination. the resulR
may be the placing of the tariff reforms
practical farmer and eX-congressman,
John Quincy Smith, of Clinton county.
on the ticket for second place. Mr.. Mars
quis could, it is probable, have a renom-
ination without opposition, but having
Had the HOnors,
there is some doubt whether he will seek
the denomination. Financially the place
is not to be considered worthy of inter-,
est, and the honor, therefore, is the only,
allurement for the ambitious gentle-
men in the state. For attorney general
John w. Canary, of Wood county, and
State Senator Corcoran, are the princi-
pal candidates. The former has
been considered as promis-
ing candidate for several weeks,
while the latter was only recently
sprung for the place. To-day John P.
Bailey, of Putnam county. arrived, and
taking up quarters at the Hollenden,
also announced himself as a candidate
for attorney general, so that the contest
for this Office promises to be very
lively one. Ex-County Auditors t. E.
Peckinpaugh, of Wayne; Daniel Kun
kel, of Defiance, and Hon. w. NJ. Maize,
of Franklin county, are mentioned for
nomination for auditor OF state, and
others are likely to come out within the
next twenty-four hours. G. f. Acker-
man, of Mansfield. is said to be the fa-
vorite for the treaSurerShip nomination
since the declination of Armstrong, OF
this city, but 1t is not unlikely he may
find several gentlemen contesting for
the place before the time arrives for his
name to be presented to the con-
vention. Prof. G. c. Miller,
the present state commissioner
of common schools, is one of the men
having a sure thing. His nomination
by acclamation is conceded by al. Be-
sides the Offices mentioned above, can.
didates are to be nominated for supreme