The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-07-18
KLINE WILL Be CAMPBELl'S OPPONENT.
But He il Absent on His Way to
Europe--Salient Features of
she Platform.
1t Will Take Strong Grounds Against
Mckinley'S Tariff and Favor
the People.
AMPIsEEL IN TT.
lie Will Have Opposition ~ VIII he
R~e1Ominatrd for the G~oyernorshjp.

~ WI IIaNt VDiDSBI1Vn DuV VIII ID
; RenO,ninatrd for the G"varnorship.
CLEVELAND, July l3. Delegates to. tn,
Ohio democratic convention are rayidl,
c~ongregating from all sections of tbt
state and as the decision day draws
nearer interest in the event deepcns
with every passing hour. 1t is now con.
coded by all neutral and unprecedented
persons that Governor james e. Camp
bell will be rcnominated for governor on
the first ballot. His opponents are
Lawrence II. Neal of C%hillicothe and
Virgil =. Kline of Cleveland. Up to this
time Neal has been his principal com
petitor, the only apparent following of
Kline being the Cuayhoga county dele
CATION which was instructed for the
Cleveland lawyer largely as IA matter of
county and city pride. But the leayen
OF politics works queer results and a
boom in a few brief hours has assumed a
proportion which makes that gentleman
apparently the only formidable opponent
OF Governor Campbell. The logic of the
situation has caused all the anti Camp
bell men to combine under the battle cry
OF "anything to beat Campbell" and
the question with them is no
longer which of the governors
competitors has the most votes
but which is the most available candi-
date and most likely to succeed as the
dark horre. To this query theroi is little
division OF sentiment. Kline is absent
on his way to Europe, too far away to
give pledges and promises, and his pro-
nounced lOw-tariff convictions and emf
nent campaigning qualities mark him as
the most available candidate of the op-
position, since the feud engendered be
tween the Neal and Campbell factions
gives n former little hope of increasing
his strength in the convention.
Kline has managed his campaign with
consummate diplomacy. When his home
county instructed for him he received
the news jocularly and gave no evidences
OF being an earnest aspirant for guberna-
torial honors. On the contrary he was
on terms of warmest friendship with both
Campbell and Neal. the leading COMPETE
tors. One of the most serious charges
which the absence of the Cuyhoga coun-
ty candidate makes it impossible for him
to answer is that he recently on separate
occasions pledged his support to both
Campbell and Neal. He has left a let
ter, however, with Mayor w. w.
Armstrong of Cleveland which will
be read in the convention on Wednes-
day, declaring his willingness to serve
his party if selected by the convention
as candidate for governor. 1t now looks
as though the anti Campbell delegates.
when nominations are declared in order
on Wednesday, will ask for an informal
ballot, but that the governors friends
will oppose this and demand a business
and formal ballot. In this event Camp
bell will be found to have three-tifths of
the vote of the convention. But the re-
will not be announced without
many changes. Neal men. it is under
stood, will, with the consent of their
leader, desert their candidate and 90
to Kline in the hope of creating a
stampede OF iukewarIn Campbell dele
to the tuyhaga county candidate
and %insuring his nomination. If the
logic OF the situation does not happen to
Kline as the most available can
didate the strength of the opposition
may be thrown to either Gen. John a.
Mcmahon of Dayton or Hon. Tom l..
Johnson free trade congressman OF
cleveland.
Despite all these clever political
,n~aneuvres, however, the indications are
the Campbell phalanX will remain
practically unbroken and the governor
VIII DE renomlnated on the first ballot.
Ihere are candidates for the various
pther s!a,e oinces 10 be nominated but
me cniel interest naturally centers in
lhe o~VernoIship' Inc platform upon
when rests coming battle is the sub
!ect Oh niuch discussion a Chairman
NOT on OF the state central committee
mo other prominent politicians OF the
state nave heid several conferences on
thes upleet. ~ mas been decided that