Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-16
POLITICAL.

0NIl OlIlpSOh a ISiAOliihtllNo
for Congress by the Peoples party i'll
convention at Wichita, Kansas, yester-
day.
Vim. c. Whitney, D. Cady Herrick,
of Albany, and Wilson Bissell of Buiia-
10, have been selected by the Cleveland
leaders TO manage his canvass at Chi
cago.
A telegram from Chicago says Coy.
Flower, of New York, has engaged a
large suite of rooms ut the Grand Pa
cilic and telegraphed he viii arrive on
Saturday or on Saturday. Governor
Flower is always looking out for num-
her one. He is not certain i'll his own
mind but what he may have Il chance
to get the nomination.
There arc three places to fill on the
national committee, two caused by
death and one by resignation of mem
beers since the last meeting. I. a.
Broadwater, of Montana, and the late
John S. Barbour. of Virginia have died
and Mr.. j. II. Estil, Of Savannah, Ga,
resigned from membership.
"Fuller and Flower, the two Fs." is
q ticket hat may be presented to the
convention in case of q pronounced de-
velopment of the belief that the New
York factional fight makes Cleveland
or HILL unavailable. That decision
was reached at q meeting of several
democrats who stand high in the ma
tional counlcis Of the party.
ga dispatch from Chicago says "As
a matter of serious fact the Cleveland
men have more to fear from Senator
German, of Maryland, than from any
one else in the field at the present time.
While it may not be the policy of Cor
man and his friends to put him forward
as a conspicuous candidate just at pre-
sent. vet there is no organization so
adroitly managed, and which will de-
velop its plans more rapidly and surely
when the time comes, if it eve does
come, than hat which is back of the
Maryland Senator"
The national democratic committee
has appointed a subcommittee, of
which John C. Haskell, of Columbia,
5. c., is chairman, to select a tempo
rarv chairman. temporary secretary
and other subordinate officers for the
convention which meets in Chicago
Tuesday. This report will be present
cd to the full committee, which meets
Monday afternoon for approval. Thus
far the only name mentioned around
headquarters for temporary chairman
is that OBADIAH i. Stevenson, oflllinois,
and Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio,
but Henry Wattcrson, of Kentucky,
has been spoken of for the honor in the
press and elsewhere.
The two warning factions Of the dem
ocratic party in Louisiana came togeth.
er yesterday at Baton Rouge and will
hereafter act together. The State cen
trail committee, of which Mr.. Wilker-
son is chairman, is recognized as the
regular democratic authority in the
State, and delegates were elected 10 the
Chicago national convention, the del
csates being equally divided between
the followers of the late factions.
Presidential electors were also chosen.
It is understood that the delegation to
Chicago will go uninstructcd. This
healing of party differences will, it is
believed, be of benefit to Gen. Gibson
in his candidacy for the United States
Senate.
Ex-Secretary w. C. Whitney has
written a letter in which he says
but ! must say to you in all seriousness
that l am only not a candidate, but
have told my friends so in such q way
that they understand it, and no n
will work for me. | do not wish the
nomination. No lieutenant of DIR.
Cleveland, particularly one who is so
we'll known to the managers OF the
party ASIAN, can take the nomination.
He would be instantly charged with
scheming for himself, and for that
reason, if no other, / would say, posi-
lively, i'll thought it necessary, that
would not takeit if it were rendered
me. 1t will not be because [ have tied
the hands of all my friends, if for no
other reason. | appreciate your friend
ship. but this is the truth, and there is
nothing under the bush"
The Ohio democratic State conven-
ton at Columbus yesterday after nom
mating a State ticket selected Senator
| Calvin S. Bricc, ex-governor James F..
Campbell, L. r. Neal and Robert Blee
delegates-at-large to Chicago. Ex-Gov-
ernor Campbell is the only supporter of
ex-President Cleveland in the delega-
ton at large, the other three regarding
him as unavailable az a presidential pos
sibility. The platform contained the
following in reference to silver: The
democratic party has always favored
the use of both gold and silver as
money, and restored to the people the
silver dollar of our fathers, which a re-
publican Congress d%omonctized in 1873.
Denounces the Sherman act of 1880 rs
false in principle and dangerous in prac.
tice, and believing that both gold and
silver should circulate rs money with
parity maintained and with equal
rights and equal value, we submit to
the wisdom of the democratic party,
about to assemble in national conven-
ton. to declare the method by which
that end may be reached.
A MILITARY WEDD1NG.-One of the
grandest weddings st. Louis society
has witnessed for some years took place
Yesterday at st. Xavier's Church, OF
Grand ayenuc. The contracting par