Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-18
SITUATION REVIEWED.
The Cleveland Faction Of the New
York Democracy Makes
ANSWER TO MURPHY'SMANIFESTO
The And-Clevsland Forces are Using ALI Their
Energies to Prevent the Ex-PresidenfS Re-
nomination on the First BallOt-Ihsy are
Encouraging All the FavOritS Sons.

presidential barques tossing about on
| the political sea tonight, bnt through
| the mists and shadows the hum OF
Cleveland's hopes looms above them all.
1t is indeed Cleveland against the
field and the field against Cleveland.
Everybody realizes that the great
question Of the convention is, "Will
Cleveland be nominated on the first bal
lot?" Should the logic OF events answer
this question in the negative, the friends
of all the secondary candidates will feel
that the lists are then open to their IA
vorites, for some how the conviction has
gone forth that the failure Of the ex-
President to receive the nomination on
the enthusiasm of the first ballot means
the elimination Of the great tariff re-
| former from the contest.
| They feel that temporary check to
! the Cleveland impetuosity will be to de-
stroy all the magic Of his name, and
that no subsequent effort can possibly
swell his following to the two-thirds
vote which was wanting on the first
ballot. All this is the opinion enter
tanned by the delegations who have IA
vorite sons to offer, but it by no means
| follows that the correctness Of this opin-
ion is conceded by the Cleveland man
ayers.
Far from it. They maintain that
while they believe their man will be
nominated on the first ballot, the fall
ure to receive the requisite two-thirds
on that ballot will not be an indication
OF his subsequent defeat, for they ex-
pect important accessions from the fol-
lowers of Boies, Hill and Gray after
| their States have paid the compliment
tary tribute to the favorite sons.
The various Presidential candidates,
dark horses and possibilities, discussed
tonight are Cleveland, Hill and Flo wer,
of New York; Boies, of Iowa; Palmer,
of Illinois; Gray, of Indiana; German,
OF Maryland; Carlisle, of Kentucky;
Morrison, OF Illinois; Campbell, Of Ohio;
Russell; of Massachusetts, and Patti
son, of Pennsylvania.
Cleveland, Hill. Boies, Gray and prob
ably Palmer and German will all have a
following on the first ballot, but the
others figure entirely as dark horses
and compromise candidates.
The German movement, about which
so much has been said in the press, re-
ceiyed a new impetus this afternoon by
the arrival of Senator Gorman, who
came to the Palmer House about 2
o'clock. The Senator fatty refused to
discuss the political situation. 81 do
not know anything about it,, he said,
81 have just arrived in the city and l
have had no time to look over the
ground"
"Your name is being used especially
among the Southern delegates very
freely, Senator, as candidate for the
Presidency"
"You must know that l cannot help
that. They should not take my name
in vain. Nobody has authority to say
anything to me; but this is all beside
the question. cannot help what peo-
ple will say, but l can help saying any
thing myself when have nothing to
say
'Do you believe Cleveland will be
nominated?"
81 think so. But really cannot dis
cusS that, or any other question until l
have more facts before me"
Ex-Governor Brown, of Maryland,
confessed to somewhat more intorma-
tion. There is" he said, "a strong
friendliness for Cleveland in Maryland,
as everybody knows, but our delegation
comes to Chicago uninstructed, and II
we see reasonable chance to nominate
our favorite son, our people would ex-
pect us to do our duty. All Of that,
however, is in the future"
In the meantime it is said that great
deal of work Is being done for German,
chiefly, perhaps. from the New York
! Headquarters. Mr.. NJ. j. Niblock, late
Speaker OF the Indiana House OF Repre-
sentatives, said: "Yes, you can hear
Gorman talk all over the place, The
Senator is certainly possibility, but
the time is not ripe TO bring him forward
yet, and l think that his friends will
probably suppress the boom until after
the first ballot shall have cleared the air
and showed us where we stand. There
are really two pan ties behind that move
ment, one sincerely anxious TO make
Senator German President, the other
sincerely anxious that somebody else
shall not be President. II the two can
combine it will become a very serious
factor in the convention, but they have
not combined yet. You can see the
same two forces at work for Gray, for
Morrison and for others who have been
named"
Not enough delegations are yet on
hand to make missionary work worth
the trouble of organizing and pushing,
but it seems 10 be understood at the
Cleveland headquarters that either Cor
man, Boies, Morrison, Palmer, or Rus
sell will get the necessary help from the
! Tammany directors TO encourage their
supporters TO continue the fight. Neither
Mr.. German himself nor any Of his closest
friends will admit for a moment that he
is a candidate, but the fact remains
that about the corridors of the Palmer
House and the Grand Pacific to-day,
Germans name was being discussed on
every hand. So much so indeed, that
in some quarters a spirit OF opposition
was aroused and the Senator's position
on the tariff was made the subject of
several acrimonious and heated de-
bates.
The delegates from the Syracuse con-
vention were good deal stirred up to-
day over the Murphy manifesto and a
number OF them were prepared with
responses to it designed to counteract
its effect and to show that Cleveland
was not only the strongest man in the
Democratic party in New York, but
that he could carry the State and would
get large numbers Of independent and
Republican votes which no other Dem
= could get.
number Of the s'Anti-Skap'' dele