Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-21
SOLID FOR CLEVELAND.
The Indiana Delegation to Be Instruct
ed to Vote for Him
50 LONG AS HE HAS ANY CHANCE
OF Being Eoninatsd-Ths Strength Of Indiana VIZ
Then Be Thrown to EI-GOvsrnOr Gray-Ihis
Arrangement is Satisfactory 10 All Pah@
And is Cosidsred Just to Gov. Cray.

INDIANAPOLIS, April e0--The Indi-
ana delegation TO the Democratic Ma
tionsl convention will vote for Grover
Cleveland for President OF the United
States.
This is the programme agreed upon
to-day at a largely attended meeting of
prominent supporters OF ex-Presioent
Cleveland, and Ex-Governor Gray, and al
that the friends OF the latter request IL
that the delegation be recommended 70
vote for Isaac z. Gray when Il becomes
n anifest that Grover Cleveland "a NOT 90
be the choice OF the National conven-
tlon.
THIS incidental endorsement Of Gray
as Indiana's favorite sou for the u0ml-
nation II the great Democratic leader
shall be no longer considered possible,
IL conceded by the party leaders TO-
night TO be a very proper recognition OF
the claims OF the ex-Governor, and there
is a general desire that he shall be cor.
daily aud earnestly supported by the
delegation II the above contingency evei
arises.
OF course the Cleveland leaders do
not believe that il ever will arrive AZ
they have constantly asserted and made
great inroads upon Gray's country sup
porters, by the assertion that ox-Prcsl-
dent Cleveland will be nominated az
Chicago on the first ballot
The Cleveland sentiment has been
growing In Indiana, and tonight the
enthusiasm for the ex-Presldent IL 80
strong among the assembled delegates
from the State that the only menace 10
compromise agreement comes from
the radical Cleveland men who think
they have the strength 90 endorsa
Cleveland unQuallhedly and totally lg-
more Gray az tO-morrOw's convention
aud are disposed 10 make an effort 70 DO
so.
Still among the enthusiastic Cleve
land men are many warn admirers Of
Ex-Governor Gray. aud even the most
uncompromisiDg supporters OF The ox-
President have nothing % say against
Gray, except on the ground of availa-
bilty, and they have therefore cheer.
fully expressed a willingness 10 support
him should the hzht at Chicago become
one Of "iayorlte sons"
Immediately after the appointment OF
the various committees 40 this evenings
meeting OF the Congressional deleFa-
cations, the Committee on RESOLUTIONS
assembled at the headquarters OF the
State Central Committee aud began
work on the platform TO be adopted a.
to-morrow's convention.
IL will be In main as follows:
We believe that there should DO kept ia
constant circulation q full and sufficient
II. II ~ InU ~ lFDI
silver and legal tender paper currency ~
par value with each other.
The administration OF President Harri-
son is arranging for It's "subservicncy 20
the interests OF the money power which
created II and It's indifference 10 the wei
fare Of the people,
The diplomacy of President Harrison and
Secretary Blaine In the Chilean and Boring
Sea affairs is denounced as being "a weak
and demagogical foreign policy, which has
exhibited the American people 70 thoworid
as a bully towards the weak and tuckler
TO the powerful
On the tariff question the platform favors
such a radical and comprehensive measure
OF tariff reform as will relieve the noccssl-
ties OF the people, and the tariff policy dr3f
enunciated by Grover Cleveland IL fe-
affirmed as the true Democratic faith .1nd
Cleveland himself declared tobe the logical
candidate OF the Democratic party ortho
Presidency.
Ex-Governor Isaac p. Cray receives The
agreed quasi-endorsement OF his party By
being declared the favorite son OF Indiana.
worthy OF the highest Donors, and the man
whom the Indiana delegates are.urged 20
present as the candidate OF the HOosier
State, should II ever become apperent
that Grover Cleveland cannot be nominated.
AT the district conventions to-night dele
gates 70 the National Convention were
chosen.
Those for Cleveland are from the second,
fifth, seventh, twelfth, thirteenth ana Tor
Gray from the third fourth and eleventh.
The other districts are divided between
the two The delegates ~ large VIII BE-
Senator voorhees,, Hugh Dougherty, Cho9 :
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