Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-21
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITOL.
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The Cleveland Men Do Most Of the Talking
Today. :;

Tne Cleveiand Men do MOet OF the Talking
To-day. =
1t was about as dun a. II could be about
the Capitol today. Few statesmen we're to be
seen at either end of ths building and most Of
the committees that had meetings set for today
could do nothing for lack Of . quorum. Even
visitors were scarce, and there was .
general air of quiet due to the fact
that the few people who came and went had
struck their summer gait and desired to expend
as little OF the sweat Of their brow and other
portions Of their anatomy as possible in earn
ing their bread or attaining the other objects Of
their existence. - ---.--
CLEVELAND MEN TALK.
In the House there were about twenty MEM
beers, mostly democrsts, ct their desks writing
or talking quietly to their neighbors. The talk
was largely based on the news from Chicago,
and it was observable that the Cleveland men
were doing most Of 1t.
Democrats who have been opposed to Cleve-
land seemed to have lost their interest In the
proceedings at Chicago, and while they listened
patiently 1t was evident they would not have
had started to talk about the westher,
the coming parliamentary elections in Englend
or the prospects Of an early adjourn
ment. But although the Cleveland men
discussed with much satisfaction the
coming nomination of their favorite
spirit. They seemed to feel they could afford
to be generous. and perhaps more careful by the
slight scare they got last night, when
dispatches came from Chicago saying that the
opposition was centering on Morrison with a
rush. and that the engineers Of the movement
we're confidently claiming Morrison would.have
over 400 votes on the first ballot.
a, COL. KILaoRE SATISFIED. 49,
Col. "Buck" Kilgore was probably the most
compliment and kindly disposed gentleman
about the Capitol today. The colonel is .
Cleveland man from way back and from
the crest of his silvery scalp-loeks to
the heel tips of his far-famed
boots. Today he WAS as serenely full of SIM
mering content as the air of his native Texan
prairies is of ozone over the prospect that
Cleveland would be nominated on the first bal
lot, possibly by exclamation. While
he did not publicly arrognte to himself the
honors Of political prophet, there we're slight
elusive subsoil suggestions that he felt he could
without doing violence to his well-established
reputation for modesty lay some claim to sing
ular farsightedness aud absolute freedom from
both political strabisnius and astigmatism.
Col. Kilgore said he had seen this morning q
dispatch from Chicago signed by Col. John
Allen Of Tupeio, in which that gentleman
conceded more in sorrow than in anger
that Cleveland's nomination by acclamation was
probability. The colonel also told The STAR
man that two or three other private dispatches
received from Chicago by. members had con-
veyed similar suspicious limitations
as to the :, happy outcome Of the
mighty popular demand for Cleveland. Col.
Kilgore himself received a dispatch late last
night from Col. VIM. G. Sterret, Washington
correspondent Of the Galveston Nens, in which
the latter explained that while. contrary to his
expectations Cleveland had not been nominated
as yet, his nomination by reclamation was only
ity Of organizing the convention. 1t may be
well to explain that before Col Sterrel left here
for Chicago last Thursday he became greatly
alarmed lest the nomination should be made
before he got there. From this it will be gath
cred that Col Sterret is quite an enthusiastic
Cleveland man. ,-..
THE ANTS DON'T CARE TO BE QUOTED.
The anti-Cleveland men, who, for some
reason do not care to be quoted as
such these days, find good deal Of
comfort in the fact that the "anti-
snap" delegation from New York have
been sat down on and relegated to the back
ground in Chicago by ex-Secretary Whitney.
The anti-Cleveland men here seem to have
almost as much dislike for the anti-snappers as
do the Tammany men at Chicago. .-.
A subject Of much speculation was the proba-
BILE course Of Senator Hill and his friends in
view Of the probable nomination Of Clevelgnd.
Friends Of the latter pointed out what a
great thing 1t would be for Hill to come
out at this juncture, ask his friends in New
York to turn in for the ex-President and then
during the campaign. But they did not
seem to be loaded down with confidence that
Senator Hill would see his magnificent oppor-
tuuity and take it.