The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-22
GRAY FOR vIcg-PREsIDENr.


It is generally expected that ex-Gov'
ernor Isaac P. Gray, OF Indiana, will be
the nominee for the vice-presidency.
He will be presented for that place by
his own state delegation, and it is un'
derstood that tho consent OF the Gray
men to the withdrawal Of their presl'
dental candidate and the casting OF the
solid vote OF Indiana for Cleveland was
only given. on the assurance that the
Cleveland leaders would favor ex-GoV-
ernor Gray for the vice presidency. As
the Cleveland organization is now very
thorough and well disciplined, there is
little doubt that any compact OF the
leaders WILDE carried out to the letter.
in the convention. The Tammany lead
ers OF New York are still sulleD and de-
faint and maintain with much persist
ence that Cleveland can never carry the
Empire state. They assert that If Cleye-
land is to be nominated, the New York
delegation will enter the protest against
his nomination by casting its y votes
for David B. Hill, refusing 70 join in the
usual formality OF making the nomina-
ton of the ex-President unanimous.
This assertion, however, was made BY
the rank and file rather than by the
leaders of the Hill forces, and 1t is still
hoped by the Cleveland people that
when the decisive moment arrives the
New York deleR ation will gracefully
Join in making the nomination otCleve-
land unanimous.
BRIcE DiscREETLY SILENT.
In the midst OF all the wordy wars OF
this great national conference there is
one man who has made a remarkable
reputation for silence. 1t Is the Hon:
Calvin S. Brice, senator from Ohio, and
the chairman OF the national Demo.
cratic committee. Mr.. Brice has for
months been understood to be opposed
TO the denomination OF the ex-P President,
but he has been so discreetly silent all
the past week, that no one exactly un.
derstands the part that no has played
in this great contest. The senator HIM
self maintains with much sauvity that
he Is not participating in any way in
the selection OF the presidential candl-
date. 4.
As delegate-at-large from the state OF
Ohio, he will have vote to cast, and
up to this time it was supposed that
vote would be- cast against Grover Cleve-
land. But the senator, without giving
any intimation OF the accuracy or inac-
curacy OF this statement, merely states
that az chairman of the national COM
mittee, he thinks it would be indeco-
rous in him to attemptto control the
will Of the conventions in the selection
of its presidential candidate. Every Of
fort OF the Cleveland people topersuade
the Hawkoye people 10 desert Governor
Boies aud cast their twenty-stx votes
for the ex-President, has proven signal
" unsuccessful. Despite the INDIGESTION
that Cleveland will be nominated on
the first ballot, the Boies people an'
nounce that their candidate will remain
in the race to the end, and that the vote
OF the Hawkeye state will be cast for the
governor not only US q matter OF tealty
and state pride, but as aprotest against
the selection OF presidential candidate
who Is not supported by the delegation
Of his own state. Indeed the Boles peo'
pleare almost as bitter asthe Fill mana
gers in their protestations against the
nomination OF Cleveland.