Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-21
PEACE AND HARMONY
Fluttering Over the Hoosier Demo-
Gratis on the Eve of Convention.
VOORHEES, HAS A LEADING ROLE,
Massachusetts, Republicans Indorse Harri.
son but Don't Instruct.
NIAGARA FALLS FIRST CITY ELECTION

NIAGARA FALLS FIRST CITY ELECTION
| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPATCH.l
INDIANAPOLIS, April 2o.-The Demo.
cratic State Convention meets tomorrow,
with the delegates, who number over i, 800,
and the candidates with their friends, who
seem to be legion. The hotels are vast
hives of busy politicians tonight. while
sharp contests prevail largely as to what
shall be done to satisfy the Cleveland and
Gray factions. There Is . generous spirit
of good humor and q disposition toward
harmony, and it looks as though the con-
vention, when it reaches the Presidential
question, will adopt the "peace and har-
mony" resolution.
The leaders in the party from the various
Congressional districts have been in confer
ence nearly all day with the State Central
Committee canvassing the situation, with
the view of recommending to their re-
spective district meetings which course is
best to pursue. There are two extremes In
the convention-the men who want the
delegates to 60 to Chicago for Cleveland and
no one else and the men who want the State to
stand by Gray without regard for the Cleve-
land sentiment Then there are the ''peace
and harmony" men, made up of both Cleve-
land and Gray Democrats.
Voorhees, the p. and h. Leader.
Senator VOORHEES, to-day took command
of the peace and harmony crowd, at the re-
quest of the friends of Gray, and has been
busy all day advising that peace and
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prevail by the State doing the right thing
come in they were "steered" to Voorhees,
room by the friends OF Gray, and to each
crowd that came in Voorhees, made the same
talk, namely, that peace and harmony must
prevail.
Notwithstanding this effort for peace and
harmony, shrewd politicians predict long
and stormy session, and it will begin with
the scramble for admittance by several con-
testing delegations. There are at least
three sets each of Cleveland and Gray dele
gates, and the racket promises to begin
when the defeated delegations are shut out.
The Cleveland adherents threaten to
make fight on the three anti-Cleveland
delegates at large agreed upon by the con-
ertv and Jewett They believe them to be
at heart tor Hill.
a Stormy Time in Committee.
The State Central Committee met to-
night and had rather stormy time over
the proposition to change the conditions of
the Cleveland and Gray delegates. While
Shanklin has been SO pronounced for Cleve-
land that he must get all Of his strength
from that side or be defeated, the other
candidates for Governor, ex-Speaker Nj
black and Mortimer Nye, are making gal
liant fight and are not discouraged. They
do not concede Matthews and Shanklin any
thing n ear the strength they claim. It is,
however, more than probable that one or
the other will be forced to take the Lieu
tenant Governorship, but which one will be
selected it is hard to determine until the
Governors nomination has been settled.
The district conventions, 13 in ell, are in
session tonight, selecting representatives
for the several committees, and also two dele
gates each, making 26 in all, to the Chicago
Convention. They will not get through
until morning probably, but the results will
give the complexion of the national delega-
tion. =
day, and made a Cleveland speech. There
is no talk of Holman or Bynum tonight
for the Governors nomination.
Immediately after the appointment of the
various committees at this evenings meet
ing of the Congressional delegations the
Committee on Resolutions assembled at the
headquarters of the State Central Commit
tee and began work on the platform to be
adopted at to-morrow's convention. There
was very little dispute on the question of
party policy, the silver question being the
only one which provoked extended dis
cussion. Senator Voorhees, and his friends
were In favor of free coinage plank, but
they were overruled by majority Of the
committee, the following plank being
finally adopted:
We believe that there should be kept in
constant circulation full ana sufficient
volume Of money consisting of gold and
silver and legal tender paper currency at
par with each other.
The administration of President Harrison
is arraigned for its ''subserviency to the in
it, and its Indifference to the welfare of the
people," for its prostitution of public
patronage by the sale of Cabinet position
to John Wanamaker, in return for financial
aid in the campaign; for its misadministra-
tion of the Pension Department, as evil
denced by the repeated scandals and ac-
knowledged abuses; for the promotion of
Judge Woods as a reward for saving Dud-
ley and his fellow conspirators from the
penirentiary, and for its attempt to deprive
the people Of the control of their own cleo
tions by fastening upon the country the
iniquitous force bill
Harrison and Blaine Denounced.
The diplomacy of President Harrison and
Secretary Blaine in the Chilean and Bering
Sea affairs is denounced as being "a weak
and demagogical foreign policy. which has
exhibited the American people to the world
as bully toward the weak and trucker to
the powerful"
On the tariff the platform favors such a
radical and comprehensive measure of tariff
reform as will relieve the necessities of the
people, and the tariff policy first enunciated
by Grover Cleveland is reafirmed as the true
Democratic faith, and Cleveland himself de-
clared to be the logical candidate of the
Democratic party for the Presidency.
Ex-Governor Isaac P. Gray receives the
agreed quasi Endorsement of his party by be-
ing declared the favorite son of Indiana,
worthy of the highest hono-s, and the man
whom the Indiana delegates are urged to
present as the candidate of the Hoosier State
should il ever hecome anporont that Grouor