The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-17
THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION.

THE DEMOCRATIC SITUATION.
CIeveiand's Oppon.nt. Re- ing on "Favorits
Sons" to Defeat Him i'm the Convention.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, June 16.-One accustomed 60
Indiana politics, where people usually know
what they are talking about. is surprised
to find such dense amount0f ignorance as
is displayed upon all sides here regarding
the strength of men to come before the
Democratic convention near at hand
The managers of all the various booms now
on the ground remind one very strongly
of the anti Harrison leaders at Minneapolis
in their lack of detailed facts and figures.D
Ask General Tracey of New York. who ID
doing the advance shouting and literary
work for the Cleveland crowd, and he will
tell you that the ex-President has over $50
votes. which is not enough to nominate by
sixty nine, and is considerable OF down.
coming from the recent claim CT GA.
Ask Col. l.. NJ. Martin, of Des MONIES,
what strength Boies has. and he will reply,
with rotund smile, that ''the old
man" will 60 into the convention
with from seventy-five to one hundred
votes. Pin him down and he will
say that their rock bottom estimate is sixty
votes. Go still further and you will find
that Boies has twenty-si instructed votes
in Iowa and eight in South Dakota. while
the rest are merely expectations Ito
come here and there from North Carolina
and all around" in the rather vague Ian
guage of Colonel Martin.
BoIEs LIKELY TO BE GIVEN SECOND PLACE.
While Colohel Martin is doing the talk
ing 30 blandly his side partner In the
crowded Iowa headquarters at the Palmer,
Col. w. w. Witmeyer. keeps the fingers of
the pretty typewriter flying grinding
out duplicate interviews by the yard
with prominent Iowans and the burden
of his whole song is that Boies is strictly
and seriously lin it" for first place. and
that Iowa will not consider the second
place. Mind you, he puts 1t Iowa" and
not Governor Boies," which is significant,
as it leaves BOies free to say that the DEM
ocractic party Is greater than Iowa. and
that he will gracefully accept q tail-end
nomination should it be rendered, which
seems exceedingly likely.
Another pointer in this same direction 10
the tact that the Boies shouters are vigor-
orously DENYING the campaign lie" that
he opposed Cleveland in 1884. q story upon
which Isaac Pusey Gray has been depend
ing largely to knock the Iowa farmer out
They declare that he came into their camp
in 1882, and that he spoke and worked for
Cleveland in 1884. and they have the docu-
ments In their inside pockets to prove il.
Boies Is the Logical candidate" for second
place. with either Cleveland, German OF
Hill at the head of the ticket. and the head
of the ticket, think. will be either Cleve-
land, German or Hill, with the chances in
the order named.
THE BOSSES AGAINST CLEVELAND.
Were the Democratic party as impatient
of bossism as is the Republican, Cleveland
would be nominated hands down. but it is
not. If the Democratic and independents
newspapers of the country reflect Demo-
cratic sentiment the feeling of the party Is
Overwhelmingly for Cleveland. bat Demo-
Gratis are in the habit of listening to their
leaders rather than newspapers and their
leading politicians are pretty near unani-
nous against Cleveland: and they are ar
irving pretty rapidly. When ex-Secretary
Fairchild, ex-Mayor Grace and +. Ellery
Anderson arrive at their exclusive quar-
ters at the Ricnelieu tomorrow they will
find host of big men here sticking pins
into their candidate.
Henry Watterson got in this morning
with the announcement that he would not
talk, but you cannot keep him from talking
with q club aud before the reporters had
been gathered about him five minutes he
was wlnkinR the other eye and gleefully
pointing out the fact that the Cleveland
people were not in it at any time in Ohio
yesterday, and telling what q beautiful
candidate Ex-Governor Campbell would
make Senator Brice and the Tammany
chiefs also came in. In advance of the Hill
boomers, but interviewers might as well
have tried to talk TO q stone fence.
GREAT IGNoRACNE DISPLAYED.
lt was when trying to gather some-
thing definite in regard to Cleyeland's
strength on the first ballot that / was
struck with the general lack of detailed
information. You Will find tables chasing
Indiana solid for Cleveland and solid for
Gray when there should be no misunder-
standing as to the situation; dividing Illi-
nOis up and giving twelve TO Cleveland
and others scattering, when the Illinois
delegation Is instructed TO vote as n unit
on all questions; CHASING South Dakota for
Cleveland, when it is positively claimed
for BOies. though not instruct
ed, as Colonel Martin says and
so on, one even giving Cleveland
as am able to see the only States here
that are earnestly for Cleveland are Mlchi-
gan, where Don Dickinson did the business;
Missouri, Tennessee, Minnesota. New Jer-
sey. Kansas and North Dakota. These he
will have solid, and elsewhe he will have
TO divide delcgations and fight for indivId-
ual votes. With these solid States and a
portion of Indiana and Nebraska. the bulk
of the New England delegation and q
strong probability of Illinois on the first
ballot. his strength in the North ends. lie
will have to get the rest of it from the
South, nearly ali of whose dele
gates come hero To vote pretty
much as the leading politicians
of the North may dictate until German
appears In the field. and then nothing will
keep them from him. The Cleveland peo-
pie are counting upon something from
Pennsylvania Ohio. Illinois and Wiscon-
sin. but it is doubtful if they will get any
thing
PLANS OF cLEvELAND's OPPONENTS.
1t is very plainly the plan of the oppos.
tion TO drag out every "favorite son"
imaginable and make IL q general dog
pulling" in the belief that Cleveland will
only last two or three ballots at the most