The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-07-02

eral ueSlfe on Tue part OF these dis
consolates to wreak Vengeance on the
Indiana delegation for falling in line
for Cleveland at the very time when
their opposition would have given SO
much comfort and substantial en-
couragement to those who had been
making frantic endeavors to prevent
the ex-president from getting the
two-thirds vote necessary for his
nomination. So it became early man
lfest that whatever agreement might
have been entered by the Cleveland
leaders of New York, Pennsylvania
and other prominent States to give
Gray the vice presidency in return
for the support of Indiana for Cleve-
land, there was going to be very de-
termined opposition by the delegates
generally to the consummation of
this program.
CONSPICUOUS PLACARDs.
Before daylight the Wisconsin del
egation had the Hobbies of all the
principal hotels pasted with placards
bearing the inscription, "For Presi-
dent, Grover Cleveland. For Vice
President, John l.. Mitchell" and it
was at once known that the million
aire congressman of Wisconsin was
candidate for second place. Mich
gan, too, suddenly came to the front
with candidate in the person of a
one armed veteran, the Hon. Allen B.
Morse, an eminent jprist of the State.
1t was at this stage of affairs that
the Hon. VIM. NJ. Springer of Illinois,
the distinguished chairman of the
ways and means committee of the
national house of representatives, de
termined that anti Cleveland men
should not be entirely ignored. The
Hon. Bourke Cochran of New York
is one of Mr.. Springer's most active
lieutenants on the ways and means
committee, and the Hon. John r.
Fellows and Gov Flower, of the New
York delegation have been the Illinois
congressman S colleagues in the house
of representatives, SO that when the
tariff reformer declared that the Hon.
Adlai E. Stevenson Of Illinois should
be presented as a vice presidential
candidate, he found the New York
delegation kindly disposed to give
him every cooperation.
AT the conference of the New York
delegation held early in the day Mr..
Springer was present, and announced
authoritively that Illinois would pre-
sent General Stevenson, and cast its
as votes for him for the vice presi
dency. What took place at this con
ference no one knows, but when the
distinguished congressman emerged
he announced to his fellow Democrats
of Illinois that the 70 votes of New
York would be cast for Stevenson.
and that victory was assured.
KEPT SECRET.
To the convention at large the in
tentions of the New York delegation
were secret, until that State was
reached on the roll CALL Up to that
time Stevenson and Gray were lead
ing with about equal strength. and
Morse and Mitchell were following
in about the order named. There
was a period of almost breathless ST
lence when New York was called. and
the slight hesitancy of the chairman
of the delegation in responding tend
ed to intensity the interest.
New York has 70 votes for the
Hon. A. E. Stevenson, of Illinois,
said Governor Flower and pande
monium broke loose in the enthusiasm
that this remark inspired from the
thousands of Illinoisans that throno-
ed, the galleries and crowded the cor
ridors and aisles.
The remainder of the roll call was
but formal. Stevenson at once be-
gan to make rapid gains, and at the
conclusion Of the roll call one State
after another requested recognition
TO change their vote to the Illinoisan.
In few minutes he had the two
thirds requisite for a nomination.
and the usual motion to make the
nomination unanimous prevailed
amid the plaudits of the galleries
and the widest enthusiasm on the
floor.
GENERAL STEVENSON ABSENT.
General Stevenson, himself. was
discreetly absent from the floor of the
convention during the proceedings
which were so vital to him and his
place as the chairman of the Illinois
delegation was temporarily filled by
one Of his colleagues from the prai-
rie State
The nomination of Stevenson has
done much to allay the rancor of this
convention. Although a con
fident and great admirer of President
Cleveland, he is the antithesis of the
distinguished New Yorker in his DO
sition on the distribution of official
patronage. Stevenson, as the first
assistant postmaster general under
Cleveland, made reputation for re-
moving Republican postmasters and
Democrats, which it re-
CURED all the agility of the Hon.
James 5. Clarkson of Iowa to rival
when President Harrison made that
gentleman the assistant postmaster
under the Republican admin
istration. For this reason, General
Stevenson is exceedingly popular
with the very element most active in
to Mr.. Cleveland, and the
ticket nominated by the national con-
vention of 1892 is concession of
both of the great elements into which
the civil service theories of these lat