St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-21
AN ALL-AROUND HUSTLE.
Everybody in Every Delegation
Working Up Precipitation.

Working Up Precipitation.
| Special to the Globe
WASHINGTON, Jan. Cot is red hot
at the Arlington tonight, and the battle
is ct its height. Every Headquarters is
thronged to its capacity, and excited
men are talking eagerly in every corner
in public way. Every city is morally
sure this convention lightning NAV
strike it, however the private sentiment
may be. Each delegation is satisfied
beyond all argument that its city is the
only one that has any claim at all as
convention city. 1t may be possible
that some of the delegations are simply
whistling for the purpose of keeping up
their courage. But it is certain that
| they will not admit this. St. Paul alone
makes no claims, and all published
statements of estimates are erroneous
and unauthorized. I'VE are simply
hopeful" is all that can be obtained.
Certainly no one can predict the out
come. 1t is difficult to locate the lines
of the fight, but the air is full of talk
about the Cleveland and the anti-Cleye-
land influences. A statement which is
being very diligently circulated is that
the Cleveland folks. being convinced
that HUI wants the convention to go to
New YORK or Cincinnati, are making a
combination to defeat these cities with
any tot the other cities that seems to
nave the best chance of success. Those
Win authority, however, very earnestly
deny the statement, and both the Cleve-
land and the Hill folks are anxious to
appear Indifferent as to the place of
holding the convention. The repre-
SenSatlyes OF She several cities, who are
more interested just now in avoiding
all antagonisms and getting the couven-
tlon than anything else. all insist that
they represent no particular candidate.
The anti-CIeveland people saw that
they. do not care where the convention
goes. and that there is no united action
IN favor OF any one place as far as they
are concerned. There are some rea-
sons, they say, why it would be a good
thing for the party to hold it in New
York, but there are other reasons
against the selection of that city, which.
IN measure, serve as an offset to the
| advantages which that city has. As far
as the nomination is concerned. thew
profess to believe that it will not be in
any way Influenced by the selection of
any particular city. The boomers who
have been trying to find out what
Messrs. German, Hill and Brice want
have failed, and all the whole thing
amounts to is talk. There is feeling
among the delegations representing the
various rival cities seeking the conven-
ton that the whole question is to be
settled. or perhaps is already settled.
by three or four men where the conven-
ton is going. The question is to find
out where the bosses want it to go.
1t is thought that the New York dele
CATION will have a great deal to say
about the selection, though there is
some doubt about their ability to send
| it to New York city. No matter how
loudly it is proclaimed that the selection
of the convention will not have any in
fluence OH the question Of the nomina-
ton, there is no doubt that there is a
great deal of figuring on that subject.
and there is an evident anxiety to know
where Hill, German and Brice want the
convention to go. Apparently the Cleve-
land folks are not taking very active
interest in the question, though they
undoubtedly have their preferences.
| There is great deal of talk about Gin
cinnati upon the theory that Brice, Hill
and German want it to go there, but the
| fact that these gentlemen are not in the
habit of letting their wants be known
provokes the Suspicion that If they
really wanted the convention to be held
in Cincinnati there would not be SO