Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
ASSEEN By DAYLIGHT
Summary of the Political Situation
in Chicago Up to Last
Evening.
Palmer Appears on the Scene Ur-
gently Advocating Cleveland's
Nomination.
Pennsylvania Votes to Stand as a
Unit for the Elk Pres
ident.

CHICAGO, June Ex-senator Brlce
said this morning: Il do not think
Mr. Clevelands nomination advisable,
but as matters now stand it seems in
evitable"
That is the feeling which permeates
che air everywhere to-day except in
the Iowa and New York headquarters
Gen. Palmers arrival in the CITY with
his mouth full of Cleveland,
Gov CampbelPs open declara-
tion for the ex-President, Senator
Germans deliberate self-effa cement
and the outspoken Clevelandism of
Senator Voorhees, have destroyed al
most the last vestiges of the ''favorite
con" movement that was to disinte-
CRATE the Cleveland forces. You may
meet hundred men who, like Senator
Brice, doubt or deny the wisdom of
nominating Cleveland, but scarcely one
who dare deny that Cleveland will be
nominated.
The Cleveland men are more agrees
i've than at any time since the cam
paign began. They declare they
will force the fighting from the
moment Chairman Brice raps
FOR order in the opening ses-
sion of the convention tomorrow.
While not yet having the two thirds
necessary to nominate the Democracy's
Presidential candidate, the Cleveland
forces are absolutely certain of ma
1or4ty in the convention and with this
they propose to control entirely the
preliminary organization.
Into New York and Iowa this feeling
has not penetrated. The Hill follow
Ing is following Hill still with all the
ardor of winners They have not
ceased to declare that their man is the
only man who can carry New York.
and hence the only man who can pos
sibly be nominated. Rumor has it
hat Tammany is casting it's eve
westward for an available west
ern mau-Boies or another.
Tammany denies this rumor and will
accord to Governor Boies no higher
praise than that he would make a good
second to Senator Hill The Senator
himself is not here and is not expected
TO come. But it is said that he is per-
,sonally directing his canvass and that
word will come from him to-day which
may give new turn to the campaign.
In this expectation is found the only
promise of a Tammany sensation.
1--WE have $50 votes absolutely
pledged to Mr.. Cleveland" said Ellsry
Anderson this morning ''We do not
claim COZ, but we have $50 certain, and
we control the preliminary organiza-
4ion."
According to Mr.. Anderson's pro-
gram, the anti-snappers will assert
themselves in the National committee.
and if they do not get things to their
liking short work will be made of Mr..
Watterson's young man, William C.
Owens, for temporary chairman, and a
Cleveland man will sit in his stead.
But this is not thought likely.
The Boies boom continues unabated
within its own territory. There is
no Iowa man who will confess a doub bit
that his governor has the nomination
in his trousers pocket. Second place
they will not talk of 1t is President
or nothing Boies will take second
place to no eastern man. If he can't
be President he will be senator But
he will be President, because he can
carry Iowa and all the Northwest.
Senator German continued to be the
enigma of the convention. Until this
morning he was the most interesting
possibility outside of New York He
was the center of the mo force bill''
cry, in which is concentrated much Of
the anti-Cleveland feeling in the South.
He had-and still has-the unfailing
loyalty of his own State and other
States bordering the Ohio and Potomac.
The Maryland men are even now insist
ing that there is a German boom and
that German holds the key to the situa,
ton. But this morning the suave sena.
tor ordered his Maryland followers tc
take off their German badges and put
on Cleveland badges instead. Conse
quently the German boom is at present
wearing Cleveland label.