The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-18
THE SITUATION LAST NIGHT.

Cleveland Has 500 Votes to 400 Divided
Among His Opponents.
epecial TO the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, June 17.-It Is q condition and
not q theory that confronts Dir. Cleveland
in Chicago. Of the nearly nine hundred
delegates to the convention which is to
assemble on next Tuesday, probably and
almost certainly FIVE hundred are in favor
of his nomination for the presidency,
while the remaining four hundred are
divided in their preferences between vari-
ous favorite sons and dark horses. Most
of these are beirg made the targets
for fusillade of literature and loud
talk supplied by the Tammany contingent
from New York and the other anti-Cleve-
land people from the Western States rhe
friends of the exPresident give him the
necessary two-thirds of the delegates,
while his opponents yield him five hun.
dred, and this is probably o fair estimate
of what he can really depend on now, al
though in my judgment he will have more
before the hour for balloting arrives.
1t is clearly the field against Cleveland;
and the chances appear to me that the
Stuffed Prophet" will win enough of the
friends of other candidates to make his
nomination sure. The organization of the
Cleveland forces is excellent; his followers
are aggressive and industrious. and every
new arrival is fought for vigorously and
intelligently.
MOST OF THE ANTS UNORGANIZED.
On the other hand aside from Tammany,
the Cleveland people have no organ
izatiOn at all. Tammany presents a solid
front, of course. and is in the fight for
business. but it's organization does not ex-
tend beyond Tammany lines. and the great
body of outside delegates are left without
q head, and. it might almost be said, with.
out a purpose. The Tnmmany braves have
possession of the Auditorium and most
of the lake-front hotels and yell for David
Bennett Hill with the enthusiasm born of
better cause. One might easily imagine
they really hope to nominate him, but it IS
too plain to require demonstration that
Hill Is ont of the race and tho breath
of his braves Is being wasted. Were
it expended in an effort to Sc
land forces IN some other candidate it
might be used to some purpose but they
choose to defame the ex-President rat her
than advocate a possible opponent to him,
i
Iieve that away down in their hearts the
New York "snappers" realize fully the i'm
possibility of nominating him. and. there
fore, L think 1t probable that they may
ultimately drop him and try to concen-
trate another man; but unless they
inaugurate the effort Immediately, and pur-
sue Ii with consummate skill To the finish
they can never make IL succeed. A good
many of the Western delegates are natural
~ dietrustful of Tammany, anyhow, and
hes Rat n ifa vhra
BITTERNESS OF THE TAMMANYIrEs.
have never seen men fight before a ma
tional convention as these same Tammany
people fight Cleveland. Usually there is
some reserve observed when the presi-
Dental candidate is referred to, but these
Indians exhaust the vocabulary In their
efforts to make plain their dislike of the
fat ex-President. They charge him with
All the Ills OF the party, state and national.
declare that he would lose New York by
nifty thousand votes, and even 20 SO far as
to admit that Tammany will light him a atter
the convention If be should be nominated
So bitter are their attacks that there has
been some talk of refusing TO re cogniZe the
Hill delegates from New York and to seat
the other delegates, but this will hardly be
done.
The Iowa crowd are heartily and honest
ly Ter BOIes: and are conducting very de-
cent, manly sort of campaign, but TO mo 10
appears useless to consider the Ha wkey q
statesman In connection with any thing but
secon place. The hotels are iilled nth
good Boies boomers, and his pl CT
ure hangs up on the outer walls on all
sides.
Your Uncle Isaac Pusey Gray receives
even less attention here than he does ut
home Senator Voorhees,. Lamb, Jewett
and the other nurses of the Hoosier DO ON
let arrived this afternoon. and annou nee
that Isaac Ia IN it in good faith but "a Gray
delegate admitted to me this at ternoon
that he didn't know whore Isaa would
geta vote outside of his own Stat He
will get sixteen. aud possibly seventeen
there. which is hot much 10 launch n presi-
Dental boom on. Mason j. Niblaek has
blossomed out as a low comedian. and is
talking TO himself about Claude Matthews
Tor Vice president.
None of these people seem to have any
really intelli gent idea Of w here they stand OF