The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-06-02
POLITICAL.
Notes Relative to the Coming Presidential
Campaign.

POLITICAL.
| Notes Relative to the Coming Presidential
Campaign.
| Henry Watterson was unanimously selected
| by the Kentucky Democratic Convention to
| head the delegation to Chicago, and this re-
| CARELESS of factional differences. Even the
motion for his selection was made by County
delegation which had come to the convention
| instructed for Cleveland, and had labored hon
| estly but unsuccessfully in behalf OF the ex-
| President. Three delegates at-large and Ia
District delegates are in favor OF Cleveiand's
nomination. The platform declares for :" a
sound and stable currency" and Endorses the
ex-President's Administration.
Ex-Secretary Charles S. Fairchild, who is at
the head of the anti-Hill movement in Now
| York State, and q close personal friend OF
| Cleveland, emphatically denies the statement
that Cleveland is writing a letter of with
drawal. He considers him the strongest can
| didate in the race.
The Idaho Democratic State Convention met
at Pocatello and elected six delegates The
| resolutions favor the free and unlimited coin
| age of silver, and recommend that the plank
| be inserted in the National platform. The
delegates are uninstructed.
| The Tennessee State Democratic Convention
met at Nashville. The Cleveland men had
| everything their own way. resolution was
structing the Tennessee delegates to vote for
him as long as his name was before the conven-
ton.
C. L. Magee, the Republican leader in Pitts
burg, in an interview said that he favored
Harrison for President. He thought that it
would be improper to nominate Blaine under
the existing circumstances. He Is for Harrison,
| because he has given US wise, conscientious,
| and business-like Administration to which all
| Republicans can point with pride"
| The Twelfth District Republican COnyen-
ton met at Fort Wayne, Ind, last week. An
| anti Harrison Chairman was chosen. The res
| outions instruct the delegates to cast for
| Blaine, and recite that " they recognize in him
the man who, above all Others unites in him
| self the highest order of craftsmanship and the
| strongest elements of leadership with degree
| of popularity seldom If ever equaled in the
history of this country"
Talking of the Presidential nom nation, Con-
gresham Dazell, Of Pennsylvania, said
have not the slightest doubt that Harrison will
be renominated. / have felt all along that
| there was nothing In the Blaine movement.
| 1t ia simply lot of anti Harrison people
| trying to use great mans name as a means
| of defeating the President ] cannot believe
| that Mr.. Blaine would lend himself to such
| trickery. The anti Harrison men are playing
their last card, and l have not the faintest
| idea that Mr.. Blaine will help them in their
| game"
| President Polk, of the Farmers Alliance,
has returned to Washington from North Car
| olina. He says that in the Alliance Conference
| every County in the State was represented. On
| strictly test vote 81 Counties enthusiastically
| Endorsed the st. Louis platform, the remaining
| five claiming that their people preferred the
| Ocala platform. So far as the Democratic State
| Convention was concerned, he said that the
| Democratic machine nominee, Gov Holt, was
defeated, and that the nominee Of the party,
| Elias Carr. Is ex-President of the State Alli-
ance, and boldly claims that he is true ALI
ance man. 1t has been agreed to hold State
convention of the Peoples Party at some time
after the Fourth of July, when 1t will be de-
cided whether the party will have State
| ticket in North Carolina.
| Hon. E. " Brookshire, the popular young
Hoosier Congressman, who upon his return to
Washington last week from visit home and
to the Democratic State Convention, said in an
interview: "Three cheers were given the
nominee, and then some one proposed three
| cheers for Grover Cleveland, whereupon the
Convention broke into storm of applause. A
more enthusiastic demonstration would have
been impossible. There can be no gainsaying
Clevelands strength in Indiana. There is
class of men out there who have formerly
acted with the Republican party, who are now
classed as independents, that will support
Cleveland in preference to any Presidential
candidate"
Senator Quay said in an interview in Pitts
burg: Sentiment is very strong for James G..
Blaine in Washington. That is the talk there
and that is the sentiment all over the country.
I do not think there will be any trouble about
nominating him. 1t will not be by stampeding
the convention. but by force of the general
sentiment
The Alliance party in Kansas is badly split
up on the question of fusion, and the leaders
are at war; John F. Willet states that he dis
covered on his return from the South an or
ganized effort on the part of the fusion fxers
in the Peoples party to down him. He appeals
to the Alliance men of the State in letter on
the subject, to cast off the scbemers who are
now running the Peoples party. Willet is the
late Alliance candidate for Governor, and now
National Lecturer for the Alliance. s. w.
Coombs, member of the State Central Com
mittee also publishes letter charging that the
majority of the committee had determined to
force fusion ticket on the party, and that the
members of committees who are known to be
against fusion are not notified of it's meetings.
Hon. Bourke Cochran, of New York, resents
the statement that the Tammany delegates con-
template abandoning Hill after ballot or two,
and casting their votes for some other candi-
date. He as we'll as Gen. Slocum asserts that
Hill is in the fight to the finish, and that not
one of the 72 delegates will abandon him. They
will vote for him to the end
vania, says he believes Harrison will be NOM
mated. 81 believe there is understanding
between President Harrison and Secretary
Blaine If there had not been do not think
MIR. Blaine would have remained in the Cabi.
net as his confidential adviser. If Mr.. Blaine
desired to be a candidate, or was willing to
accept the nomination, he knew that he
could have been easily nominated, and
believe that President Harrison would
have been one of his warmest supporters. " /
do not believe that the bosses can possibly
unite upon candidate unless it be Blaine.
The opposition of the bosses arises chiefly from
their Disappointment in patronage. ! do not
believe for one moment that Mr.. Blaine can, or
will. permit his name to be used at Mime
apois."
State Senator Wallace, of Pennsylvania, in
an interview in Philadelphia last week, said he
had reached the conclusion that Cleveland will
be the Democratic nominee. He visited New
York earlier in the week, and his conclusion is
the result of information acquired there.
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