Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-21
POLITICAL CLOUDS CLEARING.
The Nomination of Cleveland ON the First
Ballot Generally Conceded.


The Nomination of Cleveland ON the First
Ballot Generally Conceded.
CHICAGO, June 21.-The opening of the con-
vention finds the clouds of political dissention
clearing away, and it does not require the
divine gift Of prophecy to predict the nomina-
ton of Grover Cleveland on the first ballot
Indeed, this result Of the contest is
generally conceded now, even by the friends
of Hill and Gray the only two rivals of the ex-
President in the field today, although there is
every indication that the ex-President's oppo-
nents will go down to defeat with colors flying
and the solid support Of their respective states
behind them.
The official action of the Illinois delegation
last night in deciding to cast the 48 votes Of the
prairie state for Grover Cleveland and the re-
solve of the Indiana delegation to fall in the
same line with the 80 votes Of that state,
and finally the decision Of the great keystone
state to vote unitand cast the entire forty six
votes of Pennsylvania for the ex-President has
about removed all doubt from the situation.
And then all the dark horses and
compromise candidates are displaying great
agility in arraying themselves in the Cleveland
column German declares for the ex-Presi-
dent and saws he will receive the unanimous
support of the Maryland delegation. the friends
of Morrison are among the Cleveland shouters
and the friends of Pattison and Russell and
Campbell are all numbered among the active
supporters of the ex-Presillent today.
THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
II is generally expected that ex-Gov. Isaac P.
GRAY of Indiana will be the nominee for the
vice presidency. He will be presented for that
place by his own state delegation and it is I'M
dcrstood that the consent of the Gray
men to the withdrawal of their pres
idential candidate and the casting of the
solid vote of Indiana for Cleveland was only
given the assurance that the Cleveland
leaders would favor ex-Gov. Gray for the vice
presidency. As the Cleveland organization is
now very thorough and well disciplined there is
little doubt that any compact Of the leaders
will be carried out to the letter in the conven-
ton.
So secure are the Cleveland people in their
position that they decided to make no fight
against the selection of W. c. Owens of Ken
lucky temporary chairman. Mr..
Owens has been identified with the
anti-Cleveland people and indeed il a
candidate of that faction for the temporary
Craftsmanship. and until late last night the
Cleveland people were fully resolved to OPP
pose his selection by putting up an
avOwed Cleveland man their
candidate. When the later advices
came in, however, showing that there were
no longer reasonable doubt Of the ex-
Presidents nomination on the first ballot
the Cleveland managers concluded that
they could afford to be magnanimous and
that no fight should be made against Owens
particularly rs a bubble upon the question Of
temporary craftsmanship in view Of the ex-
pressed confidence of the Cleveland leaders
might be construed into an indication Of weak
ness rather than of strength.
And so it was authoritatively given out this
morning by the Cleveland managers that there
would be no objection to Mr.. Owens and that
the recommendation Of the national committee
Owens selected as temporary chairman.
TAMMANY STILL srLLEN.
The Tammany leaders Of New York are still
sullen and defiant and maintain with much per-
sistency that Cleveland can never carry the
land is TO be nominated the New
York delegation will enter its protest
against his nomination by casting its "a
votes for David b. Hill, refusing to join
in the usual formality Of making the NOM
nation of the ex-President unanimous.
This assertion, however, is made by the
rank and file rather than by the leaders
of the Hill forces, and it is still hoped by the
Cleveland people that when the decisive mo-
ment arrives the New York delegation will
gracefully join in making the nomination Of
Cleveland unanimous
SENATOR CALVIN s. BRICE.
In the midst of all the wordy warfare Of this
great national convention there is one man
who has made a remarkable reputation for
silence. 1t is Calvin s. Brice, Sen
ator from Ohio and chairman of ma
tional democratic committee. Mr.. Brice has
for months been understood to be opposed to
the denomination of the ex-President, but he
has been discreetly silent all the past week
that no one exactly understands the part he has
PLAYED in this great contest.
The Senator himself maintains with much
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in the selection of the presidential candidate.
As delegate-at-large from the state Of Ohio he
will have q vote to cast, and up to this time il
was supposed that vote would be cast against
Grover Cleveland.
But the Senator. without giving any intima-
ton of the accuracy or inaccuracy of this con-
lecture. simply states that chairman Of the
national committee he thinks it would be in
decorous in him to attempt to control the will
Of the convention in the selection Of Its presi-
Dental candidate.
BoIES MEN FAITHFUL
Every effort of the Cleveland people to per-
suade the hawkeye delegation to desert Gov.
Boes and cast their twenty -six votes for the ex-
President has proven signally unsuccessful.
Despite the indication that Cleveland will be
nominated on the first ballot the Boies people
announce that their candidate will remain in
the race to the end and the vote Of the hawk
eye state will be cast for the governor not only
~ a matter of fealty and state pride, but Q
protest against the selection Of a presidential
candidate who is not supported by the dele
CATION of his own state. Indeed the
Boies people are almost as bitter as
the Hill managers in their protesta-
tions against the nomination Of Cleveland.
Almost every assertion that has been made by
the Tsmmany people in the last week a. to the
inability of Cleveland to carry the empire
state finds grateful reception and immediate
repetition in the committee headquarters
1t will be remembered that the hawkeye state
convention was 80 loyal to the candidacy of
Gov. Boies that it even refrained from adopting
the customary complimentary resolution Of
past services of the ex-President. 80 that the
name of Grover Cleveland does not occur in the
Iowa state platform.
IL is rather significant, too, that the casual
inquirer at the Boies headquarters Is informed
that there is no reasonable hope that Cleve-
land can carry the state Of Iowa
This is not exactly in keeping with the
declarations Of democratic exuberance that
have been made throughout the country for
the past six months, but the Iowa people state
that while they believe Gov. Boies could carry
the hawkeye state for the presidency he has
carried 1t twice for governor, they think it will
certainly be lost to the democracy II Cleveland
Is nominated for the presidency.
LITTLE CHANGE IN THE OUTLOOK.