Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-23
Comments on the Chicago Streets
Today.
REVIEWING The WEEKS FIGHT
Exciting Scenes During Last Nights
BaIloting.
NEWS AT GRAY GABLES
LOOKING OVER THE FIELD.
How the Battle Was Fought and How II Wa
Won.

Won.
Special Dispatch TO The Evening Star
CHICAGO, June 23.-The democratic national
convention which closed its most important
work at daylight this morning and will clear up
the rest during the course OF the day will be
counted as remarkable among democratic con-
ventions. From first TO last the convention has
been full of interest. The shadow of
Grover Cleveland has marched along in
front of the procession and the Cleveland senti-
ment has been all pervading. The one ques-
ton on the part of the opposition has been how
to overcome this spirit. while on the other side
a wild enthusiasm for the ex-President Was the
controlling motive Of all thought, speech and
action. Following close along with this
sentiment of devotion for Cleveland has
been spirit of antipathy toward Tammany
1t is not remarkable that those men who have
been associated with Mr.. Cleveland since the
first rise of his star Of destiny, whose interests
are his interests and whose thoughts CORE
spond to his. should support him Loyalty and
devote all their skill and energy to the work Of
placing him at the head of the party and
keeping him there; but the remarkable and
striking feature Of the contest has been the de-
votion shown for the ex-President by men who
live amid different surroundings, whose inter-
ests are supposed to be antagonistic and some Of
whosepet theories have been violently assailed by
Mr.. Cleveland. The willingness to abandon
their theories as to finance, to overturn the or
gained democracy Of New York, upon which
they have been in the habit of depending for
success, and to take every risk Of defeat. even
to defy defeat, is something almost beyond eI-
PLANTATION.
The one idea Of the western and southern
Cleveland men seemed to be that Cleveland was
a straightforward, honest man, frank without
deception, free from political trickery and one
whom they could trust and rely on not to
play them false, though he might resist their
will in some things. The anti-Cleveland forces
were strong for destruction, but lacked that
almost fanatical enthusiasm which marked the
other side.
There was no time until Monday, when abso-
lutte bad management, and, some charge,
bad faith, scattered the anti-Cleveland forces,
when Cleveland's nomination could with rea-
son have been plain to be assured, yet there
was no time when his success was not the most
probable outcome from the struggle.
After Monday it became as near q certainty
as things ever do in great political struggle.
The anti-Cleveland men having once pulled
themselves together after a complete rout did
some of the most beautiful political organizing
that was ever accomplished at q convention, but
it was forlorn hope, and while possible never
probable that they would succeed. Such a show
of force did they make during the very last
hours of the contest that men who had aban-
doned them when they were really stronger the
day before the convention met began to have
doubts as to Cleveland's nomination This was
conspicuous in the case Of Mr.. German,
who refused to be a candidate on Monday
and who, it was understood, felt at midnight
last night that there was . possibility Of an
overthrow Of the powers with which he had
allied himself on abandoning the anti-Cleve-
land people.
Whether or not Mr.. German began to enter
tain hopes Of becoming q candidate, the nine
and a half votes cast for him from the Mary
land delegation and his own failure to vote gave
evidence that certainly majority of that dele
cation believed that the danger Of
Mr.. Cleveland's defeat was imminent, and 1t
was, Notwithstanding that the final result showed
COOS votes for the ex-President, by Q very close
shave that he got the nomination.
Until the two votes Of the District Of Column
bia were cast for him he had not yet received
the nomination, and after the District most of
the few votes left would have been cast against
him had his nomination not already been made.
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