The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-21
INDIANA POLITICS
The Gray and Cleveland Men
Have an Understanding.
THE GUBERNAToRIAL CONTEST
1t is Uncertain and Exciting = voorhees,
Wanted a Free silver Plank-Kansas DEM
ocrats are Unanimously for Cleveland.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 20.-At q meeting of
prominent supporters of exPresident
Cleveland and ex- Governor Gray to-day, it
was decided the Indiana delegation to the
Democratic national convention wiz vote
for Grover Cleveland for President until it
becomes manifest he viii not be the choice
of the convention, and then the delegation
will vote for Isaac 2. Gray. The incidental
endorsement of Gray is conceded by the
party leaders to be proper recognition OF
the claims of the ex-governor, but only In
submission TO the inevitable did the Gray
people accede to the agreement. There is
no likelihood of the Gray men receding
from the agreement, and the exertions OF
leading Cleveland men are being directed
to prevent his over-enthusiastic followers
from breaking away and ignoring the
agreement tomorrow by endeavoring to
stampede the convention into an unquali-
fed endorsement of Grover Cleveland.
The fight for the governorship is hotter
than ever tonight, with Shankland and
Matthews still in the lead, but the friends
of Niblack and Nye are hopeful. Shank
lands friends insist he will be nominated
On the second ballot. Matthews says after
the first ballot he will have twenty -four
votes to spare Nye and Niblack are not
making any claims. The contest is very
complicated, and no one can predict the re
suit. The committee on resolutions has
begun work on the platform to be adopted
at to-morrow's convention. There Is
some little dispute on the question Of party
policy, the silver question being the only
one which provoked extended discussion
Senator Voorhees, and his friends favored
a free coinage plank, but were overrulec
by a majority and the following plank
YVES finally adopted: 1--WE believe there
should be kept in constant circulation {
full and sufficient volume of money con-
sisting of gold and silver and legal tendei
paper currency at par with each other"
| Harrlson's administration is arraigneC
for subserviency 10 the interests OF thu
money power and Indifference to the wei
fare OF the people; for the prostitution o
public patronage by the sale Of a cablne
position to John Wanam9ker in return 10
financial aid in the campaign; for misman
agement of the pension department
for the promotion of Judge Woods as re
ward for saving Dudley aud his fellow con
spirators from the penitentiary and for tn
attempt to fasten upon the country the il
quituous force bill.
The diplomacy of Harrison and Blaine i
y the CHILEAN and Behring sea affairs is de-
nounced as "a weak and demagogical fol
eign policy which exhibited the America
Y people TO the world as a bully toward til
: weak and a trucker to the powerful"
n The platform favors such tariff reform
. viii relieve the necessities of the peopl
I and the tariff policy Of Cleveland is n
e affirmed.
g The district conventions tonight chos
:, delegates TO the national convention. Del
a gates-at-large and alternates were ais
s chosen. This morning the Cleveland an
r General Shields club, assisted by abol
n two-thirds of the members of the Ora
a club and several hundred visitors and del
Y gates, held street demonstration in hont
# of Cleveland.