Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-22


being appointed to manage the press arrange
ments, the whole affair was referred to the
Press Committee of the National Congress
This committee, quite naturally, gave the
first preference TO those papers which have
representatives. at the national capital as
those gentlemen were on hand and in a posi-
ton vigorously TO make known their wants:
All the great metropolitan papers, there
fore, and all other papers which are within
such convenient distance of Washington as
to find it necessary to have a representative
at the capital were well provided for, but
b- that time the $50 tickets were exhausted
The apportionment was made three or four
weeks ago and since that time hundreds OF
applications have been piling into Chicago
from papers all over the West and South
which did not understand that the press ar
rangements had been relegated to COM
mittee thousand miles away from the con-
vention.
Vigorous Protests Widely Disseminated.
The Congressional Press Committee, of
which Mr.. F. A. G. HANDY is Chairman,
maintain that as only $50 seats were
allotted them for distribution, they could
certainly not give accommodations for 9, 900
newspaper workers, and that they should
not be blamed for the lack of facilities
when that question was determined solely
by the National Committee. And so it is
the National Committee who is tonight the
object of the general protest from the news
paper fraternity, and this protest finds
vigorous utterance in the dispatches that
are going out over the wires to all portions
OF the Union.
Several vain attempts were made during
the day TO open the vacant galleries to the
outsiders, and particularly to the Union
veterans of the late war. But it was felt
that this matter should be disposed of by
the Committee on Resolutions, and when a
Southern delegate inquired "What is the
matter with the eN-Confederates?" dis
Greet delegate from a Northern State
promptly moved to refer the whole question
to the Committee on Resolutions.
The conviction that Cleveland shall be
the leader of the Democratic party had full
possession of the delegates to-day, and was
so fixed that all other things are merely to be
done to reach that result, and for which the
convention will rush impetuously and with
a unanimity that must nettle the helpless
opposition in the convention and amaze the
Republican party.
The South and Tamnauy Not in 1t.
The two strong factors in the Democratic
party-the South and Tammany Hall-have
not played the leading parts as they have
been wont to do, and as undoubtedly they
could do, if they were in accord.
The South did not give its confidence to
Hill, but has been generous in its applause
of him, and of the victories he has won in
New York. But the moment the South
had misgivings of success under Hills
leadership, it laid aside its sentiment and
turned TO Cleveland. For, with the South,
Democratic success is above men, and the
debate as TO who could achieve success was
h- bo n+E
advocates of Cleveland are able men. The
accomplished Whitney, who poured oil on
the troubled waters, and stood between
Tammanv Hall and the 900, 900 revolving
Democrats, oyershadowed Hill and the
Syracuse people, and broke up the lines of
faction which were the chief danger to
Cleveland's success.
The South believed Cleveland could
carry New York; the opposition in the
South, under the leadership of Mr.. Waiter
son, melted away, and the popular demand
for the nomination of Cleveland grew ire
sistible. This overwhelmed Tammany
Hall, or rather isolated it and leaves it the
one obstacle in the way to Cleveland's
roval triumph.
The fact is manifest that the broken Re-
publican lines in the West-in Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and
kansas-have infused courage and given
new hopes and bold aspirations to the Dem
ocratS. They are no longer in a hopeless
minority party and the touch OF elbows
doubles their power.
The Power That Made Them Yield.
The doubtful Democratic States of the
" est, uniting on Cleveland, constrained
the opposition to him in the solid South to
Weld. Moreover, the South was more
divided in this convention than it has been
since 1876. Again, on the silver question,
the South and the West are in accord and
therefore inclined to support each other on
all other matters. But neither can the
South nor the West furnish candidate for
the Presidency in the year 1892. For the
first time since 1860 the South, or rather
Mr.. Watterson, as a Southern Democratic
leader, has timidly dared to suggest a
Southern statesman for the Presidential
nomination But the suggestion was only
whispered and, in the movement for Cor
man, like that for Carlisle, each in its turn
melted into the air Indeed, the efforts
with brass bands and public parades to
make a candidate of Hill. of Palmer, of
Morrison, of Boies, were not q whit more
successful than the whisperings for Cor
man.
The personality of Cleveland towers over
all. The rank and file of the Democratic
party, the army Of nearly {, 900, 900 of voters,
believe in the ex-President The force of
this popular opinion is stronger than Tam
many Hall. though it were supported bv
the leaders in all the other States. And,
while it is true that the ex-Federal office
holders-the bread and butter brigade-are
here formidable in numbers, still these men
like German and Palmer, Boies and Gray,
are here 20 execute the will of the masses
Never was 4 National Democratic Conven-
tion more thoroughly dominated by popu-
lar opinion against the judgment of many
OF the most generous minded of the
acknowledged leaders.
Opposition Develops to Mr.. Gray.
Now that the Presidency is practically
disposed OF, in all but the formality, the
spirit Of speculation which is always active
in political conventions is directed to the
Vice Presidency. The selection of ex-Goy-
ernOr Isaac p. Gray, of Indiana, as the run
ming mate of ex-President Cleveland seemed
very probable last night and this morning.
but later in the day it transpired that Mr..
Gray might have some opposition where it
was least expected.
There are various members of the In
diana delegation, among whom are said to be
numbered the leaders of the Cleveland fac
tion in the Hoosier State, who are opposed
to the selection of Mr.. Gray and who would
be disposed to construe his nomination as
an affront to the people who have borne the
brunt of the battle in the Hoosier State in
behalf OF Cleveland in opposition to the
Presidential ambition of Indiana's favorite
son.
So it seems that the selection of Mr.. Gray
as Q means of insuring the electoral vote of
that State for the Democratic ticket might
not after all conduce with any certainty to
the result which is hoped to be attained,
and the discussion of this peculiar situation