Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-15
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.

THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
Gossip in Regard to Members of Congress
Who VIII Go.
THE ESTIMATE SAID TO HAVE EMANArKD FROM
sKNAroR HILL COMMENTED rPoN-rwo VICE
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES SOME frARs
OF THE CLEVELAND MEN EXPLAINED.
A table Of the probable vote Of the Chicago
convention on the first ballot. understood TO
have smana Ted from Senator Hill, WAS the basis
OF good deal Of talk about the House ye~ter-
day. According TO this table senator Hill will
have 3l4 votes on the frs, ballot. Cleveland AIS,
Palmer 4s, Carlisle IS and Bones 26. OF course
the pronounced Cleveland men would not &C.
cept these figures correct or ANYTHING like
It. They pointed out that the forty-eight
votes Of Illinois, for instance, were
not likely 10 go to Palmer on the
first ballot. They might be divided up between
swo or three men, Cleveland. Palmer and Nor
rison, although they could not see how under
the resolutions OF the Illinois democratic con-
ventaon any votes could be given to Morrison at
all on the first ballot The Cleveland men
claimed. and pointed TO Senator Palmer posi-
non as their Justification, that in all probability
euo SHlTc 10 VOTES OF Illinois would be
cast for the ex-President at the start
IL this were to be done il would carry
the Cleveland vote the first ballot
on the basis Of the other votes conceded to
Cleveland by Hill up to 52s. Another state
which is given solid to favorite son in the Hill
table il Kentucky, whose twenty-six votes are
credited TO Carlisle. With this arrangement
the Cleveland people also find fault and are in
chned to think that even on the first ballot
their favorite will get majority Of kentucky's
votes.
WHAT THE UScoMMIrrED MEN GAY.
Democrats who are not specially committed
to either Cleveland or Hill ART inclined to re-
gard the Hill figures in the main fair, es-
pecially in the estimate Of Hills strength in i'm
portant states. in Ohio, for instance. Cleve-
land IL conceded thirty votes. while Hill gets
sixteen. This Is rather more than some OF
Clevelands friends are inclined to claim in
Ohio. They say that Cley Gland viii certainly get
| twenty-f votes from Ohio and may get few
more than that Where unprecedented political
| students regard the Hill talk - defective and
| misleading IL in its claims Of odd votes here
and there in unimportant states, such in
Louisiana, Maine, Florida, Oregon, &c. Those
| who claim to know the feeling in states Of this
kind say that the Hill people will find their cal
| cula-ions sadly awry when they get TO Chicago.
| Florida man said, for instance. that no one
| could tell with certainty how the Florida dele
gates to Chicago would vote. They were not
likely to commit themselves to any one until
they got to the convention and had carefully
looked over the ground.
Mr.. WARNER CALLS 1T A BLUFF.
When Mr.. John De Witt Warner was asked by
. STAR man today what he thought Of the Hill
table he said he thought it was bluff. He said
he did not have any table himself He kept one
Tor some time before the state conventions met
but as he found that the results Of these conyen-
tons were more favorable 20 Cleveland than he
had calculated he gave up keeping table.
Mr.. Warner said he did not look for Mr.
Clevelands nomination on the first ballot nor
did he think it made any difference in the final
result whether he was nominated on that ballot
| or not. For his part, he would be a. well
pleased to have him nominated on the fortieth
ballot as on the first. He thought the longer
! the balloting continued the more certain
| Cleveland's nomination became. He
had heard that some friends Of Mr..
| Cleveland, who had been industriously fighting
him all along, were now very fearful that if he
were not nominated on the first ballot he would
not be nominated at all. But Mr.. Warner said
he was not at all anxious about IL. Whoever
was nominated would have to get a two-thirds
vote in the convention, which a point that
seemed to have escaped the attention of those
who we're opposed to Cleveland The two
thirds rule, 1t should be remembered, worked
both ways
GOING TO CHICAGO.
Mr.. Warner said he was going to Chicago, but
would not leave here until Saturday. Mr.. War
ner is one of the most enthusiastic and positive
Cleveland men in the House, and when he
| reaches the convention city there will be q dis
| tinct enlargement in the Cleveland boom.
Gen. Charles Tracey, who is another devoted
adherent Of the ex-President, leaves Washing
ton tonight for Albany on his way to Chicago.
Col OFerrall Of Virginia will also 60 to
swell the chorus for Cleveland at Chicago, and
| ha 6yht 70 fnrf ha Dxxae n.
knows how to fight the ex-President will have
no more valiant and effective champion in all
| his hosts in the windy city.
Another distinguished son Of the old domin-
ion who will join the westward bound cavalcade
Is Senator Daniel, who left last night for Rich
mond, where he will join the Virginia delega-
| ton to Chicago. Senator Daniel is understood
TO be q energetically opposed to Cleveland as
Col. O'Ferrau is for him.
POSSIBLE VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE.
Representative Dockery Of Missouri will also
be among the leaders of the House who will
have business in Chicago next week. Mr..
Dockery's friends are talking a little as if they
| feared he was in some danger Of being struck
by vice presidential lightning before his re-
| turn. He has forged to the front q leader Of
| the House in remarkable style in the last two
Congresses and there have been many sugges-
tons heard among his colleagues of late that he
| would add great strength TO any ticket that
might be named at Chicago. The thing
that would work against him is the
fact that he comes from strong democratic state,
but it is argued against this that if Mr.. Dock
cry were given second place his long experience
in public affairs and thorough knowledge Of the
workings Of Congress and OF the government
would make the tail of the ticket an element Of
positive strength, which it frequently has not
been in the past.
Another distinguished member of the House
for whom a vice presidential boom is working
| up is Judge Holman Of Indiana. But there is
a suspicion that this boom is the doing Of the
bad boys Of the House who now and then grow
FESTIVE because the judge is too careful with
| Uncle Sans pocket money. II the judge could
be safely landed in the Vice Presidents chair
in the Senate he would no longer be able to
follow his traditional role Of watch dog of the
treasury. But 1t b fact that talk of Holman
for Vice President is heard about the House.
| OTHER MEMBERS WHO WILL GO.
Several members Of the Pennsylv delega-
ton are on the list Of those who will attend the
convention. Representative Mutchler is a dele
gate and a member Of the executive committee
Of the congressional campaign committee, and
he will 60 with the party which Representative
Mitchell Of Wisconsin will take out in his pri-
vate car leaving here Saturday evening. Rep
resentative McAleer of Philadelphia will 60
| to Chicago to do what he can TO pro-