Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-21
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FACTS AND FIGURES

Ara taking the Place of the Extravagant
claims That Have Been Made by the
Cleveland and Anti-Cleveland People
CHICAGO. June 2O.-The extrayagant
claims and pretentious estimates whieh
have characterized the campaign OF the
Cleveland and anti-Cleveland factions
during the past week are grauuaiiy
giving way TO facts and Agures'
Delegates from every State and Ierrl-
tory are in the city this morning ana
the work Of ascertaining the Preslden-
tiar preferences of individual delegates
is progressing so rapidly and the rela-
tive strength Of the Cleveland and anti
Cleveland factions is so nearly known
that the only element Of doubt now re-
naming affects those States which are
suspected Of having secret predictions
for favorite sons. The managers OF the
ex-President'S campaign this morning
display with q great deal of ostentation
p carefully prepared table, which gives
Cleveland $50 votes on the first 0allot-
Just 10 votes short of the tw0-thlrds Ior
q nomination.
TIE ANTI-CLEVELAND
factions, among which may be included
not only the forces of Senator Hill, out
also those of BoieS, Gray and the secret
but very earnest workers OF Senator
German, deride as unreaSOnably eXtraY-
aganr these figures of the Cleveland
leaders and assert that their 1nvestlga-
tions show that the eX-PreSident is as
sured, but a little over a majority on
the first ballot. They still maintain
that the failure Of Cleveland to be nom
mated on the first ballot will so demon
aliZe his forces that a rapid disintegra-
tion Of Cleveland's strength will i'm
mediately follow and the race will then
become one of dark horses.
Probably the most uncertain feature
I'm the whole contest just at this time Is
the attitude Of
SENATOR GORMAN, OF MARYLAND.
He is here and is the leader of the
State delegation as a delegate-at-lsrge
and Outwardly maintains that ne is de-
voted 20 the candidncy Of Mr.. Cleveland,
but despite this assertion, his name Is
more discussed than that of any other,
as the compromise candidate, around
whom must be rallied all the factions,
and the scattering delegates opposed to
the nomination of the eX-President
For seventy-twO hours the secret ennis
saries Of Senator German have been
ceaselessly engaged canvassiRg the
various Southern delegations to ascer-
tain the disposition which the Southern
Deople manifest toward Senator German
as the compromise candidate TO whose
lot is TO fall the heritage OF the Cleve-
land forces, but the Cleveland forces In
the South, strange to say, do not seem
TO be disposed to be inherited by any
body Just now, at least not so long as
they think there is a hopeful chance for
the ex-President's nomination. 1t was
confidently expected by Senator Cor
mans friends that his record as a
leader of the opposition in defeating
the
REPUBLICAN FORCE BILL
In the United States Senate would bring
TO him rapid accessionS from those
Southern delegations 10 whose vision the
force bill still looms up as political
nightmare whenever its passage Is urged
by Northern Republican conventions or
orators. A dilligent canvass OF the
Southern delegates, however, does not
show an OutSpOken preference for Ger
man Of more than an average OF two or
three men in each delegation and the
Southerners generally are very emphat-
ic i'm maintaining that their only choice
lust at this time is the great popular
leader Grover Cleveland, of New York.
The urOtestatiOns of Senator German
that he must not be regarded as a candi-
date are considered quite natural, and,
indeed, the inevitable declaration OF any
candidate who is on the ground, as il is
an unwritten law OF Democratic ethics
that no man shall attend a National
Convention as a seeker for the Presiden-
tial nomination. For this reason the
Senator's reiteratiOn Of his loyalty to
Cleveland and his declaration that he Is
not candidate are not received with
that uuQuestioned credence which
might be awarded to the declaration OF
the
GREAT MARYLAND SENATOR
upon nearly any other subject; and so
ia is that the man who is the cynosure
Of all eyes and whose movements are
eagerly watched to-day by the leaders
of the Cleveland forces, is the Senator
from the terrapin State.
The LOYALTY of the Iowa delegation to
the candidacy of Gov Horace BOies has
aroused the admiration Of the Democ-
racy OF the nation. 1t was natUral TO
suppose at the beginning that as Cleve-
land had always been popular among
the farmers of the Hswkeye State, the
arrival OF the Cleveland leaders and the
demonstration that would certainly be
manifest on the first ballot would cause
the weakening of the BOieS forces and
result in his followers holding out the
olive branch OF Cancellation or compro-
mise TO the Cleveland managers. But
they are doing nothing of the kind.
They have demonstrated so emphati-
cally that the
TwENTY-SIN VOTES OF IOWA
are immovably welded to the hopes
of Hawkeye Governor that the situation
OF affairs is now generally accepted by
an the opposition leaders; and so Iowa
occupies the unique position of being
the only State in the Union whose dele
CATION is not claimed in whole or part
bv either Cleveland or some of the mi
nor candidates.
The diplomatic suggestion that BoieS
would be good Vice-PreSidential can
didate in event Of CleveIand's selection
does not ind courteous reception in the