The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-09
HARRISON
SCORES !.
Mckinley Made Perma-
.DGnt Chairman.
4 POINTED SPEECH
Which Is Enthusiastically Re-
ceiVed.
A LULL BEFORE THE STORM
The Credentials Committee Sparring for
Wind-Not Likely a Ballot VIII Be
Reached Before Friday = Com
plete Report of the Proceed
ings at Minneapolis.

MINNEAPOLIS, June S.-There was no
significant change in the situation this
morning. Both sides are apparently conf
dent Alger is still in the field, and half a
dozen other candidates are mentioned as a
compromise. The time Of casting the first
ballot is entirely indefinite. 1t depends
wholly on the action of the committee on
credentials, which controls the situation
practically, and is capable of acting IN
scrupulously to seat or unseat enough DEL
egates to exercise the balance of power in
the convention.
THE BLAINE PEOPLE CONTROL THE COM
MITTEE,
but the opposition controls large and ag-
gressive minority, contesting every point
stubbornly. No one knows, not even the
Blaine managers, when The committee viii
report
he Harrison people claim to have made
gains during the last twenty-four hours,
especially in New York, where they claim
twenty-nirw votes on the first ballot The
best information obtainable shows that the
Blaine and Harrison forces are almost of
equal strength now, but tae Blaine people
In the convention and committees The
Harrison forces are well together, how
ever.
AcKipley's selection as chairman
HAS ADDED TO HIS BOOM
and there is a movement in some quarters
TO spring his name as a dark horse.p If
found advisable. Rusk, Sherman, Allison
and others are mentioned as possible can
oiGates.
A committee Of the Associated Trades of
OF New York arrived TO press the nomi-
nation Of Harrison, claiming that he is the
originator Of the bimetallic conference and
the only Republican who will be supported
by the eastern merchants and bankers or
farmers, working classes ard the free
silver mtn of the southwest. The commit
zee represents eleven trade and labor
rnibns of New York aud claim that the
workineInen throughout the state favor
Harrison. II is said the committee on Gre
dentials VIII not report before tomorrow.
No ballot is likely TO be taken until Friday.
A SYSTEMATIC CANVASS TO BE MADE BY THE
BLAINE MEN.
The Blaine managers do not uuderrate
the moral effect Of the Harrison gang 10
New York where il is said twenty
delegates have signed an agreement for
dhIHlhDl. Dub u6Cl6Ec bLhL uuIil thSb nISub
the Blaine forces were unorganized. Now
they propose. under the leadership OF War
ner Miller, Boutelle and Foraker, to con-
duct q systematic canvass of the delegates.
The Harrison managers say that Blaine's
forces are evidently working for delay.
knowing that If a ballot is taken now they
will be defeated by over a hundred votes.
The Harrison men add that after a reason
able time they propose to push for action.
They declare that Blaine is practically
abandoned by the opposition, who are
skirmishing Tor candidates. Kitchener,
Indiana, claims 52l tested and tried voters
Tor Harrison. which includes only twenty
from New Y ork.
Up to I the committee on credentials
had not passed on a single contested seat