The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-19
GROVER GAINING,
Hostile Assaults Fail to
Hurt Him.
Anything to Beat Him the Cry
Of Tamnany.

The Tigers Attack Directed Against
the Ex-Prestdent's Followers Rather
Than Against the Ex-President HIM
self-Strenuous Efforts Being Made
to Get Every Dark Horse on the Track
for the First Ballot-The Delegates
Pouring In and the Town on Boom.
CHICAGO, Ill, June 1S.-Ex-President
Cleveland held his own, whether It be 500
votes or any OF the intermediate numbers,
and even gained, while the dark horse, who
is SO anxiously looked for by the anti.
Cleveland men as their only hope, did not
come out of the shades. This is q brief
chronicle of a busy day. All the managers
and most Of the leaders having arrived, to-
gether with 200 or SOC delegates, men were
rushing from hotel to hotel like ants in q
troubled ant hill. doing missionary work and
getting information. The Cleveland men,
under the direction OF William C. Whitney,
who are to be distinguished from the Syra-
cuse protestants under Charles s. Fair
child, having separate organizations, as
they have separate headquarters, came out
and met the Tammany men in lobby after
lobby and delegation after delegation in
informal argument Mr.. Clevelaud's litho-
graphed portrait, the best he has ever had,
appeared around the hotels, as did the Cleve~
land badges, vieing with the Hill, Boise and
Gray pictures and emblems, of which the
most conspicuous was a small sized stuffed
tiger prominently displayed in the lobby Of
the auditorium.
A TAMMANY MISTAKE.
One ofssthe mistakes the new Tammany
has made here is one which John Kelly
would never have permitted. In their
arguments against Mr.. Cleveland the Tam
manyites were neither so personal nor SO
bitter as they were In 1884. Much of what
they said was directed against ex-Secretary
Fairchild and Mr.. Grace, whom they per-
sonally dislike and against the Syracuse
delegation rather than against Mr.. Cieve-
land. Privately they admitted that Ii is
true. as Mr.. Croker stated to members of
the Temmany general committee In New
York, that MIR. Cleveland would carry the
state if nominated. They talked Hill, of
course, but perfunctorily with evil
dent appreciation Of the fact that
Senator Hill is quite out
Of the race, except for tactical purposes.
They made no bones OF saying anywhere
that anybody but Mr.. Cleveland would
please them, and, of course, suggested in
the Illinois headquarters that ex-Represen-
tstive Morrison Senator Palmer having
talked himself TO DEATH; in the Iowa head
quarters that Gov. Boies, and in the Indi-
ana headquarters that ex-Gov. Gray would
be good candidate, with Gov. Flower Of
New York for Vice President, II he could
not he taken for President. Meanwhile the
Tammany chiefs were talking even more
frankly in private conversation with all the
leaders and delegates they thought they
aa2ld reach.
ANYBODY TO BEAT CLEVELAND.
They frankly admitted that Senator Hill
twas not in it, and that they were willing
to take anybody except Mr.. Cleveland IN
Senator Hills stead. They urged the Boes
men to stand firm, the Gray men to present
his name gave out that Illinois would vote
for Mr.. Morrison, Ohio for Gov. Campbell
and Kentucky for Senator Carlisle on the
first ballot, all the while en-
couraging the German movement
which was fostered quietly by
Senators German and Brice, who told every
delegate who came to them that Mr.. Cleve-
lines were closely enough drawn to-day to
enable you to see plainly that Senators
Gorman, Brice and Carlisle are all aiding
the Tammanyites in their attempt to defeat
Mr.. Cleveland. The Maryland headquar-
ters proclalms Senator Gorman's candidacy
IN all it's decorations, crowded with the
half-length portrait Of Senator German
with "Marvland's favorite son" below it,
from which the crowd of office-holding
q FUla rp-z yk,~ FAr EAnE
purpose disseminate German sentiment. 1t
Is not as skillfully done as it might be, for
the veil ls thin and it is not always drawn, q,
Dut the effort to seem neutral and yet sup
plant Mr.. Cleveland with Senator German
may have some effect on the southern dele
gates, most of whom have not arrived, and
who are awaited with great interest as the
men whose votes will largely determine the
result
SCHEME OF THE OPPOSITION.
The scheme of the snti-Cleveland men
seems to be to get as many southern dele
gates as possible to vote for Senator Cor
man and other dark horses without formally
nominating them necessarily on the first
ballot, dividing Alabama and Arkansas, II
possible, so generally as to rob Mr.. Cleve-
iand not only of his votes in those delega-
tlon. but of the prestige Of them at the be-
ginning of the roll call. 1t is interesting to
q EnoW that they depend upon Col John X.
Fellows, formerly of Arkansas, to
influence the Arkansas delegation
against Mr.. Cleveland, as be infiu-
ee9ced it fer Mr.. Cleveland in 1884. Mr..
morrison figures largely in the calculations
VI I the anti-Cleveland men with respect to
tne southern delegations. for Senator Carlisle
VINO understands that he has no personal
4 prospects, Is trying to hold Kentucky for
Ar. Morrison and Senator Mills is coming
70 try to influence the Texans for Mr.. Nor
Iison, and votes could be gotten for Mr.. Nor
Ilson and Gov. Flower which could not be
4kotten for Senator German. But Mr. Nor
Isons Enthusiastically straightfor ward
message to his Illinois friends this after
loon loon that he must be kept out Of it until Mr..
sHleVeland's cause was hopeless discouraged
CLEVELAND GAINS IN INDIANA.
1he anti-Cleveland men had another set
H.ack later in the afternoon after the first
1T mai delegation meeting of Indiana was
eld' ana fifteen out and out Cleveland votes
r,eIe developed on the test vote to act on q
when only twelve out aud out Cleve-
5au9 votes had been claimed by the Clevs>
anu men. The fact that only fifteen men
FQppOTted Y -CnOv ard tbraa or