Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-06-17
THE FIELD VS.. CLEVELAND
GRAY wITHDRAWN FROM
THE CONTEST.

Some Deals and PrOmises-Hil
Does Not seem To lie Iu II EX
cept as a PrOtest-Against The
Fx-PresideIit,
CHICAGO, June 17.-Thc battling for
the democratic nomination is not vet
fairly begun. A shot or two from the
picket lines of the advancing forces is all
that has been heard SO far in Chicago.
The troops are on the way and tomor-
row the struggle will be fierce enough.
AS usual everybody is looking eagerly
forward to the close OF the conflict and en-
dcavoring to predict the result. Itis OBJ.
vious that the conflict is to he one OF Clevc-
land againt the field. 1t Is obvious,
also, that the key to the situation is in
a large measure held by the state OF
New York and Ly the great delegation
which is to represent it here.
The Cleveland plan of campaign is per-
feet in its outlines. The arrival of
cx-Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild,
has caused it to be disclosed in all its de-
tails. The rcvcrses which the Cleveland
people have met in Ohio and Arkansas
show that the plan might be lacking in
some features, but the supporters OF the
ex-Piesident arc sure that everything
will go through about as they have
mapped it out. From now on none of
them will be found willing to admit that
| Cleveland has fewer than five hundred
votes in sight. Tables which have been
given out by Clcvcland's leaders in New
| York and which were distributed in Chi
cago yesterday have been skii(ully put
together so to show five hundred votes
making an allowance for various shifts
For inst ance, in one of the tables, Hi
noisS torty-eight votes are credited to
Palmer, and still five hundred are fig
urcd up for Cleveland. In another table
forty eight Illinois delegates are put
down for Cleveland, but the table still
shows only five hundred allowances be-
ing made in this tabuntion for some
doubtful delegates in the southern
states which had heretofore been claimed
for the President.
Ahe OppOSiAOhs
The managers of Cleveland s campaign
know that the opposition is binding
itself to the single purpose of keeping
onc-third of the delegates absolutely
against Cleveland. with the idea that by
a solid column OF this sort increases may
be made which will divide the strength
pretty evenly. To offset this their
efforts are directed to showing up 800
votes which can be held together on all
ballots. They argue that all they have
to do is to wait and the nomination
will come their way. They have more
delegates by 100 than Hill, and they
don t think the opposition could do bet
ter il it tried to combiic on some one
else. SO, they say, there is no reason why
he convention should not make nom.
ination by Thursday though they are
willing to allow another days work.
The northwest is the rock on which the
Cleveland men rest. They believe that
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota can
never be shaken from Cleveland. Ii they
get a majority of the Illinois men under
the unit rules they also count on holding
the prairie state in line as long as they
need it. If they fail to nominate Cleve-
land, Mcssrs. Villas, Dickinson and Others
OF the northwestern forces of Cleveland
are willing to join W. Z. Goudy in giving
Chief Justice Fuller boost" In spite
OF the denials made few weeks ago
somebody has letters in which Fuller S
candidacy is fully discussed, and Grover
Cleveland himself is quoted as being
friendly to it. But this contingency is
too remote for present considerations
BOies.
The buoyancy of Boies' boom in Iowa
is worrying the eastern leaders a trillc
They think they may need Iowa at ar
early stage of the ballot for th, mora
effect it will have, but they don't know
how to go about getting it. Any prom
isc of the vicc-presidency to Gov. Boic'
will be dangerous, because it will a
once antagonizc Gray's Indiana friends
to whom they have been catering a.
well as to Ex-Governor Campbell, o
Ohio, who expects to be on the tickc
with Cleveland. In the end they ma,
fetch Boics with promise of a place il
Clcvcland's S cabinet.
Conceded to Hill.
In all their calculation the Clcvcan,
leaders who are on the ground conccd
New York's - votes to Hill. This i
good politics because they all knew tina
on its merits the anti-snap dclcg gatio
could never get within hailins distanc
OF the wigwam. They believe that
Cleveland can be nominated withou
turning down the regular delegation
will go far toward conciliating Tam
many. But they hint that it it reall
gets down to where the 36 votes c
- New York are needed for Cleveland, tn
committee on credentials can bring in
. report whith will divide the declegatior
Controlling, as they do, majority {
r the state delegations the Cleveland leat
crs expect to have no trouble in fixin
up the committee on creden .ials so as t
give the "anti snap delegation the tul
est hearing. The present plan is to ha,
this hearing public and to bring Il
whole subject before the convention. |
that way Clcvcland's Representative,
think they will be able to get the exa,
situation before the delegates and col
vince the majority of them that Clev
land can carry New York. But ii
should come to a pinch, they might e
further and have the committee rccor
mend giving the anti-snappers one.ha
= OF the delegation for the Empire Stat
y As il will rculIire only a majority TO sc;