The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-18
STABLE FULL OF DARK HORSES.
Unless Cleveland Wins at Once There
Will Be Great Scramble.
Hill, German, Boies, Palmer, Gray and
Morrison After the Prize-Tammany
Fighting the Prophet and the Print
ers Opposing Flower.

ominously above all. Everybody realizes
that the great question of the convention
is: will Cleveland be nominated on the
first ballot?" Should the question be an
swered in the negative, the friends of all
the secondary candidates will feel the
lists then open to their favorites, for some
how the conviction has gone forth that
the failure of the ex-president to receive
the nomination on the first ballot means
elimination of the great tariff reforrner
from the contest. This opinion is enter
tanned by the delegations who have
favorite sons, but it by no means
follows that the correctness of
this opinion is conceded by the Cleveland
managers. They maintain that while they
believe their man will be nominated on
the Grst ballot. failure to receive the
requisite two-thrds then will not be an in
dica.ion of his subsequent defeat, for they
expect important accessions from the fol-
lowers of Boies, Hill and Gray after they
have paid complimentary tribute to
their favorite sons. Various presidential
candidates, dark-horses and possibilities
are being discussed tonight, including
Cleveland, Hill and Flower, of New York
Boies, of Iowa; Palmer, of Illinois Gray, of
of Kentucky; Morrison. OF Illinois; Camp
bell, of Ohio; Russell, of Massachusetts,
and Pattison, of Pennsylvania Probably
Palmer and German will have a following
on the first ballot, but the others figure
entirely as dark-horses and compromise
candidates.
The delegates from the Syracuse con-
vention are good deal stirred up over
the Murphy manifesto, and number of
them have prepared responses designed to
counteract its effect and show that Cleve-
land is not only the strongest man in the
Democratic party in New York but that
he could carry the state and would get
large number of independent Republican
votes, which no other Democrat could.
Among the anti-snap delegates today Ed
ward b. Whitney, of Brooklyn, speaking
of Murphy, said:
He is man who will be treacherous to any
body, and there is no use trying to humor him
in the nomination, because he win not know
until election day whether he will b. true or
false. Every other Democrat in the state OF New
York will vote for Cleveland IL nominated and
Tor that reason although there are many Demo-
crets whom would personally prefer to Cleve-
land for presidential nomination. doubt not
that he is by Ear the most available candidate for
the state OF New York.
The Hill leaders seem to have received
renewed hopes from the events of the past
few days, and are working energetically
for their candidate, with the apparent con-
viction that success will crown their efforts
in the end.
The unusual spectacle of the son OF a
presidential candidate working against his
father was witnessed today in the New
York delegation. when Louis J. Palmer,
of Wyoming. entered the Hill headauar-
ters and being presented to Mr.. Croker,
said:
called upon you to say that am Hill man.
IL my father had been al active candidate
should have been for him and done ali could
in the West, but rs he has practically with
drawn nnd declared for Cleveland, that leaves
me free to follow my own judgment am EN-,
phatcally opposed to the denomination OF
Cleveland, and think majority of the peop.e OF
Wyoming agree with me- When he became
president he flied the state with carpet-bsggers
and gave all the offices to people from the out
side. Harrison has done just the contrary and
has made himself SD strong in the state that If
Cleveland is nominated it will be useless for the
Democrats to put up state ticket.
Mr.. Croker replied:
So il would be in New York. We have nothing
against Cleveland, only that the Democrats OF
New YORK don't want him. The nomination OF
Cleveland would simply mean destruction OF
the Democratic organization as il now exists in
the state OF New York. In every victory we
have achieved in the state Fairchid and his
crowd have been against / think that in
this convention the opinion OF the people who
have led the party in victories should be re-
spected, as they certainly know the condition in
the state.
The question as TO whether or not the
delegates elected by the Syracuse conven-
tion will present their credentials to the
national convention and demand recogni-
ton as the rightful representatives of the
Democracy of New York is held in abey-
ance pending action of the caucus Of the
delegation. The delegates from the CITY
of New York and from BROOKLYN are gen.
orally in favor OF vigorous protest and a
fight to supplant the present organization,
but number of delegates from other
parts of the state are opposed To such q
contest, which they say must result in a
fight in the state between rival organiza-
tions.
The arrival of Carlisle today caused re-
newal of the talk that Kentucky would
present his name for president Carlisle
could not be found.
The Maryland delegates arrived tonight
and announced themselves for German if
he will enter the race, with Cleveland as
a choice OF the delegates, provided the
senator will not consent to the presenta-
ton of his name The Boies men tonight
opened permanent headquarters.
The Printers Union OF this city has is
sued circulars calling meeting for tomor-
row 10 take steps ''to prevent the recogni-
ton Of Mr.. Flower by the national Demo
cratic convention and 10 rebuke him for
his dupliei1y in his treatment of the union
printers of New York when he vetoed the
state printing-house bill after a majority
of both houses had adopted It at the be-
hest of tine organized craftsmen of the
state" While it is distinctly meeting Of
Democratic union men, the circular as
serts that il Is one the object Of which
meets with the hearty Endorsement of all
union printers, of whichever political in
cination.
Chairman Taggart. OF, the Indiana state
central committee, has issued call for a
meeting of the Indiana delegation Mon
day morning, when II viii be decided how
they will vote. Taggart admitted that the
delegation was somewhat divided as 20
policy, bat he thought q complete under
standing would be reached az Mondays
meeting William H. English, of Indian
apolis, the vice presidential candidate with