Los Angeles herald., 1892-04-21
/. Indiana's First Choice for
President Is Cleveland.
The Ex-GOvernOr's Friends to
Play Second Fiddle.
A Hot Fight for the H0Osier Guber-
Material Nomination.
Exciting Scenes In the Pennsylvania
Republican State Convention-Kan-
sas Democrats Unanimous
for Cleveland.
Associ ted Press Dispatches.


IND ANNAPOLIS, April 20.-At meeting
of prominent supporters of x-President
Cleveland and Ex-Governor Gray, today
it was decided that the Indiana delega.
tion to the Democratic national conven-
ton shall vote for Grover Cleveland for
president until it becomes manifest he
is not to be the choice of the conven.
tion, and then the delegation shall vote
for Isaac p. Gray. The incidental en-
dorsement of Gray was conceded by the
party leaders to be the proper recogni-
tion Of the claims OF the ex-governor,
bat only in submission to the newt
able, the Gray people acceded to the
agreement. There is no likelihood OF
the Gray men receding from the agree
ment, and the exertions of the leading
Cleveland men are being directed to
prevent the over-enthusiastic Cleveland
followers from breaking away and ig-
noring the agreement tomorrow, by en-
deavoring to stampede the convention
into an unqualified endorsement of
Grover Cleveland.
The fight for the governOrship is hotter
than ever tonight, with Shankland and
Matthews still in the lead, but the
friends of Niblack and Nye are hopeful
Shankland' g friends insist that he will
be nominated on second ballot. Mat
thews says that after the first ballot he
will have twenty-four votes to spare.
Nye and Niblack are not making any
claims. The contest is very complicated
and no one can predict the result.
The committee on resolutions has be-
gun work on the platform to be adopted
at tomorrow's convention. There is
little dispute on the question of party
policy, the silver question being the
only one which has provoked extended
discussion. Senator Voorhees, and
friends favored free-coinage plank, but
were overruled by the majority and the
following plank was finally adopted:
"We believe there should be kept in
constant circulation full and sufficient
volume of money, consisting of gold and
silver and legal tender paper currency.
at par with each other"
Harrison's administration is arraigned
for subserviency to the interests of the
money power and indifference to the
welfare Of the people; for the prostitu-
tion OF public patronage by the sale of
cabinet position to John Wanamaker in
IcCuTu IOT UuauClal alQ III LDo campaign
for the mismansgement of the pension
department; for the promotion of Judge
Woods as reward for saving Dudley
and his fellow conspirators from the
penitentiary, and for an attempt to fas-
sten upon the country the iniquitous
force bill.
The diplomacy of Harrison and Blaine
in the Chilean and Bering sea affairs
are denounced as "a weak and dema-
gogical foreign policy, which has exhib-
tied the American people to the world
as bully toward the weak, and truck
Ter to the powerful"
The platform favors such tariff reform
as will relieve the necessities of the peo-
pie, and the tariff policy OF Cleveland is
reaffirmed.
The district conventions tonight chose
delegates to the national convention;
delegates at-large and alternates were
also chosen. This evening the Cleve-
land and General Shields club, assisted
by about two-thirds of the members of
the Gray club and several hundred Wis.
itors and delegates, held a street demon
stration in honor OF Cleveland.