The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1892-01-30
WAS II A HILL VlCTOTY?
So the Sending OF the COny entiOn to
Chicago il Considered.
DISAPPOINTMENT MAY NOT LAST.
Democrats Will Place Party Before
te-Milwaukee's Mayor
Says Chicago Was Chosen
Because Ii Was the
Wish OF Hill, Cor
man and Brice.

npeCtdi W Inc "oiiu'
WASHINGTON, January 2l.-Most of
.he "boomers'' rushed away from
Washington on the first trains that left
after the national committee decided |
last night to hold the democratic |
convention in Chicago. A few |
from the western delegations |
until to-day. AS rule they |
are conservatives who delayed their
departure to remove, as far, as possible,
the bad effects of the bitter demonstra-
tion against the Hill men on the part of
the hotheads in the several delegations
To-day everything is quiet and peace.
ful at the Arlington. A good nights
sleep has calmed the temper of the dis
appointed "boomer.'
Mayor Somers, of Milwaukee,, in
discussing the situation this morning,
said:
cit is not hard to see just what the
influences were that led to the selection
of Chicago. Chicago was selected be-
cause it was the wish of David b. Hill,
A. z. German and Calvin $ Brice, who
formed a trinity too powerful to be
overcome. The resolution adopted by
our delegation within few minutes
after the result was announced has been
misunderstood. We did not intend to
resolve that the Wisconsin delegation
should be instructed to vote for Cleve-
land in the national convention, but to
vote against Hill. We will do our best
to carry the state for our party whoever
is the candidate, but had we been
treated fairly the state would have been
as surely democratic as Kentucky or
Texas.
"There would have been no hard
feelings of any kind if any other place
than Chicago had been selected. The
other cities all made an honorable fight,
and we hoped the best one would win.
As it is, our people believe that we
have been tricked, and they resent il
very bitterly
Mayor Somcrs undoubtedly repre-
sents the sentiments of 80 per cent OF
the Wisconsin delegation, which, by
the way, is not any too friendly
towards Senator Villas. Ii was the
well known preference of Senator Villas
for ex-President Cleveland as II presi
dental candidate, many Wisconsin
men think, that caused the Hill intlu
ence for New York To be thrown
against Milwaukee.
A Tammany man who is very clos'
to the leaders of the party III New Iorl
gave a very clear explanation thi
morning of the course followed by New
York's representatives in the cOnven
ton fight.
1.-The fact is" said he, ssthat we al
believed il unwise to have the conyen
ton held in New York. Ii both Cleve
land aud Hill are candidates before tn
convention and that convention wer
held in New York, the whole ives
would have called it Il loca! fight an
howls about the Tammany tiger woul
b. never have ceased until after the eleC
, ton. Such q candidate would have pre-
JUDGED not only the interests of tn
candidate, but of the party itself. Nov
there cant be any doubt that New lor
: will be tor Hill, and we didn't war
, him handicapped by any conditions tha
we could just as well avoid. Besides
D we all know that Wisconsin would b
e for Cleveland anyway, and it woul
have been foolish for us to have allow
u ed the convention to go there. Ever,
body would have called it n victory fO
t Cleveland and Villas and the NOR,
effect would have been prejudicial
our interests, which would have bee
e left in the convention.
'sBut one doesn't have to 90 Yer
deeply into the politics of the thing t
I find reasons for the selection OF Chics
go. The convention can be held thel
;. without discomfort to anybody, whic
n is something none of the other wester
cities could have safely promised. {
q course we regard the selection of Chic
: ago as a skirmish-yictory for Hill
While the lines were not very closel
h drawn as between Hill and Clevelan
9 they came near enough for us to si2
up the relative strength of the tw
e men before the national committe,
That Hill has the greater strength wf
= shown by the defeat of Milwaukee, I
v whose claims the Cleveland eleme1
pinned its faith.
1--WE think that the ten votes ca!
for Milwaukee on three different ballo
h about represented the openly declare
strength of Cleveland in the commi
tee. We clam that the twenty-seve
final votes for Chicago on the fifteent
). ballot, when eighteen were given
% Milwaukee, showed the relative strengt
of the two presidential aspIrants, t
v far as the committee is concerned
There's no use talking, Hill has g
= New York, and New York will nan
\ the candidate. They can't beat us.
IS Chairman Cook, of Cincinnati's de
- egatlon of boomers, said this afte
noon: 81 hadn't been here twent,
). four hours before ! saw that we ha
no chance to secure the convention
| learned from the most reliab
>. sources that ma ajority of the Nations
committee favored Senator Hill as
presidential candidate. Then, when
saw the New York crowd come owe
all blooming Hill for the presidenc
' rather than urging the claims of the
ii city for the convention, l knew tn:
= something out of the ordinary WI
j. about to happen. Forty-eight houl
before the decision was made | kne
that Chicago would be selected, so, 1
y you know, we simply sat still an
waited for the expected something
= drop. When it did drop it didn't SUI
5 prise us. We think the selection I
! Chicago wise. Chicago can take goo
care of the convention and everybod
e will be comfortable there. Those VIII
G have been disappointed will forg'
: their grievance long before the ele'
y ton, and all democrats will jump
3 the front to elect the ticket.
e "What do | think of the polite;
D significance of the selection of Chicas
e as regards the relative strength I
Hill and Cleveland? Why, it is plai
enough. 1t is preliminary victor
n for HILL 1t shows that he has II
le national committee behind him, an
Y, there's signilcance enough IN that f'
ID any nybody,"
y. Gcoro +. Putnam, chairman of Il
IN delegation from Kansas City, said tn
e, somebody was sure TO be disapponte
Id no matter what city was selected.
e, GAN feeling of disappointment,
Ia he said, ''will disappear before Il
" voting for candidates begins in Il
national convention. | have heard