St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-21
Hoosier Democrats Sworn to
Stand by an Honorable
Agreement.
Rabid, Thoughtless Friends Of
Cleveland May Menace
Party Peace.
The Gubepnatopial Contest Is
Waxing Hotter With Each
Passing Hour.
Gen. Alger viii Stick--Ore-
CONS Convention--Fos-
ter's Majority.

| ter's Majority.
/ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 20.-The
Indiana delegation To the Democratic
national convention viii vote for Grover
| Cleveland for president. This is the
/ programme agreed upon today al a
| largely attended meeting OF prominent
supporters OF ex-President Cleveland
| and ex-Goy. Gray; and all the friends of
tile later request is that the delegation
he recommended to vote for Isaac p.
| Gray when it becomes manifest mat
Grover Cleveland is not 10 be the choice
OF the national convention.
This incidental Endorsement OF Gray
as lndiana'5 favorite son, when the
nomination of the great Democratic
leader shall be no longer considered
possible. is conceded By the party
leaders tonight to be very proper
recognition of the claims of the
ex-governor, and there is gen
eral desire that he shall be cor
daily aud earnestly supported by
the delegation if the above contingency
ever arises. OF course. the Cleveland
| leaders do not believe that it ever will
arrive. as they have constantly asserted.
and made great inroads upon Gray S
c. intry supporters by the assertion,
that ex-l'r.sident Cleveland will be
nominated at Chicago on the first bal
lot.
| Dangerous Hot -3f eadS.
| Tonight tine enthusiasm for the ex-
president is so strong among the assem-
! bled delegates from the state that the
| only menace 10 The compromise agree
ment comes from the radical Cleyelan d
meu, who think they have the strength
TO indorse Cleveland unqual-
| ifediy and totally ignore Gray
| az tOm0rrow'd convention and
| are disposed 10 make an effort 10 do ST..
| OF course such move as this would
| precipitate scene of wild excitement
| and interminable diSsension. and. while
| it might be successful, the eOoler-headed
| friends of the eXpTesident depreciate
| the suggestion and advocate strict Oh
| seryance of the compromise programme
in the interest of peace and harmony.
A long meeting of tine state central
| committee was held thus afternoon, at
which were present the leading sup
porters of Cleveland and Gray. The
proposition for the compromise ins;ruc-
tiDnS was again fully discussed, and re-
! newed pledges OF adherence given by
| both sides There is no likelihood of
the Gray men Teceding from the agree
| ment. aud the eXertiOnS OF the
leading Cleveland men are all being ex-
| erted tonight to prevent their own en-
thusiastic followers from breaking away
| ami ignoring the agreement OF their
| leaders tomorrow by endeavoring TO
! stamp the convention into an unQuali-
| fed Endorsement of Grover Cleveland as
the first and only choice of the Indiana
| Democrats for president of the Uuited
States.
Gubernatoriai Contest
The fight for the nomination for gov
ernOr is hotter than ever tonight. with
| Shankiin and Matthews still in the lead,
but the friends of Niblack and Nye
! still hopeful. 1t is probable thar Shank
lin and Matthews will go into the con
vention with about equal strength.
| Shanklin'S friends insist that he
is easily in the lead and will be
| nominated OH the second ballot.
On the other hand. Matthews friends
maintain that he already has more than
enough votes pledged to nominate him.
Mr.. Matthews himself says that after
the first ballot he will have twenty four
votes to spare. Mr.. Shanklin'S opinion
is that on the second ballot he Will lack
but sixteen votes OF the nomination.
There was very little dispute on the
question of party policy, the silver
| question being the only one which pro-
voked extended discussion. The fol-
lowing plank was finally adopted:
The Money Plank.
/ We believe that there should be kept in
| constant circulation a full and sufficient vol
time of money consisting of gold and silver
| and legal tender paper currency at par with
| each other.
The administration of President Har-
rison is arraigned for its ''suDserviency
to the interest Of the money power
which created it, aud its Indifference to
the welfare OF the people;' for its pros
titution of public patronage by the
sale of a cabinet position to John
| Wanamaker in return for financial
aid in the campaign; for the
decentralization of the pension de-
partment as evidenced by the reported
scandals and acknowledged abuses; for
the promotion of Judge Woods as a
reward for saving Dudley and his fell
| low conSpirators from the penitentiary.
and for its attempt to deprive the peo-
! pie of the control of their own elections
/ Dy fastening upon Luc COuulIE the Ill
iquitous force bill.
On the tariff question the platform
fayors such a comprehensive measure
of tariff reform as will relieve the ne
cessities of the people. and the tariff
! policy first enunciated by Grover Cleve-
! land is reaffirmed as the true Demo
cratic faith and Cleveland himself de-
clared to be the logical candidate of the
| Democratic party for the presidency.
ShankIin Stops Over.
a sensation was created at the Grand
hotel tonight after the adjournment of
| the district meetings. j. @. Shanklin,
candidate for governor. addressed
large crowd from the hotel balcony in
an inflammatory speech in which he
| denounced the agreement be-
| tween the Gray and Cleve-
land men, and called upon the
delegates to repudiate it and instruct
| for Cleveland. At the close of his speech
he proposed three cheers for Cleveland,
and the crowd responded with hearty
good will. The speech has created the
most intense excitement, and has caused
| many of Shanklin's friends 10 regard
| him as willing to factioniZe the party
| for the sake of securing the nomina
| ton.
! OF the twenty-six district delegates
j selected tonight, twenty-one are for
| Cleveland. Delegates at large will be:
| Senator Voorhees,, Hugh Dougherty. of
4 Button; Charles T. Jewett, of New
! Albany, and Sam e. Morse. of Indian
| apOlis.
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