Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-29
Prohibitionists Are Up to ALL
the Tactics of More
Ungodly Parties.
CUT UP IN TWO FACTIONS.
One for Gen. Bidwell, of California,
the Other for Demorest.
FUSION Is NOT VERY POPULAR.
Indianas Anti-Administration Candidate
for Governor Gets There.
-PLArr STILL THE BOSS IN NEW YORK

CINCINNATI, June 28-An the necessar,
preparations have been made, and at II
o'clock tomorrow morning the sixth Ma
tional Convention of the Prohibition part,
will begin its sessions in the Music Hall II
which Hancock was nominated. The CON
vention, unless an effort, now not very
promising, to patch up differences and agre,
on a new man shall be successful, will meet
with fight on hand for the honor of being
the Presidential nominee of the party.
The fight is throwing an air of political
feeling over the proceedings, and what with
Autographs and badges of the two rival
candidates. campaign headquarters, charges
and counter-charges and night conferences,
an outsider may catch something of the
spirit which pervadez more important po-
litical conventions.
General Bidwell, of California, and W.
Jennings Demorest, of New York, are the
leading competitors for the nomination, and
their supporters are becoming SO excited
over the matter that talk of the advisability
of bringing out dark horse as a means of
healing the two factions begins to be heard
Two Possible Dark Horses
II. Clay Boscom, a weIl-known business
man, of Troy, n. Y, is the man most
metioned in such a case, and occasionally
Gideon T Steward, of Ohio, and Prof
Dickie, of Michigan, are suggested.
While talk of a compromise "a heard,
neither General Bidwell's nor Mr.. Demor-
est's friends look on it with favor, and
many delegates think the matter hiss gone
SO far that it must be fought out General
Bidwell's friends claim his nomination on
the first ballot. General Bidwell has
strong Eastern support in New York and
Pennsylvania, the two largest States He
has in the former two-thirds and in
the latter three-fourths or more of the
delegates Most of the leaders are for him,
and Ex-Governor St John, who could prob
ably get the nomination If he would take it,
is working hard for Bidwell and will place
him in nomination. Chairman Dickie of
the National Committee; Miss Willard,
Mrs. Cougar, A. A. Stevens, of Pennsyl:
vania, DR.. Funk and others are, also sup
porting Bidwell
The Demorest supporters arrived in larger
numbers to-day, and it is evident that he
has considerable following, though handi-
capped by lack of support in his own State.
He is expected to stand well in the South,
and perhaps in some of the Western States
Colonel r. S. Thevis, Rev. Samuel Small,
Prof Grandson, of North Carolina; John
Lloyd Thomas, Secretary of the National
Committee, and Henry B. Hudson, of the
Blue and. Gray, are his principal advocates.
Complimentary Nominations Probable.
Gideon 7. Stewart, of Ohio, will prob
ably be put in the nomination, and the Pro-
hibition Presidential nomination being
itself largely of a Complimentary nature,
there is no telling how many persons will
receive informal ballots.
Tonight caucuses of the two leaders we're
held to arrange for the proper conduct of
the two booms. The Demorest men are
making much of the strong sentiment
against fusion with the Peoples party, and
one charge they make against Bidwell is
that he is inclined to withdraw if Weaver
is nominated The have out Autographs of
Demorest, inscribed mo compromises,
no fusion, no deals The Bidwell men
retort that the Demorest campaign largely
rests on financial contributions The Pro-
hibition newspaper organs are coming in
for a share of denunciation, and charge that
Demorest's lack of support in New York
State is due to machine methods, to which
The Voice is party, The opposition to
marked, and Miss Willard was tonight ap-
parently almost alone in open advocacy
of it
Ex-Governor John p St John, of Kansas,
will be in the chair tomorrow at the first
session of the convention. That was
settled this evening before the adjournment
of an important meeting of the National
Committee A. f. Wolfenbarger, of Ne
braska, will be the secretary of the conven-
tion. The choice of Nebraskan for
the honor was regarded as an
plive branch to the PEOPLES
party, emphasizing the intention of
the Prohibitionists to at least help in
wrestling Nebraska this year, if possible,
from the grasp of the two older parties,
whether fusion of the Peoples party and |
the Prohibitionists be attempted or not
A. A. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, or Prof.
Dickie will probably be Permanent Chair |
man. A E Wilson, of Illinois; j. A. Tate,
of Tennessee, and E f. Stevens, the base
ball editor of the Boston Herald, were
chosen for Assistant Secretaries, and E T.
Chain, of Wisconsin, for Sergeant at Arms.
There was lively exchange of person.
alities at the committee meeting over the |
adoption of the Treasurer's report. Sam |
Small said certain names occurred too often |
as having been employed by Chairman |
Dickie for prohibition work. He charac- |
terized them as hangers on
Hot shot for Rev. MIR. Small.
l. L. Cnann, OF Wisconsin, scored Rev,
Mr. Small, saying that gentlemap's g resolu- |
tion was an idiotic performance After the |
resolution had been adopted without diyi- |
sion, Chairman Dickie spoke, declaring the |
resolution had not been violated, as it was |
understood when passed, and spoke of the |
resolution as "tom-tool one" Mr. Small. |
as personal explanation, got an opportun-
ity to reply, and sailed into Mr.. Dickie for
afew minutes.
Walter Hill, of Georgia; Joshua Lever
ing, OF Marylank; Colonel Balm, of Ken
lucky; Johs w. Russell, of Detroit. and A.
A. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, have been
suggested as good Vice Presidential timber.
Ihe color line has been the cause of con-
siderable excitement. Rev. c. M Grsndi-
son, ID. D., President of Bennett COLLEGE.
Greensboro, n. c., is one of half a dozen or
more colored members of the convention.
who have been sent here from various
Southern States. At the Gibson House he
had no more difficulty in registering than
the white delegates 'FRONT.' his State; but.
when 1t came to getting meals, he was re-
fused attendance unless he retired to
room separated from the main dining
hall This alternative he resolutely de-
clined, and he was left without food for an
hour, until practically all the other guests
bad vacated the place The Chairman of
the North Carolina delegation declared
that, If necessary, the members, about 20
in number and all Caucasians except
would remove to some other
hoteL The Virginia, Georgia and other