Tombstone epitaph., 1892-06-26
NEWS BY WIRE.
sPEcIL TO THE PRosPEcToR.

than duplicated in this city to day Cleveland delegates are un,iring it. their efforts to nrevent solid state del- egaiions for favoiite sons, the hope 0. their candidate being centered ia thi, effort. Hill is gaining strength hour l., his silver letter giving him a gooc western front. Boies workers now claim one hundred votes on inc iirsi , ballot. Train loads of shouters ar, coming in hourly and the corridors are thronged with ardent workers.
 CHIcAGo-A member of the execu- tive committee of the Syracuse dele gation last night gave ou' a statement Claiming that Clevland had 5S6 votes O. thiIty-three short of the necessar, two thirds. He took for tl.e basis O calculation. the vote of i6l given by the anti-C.eveland men, and added l figures from other states, which he asserted, were the results of a careful | canvass.
 CHICAGo-The opening of the con- vention work will find the line of bat tie closely drawn, and every candidate seemingly assured O. the exact strength | with which he will enter the contest The chief uncertainty will be as 10 ih' action of Illinois, Indiana and Ken lucky. Should these states cast 3 solid support for Cleveland on the first ballot there is little doubt that h,
 would receive the two thirds vot.
 requisite for nomination; but sbould the states cast their fuil strength for their Gayorite son, the probabilities ar, that Cleveiand's chances for nomin- ution or the opening ballot will b, very remote indee'.
 CHICAGo-The arrival of Vim. c Whitney Is marked by more m.ihod- ical work for Cleveland. One evidruc, pf work that the Cleveland men hay, shown to-day is the efforts being mad. to reduce the size uf the field to b, ! entered against the leaders. In caci
 slate where there Is talk of favori, sons, Cleveland men will be put h work 10 prevent the nomination o: dark horses
 TCrEKA. ks.-The Kansas Demo- rrat has just made public the follow ing letter from D. B. Hill, written las
 December, while he was governor New York. Among other things H !, says:
 .'Our fellow countrymen we'll kI ow hat the Lemocratic party at presen is the most efficient instrument foI tax and monetary reform. They will not commit their interests to the Re publican party, which has jus; mad both reforms our supreme necessity The Democratic party might as wei commit suicide az 10 shirk either duty Nor will t beiray the peoples tr Is by slloiiDg the executive power |, any man whose views are similar io the views of President Harrison, and who is pledged, like him, 10 blocl every approach 10 free bimetallh coinage. Itis a scandalous nlisus, oi the executive power to employ th. veto for the purpose oi preventing remedial legislation from being care fully planned and passed when great majority of the peoples representa- lives have been elected expressly for that very work,and to repeal the sher. man silver law and promote the re- urn to free-bin,etallic coinage. am indignant at the raoscity of tlie gold mono metalists, so reckless both of silence and public opinion. Free bi- metallic coinage is the demand of vast majority of the American people. No wonder. It gives us parity of the silver dollar and the gold dollar for eighty years. Free bimetallic coinage is the last word of monetary science. To restore 1t safely. wisely. finally. is