St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-04
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Wyck, of Nebraska. With Judge Ores
will lead on the first ballot, and the
strength of Van Wyck lies in his pc
cu!iar popularity as compromise cam
didate for governor of Nebraska. This
he IS very likely to be for the asking, and
with the great strength of the party in
that state Van Wyck feels confident of
his ability to carry Nebraska. Gov.
Pennoyer, of Oregon. is mu Oh discussed
by the silver men, and the Pacific
coast delegates are caucusing on
the advisability of supporting him
of Oregon on free silver platform, and
denounced the Democratic platform this
spring and stumped the state for the
Peoples party candidate. Senator
Stewart, of Nevada. and Gen. A. j.
warner. OF Ohio. are also prominently
mentioned by the silver men, and John
+. Willitrs, of Kansas. national lecturer
OF the Alliance, and Paul VandervOort,
or Nebraska, are also suggested by their
friends. There is every probability that
at least dozen candidates will be bal
loted for i'll tOmOrrOw's convention, as
the list of favOrite sons will be unusually
large.
Very little attention will be paid to
the vice-presidency until the head of
the ticket is selected, but half
dozen or more prominent South!
ern leaders have been mentioned
in this connection. Senator Morgan.
of Alabama. Congressman Tom Watson,
OF Georgia. Ben Terriil, of Texas, Gen.
Field, OF Virginia, "CycIone" Davis, of
Teyas, and President Mcdowell, of the
tennessee Alliance. are all in the list
of possibilities. The peculiar compIica-
a dny
contest over the report of the COM
mittee on rules tomorrow morning.
The report embodies new-fangled
scheme OF voting, by which, if adopted.
nomination for head of the presi-
dental ticket Is almost certain on or be-
fore the third ballot. Right there is the
trouble. Friends of dark-horse candi-
dates and fourth and fifth-choice men
who have contemplated or made in
geniOus trades for the first few ballots
are In disgust at the prospect that
the return favors which they had hoped
or bargained for, to be delivered later
the scheme carry. Even the favorte
sons who might win on one of the first
three ballots are distrustful of the sud-
denly sprung plan, with the workings
OF which they are unfamiliar and which
would probably necessitate the laying
out of entire new lines of battle.
The element of confusion has it's
source in Ohio. DR.. Tuckerman. of
Cleveland, Buckeye delegate, handed
in the draft of the plan to the commit
tee, who, it appears, were inclined to
view it with suspicion, but. after some
modification. adopted it. DR.. Tucker
man was not member of the commit
tee, and r. L. Butler, of Cincinnati,
who represented Ohio. discIaims any
responsibility, for the plan. Its
principal champion was l.. K.
Taylor, of Nashville, Tenn, Farmers
Alliance man, who says he heard Of it
in the committee for the first time, and
understood that it was in use in Knights
OF Labor assemblies. General Secretary
Hayes, of the Knights. says, however,
that the Knights of Labor have no such
device, and that it is entirely new to
him. Taylor, of Nashville, declares
that the plan was accepted by the COM
mittee for the purpose of preventing
any deadlock, to allow each delegate a
chance to express his second choice and
to avert long drawn-Out strife or ODpor-
tunity for corruption.
AS first presented the plan provided
for the sending of the ballots direct
from the delegations to the secre-
tary, but this was altered so that
the result in each state shall
first be read to the conven-
cation in order. as Butler, of Cincinnati,
naively expressed it. that there might
be no changing of the figures in the
transfer" The feeling that sinister
design is back of the plan is not con-
firned by inquiry. DR.. Tuckerman ap-
pears to have attempted its Introduction
at least once before in a Peoples party
gaJhering-the last Ohio state cOnven-
ton. 1t was defeated there as too COM
piicated, only small fraction of the 300
men present being able to Immediately
grasp its intricacies. With nearly five
times as many delegates in the present
convention the chances for its being un-
derstood or adopted would seem to be
even less, although the fact that it was
generally discussed today may make it
friends.
Gen. Weaver, whose adherents are
perhaps more tho roughly organized
than those of any other candidate in
the convention, read copy of the COM
mittee's proposal today with careful at
tentiOn. In brief, it is that If no nomi-
nee receive majority on the first bal
lot a second ballot shall at once be
write on his ballot the name of his first
choice and his second choice, the first
choice to be given one vote and the Sec
ond choice half vote, the two candi-
dates receiving in this way the largest
number of votes to be the only candi-
dates for whom votes would be counted
on the third ballot.
II don't think that will ever be
adopted was Gen. Weaver's comment.
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