St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-07
AT THE NICOLLET.
How the Political War Is Wage6
Down There.

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Down There.
The convention crowd has spread ID
self out until 1t has reached the Nicolle'
house. Not until yesterday could many
people be found at any other point than
the West. Now the Nicollet is crowded
The Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Nebraska, New Je rsey, Oregon
PENNSYLVANIA, South Dakota and Ver
mont delegations have their headquar
ters at the Nicollet. The political eE
citement is not so intense there. M
marching boys with plumes and litho
graphs of candidates can be tount
there. The delegations down there arr
all working. And one gets the idea a
the Nicollet house that the president il
the man. Colorado is. of course, fGi
Blaine. Illinois will cast a majority
of votes Tor Harrison. Kansas viii
give him six or seven. Yesterday
the Missouri men claimed that HaT
rison would have either % or "a of theit
delegation. This is two more than ha.
been accredited to the president before.
Nebraska is Harrisonian. New Jersey
will give him majority. Oregon viii
throw a couple of votes his way. Penn
syIvania will give the president at leasi
nine votes and possibly more. The
South Dakota delegation is supposed to
be divided. Vermont is divided evenly
So, YOU see, Harrison is in the majority
around the Nicollet. But even where
they have everything their own way,
the Harrison men are not burning Lnel1
powder. There is no shouting at the
Nicollet, only meetings of delegations.
Yesterday afternoon the Harrison su-
gar-loaf hats of the Indiana men ap.
peared in the corridors of the Nieolles
for few minutes. The forces at that
hotel had been held in line without any
interference from the Harrison mana
gers, but few Of the big guns thought
it would be well to pay visit to the
Nicolet and encourage the boys. Gen.
Lew Wallace, accompanied by several
other IndianianS, came into the hotel
and paid a visit to the Pennsyl-
vania headquarters. Frank Ree9er, one
of the delegates at large from that
state, was the most prominent member
of the delegation present. He was In
troduced to Gen. Wallace, but, as 0ns
wore a Harrison badge and the other
sported the Blaine colors. they did not
talk politics. Mr. Reedcr assured
Gil ODE man that fifty-fiye members OF
the Pennsylvania delegation would vote
for Mr.. Blaine. A few minutes before
Delegate E. n. Willard, of Scranton.
positively promised Gen. Wallace that
sixteen Pennsylvania men would be
found in the Harrison column. One OF
tn EN- was mistaken just seven votes.
The Missouri delegation had speeches
yesterday afternoon. Maj. Warner, ex-
commander in chief of the g. a. r., and
now a candidate for governor, was one
of the orators. There was good deal
of Republcanism, but no partisan.
ship. Chauneey |. Filley came
down from the West long enough
to address most of the dele
gates as tom" or ''Billy," or in
Some equally familiar way. He seemed
not at all disturbed by the fact that he
stands chance of losing the national
committeemanship for Missouri. James
Il. Beach, of st. Joseph, secretary of the
state central committee, says that Har-
rison will get either twenty-five or
twenty-four of the delegates. 1t IS his
opinion that the resignation of Blaine,
coming as it did, has weakened both
Blaine and Harrison. 1t looks as if two
men who should be great have been in
dulging in personal Squabble.
The Kansas delegation held delega-
tiOn meeting nearly all the afternoon at
the Nicollet. While they were i'll ses-
sion. teiegram-waS received from To-
peka. 1t said that the Daily Capital, Of
that city, naQ come out IOr Blaine. anu
that the whole city had gone crazy over
the man from Maine. The reading Of
the telegram created stir in the dele
CATION. One Blaine man shouted that
the president of the Kansas Alliance
had promised all the votes taken away
from the Republicans by the Alliance if
Blaine were nominated. John Jay In
gals, however, is strong Harrison
man.
Blaine's portrait is equally as prom
inent around the NicOllet as it is at the
West. 1t appears in all the delegation
rooms except the Oregon headquarters.
The candidates of that delegation seem
to be all dead, il the pictures on the
walls may be taken as an indication.
The only portraits there are those of
Phil Sheridan, John A. Logan and Will
IN m r. Sherman