The Portland daily press., 1892-06-20

lands Nomination-Maine Delegates ON
the Ground-Their Rooms Adorned
with Portraits of Cleveland and Boies-
Judge Cleaves Ill.
CHICAGO, June 19.-The star of Gro
yer Cleveland is in the ascendant tonight.
Every shifting of the political constella-
tion in the past "a hours only tends to
make it shine forth with greater lustre
until this evening it's effulgence obscures
the lesser lights of Hill, Boies, German
and Gray.
When the church bells tolled this
morning the political leaders were en-
gagged in eager conference in the dark
ened chambers of the hotel. When the
bells tolled for evening services the con-
ferences were still in session with un-
abated interest. The opponents of the
ex-President are tonight preparing for
one final herculean effort to muster from
all the opposition a phalanx of delegates
to stand out and prevent Cleveland re-
ceiving the requisite two-thirds vote on
the first ballot. They somehow are i'm
bued with the conviction, and this con-
viction is rather general, that if Cleve-
land fails to receive the nomination in
the enthusiasm of the opening ballot, he
will, on succeeding ballots, show a loss
instead of gains, and that the disintegra-
ton of his force will be only a question
of time. ets
But the day has shown that the Cleve-
land forces are swelling rather than di-
a,,If ;ob+ ho II md a Ia
of the Cleveland forces are asserting that
the ex-President is the candidate of the
nation, and his destiny is above the sway
of any particular state or faction. Vio-
lent alterations are of frequent occur
renee in the lobbies of the leading hotels.
All the enthusiasm of the hour is with
Cleveland. The Tammany men. who
have SO constantly warned the Demo-
Gratis that the nomination of Cleveland
means the loss of the electoral vote of
New York, are waved majestically away
by the Cleveland enthusiasts, who de-
clare that the great exponent of tariff re-
form can be elected, if he must be, with
out the electoral vote of the Empire
State. And SO, in the
Impetuosity of the Cleveland Moven. cat,
those wavering delegates who have been
inclined to desert the ex-President and
go for compromise candidate on
grounds of party expediency, have been
won back to their first love, and tonight
the names of German, Morrison, Camp
bell and Russell, so frequently discussed
a day or two ago as dark horses, are
scarcely mentioned in political predic-
tions. The only avoWed presidential
aon lofoc in tho GoId C1o,1o
land, Hill and Boies.
The situation has been cleared up to
the extent of indicating plainly that all
the dark horses will not to be ushered
into the arena unless Cleveland shall
fail of a nomination on the first ballot.
The Illinois delegation, under the direc-
ton of Gen. Palmer, will vote for Grover
Cleveland on the first ballot and proba-
bly, on various succeeding ballots as long
| as the ex-President shall be in the race
This announcement was unofficially
made from the Illinois headquarters to-
day and has given great impetus to the
Cleveland movement The leaders of
the ex-President's forces now assert with
great confidence that they have assuranc-
es of the two-thirds requisite for the
nomination. Indiana has Civ
en- unmistakable evidence that
Gray will hardly receive more than II to
IS votes from that state, the remaining
12 or 13 being cast for Cleveland. AS ex-
Governor Campbell has announced that,
under no circumstances will he allow
his name to enter the list of Presidential
candidates, the Cleveland people rely
upon the votes of Ohio being cast for the
ex-President. So from Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio there seems assured for Cleve-
land 70 votes which yesterday appeared
wavering.
Kentucky still looms up as an uncer-
tain factor in every estimate. The power
of Henry Watterson seems to be having
its influence on that delegation and while
many of it's members are friendly to
Cleveland, the friends of the ex-Presi-
dent are not yet relying implicitly upon
very substantial support from the Blue
Grass state. Iowa is still true to Boies,
and even the most sanguine Cleveland
leaders have abandoned hopes of receiv-
ing any support from the Hawkeye state
on the first ballot.
The 72 votes of New York are
Conceded to Senator Hill.
1t appears probable that he may receive
couple of hundred more from various
sections Of the Union. The Cleveland
people are no longer indulging in any
hopes that the Hill managers will
magnanimously recede from their past
position and accede to the nomination of
Cleveland, but are now using every effort
to placate the Tammany leaders and in
dnce their loyal support of the ticket in
event of Cleveland's nomination. There
is manifest one slight change in the dis
position of the Tammany leaders. They
are no longer talking so loudly and SO
continuously of the hopelessness of carry
ing New York for Cleveland in the event
of his nomination. Although no one doubts
their intention to Loyalty support Hill to
the end, ex-Secretary Whitney and othors
tonight express the belief that, in the
eAent of Cleveland's nomination, Tam
many will give the ticket effective sup
port.
The German boom has been buried
prematurely and has been nipped by the
early frost of adverse criticism. The
Cleveland people of the South rather re-
sented the insinuation that Gorman's S
past opposition to the force bill was des-
tined to attract to his standard the
Cleveland people of the South and the
result of the two dayS' campaipn of tha