The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-21
Indiana Will Send Delegates for
the Stuffed Prophet.
Ex.eov. GRAY SECOND CHOICE.
The Kansas Delegates Unanimously
Instructed for the Ex-President.
Chris Magee Carries the Pennsylvania
Convention Over Senator Ouav,s
Friends-Massachuse Republicans

INDIANAPOLIS, April 20-At meeting of
prominent supporters of ex-President
Cleveland and Ex-Governor GRAY todar it
was decided that the Indiana delegation to
the Democratic national convention will
vote for Grover Cleveland for president
until it becomes manifest that he is not to
be the choice of the convention, and then
the delegates shall vote for Gray. The in
cidental Endorsement ofGray was conceded
by the party leaders to be proper recog-
milton of the claims OF the ex-governor,
but only in submission to the inevitable
the (iray people acceded to the agree
ment. There is no likelihood of the Gray
men receding from the agreement, and the
exertions of the leading Cleveland men
are being directed to prevent their over
enthusiastic followers from breaking away
and ignoring the agreement tomorrow by
endeavoring to stampede the convention
into an unqualified Endorsement of Grover
Cleveland
The fight for the governorship is hotter
than ever tonight, with Shankland and
Matthews still in the lead, but the friends
OF Niblack and Nye are hopeful. Shank
lands friends insist that he will be nomi-
mated on the second ballot. Matthews
says after the first ballot he will have
twenty-four votes to spare. Nye and Nib
lack are making claims. The contest is
very complicated, and no one can predict
the result.
The committee on resolutions has begun
work on the platform to be adopted at to-
morrow's convention. There was little
dispute on questions of party policy, the
silver question being the only one which
provoked extended discussion. Senator
Voorhees, and friends favored free COIN
age plank, but were overruled by the ma
jority and the following plank adopted:
We believe there should be kept in constant
circulation full and sufficient volume of
money, consisting OF gold and silver and legal
tender paper currency, at par with each other.
Harrison's administration is arraigned
for subserviencv to the interests of the
money power and indifference to the well
fare of the people; for prostitution of pub
lie patronage by the sale of a cabinet
position to Wanamaker in return for
financial aid in the campaign; for mis-
management of the pension department;
for the promotion of Judge Woods as re-
ward for saving Dudley and his fellow
conspirators from the penitentiary, and
for the attempt to fasten upon the coun-
try the iniquitous force bill.
The diplomacy of Harrison and Blaine
in the Chilean and Bering sea affairs is de-
nounced as "a weak and demagogical for
eign policy which has exhibited the Amer
lean people to the world as bully toward
the weak and trucker to the powerful"
The platform fayors such tariff reform as
will relieve the necessities of the people,
and the tariff policy of Cleveland is re-
affirmed.
The district convention tonight chose
delegates to the national convention. Del
egates at large and alternates were also
chosen. This evening the Cleveland and
General Shields club, assisted by about
two-thirds of the members of the Gray
club and several hundred visitors and del
egates. held a street demonstration in
honor of Cleveland.