The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-23

anything to heat Cleveland" lines. He
was also aided by the determination reached
at about the same time by the Iowa delega-
tlon to stand by Gov. Boiss TO the end as he
mad requested, and as the best means of adj
Vanclng bis senatorial aspirations.
POWERFUL WORKER.
But Mr.. Catchings was able to do what
neither the alleged Hill men nor the Boies
men had been able to do His intimate
acquaintance with the southern delegations,
gained when he was conducting Speaker
Crisp's campaign, made it possible for him
TO gather together the scattered anti.C Cieve-
land elements in all of thsm. Mr. Catohings
made the tour of the southern delegation
last night and gathered the leaders
together later on IN the Tammany head
quarters where new ann>Cleve-
land league was formed after mid
night, which began its work
shts morning by announcing that it had
already secured over third of the delegates
not for Senator Hill or any other candidate.
but against Mr.. Cleveland, and that they
proposed &c make big fight on every ques-
ton, beginning with the unit rule in the
committee on rules. which they claimed to
control Early in the day Chairman Brice,
who has never ceased to oppose Mr.. Cleve-
lands nomination, got out an announcement
that 81 OF the 40 votes of OHIO would be
given to the new anti-Cleveland league in
the names of various candidates, he himself
voting for Senator Gorrusn.
CLEVELAND MEN NOT ALARMED.
These were the only figures given in the
case OF any state delegation by any Of the
adherents OF the new movement and as
the Cleveland managers had not been count
ing on any support from Chairman Brice or
the Ohio delegates controlled by him, they
were not seriously disturbed by them. The
Tammany delegation enjoyed the Catchings
tonic. The tiger really looked like himself
again and made most valuable predictions
all the morning about what would
be done to break the Cleveland column.
The work was to be begun, according to
the anti-Cleveland prophets, in the CON-
mittee on rules, where the unit rule was to
be abrogated as the most effective strike
which could be made at the Cleveland
forces. The majority Of the convention,
according to these men, we're anxious to
abolish the unit rule, and only wanted a
command from the committee on rules to
effectively wipe it out. This would set free
men in the Pennsylvania, Connections,
Kansas, Missouri and some other delega-
tions who were anxious to vote against Mr..
Cleveland and would do 30 as soon as they
were liberated. Unfortunately for this
plan the Cleveland men were found TO have
a large majority in the committee and
after being defeated there the anti-Cleve-
land msu made no attempt whatever at the
afternoon session to emsncipats the op
pressed and down-trodden anti-Cleveland
delegates in the unit rule delegations.
TALKING AGAINST TINE.
In fact, if the committee on resolutions
had not been delayed in making up It's re-
port, partly by unnecessary discussion and
partly by dishonest debate promoted by the
anti-Cleveland members for dilatory pur-
poses, Mr.. Cleveland might have been nom
mated by sunset on the first ballot. The hot
fight over the unit rule which was expected
to make the first session of to-day interesting
was almost forgotten under the influence of
the admirable speech Of Representative
William l.. Wilson assuming the permanent
cbairmanship, which, though the only good
speech Of the session, and really the only
important feature, was worth the presence
OF 20, 900 people. The delay of Chairman
Jones' committee while Chairman Jones
was trying to get it TO adopt his draft Of a
platform, forced the convention to wait till
evening. The Cleveland men could, of
course, have set aside this order of business
whicn they had had the conven
ton adopt and the nominating
speeches at least might have been
made in the afternoon before the platform
was ready, but they did not want to change
the order by force and when they proposed
the change to the leaders of the opposition
the latter would not agree to it, So they
bided their time, coming to the evening
session confident, since they had heard
nothing to the contrary, that they would
nominate Mr.. Cleveland on the first ballot.
ADELAY OF FOUR HOURS.
The opponents of Mr.. Cleveland, whose
only hope was in tbs chapter Of accidents,
were encouraged 10 their fight for delay by
the discussion over the platform precipitated
at the evening ses zion by the minority re-
port from the committee on resolutions,
which they suggested, and By which they
gained four hours. The postponemeut of
ballot on the nomination for the presidency
was their chief object, their secondary
object being to embarrass Mr..
Cleveland il they could. The sub
stitution by 222 majority of
of the terse statement of democratic doc
trine on the tariff question submitted by
the minority of the committee had, OF
course, no significance as TO the candidacy
of Mr.. Cleveland. Many Of his best friends
voted for it as preferable to the tariff plank
of 1884, reported by the majority. which
was adjudged by them to have made a mis-
take. 1t could not have been subscribed, of
course, without their votes. The speedy
disposition of the silver substitute showed
the futility of opposition efforts when the
Cleveland men were wanted.
nuITINH nnWN TO RJJSTNESS