Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-06
FLOWERS FAT BAR'L
Tapped to Aid Hills Legatee
i'm His Candidacy for
the Presidency.
DAVEKNOWS HE'S NOTINIT
And Prefers the New York Governor
to the Maryland Senator.
GORMLN HAS SEVERAL HACKERS.
The Congressman From His State Expect to
See Him Nominated.
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WASHINGTON, May 5-The name Of
Roswell Pettibcue Flower will be presented
to the Democratic National Convention as
candidate for President This is a prema-
ture statement, but it is true. The prepared
interview with Senator Hill which was
printed in several New York papers yester-
day morning, in which the Senator praises
Governor Flower, is taken to mean that
Flower is now Hills candidate for Presi-
dent
Hill might have taken German, but he
thinks that the Maryland Senator has
treated him badly, so he has yielded to the
pressure of Murphy and Sheehan, and con-
cluded to demand the nomination of Flower
He would have been content with his
original agreement whereby his influence
was to be thrown to Senator Palmer, of Illi-
nois, and In case of that statesman's nomi-
nation Flower was to have the second place
on the ticket, but Palmer has persisted IN
adhering to Cleveland, which prevented his
plan being carried out.
The formal announcement that Flower
will be candidate Of the regular or
gsnization of the New York Democracy
may or may not be made before the as
sembling of the delegates at Chicago
Hill Knows His Names Dennis.
Hill knows very well now, and admits it
to his intimate friends, that he cannot be
nominated but he wants to wait and see
how many delegates he will succeed in cap
turing He is going to get good many
delegates from the South, but of course not
enough to give him any reasonable chance
of securing the nomination for himself
Were he to let it be known that he had left
the field in favor of Flower a great many
of his Southern friends would go to Cleve-
. land, SO it is good politics to wait awhile.
Hills friends concede that Cleveland will
have over half Of the convention, but Claim
that he never can get the two-thirds OF it,
which is necessary to nominate him.
According to the Hill programme it is be-
lieved that If Hill withdraws he does so for
the sake of harmony; he will get out of the
way, although he knows he has a better
chance of carrying New York than Mr..
Cleveland has, and then the New York dele
CATION presents the name of Flower, the
proposition will appear so fair that a great
many of the delegates who are for Cleve-
land, for the sake of harmony will be will
ing to compromise on Flower.
The Greatest Stumbling Block.
The greatest obstacle in the way of the
successful termination of this plan is the
answer that will be made by the New York
Cleveland men. Whether it will have any
weight with the delegates outside OF the
State remains to be seen.
Mr. CleYeland's friends from New York,
who are in Congress, who were talked with
to-day about the Flower candidacy, say that
they would prefer the nomination and cleo
tion of Hill to that of Floweh They have
no objection to Mr.. Flower personally, but
they say that with Sheehan as Governor it
would be imposslbl. for Cleveland men to
exist in the State. They added that with all
the faults that Hill has, he is nothing like
the tyrant that Sheehan has proven himself
to be, and that Flowers campaign in New
York for President would be practically the
same as Sheehan running for Governor; that
the Cleveland Mugwump element would
fight Flower on account of Sheehan more
bitterly than they would fight Hill himself.
If they thought by the withdrawal of Hill
and the substitution of Flower that Cleve-
lands nomination had become impossible,
they would, in self-defense, insist upon the
nomination of Whitney or German. They
believe that this move of Hill, should it
threaten to be successful, can be stif1ed in
this manner With Whitney or German,
Flower could not get anything like the
united support of the New York delegation,
and that it would caus. just as big split
among the New York Democrats as there is
now over Hill.
Flower Sure to BE a Candidate
Let this be as it may, Governor Flower
will be candidate before the convention.
A great many Cleveland Democrats here
belonging IL the West say they think it
wouA be an excellent compromise, Prob
ably the strongest Cleveland Democratic
State in this country is Missouri. All the
Missouri Congressman, including the pres
ent Senators, say they would be perfectly
willing to compromise upon Governor
Flower
There is good reason to believe that Gov
ernor Flower has tapped his barrel for his
campaign. Nearly all the great Demo-
cratic lobbyists here who never boom any,
body unless there is something in it."
have been booming Flower for the last two
days 1t is also noticed that these gentle
men are spending good deal of money in
the way of treating and SO on, and thew
show unusual evidences of prosperity.