Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-25
TAMMANY APPRAISED.
stevensons Nomination PIsases the TIg err
Keepers and They had Much to do With

| Keepers and They had Much to do With
it.
CHICAGO, Ills, June 23.-The Dem
ocracy of the nation named the Presi-
Dental candidate, but it remained to
Tammany Hall, of New York, 10 name
| the candidate for Vice Presidency. HI
inois, whose forty votes at the critical
staged changed the tide in favor OF the
nomination of Grover Cleveland, and
New York, the state in the face of
whose protest the great popular leader
was named for the presidency, clasped
hands to-day through the Intervention
Of the Hon. VIM. NJ. Springer, OF Dill
Rois, and the bonds of friendship be-
tween the Empire and the Prairie State
were cemented by the nomination OF a
E. Stevenson for Vice President.
When the day opened all were in
doubt as to the selection OF candidate
for Vice President Every delegate that
was, yesterday, identified with the op-
position to Grover Cleveland was found
to be arrayed in an even more vehement
opposition to the candidacy Of Isaac 2.
Gray, of Indiana. There was a general
desire on the part of the diScOnsolate to
wresk vengeance on the Indiana delega-
ton for falling in line for Cleveland at
the very time when their opposition
would have given so much comfort and
substantial encouragement to those who
had been making great endeavors to
prevent the eX-President from getting
the two-thirds vote necessary for his
nomination.
So it became early manifest that
whatever agreement might have been
! entered by the Cleveland leaders OF New
| York, Pennsylvania and other promi-
nent States to give them Gray, the vice.
| Presidency in return for the support OF
Indiana for Cleveland, there was going
to be very determined opposition, by
| the delegates generally, to the consum-
nation of this programme. Before day
| light the Wisconsin delegation had the
! Hobbies Of all the principal hotels past
ed with placards bearing the inscrip-
ton "For President Grover Cleveland.
For vice. President, John l.. Mitchell. !"
! 1t was at once known that the million
aire Congressman of Wisconsin was a
candidate for second place.
Michigan, too, suddenly came to the
| front with a candidate in the person OF
| the one armed veteran, the Hon. Allen
| B. Morse, an eminent jurist of that
! State. 1t was at this stage Of affairs
that the Hon. WIN. NJ. Springer, OF
| Illinois, the distinguished chairman Of
the Ways and Means Committee OF the
National House of representatives., de-
/ termined that the anti-Cleveland men
! ehO,ld pOt ba aptiTnlv ipDOrpd
The Hon. Bourke Cochran, Of New
York, is one of Mr.. Springer's most ac-
tive lieutenants on the Ways and
Means Committee, and the Hon. John
| p. Fellows and Gov. Flower, of the
| New York delegation, have been the
! Illinois congressman's colleagues in the
House, so that when the tariff reform
ers declared that the Hon. Adlai e.
! Stevenson, OF Illinois, should be pre-
sented as d presidential candidate,
he found the New York delegation
kindly disposed TO give him every CO.
operation.
| At the conference OF the New York
! delegation held early in the day Mr..
! Springer was present and announced
authoritatively that Illinois would pre-
sent General Stevenson and cast its 40
votes for him. What took place at this
conference no one knows, but when the
! distinguished congressman arrived he
announced to his fellow Democrats OF
! Illinois that the - votes Of New York
would be cast for Stevenson and that
victory was assured.
To the convention at large the inten-
| ton of New York was known when
! that State was reached on the roll call.
Up to that time Stevenson and Gray
were leading with about equal strength
and Morse and Mitchell were following
| in about the order named. There was
a period of almost breathiess silence
| when New York was called, and the
slight hesitency of the chairman and
delegation in responding tended to be
| intensely interesting. New, York has
seventy-two votes for the Hon. A. b.
! Stevenson, Of Illinois," said Governor
Flower, and pandemoneum broke loose.
The nomination of Stevenson has
done much to allay the rancer OF this
national convention. Although con-
| fident and great admirer Of eX-Presi-
| dent Cleveland, he is the antithesls or
the distinguished New Yorker in his
position on the distribution Of official
patronage. Stevenson, as the first
assistant general under
Cleveland, made a reputation OF remoY-
ing Republican postmasters and
appointing Democrats, which 1t
required all the agility OF
the Hon. J. S. Clarkson to rival
when President Harrison made that
gentleman the Assistant Postmaster
General under the Republican admins
tration. For this reason Gen. Steven
son is exceedingly popular with the
very element most active in opposition
to Mr.. Cleveland. and the ticket nomi-
mated by the National Convention of
1892 fs concession to both Of the great
elements into which the civil service
theories of these latter days have d.
vided the national Democracy.
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