Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-05
The Opposition Do Not COncede a Nc
Kinley Victory.
Secretary Manley Says the Contest
Remains to be Settled at st. Louis.
Views of Grosvenor, Clarkson
and Platt-The Political Situation.

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Georgia. They can be assigned as fol-
lows: In Alabama and Arizona TWO sets
of delegates have been elected, and they
are, therefore, placed, as they ought to
be, in the contested column; Indian
Territory, Michigan, Missouri and Hin
ois are placed in the column for Gov
ernor Mckinley.
The convention in Vermont was
surprise to the friends of Mr.. Reed.
They had a right to expect that Yer
mont would join with the rest of New
England and send a delegation pledged
TO the support of the New England can
didate. The delegates elected unques-
tiOnably prefer the nomination OF Mr..
Reed. How far they will feel bound by
the declaration of preference for Gov
ernor Mckinley by their convention
time alone will determine.
The situation to-day is as follows:
For Mr.. Reed, 162; for Governor Nc
Kinley, 275; for other candidates, 217;
contested and doubtful. 95 Vermont, s.
This makes 757 delegates elected, and
leaves 161 yet to be chosen. The con-
test is not yet settled, and can alone be
determined by the delegates when they
meet in convention at st. Louis
Gen. Grosvenor claims that Mckinley
already has majority of the delegates.
He says in his weekly bulletin:
1t will be remembered on a former
occasion | stated that the list of May
would show Mckinley with a majority
of the delegates elected. The 1st of
May has come and my prediction has
been verified. The present condition of
McKinley's vote is as follows
Alabama Is, Arkansas 16, Florida s,
Georgia, %, Illinois 20, Indiana 80, Kan
sas 20, Kentucky II. Louisiana 10. Mary
land l., Michigan IS, Minnesota IS,
Mississippi IS. Missouri IS. Nebraska
10, New Jersey 16, New Mexico 4. New
York 4. Ohio 46, Oklahoma 4, Oregon
s, Pennsylvania 4, South Carolina II.
South Dakota 8, Texas II, Virginia 90,
West Virginia 4, Wisconsin q. North
Carolina 4, North Dakota 6. Arizona 6.
Connecticut 6, Vermont s, Indian Ter
ritory ,. Total, 1875.
Nobody knows better than the op-
position that there are in the States
enumerated by me west of the Allie
gneny mountains not less than 90 votes.
winch am not claiming. which will be
cast for Mckinley on the first ballot
want TO call attention now to the
block of States which have given their
votes substantially solid TO the
ONO candidate: West Virginia. Ohio
Mlchlgan, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Da-
kota. North Dakota, Minnesota. Wis
consin, and lying along south of this
block are Tennessee and Arkansas
Here we have solid block of States
representing nearly half of the electoral
college, voting with practical unani-
NIFTY Tor the nomination of Mckinley 8"
Inc result OF conference between
senator Quay, Mr.. Fessenden. a mem
DER OF the Republican National Com
mlttee from COnnecticut; ]. s Clark
son, a member of the same committee
from Iowa; Senator Allison and one or
two OF the prominent Republican lead
ers, has decided the question of con
testing the nomination of Mr. McKin-
icy at 81. Louis. In speaking of the
SITUATION, Mr.. Clarkson said Mckinley
had not nearly a majority of the dele
gates yet, and added: "He will be
shorter OF a majority on the first ballot
than Blaine was in the emotional wear
OF 1876, Grant in 1880 or Sherman in
1888, when the latter, in a field of IA
candidates voted for on the first ballot
mad 329 votes. He will not be nomina+-
ed by acclamation, because | can saw
positively that Allison, QUAY and Nor
ton will remain in the contest and co
surely VIII Reed, and judge also Brad
ley and Cullom. The States of the first
three gentlemen named have instructed
their delegates to go to st. Louis TO
present these gentlemens names to the
national convention, and there is no
doubt that this will be done. Allison
has not the slightest idea Of withdraw
ing. nor Iowa any idea of giving I'm the
night. believe this is true of the 9TH
er candidates and their States
Mckinley will fall from 50 IN 1OO
votes short of enough to nominate at
the start, and the field will represent
from o25 to $50 votes. BY the field I
mean Allison. Reed, Quay, Bradley,
Morton and Cullom, already suggested.
and such other available men as Harri-
son, Lincoln, Foraker. Hobart. Davis
and Gen. Tracy. of New York. and 9TH
ers who might fifty be mentioned. for
our party is as rich in its capable re-
serve OF available candidates as it is
strong in the candidates offered"
New York. May An a statement
given out by ex-senator Platt. he saws.
THE Mckinley managers and their
echoes in the Mckinley newspapers
make great ado over the action of the
Illinois State convention. In reality
the Mckinley instructions adopted at
Springfield affect just four votes. and
no more. in the st. Louis convention.
Mr. Hanna and his friends are keenly
alive to this bald fact. 1t is no secret.
either. that Mr. Hanna is in sore trou-
bic at home. At least 90 of the Ohio
delegates are opposed to McKinley's
nomination, and propose to break loose
from him at the first opportunity.
With . of his delegates ready to deserz
at the earliest pretext, the Ohio dele
CATION will require close attention for
the next six weeks.
I'VE hear great deal of talk about
the way the people are dealing with the
bosses. and how the bosses are being
set at naught by great uprising of
the people against them. Will the hon.
est folk who are giving voice and pen
TO the utterances of these profound OBJ
servations be good enough to tell us
who instigated the early conventions in
Arkansas, Mississippi. Ohio, Kansas
and Wisconsin? Everyone knows that