Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-05-22
On the First Ballot.
The Election of st. Louis Delegates
Completed, and IL Looks Like Sure
Thing for the Ohio Man.

The Election of 81. Louis Delegates
Completed, and II Looks Like Sure
Thing for the Ohio Man.
The election of delegates to the Republi-
can national convention at st. Louis was
completed last Saturday, aud it is now pos
sible to make a close estimate of how the
91s delegates will be divided. Gov. Nc
Kinley's friend, and the manager of his
canvass, Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, claims
592 votes for him, though he admits that
some of these are counted from contested
delegations. "But if all contestiLg dele
gates are thrown out and given to some
other candidate it cannot affect the result
| stand by my estimate that complete
roll call will give Mckinley 600 votes"
One of the best informed and most care
full of the Washington correspondents
counts 4S5 votes as assured for Mckinley.
He places the contested delegates at 143.
OF these AZ were elected as Mckinley men,
and he estimates that in any case the
Ohio man is sure of 20 of them. This
makes McKinley's positive strength 5l4
The uncontested strength of the other
candidates is given as lOllOWs'
Reed-Connecticut, I; Georgia, B;
Louisiana, =; Maine, II; Maryland, 2;
Massachusetts, 80; New Hampshire, s;
Pennsylvania, 2; Rhode Island, 8; South
Carolina, 2; Virginia, /; District of Co
lumbia, l. Oklahoma, ?. Total, ~.
Allison-C California, ?; Iowa, 26; Louis
lana, /; Utah, / District of Columbia, /.
Total, 81.
Morton, in New York, %.
Quay, in Pennsylvania, jG.
Cullom, in Illinois, Il.
Bradley, in Kentucky, 16.
"It is" this correspondent concludes,
perfectly apparent that unless some un-
foreseen condition shall arise, whereby the
LOYALTY of the delegates chosen shall be
withdrawn from Mckinley prior to June
l6. he will be nominated on the first bal
lot"
The New York World prints a table in
which Mckinley is given jl4 votes, Reed
100, Allison AZ, doubtful 100. The oppo-
nents of Mckinley claim not to have given
up the fight, but say that when the conven-
ton meets it will be found that his strength
was overestmated, a break will follow,
and the nomination will be given to some
other man. Upon any candid view Of the
situation, however, it is difficult TO see
how the nomination of Mckinley can be
prevented.
Mr.. Platt of New York keeps up an
open fight against Mckinley nd says the
sound money men of the &C try will not
tolerate his nomination beca he refuses
TO declare himself on the CT rrency ques-
tion, although strongly and repeatedly
urged TO do so. To this Gen. Grosvenor
makes answer that Mckinley will stand on
the Republican platform on the moneyques-
tion, and adds:
zone of the unwritten rules OF political
| campaigns, which has seldom been violat-
| ed by any candidate for the presidency, is
that the candidate shall not make plat
form. The violation of this rule cost
= Henry Clay the presidency, and from that
| time to this no man has violated II with
impunity. No mans friends have right
to call upon him to foreshadow the party 5
platform, much less would any candidate
be permitted under any circumstances
| whatever to answer the interrogatories of
a cabal of his enemies, who wish TO force
from him a declaration as to what the
| platform ought to be. \ man who would
| fall into the manipulation of such a con-
spiracy would be totally unfit to be presi-
dent Of the United States. Major McKin-
ley will respond TO the platform, but he
will not dictate what the platform shall
be-
With regard to the position in which
Gov. Mckinley is placed on the money
question ex-Gov. Long of Massachusetts
is quoted as saying:
at is unfortunate that Mckinley has
not declared himself definitely on the cur
rency question earlier in the campaign
But now that he has delayed so long can
understand that his wisest course is &c
wait till the convention has adopted, as il
will, strong financial platform, and then
if nominated, accept it in letter which
will put him right before the country. Il
he were to do it now, after so much criti
cism for not having done it sooner, h'
might subject himself to the charge of do
ing it to get votes or from motives of mer'
policy.
"While Mckinley does not give the as
surance of the best and most conservative
money convictions which Mr.. Reed hai
given, yet have no question that he ha
kept pace with the education of the last Il
years and that he will be found loyal u
the gold standard, and, if elected president
will maintain it,"