The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-04
HOW 1T WAS ACCOMPLISHED.
Rinse Took Palmer Out of the Hail
80 He Could Not Kill His Boom.

The stampede to Palmer was the outcome
of a well-laid plan as outlined IN yeS.ef-
DAVIS Journal Three or four causes con-
trb1ted to it. One of these was the abso-
Int announcement from President Cleve-
land that he could not serve the party as
its candidate Apother was the objection
raised to the previous silver record OF Gen.
Bragg. Another and a more powertul one
was the fact that while Wisconsin is al
ready safe for sound money Illinois is de-
batable ground and is in point of strength
in the Electoral College the most impor-
tant of the States considered doubtful in
this campaign. Another cause was in the
strong personality of General Palmer and
his clean record through his whole polit-
zeal career S a stanch supporter OF sound
money. These elements of strength in
Palmer were so we'll understood from the
beginning that had he not stated positively
and earnestly when the national committee
met here early in August that he could not
permit his name to be considered, 1T is
probable that other name would have
been considered. Nobody questions or has
questioned his sincerity in this refusal to be
d candidate. All the pressure of his own
State and the leaders in the movement
could bring to bear upon him could not
obtain his consent and it only when
State after State in the convention arose
and seconded his nomination that he was
brought to see that it was his duty to
cept.
The direct movement that resulted in his
nomination began Wednesday afternoon,
when the leaders of the opposition to Bragg
realized finally that Senator Villas was out
of consideration. conference began early
in the afternoon that ran along in desul-
tory way from that hour until o'clock in
the morning in practically continuous ses-
sion. though the personnel of the confer
ence changed frequently members
dropped out and recruits came in. 1t
included at least one and occasionally three
or four prominent workers in the movement
from various States. The motives We're
not sinister. for there was nothing to be
gained in nomination by this convention
and it is reasonable to suppose that these
gentlemen had, they say they had, only
the success of the movement al heart. The
conference decided early in the afternoon
that General Palmer ought to be made the
nominee of the convention notwithstanding
his own protests.
Through the influence of the conference
a meeting of the Illinois delegation was
called Wednesday evening and it passed
resolution begging General Palmer to per-
nit the use of his name A committee
OF llNe. Hedueu by JuuSe lnOE1aS A. IOran,
pleaded with him to this end but in vain
The best they could get out of him was
that he would give them an answer at 9
o'clock yesterday morning Messrs Bynurn
Wilson. Tracey Wallace, McReynolds
Cutcheon. Holden, Crawford and other gen
tlemen in the conference labored with their
delegations to get them in shape TO declare
for Palmer at the delegation meetings the
next morning. John p. Hopkins of Illinois
was extremely active in going with them
from delegation to delegation and assuring
them that he knew Palmer we'll enough to
know that he would not shirk the duty IL
it were forced upon him by the convention.
Early yesterday morning the word was
circulated among all the delegations that
President Cleveland had absolutely refused
to permit the use of his name and thus
it was that when the delegations met these
from Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Tonnes