The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-04
IN THE POLITICAL FIELD
THERE ARE SOME D0UBTS ABOUT
 THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.

Convention in Vermont a Surprise to the !, Friends of MT. Reed--weekly Statement by General Grosvenor on the Mckinley Forces-He Counts on Ohio and Indiana
 for McKinley-He is Still Confident of
 Victory.
 x Washington, May 3.-Mr. Manley of Maine tonight gave out the following Hstatement:
 H Since my statement of week ago |!there have been elected 46 delegates. AtThe elections have occurred in Michi- Tgan, Illinois, Mississippi, Arizona, h. Sdian Territory, Vermont, Alabama and ssGeorgia. They can be assigned as fol- &lows In Alabama and Arizona two sets of delegates have been elected, and e:they are, therefore, placed as they ought |fto be, in the contested column; Indian ETerritory, Michigan, Missouri and 1lli- @nois are placed in the column for Gov Eernor Mckinley.
 
 Esurprise to the friends of MT. Reed. EThey had right to expect that Yer Emont would join the rest of New Eng Eiand and send a delegation pledged to Ethe support of the New England candi- Edate. The delegates selected unques- Etionably prefer the nomination of MT. EReed. How far they will feel bound |by the declaration of preference for EGovernor Mckinley by their convention Etime will determine. It must be re- that the convention did not Ninstruct, and left the delegates free to Mexercise their own judgment. Pref #erences and even instructions in the Epast have not uniformly governed the Edelegates because the conditions under (which they were passed did not exist Eat time the delegates were called upon Hto discharge the duties entrusted to Ethem. The situation to-day is as fol- Flows:
 N For MT. Reed 162 for Governor Mo EKinley 275 For all other candidates E217 Contested and doubtful, 95; Yer #mont S. This makes 757 delegates elect Fed and leaves 161 yet to be chosen. The Econtest is not yet settled, and can alone #be determined by the delegates when Hthey meet at St. Louis
 N General Grosvenor gave out his week. Ely statement of Mckinley delegates to- Enight He claims the election of 495 who Hare instructed or pledged to the Ohio #candidate. He points out that there are E118 votes unelected and claims that Mo #Kinley will have more than 100 of that #number He further states that there Fare of unnamed and unclaimed dele #gates east of the Alleghany mountains Eamong the delegates counted for other Ecandidates 21 who will support McKin- Hey.
 General Grosvenor says: "It will be Remembered that on a former occasion Istated that the first of May would show Mckinley with a majority of the dele gates elected. The first of May has
 come and my prediction has been yer l flied. In the last week, while the con-
 ventions did not produce a startling
 number of delegates for any one, there came into the campaign some very re- {markable and to many minds unexpect-
 ed results The endorsement of Me-
 Kinley by Vermont marked the loca- ton of an active Mckinley sentiment
 which had for long time been mani fest to intelligent observers in all the states of New England. The outbreak
 of popular sentiment in Illinois, which
 Overwhelmed the party organization of
 that wonderfully organized state and
 swept the plans of the bosses and over
 turned the calculations of everybody
 indicated that the tide which it was
 fondIy hoped by many would be ar-
 rested and possibly turned back is ris-
 ing higher and higher and sweeps
 across the continent with irresistible
 force. The echo of Vermont was re-
 sponded to by the triumphant shout ot
 McKinleys friends in Arizona and the reflex wave carried his flag with ire.
 sistible momentum to victory in Hi
 nois. Like causes effect like results IT
 politfcs. and where an election is thus
 carried by the overwhelming popular
 sentiment against all organized states
 it is fair to assume that the same result
 will follow in other states. There are
 still to be elected in Ohio and Indiana
 eight votes, which I have constantly
 counted for Mckinley.
 T have added three votes in Illinois
 because of a telegram received last
 night stating that Raymond, Stewart
 and Knaff of the Chicago delegation
 had announced themselves for McKin-
 lev. and all the balance of the differ
 ences between my high-water figures
 of to-day and the conservative figures
 of the other gentlemen grow out of the
 fact that I will not permit myself to
 disparage the election of our friends ir
 mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Flor
 ida, simply because of contests. So, Il
 will appear in the end, when we reach
 St. Louis, that my table of votes will
 be more than verified by the ultimate
 result when the roll of the convention
 is called-if it is ever called-upon the
 nomination for president of the United
 States Last week I omitted Connect
 icut because I did not see fit to raise
 any questions that would irritate any
 body, but I have received letters and
 telegrams from Connecticut that make
 it imperative to place six-and in my
 Judgment ought to place eight-of the
 votes for Mckinley.
 Nobody knows better than the oppo- sition that there are in the states east
 of the Alleghany mountains not less
 than twenty votes which I am not