The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-03
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MUCH SPECULATION ON THE NOMI-
NATIONS TO BE MADE TO-DAY.
Watterson's Name VIII Not BE Pre-
sented, So Simon Bolivar Bickner
Is Sure for Second Place.
THE DRIFT TO CLEVELAND
CONVENTION DANGEROUSLY NEAR A
STAMPEDE TO HIM.
Plan of the Leaders Is TO Defent Gen.
Bragg by Forcing Nomination of
Palmer or Black.
TELEGRAM TO CLEVELAND
ONE SENT BY CHAIRMAN OF THE
NEW YORK DELEGATION.
Eastern Men May Vote for Fayorite
Sons Till the Western States Set
tie ON Whom They Want.
MUCH OPPOSITION TO BRAGG
BUT HIS FRIENDS CLING TO HIM
WITH RENEWED ENERGY.
Opposition Said to Come Entirely
from National Executive Commit
tee-ViIas Out of 1t.

The presidential nomination does not look
so certain this morning as it did yester-
day The only certainty about it is that
Watterson's name will not be presented
and General Buckner of Kentucky, has
therefore a sure thing on the vice presi-
Dental nomination. The drift of the tide
is unquestionably toward Cleveland, de-
spite the belief among the leaders that he
would not accept if nominated and that it
would be a mistake. if he should not
decline. 1t is the Cleveland Democracy
that is holding this convention and there
are men in every delegation ready at the
drop of a hat to brush aside all precedents
about third term. to close their eyes to the
probability of the party being left without
a candidate by the time the delegates
reach home and nominate Grover Cleve-
land in spite of everything. Yesterday the
convention not satisfied with giving
him big ovaton-it insisted upon an
ovation every time the name of Cleveland
was mentioned and each outburst was
more enthusiastic than its predecessor.
With this state of feeling among the dele
gates, it will only require some incident
or some eloquent phrase spoken at the
right moment to knock all the plans and
efforts of the leaders into a col5ed hat and
name Grover Cleveland the nominee of the
convention.
If Cleveland says emphatically to-day
what everybody who stops to think about
it believes he would say after the conven-
ton, if nominated, if the opportunity
for a stampede fails to come, the fight will
lie between Bragg and whoever may be de-
termined upon this morning by the coterie
of members of the executive committee
who do not believe Bragg is the strongest
m = tn fa A hic hon Oft
night-it is in the caros to nominate Palm
er, or, falling in the effort to gain his con-
sent, to push Gen. John c. Black through
by the united efforts of Illinois, Indiana
and Missouri. 1t being the understanding
that the States of, the middle West and
South shall name the man, these three
states, with the assistance of Kentucky
can do the business. The majority of the
men opposed to Bragg succeeded in uniting
on this programme last night and will en-
deavor to carry it through to-day A little
boom was started for Lawler by the Kan
sas delegation meeting indorsing him last
evening, but it is suspected that this is a
part or the plan to beat Bragg by taking
Minnesota from him. The Gray Bynum
and Flower booms were not heard of very
extensively, though they may come to the
front if there is continued balloting.
The East remains in the same attituda
or desiring to know what the South and
west want. In the tangle things have got
into, all the Eastern delegates can learn
as certainty is that the South wants
Buckner for Vice President and ANY good
Northern man" to head the ticket. The
difficulty lies in determining who that
good Northern man is that can do the
Popocratic ticket the most damage in the
fghting-ground States. 1t is not unlikely
that under these circumstances the Eastern
States Will cast complimentary votes for
favorite sons until they can find some crys-
talllzauon OF sentiment in this section
Thus New York may vote for Flower Mas
sachusetts for Olney, Pennsylvania for
Pattison, Delaware and New JERSEY for
Gray, and so on. until the middle States
can fight it out among themselves.