The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-18
FINAL BULLETIN IS OUT
GENERAL GROSVENOR's VIEWS ON
 THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.
 He Figures Up Big Total of Votes for
 gates Are Thrown Out 1t Will Not Affect
 the Result-His Support Has Greatly In
 creased Throughout the Country.
 {, Washington, May 17.-General Gros-
 venor gave out his final bulletin to- Knight. In it te said:
 "Last week closed the election of del legates to the St. Louis convention and llMcKinley was endorsed by all the Estates which expressed an opinion dur Hing the week, Washington, Wyoming, g3West Virginia and North Carolina. The Ssfree silver states, of course, refused x the endorsement of Mckinley and their delegates are uninstructed as to per &sons, but they have received peremp- N8tory orders as to principles. There are Elnow elected 91S delegates, but four in ElArizona Sour in New Mexico and four EalU OkldTOUld uluSt uepSilo dpOiI eiiS Us E1ture action of the national convention EIfor seats in that body, the official call authorizing them to elect only two del egates in each of the territories. The E8following states have elected either EAsolid Mckinley delegations or delega- E8tions with majority of Mckinley men, |so that it may be conceded that Me Kinley's followers will control these Estates, to wit:
 E Alabama, Arkansas, California, Con fnecticut, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illi- HHnois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Mich Eigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri LssNebraska New Jersey, North Carolina, sANoIth Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Car Molina, South Dakota, Tennessee. Yer Eymont, Virginia, Washington, West Vir- E)ginia, Wisconsin. Wyoming, and the E,territories of wtMexico and Oklaho- E88ma Only three of these states have Econtests for the entire delegates and Eathrowing them out there would be left E329 Mckinley states and territories to E1elect members of the committee on cre- EIdentials.'
 E General Grosvenor figures up total jof 592 votes for Mckinley, including, some that are contested, and Min respect of this he says:
 N eff all the contested delegates in all E8the states which are for Mckinley are out and votes of the contesting given solidly to some other 1t will not affect the result. EI stand by my estimate of more than 1.-two weeks ago, that if there shall be Wa complete roll call Mckinley will have E3aR00 votes"
 In conclusion General Grosvenor says: "The support accorded to Governor FNfcKinley in the country at large has fbeen greatly intensified during the week
 land strong assurances of support have
 come from men who up to this time {Shave supported other candidates. The #attack upon Mckinley emanating from EHNew York upon the question of money has aroused a great deal of very bitter feeling among the distinguished repub- {ticans in the east, men who believe that When the fight Shas been fairly made | and triumphantly won by one candidate Ithe friends of the other candidates Should not join to weaken the victor i before the people. But the friends of I fGovernor Mckinley have no complaints l to make from this point of view for the
 treason that the assault upon the gov- &ernor have had the effect to rally to his Support a strong column> of valuable Friends
 The success of Major Mckinley has been brought about by the devotion of |the masses. They look upon him as 3their representative and friend and the
 Iexponent of the principles which they
 advocate and while this is true the con- |servative business men have confidence
 in Major Mckinley also. One of the un-
 written rules of political campaigns,
 which has seldom been violated by any Icandidate is that the candidate shall
 hot make the platform. The violation
 of this rule cost Henry Clay the presi- |dency, and from that time to this no
 man has violated it with impunity. No
 mar's friends have right to call upon |him to foreshadow the party's plat Horn, much less would any candidate be
 permitted under any circumstances
 Whatever to answer the interrogatories
 of cabal of his enemies, combination
 Formed within his own party and out
 side of his own party-a conspiracy of
 bosses and democrats-to force from
 him declaration as to what the plat
 form ought to be- A man who would
 fall into the manipulation of such a
 conspiracy would be totally unfit to be
 president Major Mckinley will re-
 spond to the platform, but he will not
 dictate what the platform shall be-