Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-05-07
THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE.
ACTION OF VERMONT AND ILLINOIS
AS VIEWED IN WASHINGTON.
McKin1ey's Dig Lsnd-what the Opposi-
tion Candidates Expedite Accom-
plIsh-Probnbls Action OF
Conventions Yet to Go mo.

Conventions Yet to Col mo.
The manner in which the presidential
situation is viewed In the National Capt.
toll is indicated by the following from the
Washington Post:
1T seems now to be all over but the
shouting. This is the popular opinion in
Washington.
THE instructing of the Illinois dele
gates for Mckinley. following immediate.
ly after the action of the Vermont Con-
vention, is generally regarded as giving
the final boost necessary to the candidacy
of the Ohio man for the republican presi-
dental nomination. From this time on
the list of Mckinley delegates now ex-
traordlnarily large. viii. doubtless grow.
In North Carolina on the 14th of this
month tho convention Is expected to in
struct for Mckinley, who has already
about all the delegates from the Congress
sional districts In the State. California
and Indiana will act next week. In the
former state, according, to Senator Per-
kins, the Mckinley sentiment Is rampant,
and instructions can hardly be prevented.
In Indiana there Is also a strong McKin-
ley sentiment, although the friends Of
Harrison will try to keep it down. Wyom-
ing will be for Mckinley also. according
to Senator Warren, although instruc-
lions may not DO passed, and West Virgil
MIA Is honeycombed with McKtnleyism, al
though Senator Elkins will probably see
to 1t that the delegates are not instructed.
The Michigan republicans will also be for
Mckinley.
1t will be seen, therefore, that from
this time on the Mckinley column will re-
ceive steady accessions. In addition to
this, 1t is reported at the Capitol that
ten Of the ~ delegates in the Connecticut
delegation will go to Mckinley on tho
first ballot, II necessary. In New York,
the generally voluble Clarkson is reported
to be as dumb as an oyster, and In Illinois
the optimistic Aldrch, who yesterday
morning teegraphed here that he thought
that Mckinley instructions could be pre-
vented at Springfield by strategy, must
have felt rather forlorn last night.
ANTI-McKINLEY MEN DO NOT SUR
RENDER.
Still the anti-MoKinley mon are not
ready TO concede the Ohioan's nominal
tion They admit that he has n strong
lead, but they are far from believing that
the contest is settled. Some of the Reed
and Allison men In Washington-men pro-
minent in the party-were in conference
night. The action of the Illinois conven-
ton was naturally disappointing to them.
They attributed 1t largely to the influence
of the Endorsement given to Mckinley by
the Vermont republicans on Wednesday.
The plans, II any, decided upon by the con-
ference, are likely to develop as the cam
paign progresses, The only thing known
is that the opposition to Mckinley Is not
to be withdrawn, for the present at least.
Senator quay said; The result in Hi
nois is by no means conclusive. Three of
the four delegates-at-large elected are
pronounced anti-McKinley men,"
GEN. GRosvENoR SAYS IT'S SET
TIED.
Gen. Grosvenor, who returned to Wash
ington Thursday evening, said: THE re-
suit in Illinois was not unexpected, and
yet Is very gratifying. The tide has been
rising ever since the campaign opened,
and I consider the matter fully settled
now. BY Saturday night the Mckinley
vote will reach 800, and estimate that
long before June 16 Mckinley will be the
only candidate in the field
"The wonderful success of Mckinley
does not mean alone, or mainly, the per-
sonal popularity OF the candidate. but It
means that the people have decided what
the issue of 1896 shall be. and they have
selected tho candidate. and they will nomi-
nate and elect him."
EX-SENATOR KELLOGG is DISTURB
ED.
even ex-senator Kellogg Of Louisiana
who has made a gallant fight for Reed
spoke In downcast strain. 1.-The Southern
delegates are all on Wheels" he said,
when asked what was the situation IN
the South from which section he has just
returned. His remark indicated that he
regarded them as a very movable quanti-
ty.
THE position OF the Southern republi-
cans in this campaign" he said. lis very
tar I,,a to ha AL
gates that Harrison was renominated at
Minneapolis in 1892, and when no went
down to defeat they felt that they had
been in large degree responsible for that
result They had forced a nomination
against the advice of the leaders of the
party, and then they could not give a
single electoral vote to help win the night.
This year they felt that they ought to
wait and sec what their white brethren
thought was the best thing to do. The
fight in the South for uninstructed dele
gates was on this line, while the McKin-
ley men fought, Of course, for instruc-
tions There are 100 contests in the South
which may make a change Of 200 votes.
but II the convention Is all one way 1t Ia
not dificult to predict how they will be
settled"
Gov. Kellogg would not say that he
thought Mckinley would be nominated.
but he admitted that the action OF Yer
mont and Illinois would have a great eff
feet In swelling the Mckinley column.
Ile thinks that II tho democrats nominate
Whitney, with an understanding from the
latter that he will not oppose any silver
legislation that a majority In, Congress
may enact. the republicans will have a
hard tussle. In the remote contingency oil
the election being thrown into the House
he thinks that the Southern democrats
and the Western silver republicans might
unite upon a silver candidate and elect
him.
CULLOM OUT OF THE RACE
"The Mckinley cyclone has certainly
swept two presidential candidates out Of
>the field. The boom Of Senator Davis
went glimmering as soon as the Ainneso-
ia convention met. and now Senator Gull
lom Is outside the breastworks. Allison
has held his state. Quay seems to be rea'
sonably sure OF his Pennsylvania dele
gates for at least one ballot. and under
Platts manipulations the New York dele.
gates are ostensibly for Morton. CulloM
made q gallant tight In Illinois. but could
not withstand the tide There WAS sou<
talk last night as to the possibility Of hja
having entered Into some arrangement
with the MoKiniey mansssrs by which hi
opposition was withdrawn. but there J,
not. Of course anything moro thsp mere
speculation upon which to rest sucn asssr'
The The nsht to hold n,inais against Moxin
10y began some ,months asO Speaker
,ary fuW ts.