The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

lEDul-I IL III cfllUldn
Minnesota ....... 18lNew Mexico.....
Mississippi ...... IS -
Missouri ....... 10 Total. .25
81 have taken great pains in this mat
ter said General Grosvenor. 'eThe ex
traOrdinary table sent from Washing
ton yesterday for the encOurag cement o.
the friends of another candidate sug
gested to me the propriety of the great
est possible accuracy in making my
statement at this time, and I sent tele
grams TO all Of the states in which theT1
is any possible controversy, and have
received answers from the distinguished
Republicans connected with the party
organization in those states. OF course
/ have continued to give the full
strength Of Ohio and Indiana, which
have not yet elected all their delegates
but they are beyond controversy, hence
the perfect propriety Of these figures.
do not make a statement for the other
candidates because, as between the op-
ponents of Mckinley, do not know ex-
actly the division up to date of the dele
gates elected.
Looking forward the most cheerful
prospects present themselves. NeT
England has been all along conceded to
Mr.. Reed in a body, and no effort has
been made by Governor Mckinley s
friends to secure a single vote in New
England, and not only so, but every
movement in that direction has been
steadily discountenanCed by Mckinley s
friends. So that vote has been discount
ed, and there is no boom for anybody IN
the registering of it. The maximum Of
that vote is seventy-eight. The states
which are yet to elect and which there
mi ha IIxr ii
cations give today the most ample as
surance that he will pass the middle
line of the aggregate and have a good
margin for contingencies and acci-
dentS'
The Reed men respond in this way:
This estimate of the Ohio manager is a
curious bit of eXaggeration and political
Juggling. Though supposedly dealing
With the delegates actually elected, the
table gives the full number for Ohio.
while some twenty delegates are still to
be elected, includes the delegates-at-
large from Indiana, who viii not be
chosen until May T. puts the two dele
gates from the Twentieth Illinois dis
trict for Mckinley, when his candidates
there were fairly beaten, includes two
delegates from the Indian Territory,
where no convention has yet been call
ed, credits Mckinley with four from
New Mexico, where they are all for
Reed, who has the question of statehood
in his own hands, and in other ways is
wholly unreliable and fantastic upon
the delegates actually elected The
Grosvenor figures include for Mckinley
all of Indiana, although instructions in
several districts were sought for and
denied, and also puts in the Mckinley
column all the district delegates from
Minnesota, although several were elect
ed for Davis after being bitterly fought
by the Mckinley men. Both Allison
and Reed have strength in Indiana and
Minnesota The estimate given out by
General GrosvenOr has been hailed with
they say it is full of apparent misrepre-
sentations. For instance, the eighteen
delegates from Mississippi headed by
eX-Congressman Lynch, the cOlorad
leaders, were bitterly opposed by the
Mckinley men and could hardly be ex-
Pected 10 be for the Ohio candidate
Taking out the two Cullom men in
Illinois, the twenty yet to he elected in
Ohio. the eighteen doubtful ones from
Mississippi. and the men not vet elect
ed in Indiana Kansas and the Indian
Territory, the eight delegates too many
in Texas. the overplus of three in Louis
lana and Minnesota, and the Grosvenor
figures are at once reduced near those
submitted by Mr.. Maniey. who. al
though Reed s lieutenant, IS secretary of
the national committee and therefore
in position TO obtain accurate infor-
nation.