The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
p TEN BALLOTS
NAV Not Decide Who VIII Be
the Nominee
Of the Republican Party for
President,
SAYS j. S. CLARKSON
Mckinley, He Says, Has Aliena-
ted Delegates
Who Won't Go to Him for Sec
Ond Choice.

St Louis, March 31.-'The situation
IN a nutshell is this: Nobody will en-
ter the convention with votes enough
by about 100 or $50 to nominate him, on
the first, second, third. fourth, fifth,
sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth or tenth
ballot.
THE nominee therefore, will be a
second choice man.
Mckinley leads today in the matter
of instructions and Will hold this lead
RAllison is the strongest second choice,
and will gain in strength right along.
I therefore predict Allison's nomina-
ton"
The speaker was Hon. James S.
Clarkson, of Iowa, member of the Re
publican national committee, who is
here with other members of the sub
committee looking after the convention
matters.
Referring again to Mckinley, Mr..
Clarkson said: His campaign has
been so conducted as to allinate all
the second choice states and for that
reason, he is today the weakest man in
the race, conceding that he cannot be
nominated on the first ballot. do not
know a single delegation that will go
to him when it's candidates are drop
ped. On the other hand. Senator AL
lison is the second choice of nearly
every state or district that has elected
it's delegates. Mr.. Reed will have as
much strength in the south as McKin-
ley
Il have just returned from a trip
through the west" continued Mr..
Clarkson. In all the region west of
Nebraska, the sentiment is yet un-
formed as to men. The people of the
Pacific coast, and mountain states, are
discussing a great issue--that of money
and not men. They will send to St.
Louis in June, so or 100 delegates in
structed solidly for silver, without ref
erence to the views of any man this
great question. That a vote so massed
will have to be reckoned with, and that
seriously, nobody with pretensions to
political foresight or acumen can
doubt.
1t may be that Idaho, Montana, Ne
vada, and Utah, will send delegations
to the convention, instructed for some
pronounced free silver advocate, such as
Teller or Cameron In fact, 1 have
ben assured that that is what these
states will do
Secretary Joseph H ManIey was
more reticent. When his attention was
called to the latest estimate of McKin-
ley's strength made at Washington, by
Gen Grosvenor and published in a
morning paper, in which he was given
355 votes on the first ballot, out of the
total of 373 delegates selected up to
closely for a long while, and then
said: This only shows thatthey are
still claiming. They can claim all
they want. What we want. and what
We are going to have, are votes.''
Senator Thomas Carter, chairman of
the Republican national committee, was
asked: rs it true that you have dis
cerned the premOnitory rumbling of a
boom for Don Cameron, in the north
west?''
Its more than a premonitory rum
BILE Its roaring. I believe we will get
the vote not only of Montana, and other
northwestern states, but that the votes
of the west generally will come to him,
naturally
Then you apprehend some trouble
over the silver question in the st. Louis
convention?''
Now. that is an entirely different
matter, and one about which 1 will say
nothing
Col. VIM. Hahn, of Ohio, professed to
be unable to see how the opposition is
to head off Mckinley