The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-02
ANTI-MKINLEY BLUFFS.
mrs OPPONENTS RALLY, BUT DoN'T
UIVULGE THEIR PLANS.

Speaker Reed Il Clipper and Joe Msniey
sttl Claims u Victory-0uny Says Els
state and New York Arc In the Fight
Senator Hi says Mckinley IL the Mas.
WARRINGTON. May To-day the anti-Mc-
Kinley men in Washington had recovered some
what from their astonishment at the defeat of
the Cullom forces by the Mckinley cohorts In
Illinois yesterday. and were a little encouraged
to replace the chip that was 30 rudely knocked
from their shoulders.
They had got their second wind. 40 TO speak.
and were again doing business in the little room
OF the Committee on Accounts. and ready. as
usual, TO pooh-pooh the Mckinley claims and
insist that the battle has not yot by any means
been fought
They dealt only in Glittering generalities.
however, and none OF them was able to de-
scribe the methods by which the combination Is
to be formed that is to drive back the great
Mckinley wave and force Reed or Allison or
Morton or Harrison or Quay or some other bold
champion to the front.
Speaker Reed was unusually smiling and
gracious and urbnno to those who called upon
him In the Speakers room, but to none Of them
would he mako a ~pretence even OF talking poll
tics. He chatted and laughed and flung about
his characteristic witticisms. He was apparently
free from anxiety as to the outcome of the po-
litical battle into which he has entered and as
unconscious OF the general opinion that his
political sun has set as a babe unborn.
Joe" Manlcy was everywhere about the
Capitol. and active as a flea, and those who
speak for him say that he is 80 unwilling to be-
liove that Mckinley has already won his fight
that he has already begun the preparation OF
his usual Sunday night statement, which will
show that the Ohio candidate is not within 200
votes Of a nomination and that Reed stands
yet as solid as the rock OF Gibraltar.
But IL the willy Mr.. Manley believes all this to
be true, he IL almost alone among the Washing
ton politicians. Few IL any of them were willing
to-day to endorse what Chairman Tom" Carter
so frankly said last night, that in his private
opinion McKinley's name would be the only one
to go before the st. Louis Convention.
The Washington politicians. big and little, are
q sly lot, and none were frank and bold enough
to burn their bridn es behind them as Mr.. Carter
did. They know that strange things happen in
politics. and they want to be ready even at the
last moment TO climb onto some other band
wagon IL Corporal McKinley's should meet with
an unexpected mishap.
Senator Hill. being u Democrat and not q Re-
publican, and moreover being generally fear
less In HIS political. methods, had nothing to
lose. so. In his speech In the Senate this after
noon. he did not hesitate to announce as his
the Republicans was made certain by yester-
days events in Illinois, and that, therefore.
the Democrats already know whom they VIII
~ ~ -" sS
When he said II every mar of experience on
both tides of the chamber agreed that he was
right. Many of them said so publicly. but a few
would not endorse the prediction. ,
Among the latter was senator Quay, He had
many factions. but to none of them, would he
admit that his name would be Withdrawn asa
candidate or ., that ssb the ar chonsH in GiG men did tha
nominee OF the st. Louis Convention.
=, Ps9Gn ms ! h.- and ndai Ssw ISS Tsv haze .s,s, n n0s yet ns
thinks that those who are of the opinion that
the votes OF these two great States are not to be-
considered will find that they have made a
grievous mistake.
MIR. Quay did not make known TO his numer, !
campaign is to to be. as Manley in charge of tho
Reed boom, and Gear and Henderson,. in charge
OF the Allison boom. did not.
1t Is we'll known. however, that the anti-Mc-
Kinley men believe that the large majority OF
who have been instructed to vote for
Of McKinieyism shall have spent itself;
from the start disobey their instructions, will
act according to their own convictions and vote
people all seem to be for Mckinley his OPP
ponents admit. but they deny that n majority
Of the delegates are for him and do, on the nc nc.
depend for the success of their plans.
But to the public men and politicians In
Washington, as a rule. it looks as Il the people
taken the case out of the hands OF the poll
ticiaus. and that no power but that of Divine
Providence can prevent the force Of the Mckin-
ley sentiment from rushing on and overwhelm-
Ing the 81. Louis Convention.
The bulk Of the Republicans here are not Nc
Kinley men. and they doubt the wisdom of his
nomination. but at the same time they see the
force OF what Col. Grosvenor. the enthusiastic
chief boomer OF the Mckinley boom, said to a
member OF the New York delegation the other
day,
shoulder OF this man who is not by any
means the greatest man in Congress,
isn't 1t a strange thing and a re-
exhibition of the power of the
people when aroused. that here is Il man much
smaller than YOU or me who is going to jauntily
walk into the Presidential nomination and prob
ably into tho White House simply because he
represents a political idea that the people are in
favor of this Year"