The herald., 1896-03-30
M'K|NLEY'S REAL STRENGTH
OHIO'S MAN NEEDS SEVERAL HUNDRED
vOTES FOR THAT NOMINATION
OF the Three Hundred Odd Delegates 90 Par
Elected, the Apostle Of Protection Has
Only About One-Third-Ths Figures Qlyen
by States

The almost superhuman attempts being
made to prove to the Republicans of this
end of the state that William Mckinley
will go before the Republican national
convention and win without even the for
mality of ballot, are not borne out
by the. facts as they exist. The
grossly biased publications of the local
morning Republican paper regarding the
situation has resulted in a request from
scores of the leading men in all parties to
The HERALD that the situation as it really
exists be printed; hence the figures below,
which are all Of them official.
The number of delegates elected up to
one week ago, was 294, little less than
one-third of the convention. The delegates
elected in the past two weeks numbered
30, as follows: New York, A; Wisconsin,
IA; Kansas, 2; Indiana, 90; Pennsylva-
mia, 2; Ohio, 2.
The states which have elected delegates
SO far are Alabama ., Arkansas Is, Flor
ida s. Georgia Is. Illinois 10, Indiana %,
Iowa 26, Kansas Is, Louisiana 16, Mis-
souri, 2, Mississippi IA, New York 54,
pennsylvania 20, Ohio 26, South Carolina
2. Texas 20, Wisconsin IS, District of
Columbia 2. Total, 294.
travagant and the declarations of the anti
Mckinley men as biased. careful exam
ination of the situation shows that McKin-
ley has the hardest sort of figting ahead of
him to win. The Mckinley men are claim
ing every delegate not instructed for some
other candidate. They unquestionably
will get some of these in case Mckinley
demonstrates on the first cast vote in the
convention his ability to win. There will
be many delegates who will Jump to the
winning side. But Mckinley has no more
right to claim these uninstructed votes
than any other candidate.
A distribution of the delegates so far
elected. fakinfr into pOn aidora tiou ipatrus,.
tions, controlling influences at home and
personal preferences, shows the following
result Mckinley 40, Morton 80, ALI
son 81, Reed 2S, Quay 10, Cullom 10,
total 249.
This leaves forty-five delegates who are
to Nc kinley, unquestionably, but some Of
them will be scattered among favorite
sons-to Morton, Allison or Reed. Then
again, some of the southern delegates in
this floating category will be drawn to the
support Of the candidacy OF Governor
Bradley of Kentucky.
The great danger to Mckinley lies in the
fact that there are to be SO many contest
ing delegations to St. Louis. There will be
between 100 and $50 contests in the con-
vention. There are already fifty-six seats
contested. Of these contests two are by
ma, SIX are from Florida, four contestants
being Morton men, one Reed, and one Al
lison. Two anti-McKinley delegates from
Georgia will contest, and from Louisiana
there are six contestants. The fourteen
delegates elected from Mississippi, all
claimed by Mckinley, and not one in.
structed for him, are contested, and two an.
ti-tluay contests by delegates from Penn
sylvania, and sixteen contests from Texas
here are also ten contests from New
York. These last mentioned disputes are
encouraged by the Mckinley men, who
hope thus to get twenty votes away from
Platt.
There will be flood of other contests
from the south as soon as the conventions
are held in Alabama, South Carolina, Vir-
ginia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
The Mckinley men are preparing to dis
pute Bradley's claim in Kentucky to be a
"favorite son" and if they cannot elect the
delegates will endeavor to contest every
district.
Thus it will be seen that it is anybody's
fight yet, and the combination that con.
trolls the national committee when the roll
call is made up, will have tremendous
advantage.
The election of delegates last week does
not materially affect the totals above. the
Iexas delegation selected on Thursday be.
ing in fact anti Mckinley to the number of
eighteen, although there will be a contest
from that state. The big delegation from
Massachusetts is also against Mckinley,
being for Thos. B. Reed.