The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01
SECOND CHOICE MAN
Will Garry Off the Republican
Nomination
SAYS JAMES S. cLARksoN
And Thinks That Allison Will
Be That Man.
THOUGH M'KINLEY NOW LEADS
CIarkson Thinks He is for That Very
Reason the Weakest Man in the
Race and His Nomination
InopossibIe.

st. Louis, Mo, March 31.-James S.
Clarkson, Of Iowa, who is here looking
after convention matters said in an
interview: 'The situation in nut
she'll is this:
Nobody will enter 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 to-day in @he matter
of instructed delegations and will hold
this lead. Allison is the strongest
choice and will gain in strength right
along. / therefore predict Allison's
nomination"
Referring again to Mckinley Mr..
Clarkson said His campaign has
been so conducted as to ALLEVIATE all the
second choice States and for that rea-
son he is to-day the weakest man in
the race, conceding that he cannot be
nominated on the first ballot. | do not
know single delegation that will go to
him when its candidate is dropped. On
the other hand Senator Allison is the
second choice Of nearly every State
or district that has elected its dele
gates. Mr.. Reed will have as much
strength in the South as Mckinley"
II have Just returned from trip
through the West" continued Mr..
Clarkson, "in all the region East of Ne
brassa the sentiment is yet uniformed
as to men, The people of the Pacific
coast and mountain States are dis
cussfng a great issue-that of money
and not men. They viii send to St.
Louis in June eighty or a hundred dele
gates instructed solidly for silver with
out reference to the views of any man
on this great question. That vote
is massed viii have to be reckoned
with and that seriously, nobody with
pretensions to political foresight or
acumen can doubt.
1T may be that Idaho, Montana,
Nevada and Utah will send delegates
to the conventions instructed for some
pronounced free silver advocate, such
as Teller or Cameron. In fact / have
been assured that that is what these
States viii do.
Joseph IT, Manley was more reticent
when his attention was called to the
latest estimate Of McKinley's strength
made at Washington by General Gros-
yenor. He studied the figures closely
for long while and then said: "This
only shows that they 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 ''It is true that you have
discerned the premonitory rumbling of
boom for Don Cameron in the North
west?"
Its more than a premonitory RUM
bic. It's roaring. / believe he will
get the votes, not only. of Montana and
other Northwestern States but that
the votes Of the West generally viii
come to him naturally.
"Then you apprehend some trouble
over the silver question in the St. Louis
conyention?"
mo, that is an entirely different
matter and one of which / will say
nothing"
Col. William III. Hahn, of Ohio, pro-
fessed to be unable to see how the OPP
position is to head off Mckinley.