The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-04

tain are correct principles and are not the result of a tendency to exaggerate or to imagine anything. The New York Tribune states that of the 19S votes which it says are either non-' committed or not elected Mckinley will get at least one-third. Upon that very conservative basis Mckinley has sweeping majority of the delegates within reach. But let us see. During the remainder of the month there will be elected 136 delegates. Of this num- Der can anybody point out to me ten votes that will not be for Mckinley? It has been fortunate for him that this large reserve has been available, but allow that he only has 100 and then add to that the committed vote of the Tribune and the other statisticians and he is way up in the neighborhood of $50. I have gone into all this not so much to vindicate myself, for time will do that but to point out how idle is the suggestion that the national com mittee by the settlement of few con- tests which do not aggregate the amount of McKinley's majority, can turn aside the will of the people and nominate somebody else"
 Among republicans in Washington to-day are MT. Fessenden, member of the republican national committee for Connecticut, and MT. Clarkson, member for Iowa. The gentlemen had confer ences with Senators Quay and Allison and other friends This evening MT. Clarkson was asked: Has Mckinley a majority of the delegates already and what of the claim that he will be nom- mated by exclamation?
 He has not nearly a majority yet, nor will he, in my judgment" said MT. Clarkson, "enter the convention with a majority. Indeed, he will be shorter of majority on the first ballot at St. Louis than Blaine was in the emotion al year of '76; Grant in 80 or sherman | in SS, when the latter in a field of four teen candidates voted for on the first | ballot had 329 votes. He will not be nominated by exclamation, because l can say positively that Allison, Quay and Morton will remain in the contest, and so surely will Reed, and, judge, so will Bradley and Cullom. Mckinley will fall from eighty to one hundred votes short of enough to nominate at l the start, and the field will represent | from 525 to $50 votes. By the field mean Allison, Reed, Quay, Bradley, | Morton and Cullom. already suggested, | and such other available men as liar rison, Lincoln, Foraker Hobart, Davis and General Tracy of New York" l MT. Clarkson expressed the opinion | that "the fieId' would hold firm. Re- l ferring to General Harrison as being a1JI tIo otsyvc CT t1 said:
 Tn one respect General Harrison would give the earliest certainty of any ] one who could be nominated, for the day he should be nominated the coun- 1 try would know exactly what his policy as president would be on the tariff and exactly what it would be on finance, and this would quicker bring confidence and good times behind it.'
 1 MT. Clarkson considered General Grosvenor tables as "grossly inaccu- rate" He said:
 '"The result in Illinois has been ex- aggerated to McKinley's benefit and Grosvenor claims it as solid whereas | it will take the first ballot at St. Louis to show whether it will be a. majority | him. Many more mistakes could be pointed out"
 MT. Clarkson's approximate table of the first ballot is divided between Me Kinley and the field, and the unsettled contests, so far as the delegates have yet been elected figures up from total to 91S delegater, 29S for Mckinley, 4O3 for the field: S1 contested, and 136 not elected. Regarding the contests MT. Clarkson remarked:
 "All these contests will first be heard by the committee which makes up the temporary roll of the convention. Each state in the temporary convention elects a member of the committee on creden- tials and the contests are heard again before this committee. The convention will also hear the contests through the committee on credentials. So there will be three examinations of all these con- tests insuring the fairest decision. While majority of the national com mittee doubtless prefer some other can didate 1t is safe to say they will give fair hearing to every contest as will the committee on credentials or the con- vention itself.
 FOur-fffthS Ot the contests are rep resented by Mckinley people who bolt ed from the regular state or district conventions of the party. The conven- tion at St. Louis, which is going to be a very serious affair, will result in show ing that the sober judgment of ma jority of the delegates in that body will from party interest be in favor of some other candidate than Mckinley"
 New York, May SIX Senator Platt gave out a statement tonight which says: 'The Mckinley followers are hurrahing before they are out of the 1 woods. A glance at the actual state of affairs shows that the contest for the nomination is still an open one with the chances in favor of one of Major Me- Kinley's opponents. Perhaps one of the fairest of the Mckinley organs is the Philadelphia Press. Its stable of to- day shows that 76S delegates had been chosen up to the evening of Saturday, leaving 193 to be elected It assigns 401 of the delegates chosen to Mckinley, 97 to Reed, 69 to Morton, F to Cullom, 42 to Allison, 56 to Quay, Is to Bradley, and places 75 in the doubtful list"
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