The record-union., 1896-05-04
MAJORITY OF THE DELEGATES.
THAT III WHAT GROSVENOR
CLAIr1S FOR rl'kINLEY.
He Says Nearly Five Hundred Are
Now Pledged, and Hundred
TIore Will be Elected.

WASHINGTON, May 3.-Genera1
Grosvenor gave out his weekly state
| ment Of Mckinley delegates tonight
lie claims the election of 49o who are
instructed or pledged to the Ohio can
didate. He points ont that there arc
us votes unelected and claims that Nc
Kinley will have more than 100 of tha;
number.
He furthermore states that there ara
unnamed and unclaimed delegates east
of the Allegheny Mountains among the
| delegates counted for other candidates
who will support Mckinley.
General Gr2svcnor says: 1T will be
remembered that on a former occasion
| stated that the 1st Of May would show
Mckinley with a majority of the dele
gates elected. The 1st of May has come
and my prediction has been verified. In
the last week, While the conventions
cid not produce a startling number OF
delegates for any one, there came into
| the campaign some very remarkable,
and to many minds unexpected results.
The Endorsement of Mckinley by Yer
mont marked the location of an active
Mckinley sentiment which had for a
long time been manifest to the intelli-
gent observers in all the States of New
England. The outbreak of popular SEN
timent in Illinois, which overwhelmed
the party organization of that wonder
fully organized State and swept away
the plans of the BOSSES and overturned
the calculations of everybody, indicated
that the tide which was fondly hoped
by many would be arrested and possibly
turned back, is rising higher and higher,
and sweeps across the continent with
Irresistible force. The echo of Vermont
was responded to by the triumphant
Shout of McKinley's friends in Arizona,
and the reflex wave carried his fla G
with irresistible momentum to wave
in Illinois. Like causes, like results in
politics, and where an election is thus
carried by the overwhelming popular
sentiment against all organized forms
in one State it is always fair to pre-
sumo that the same result will follow in
other States.
There are still to be elected in Ohio
and Indiana eight delegates, whose
votes have constantly been counted for
Mckinley. / have added three votes
in Illinois because of a telegram re-
ceived last night, stating that Ray
mond, Stewart and Knaff of the Chi
cago delegation had announced them
selves for Mckinley and all the balance
of the differences between my high
water figures of to-day and the con-
servative figures of the other gentlemen
grow out of the fact that / will not per-
nit myself to disparage the election of
our friends in Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas and Florida simply because con-
tests have been filed. So it will appear
in the end, when we reach st. Louis
that my table of votes will be more than
verified by the ultimate result when
the roll of the convention is called-if
It ever is called-upon the nomination
for President of the United States.
Last week I omitted Connecticut be-
cause. I did not see fit to raise any
questions that would irritate anybody
but / have received letters and tele-
grams from Connecticut this week that
make it imperative to place six of the
convention votes for Mckinley
Nobody knows better than the op-
position that there are in the States
east of the Allegheny Mountains no
less than twenty votes which / am not
claiming which will be cast for McKin-
ley on the first ballot 1 want to call at
tenition now to the block of States that
have given their votes substantially
solid to the Ohio candidates: West Vir-
ginia, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska, South Dakota, North Dakota,
Minnesota and Nebraska, and lying
along south OF this block are Tennessee
and Arkansas. Here we have solid
block of States in the great heart Of the
continent, representing nearly half the
electoral college, voting with practical