Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1896-06-18
GRAY's DEFEAT.
Friends of Cleveland Circulating
False Reports.

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Friends of Cleveland Circulating
II False Reports.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 12.-The friends
OF the late Ex-Governor and Minister to
Mexico, Isaac Paisley Gray, and who
died in February of last year while en-
route to his post after brief leave OF
absence at his home here, have been
considerably interested, not to say ex-
ercised, over statements published
recently in New York and Chicsgo
papers and thence recopied over the
country, having relation to alleged
restrained relations between President
Cleveland and Vice-President Stevenson
and which specifically states that Mr..
Clevela1d preferred ex Governor Gray
| tc all others as the nominee for vice.
president at the Chicago convention OF
| 1892, and that Gray's defeat was a dis
appointment 80 him. There are those
IN this city snd elsewhere who know
that this statement is absolutely I'M
true both in substance aud fact, and
who know further thst it was through
Mr. Cleveland's direct intervention that
the old war horse of the Indiana Demo
cracy failed TO recaive the honor of
nomination for the second place on the
ticket.
The facts, as known to certain of the
late ex-Governor's con6dents, and
which, moreover. will not be contra
dicted by those Immediately concerned,
are that between midnight of that
memorable June 22nd of '92, when
Bourke Cochran and the other repre-
sentatives of Tammsny Hall kept the
delegate in their seats until day break
ia their vain and unsuccessful effort to
defeat Mr.. Clevelsud's nomination, and
10 O'Clock of the morning OF the 23rd,
when the conven ton resssem bied &.
complete the ticket, ex Secretary Whit
ney and Daniel Lamont, who were in
charge of Mr.. Cleveland's interests, re-
eeived clear and explicit expression OF
opinion from him that the nomination
Of Mr.. Gray as his associate would not
be acceptable. At midnight the selec-
ton of the Indiana man as Mr.. Cleve-
lands consort had been regarded as so
much OF foregone conclusion that the
Indiana delegation regarded additional
work as unnecessary; and
hose who participated in the conven-
ion. either as delegates or spectators,
will recollect how, assured OF victory
md having no inkling that any counter
movement was in the air, it marched
nto the wigwam at 10 o'clock on the
morning of the 23rd bearing before it
he Grey banner, while the band footed
he strains Of: "See, the Conquering
Hero Comes"
But between the recess of the conven-
ion at day break and it's resssembling
tx hours later, the fact that Mr.. Cleve-
aud was not kindly disposed towards
tray had been quietly circulated among
be more influential delegations. The
DOM for Stevenson, enveloped IMPLIED
es of secrscy was set agoing. and knowl-
dge of what was on foot failed to reach
1e Indiana circle, and as a result the
slegates from that State SAT psrslyzed
their seats while delegation after
allegation, of whose support they had
,nsdered themselves assured, cast it's
ote for the Illinois candidate. When
le vote was announced it became ap-
aren't that the eleveuth-hour move =,
emit against Gray had won only by the
lin of its teeth, for Stevenson was de-
ared the nominee by fifty nine plural
y only. out of total of ming hundred
,legatee, and With 1874 votes scattering
ne disappointment was a severe one
ex Governor Gray, and from it he
'ver fully recovered