Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-27
CARLIsLE'S BOOM
His Friends Think he Will Be the
Only Candidate.
ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT Is CLAIMED
Delegates They Start With and
Those to Be Picked Up.
SOUND MONEY MEMS EFFORTS

The movement to make Secretary Carlisle
the candidate of the sound money demo-
Gratis for President is taking a shape which
leads his friends to believe that he will be
practically the only candidate before the
convention. The Secretary has declared
that the platform is more important than
the candidate, and this view is shared by
the administration. Their theory is how
ever, that having made a sound money
platform, the northern delegates will do
much to unite the party by placing
southern man upon the platform. The one
man who will meet the conditions of SYM
pathy with the platform. devotion to the
Union cause during the war, and represen-
tation Of the south, they argue, is John G.
Carlisle Of Kentucky. He will not be an
aVcwed candidate in the sense that party
workers will be seeking pledges of personal
votes for him. but it is believed that the
sound money men will feel general dispo-
sition to support him, and that many
southern delegations will warmly welcome
the idea of running southern man upon
the national ticket. The vice presidency in
such case will go to the east, and there
will be ample field for choice among such
men as Gov: Pattison of Pennsylvania, ex-
Representative Tracey of New York and
Gov. Russell of Massa chusetts The friends
OF these men may be the more ready to
second the Carlisle movement, because of
the logical necessity which Mr.. Carlisles
domination will create for putting upon the
ticket with him a man from the northeast
Claims of Administration Supporters.
The supporters of the administration are
girding themselves for the contest to Sc
cure a sound money plank at Chicago
They start with DOS votes practically pledg-
he nI1 IeJa
gates. These .9S votes come from the fol-
lowing sections: New England, rs; New
YORK, ~, Pennsylvania, "a; New Jersey ~;
Delaware, q; Maryland, 16; Wisconsin, n
and Minnesota, Is. 1t remains to add about
l6o votes from the doubtful list The sta ties
where these will be principally sought will
be Ohio. with 40 votes; Indiana, with 80
votes, Illinois, with As votes; kentucky,
with 26 votes; Iowa, with 70 votes, and
Louisiana, with 1G votes. The sound money
men will make a stubborn fight in other
states and expect to pick up plenty Of
district delegates in Michigan, Florida,
Virginia, West Virginia and the Dakotas,
but the fight for the big delegations will
chiefly center in the states named, with
their total of 1872 votes. Victory for the
sound money men in all these states would
give them 400 votes. Half a dozen of the
delegates chosen in Missouri are believed
to be gold men, and, while they were in
structed for silver by the state convention,
they were noe instructed to vote as a unit,
and they may prefer to respect the local
sentiment which made them delegates
rather than the mandate of the state con-
Vention. Several of tie delegates from the
state OF Washington are also sound money
men, and several from Georgia are likely
to be SC. Under these conditions the sound
money men believe that the chances are
excellent for making a winning fight at
Chicago.
Contested Delegations.
The fact is keenly appreciated by the
SOID6
put things in rcse-colored light for them
They realize that the loss of one of the
big doubtful delegations would change the
color of the situation and make their fight
a hard one. There will be, however, con-
testing delegations from Texas with thirty
votes, and Nebraska with sixteen votes
The exclusion of both sets of delegates
from the preliminary organization will re-
duce the convention to $40 delegates of
which 436 Will constitute a majority. The
sound money delegation from Nebraska
would appear to be entitled to seats in the
Convention to the exclusion of the silver
delegation, in view of the big majority
they cast last fall. If both contesting dele
cations are admitted from Nebraska and
Texas, with half vote each, it will give
the sound money men q votes and would
offset the loss of Kentucky or Iowa. The
reliance of the sound money leaders, how
ever, Is upon what they regard as the
sober second thought of delegates from
states which are nomnally for silver. They
believe that it will be possible to demon
strate that the party will court defeat
ard cannot raise money enough to carry
on its national headquarters If it declares
for an abrupt change in the monetary
standard of the country. The sound money
men believe that the more conservative
this situation will admit the folly of de-
stroying the party in the east and throw
ing away the ia votes Of New York, New
Jersey. Connecticut Delaware and Mary
In 1 ar ha rnfa of
Potency of CarlisIe's Name.
In this policy Of conservatism the name
of Secretary Carlisle is counted a potent
charm. The southern members will be
told that there is way to stir the en-
tkusiasm Of the party in the south, to
bring back into the ranks those who have
left it because of the domination of eastern
interests, and at the same time to attract
the votes of the great conservative states
of the east, and that that way is the NOM
nation of Mr.. Carlisle. The Secretary
of the Treasury is likely to have votes
scattered all over the south, independent
OF the influence of the money question
upon the delegates, and 1t is believed that
when the eastern sound money delegations
go to these southern delegates and assure
| them that they are ready to plump the
votes of the great northern states for Mr..
Carlisle there will be a spontaneous out
burst Of good feeling in which the names
of all other candidates will be drowned
| in the acclaim for his nomination. The
| fact that such an outcome of the conven-
ton is possible will, it is believed, weaken
| the free silver sentiment from the start
Delegations which might otherwise go to
Chicago with their teeth set to make
| fight for free silver ana to bolt the con-
vention If beaten will according to this
| view, lose much Of their bitterness Of feel
Ing when 1t d minated that a southern
man can be nominated by northern votes
If he Is put upon platform which will
| make 1t possible for him to carry the great
sound money states whose votes have al
ways proved necessary to elect a demo-
cratic President.
Hotel Arrivals.