Evening journal., 1896-05-05
HARRISON THEIR HOPE.
Anti Mckinley Men Looking
Toward the Ex-President.
BRADLEY FAvoRs THE 1ND1AN1AN.

The Forthcoming Republican Convention
In the Hoosier State Promises Some In
teresting Developments-Leaders organ
izinG the Field Against Mckinley.
New YORK, Mny 5.-The Journals In
Ganapolis correspondent says:
The friends OF OK President Harrison
are promising sensation before the Ro-
publican state convention meets and are
asserting with more confidence than at
any previous time that the convention
will not instruct for Mckinley.
They give as q reason that they have let
ters from prominent New York Republic
ans declaring that they now realize that
Morton will have no show in the conven-
tion, and that the full delegation will
give its support to Harrison on the first
ballot II he can hold the 30 Indiana dele
gates They say that they do not wish to
present their documentary evidence ex-
cept as a Inst resort, and that II the dele
gates will not agree TO instruct they Will
not make public the names OF the men
who have written them thus or show their
letters
IL when all the delegates arc here, 1t is
evident that instructions arc contemplate
ed, they Will then show the letters, and
VIC nhilda olHuth " NAtln wall carry lOlNb
and prevent instructions, for the issue
Will then bo squarely joiRed In Indiana
between Mckinley and Harrison.
Inquiry among the men who mako
these assertions fails to secure the names
OF the writors, but it Is intimated that
they are some OF the most prominent men
In the New York delegation and are con-
elusive OF the sentiment OK the delegates.
McIIfnloV Men MOI Frto hteped.
The Mckinley men do not seem TO be
frightened by these statements and are as-
ranging TO force instFuctions, no matter
what 1glYt may result ia the conveption.
They ore aggressive and detormined and
reply to the foreshadowing of the sonsa-
tion that they are aware of the tricks of
the Platt machine and do not intend to
be deferred from their purpose by any
thing that may be said or done.
ChaiYmHn Gowdy docs not believe that
such letters have boon written, but he ad-
mits that strong outside pressure has been
brought to bear upon Mr.. Harrison TO re-
call his letter declining to bO a candidate
Some OF President Harrison's friends
called upon him and requested him to.at-
tend the Republican state convention on
Thursday and deliver IA speech So the dele
gates He declined TO say positively wheth-
or be would be present OF not but init
mated that he might attend for short
/ time
The friends of Mckinley have arranged
for a monster mass meeting for tonight, at
which General Lew Wallace and other Nc.
Kinley men will deliver addresses
The other candidates for governor are
trying 80 form a combination against ex-
Congressman Doxey OF Anderson, and IL
Is being charged chat he is buying up she
negro delegates in this city and in other
county delegations, and that the colored
delegates afo for him ~ a man. His
friends say be has NOT spent dollar eE'
eept fer lGeistIDate expenses. and thai she
charges aRsinss him are due 70 the fact
shat he is lead Ing in The raee.
Jnlius OhAHabePa The Journals Wash
ington correspondent says: A isw Rspub.
iioan political impsgfaTlos wiz soon 80 ous
Of business. Not IN many years has so
pitiful a spectacle been observed as that OF
tina bitteE enemies Of ez-Psesident Harri,
son lining pp, as the football players say,
30 nominsts him for the presidency.
This Rttitudo OF the managers wAs fore
shadowed several weeks ago by Mr.. Man
ley, when IN conversation with the writer
he reierred TO Harrison rs "the candidate
Of last resort" Evidently. therefore, tho
last ditch has been reached and it is dug
in tho state Of Indiana
70 Harrison all eyes are new turned as
the only man who can possibly defeat Nc
KinleY as st. Louis Individual eandi-
dates are no longer mentioned, and the
contest isAdmitted 20 have narrowed down
10 Mckinley and the field.