The record-union., 1896-04-30
With the Chances at Present in Favor
Of the Opposition.
Ants and CullOmites Making Deals
With Delegates Whose COnven-
tiOns Had Simply IndOrsed the
Ohio Candidate Tanner
Nominated for Governor on the
First Ballot and William NOrthCOtt
for Lieutenant Governor on the
Second Ballot.

second Ballot.
SPRINGFIELD CID, April 29.-It
will be nip and tuck in the Republican
State Convention between the support
ers and opponents of the Mckinley in
structionS, with the chances, unless
there is another change in the situation
before morning, in favor of the opposi-
ton. There was a time on the floor Of
the convention this afternoon when
the machine was inclined to admit it's
defeat. This was before the second bal
lot for Lieutenant-G Governor had been
ordered. The cloSeneSS of the contest
for this nomination, however, enabled
the antiMcKinleyites and Cullomites
to make a number of deals with dele
gates to some of those whose cOnven-
tions had simply indorsed instead of in
structed for the Ohio candidate, and to-
night they are pursuing the same tao
tics with the supporters of candidates
for other offices yet to be chosen.
They are strengthened in their posi-
ton, moreover, by the development that
the Committee on Delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, the members of
the various district delegations, turned
out to be overwhelmingly anti-McKin-
ley, the ticket selected by votes rang
ing from IS to and 10 to 3, being COM
posed of Ex-Governor Fifer of Bloom
ington, William Penn Nixon and W. r.
Patterson of Chicago and David Littler
of Springfield. Mayor Swift of Chicago
received but five votes, General Nc
Nulla, the Chicago Mckinley manager
but three, while Ex-Governor Oglesby
was shelved by unanimous consent on
the ground of his advanced age and
physical infirmities.
The friends of Ex-Governor McKin-
ley insist, however, that the makeup Of
this body has no bearing on the ulti-
mate result inasmuch as the members
of this and other committees were par
ceieo out with the view of giving each
county fair showing on all committees,
rather than with reference to any ex-
preston of opinion of Presidential pref
erences, and they point to the fact that
the Committee on Resolutions, selected
in the same way, and at the same dis
trict meetings, contains two friends of
Mckinley to every opponent
AT the same time they are compelled
to admit that under the influence of SEN
ator Cullom's arguments and pleadings
some of the instructed delegations are
getting restive and inclined to break
away. This was clearly evidenced to-
day in the case Of the delegation from
Sangamon County, Senator Cullom' s
home. 1t had been given ironclad Nc
Kinley instructions, but, nevertheless.
by vote Of 80 to 26, it sent a Cullom
delegate to the Committee on National
Delegates. The Mckinley men pro-
tested, and on a partial verifcation Of
the vote reduced the majority to two.
but David Littler, one of the Senator's 8
closest friends, was in the chair. and ad-
journed the meeting before the verifi-
cation could be completed and the re-
mainder of the business completed.
Much of these methods marked the close
of the first days session of the State
Convention
The nomination of Captain J. r.
Tanner of Clay County for Governor on
the first ballot and William Nethercott
or Greenville for Lieutenant-Gove
on the second ballot was the sum total
OF the work accomplished by the con-
vent1on in session of nearly six hours
rms showing was due in part to the
dilatory methods of the machine man.
ayers, who were anxious to secure
whatever advantage could be gained
by another night of missionary eff
fort, and in part to the atrocious acous-
tics of the big globe-like structure
which renders it necessary for an
nouncement from the chair motion and
10 tod
rot-like, by strong-lunged attaches sta
toned in the center and opposite ends
of the hall
The Introductory and nominating
speeches, made for the most part by
CHOSEN representatives of the opposi-
ton, were long drawn out. Captain
Tanner. upon being presented after his
nomination, spoke for thirty minutes.
although not more than a hundred peo-
pie in his immediate vicinity heard a
word he said, and the bulk of the dele
gates and spectators kept up a tempest
of ironical cheering. Their methods.
however, had the intended effect. and
when dusk came the vast audience was
tired out Nevertheless, it overwhelm-
irgly voted down a resolution to ad
journ until tomorrow.
Nominations for Secretary of State
were declared in order This was a
threatened upsetting Of the plans of
the machine. After a hurried confer
ence with the chair, another resolution,
to adjourn was put in the din and de-
clared carried, and the chair was va
Gated before a tenth of the delegates
were aware of the situation. Ex-Sen-
ator Calhoun, the Mckinley leader,
mounted a bench to protest, but there
was no Chairman to recognize him. so
the throng melted away
With solitary exception, one and all
the speakers to-day avoided mention of
the names of the various Republican
candidates for the Presidency. Con-
gresham Hopkins made an eulogistic
reference to Mckinley in sneaLinp of