The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-04-01
POLITICAL TALK
Clarkson Say 10 Candidates
Will Hav, Votes Enough
to Nominate
Early in the Convention at st.
st. Louis, and That Mckin-
ley Cannot Win.
Allison Will Probably Be the
Choice Others Talk For
FayOrite Sons.

in a nutshell is this: Nobody Will enter
the convention with votes enough by
100 to 100 to nominate him on the first,
second. third, fourth, fifth, sixth, sew.
enth, eighth, ninth. or tenth ballot.
1.-The nominee, therefore, vi be q
second choice man.
mckinley leads today in the matter
of Instructions. and will hold this lead.
Allison is the strongest second choice
and will gain in strength right along.
therefore predict Allison's nomina-
ton"
The speaker was Hon. James S.
Clarkson of Iowa, member OF the Re-
publican national committee, who is
here with other members Of the sub
committee looking after the convention
matters. Referring again to Mckinley,
Mr.. ClarksOn said:
His campaign has been so conducted
as to ALLEVIATE all the second choice
states, and for that reason he IS today
the weakest man in the race, concedlng
that he cannot be nominated on the
first ballot. don't know a single DEL
egation that will go to him when its
candidate is dropped.
Allison n Favorite Second Choice.
'On the other hand, Senator Allison
is the second choice of nearly every
state or district that has elected its del
egates. Mr.. Reed will have as much
strength i'll the South as Mckinley.
Il have just returned from a trip
through the West continued MIR.
Clarkson. In all the region west of
Nebraska, the sentiment is yet un-
formed as to men. The people of the
Pacific coast and mountain states are
discussing a great issue that of money
and not men. They will send to St.
Louis in June 80 OF 100 delegates in
structed solidly for silver, without
reference to the views of any man on
this great question. That a vote SO
massed will have to be reckoned with,
and that seriously, nobody with preten-
p]retentions to political foresight or
acumen can doubt.
1T may be that Idaho, Montana,
Nevada and Utah will send delegations
to the convention instructed for some
pronounced free silver advocate, such
as Teller or Cameron. l have, in fact,
been assured that this is what these
states will do
Marley Was More Reticent.
Secretary Joseph H. Manley was more
reticent. When his attention was called
to the latest estimate of Mckinley's
strength made at Washington by Gen
eral Grosvenor, and published in a
morning paper, in which the Ohioan
was given 800 votes ON t he first ballot,
out of the total of 372 delegates elected
up to Saturday night, he studied the
figures closely for a long while and then
said:
This only shows what they are still
claiming. They can claim all they
want. What we want and what we
are going to have are votes.
Carter for Don Cameron.
senator Thomas Carter, chairman OF
the Republican national committee,
was asked:
lis it true that you have discerned
the premonitory rumbling Of a boom
for Don Cameron in the Northwest?'
.'It's more han a p%remonitory rum
BILE. It's roaring. l believe we vii
get the votes not only of Montana anC
other Northwestern states, but that tht
votes Of the West generally will come
to him naturally
Then you apprehend some trouble
over the silver question in the st. LOul
convention
Now that is an entirely differen
matter, and one about which l will sa,
nothing"
Colonel William H. Hahn of Obi
professed to be unable to see how tn
opposition is to he able to head off Nc
Kinley.