The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-03
VICE PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT
BETWEEN SULzER AND TOWNE

Kansas City, July 2.-The vice presi-
Dental situation has not cleared up IN
the air TODAY. and tonight apparently
is in as much doubt as when the dele
gates to the national Democratic con-
vention. were elected There was
shifting of the scene today when Ben
jamin Shively of Indiana was taken
out of the race by his own emphatic
statement to the Indiana delegation
Not only the Indiana men, but other
/ delegates in the city, accepted the
statement of Mr.. Shively. and he is
not now considered a probability in the
race.
/ AS the contest stands after Shively's
/ retirement, the two leading candidates
seem to be Charles A. Towne and Will
\ liam SulZer. with some man from New
York like Judge Van Wyck or Elliott
DanfOrth as a possibility under certain
contingencies.
The fact is that the vice presidential
| situation is interviewer with the plat
form If there is a simple reaffirma-
ton of the Chicago platform, some New
York man may be selected for vice
president, in the hope that he will as
sist in CARRYING that state. If there
/
ToWne may be made Bryan'S running
mate 1t is pointed out as not quite
conceivable that a convention which
would refuse to make a specific dec
laration for 16 to 1, with view of car
rying some of the eastern states, would
! nominate Towne, who left the Republic
can party solely on the ground of hi:
attachment to silver. 1t is conceded
by all the Democratic leaders tina
TONNES strength is in the west and OF
silver platform. and that he woulC
not be strong in the east on modified
platform.
While it is not a certainty tina
Towne would be nominated, even i
there was a specific 16 to l deciara
ton, it is generally believed that hi
chances would be greatly improved b.
. such action, and his friends are making
every effort to bring about that result
! in the convention.
New York's Position.
New York is still an uncertain guam
tity in the field. 1t is still asserte
that she has no candidate, althoug
e there is more genuine activity in tn
S Sulzer canvass than any other that
< being made. Mr.. SulZer, while Ne'
= York man, is not the candidate of NeN
1 York, and is making his canvass out
I size IOdI Q6IeSdllOH. 1Idl Tic uCiS
K cation, under favorable condition:
a such as concessions in the platform
= would unite on some other man seem
d to be perfectly understood, but
e would undoubtedly be brought abou
by a movement from outside the stat'
:, Whether the convention would unite o
= Danforth or Van Wyck is uncertain
because of the personality of Hill
e There is yet a great deal OF talk abor
It the ex-senator in connection with tn
Is vice presidential nomination, and
IS case of a modified platform he migf
be rushed upon the convention. 4
{" the same time it is well understood
e that his selection would not be sati:
e factory 10 Mr.. Bryan-less satisfactor
IS perhaps, than the other New York me
re mentioned Mr.. Hill himself insis
,r that he is not to be considered. ar
is says it in a way to indicate that
is does not want it, and that he hS
IS doubts about his selection If he q
want it. There may be some dal
st horses in the stable, some men WI
* have not yet been considered posslb
lie or available, some man like SewaIl, Il
le presentation of whose name was
r surprise and whose nomination was n
AZ even surmised- There are plenty
m guesses made, but no one feels autho
IS lied to make definite predictions.
a. Ex-senator Hill returned from Lii
IL coin today, and il may be said that