New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-28
PLEADING WITH MLEAN.
4NTT-P4RKER MEN MEET.
GormaR, Gufey and Smith Seeking
OhiO's 10 Votes.
IFRow THE TRIBUNE BUREAU

Washington. June &1.-The Gorman-Towne
proposition was submitted the critical IN
spection Of John r. Mclean toy. Its exhib-
itors were Senator German himself, Colonel
Guffey. Of Pittsburg. and ex-senator James
Smith. jr., Of New-Jersey, all fresh from Demo
cratic conferences in New York
Mr. Mclean holds n option the forty-six
votes of Ohio which. under resolution of the
State convention, are bound by the unit rule
tust as are those of New York. Several times in
the past the Ohio delegation has been expensive,
and for a while Mr. Mclean stayed out Of the
game, letting Tom L. Johnson have a chance.
but the present delegation went begging on the
bargain counter with no bidders so Mr.. IcLean,
largely through charitable motives and at an
absurd discount acquired controlling interest.
just what he viii do with it al st. Louis has
not yet been revealed to any man. although
some persons have suspicion he may throw its
weight at a favorable opportunity to some
such dark horse as. say John r. -IcLeap.
Senator Gorrcan, after fine Sunday with tbs
grandchildren and the chickens and cattle a.
his Laurel farm. which is like Esopus. in that its
owner is never garru3ous there, came into X ash
ington this morning. and WAS at the Mclean
house bv- 10 O'Clock. Guffey ard Smith soon
.oined him - the Injury of the finest private
Mrary in Inc national capital. The postman
had been al hour ahead Of them. as a fresh en-
fsope postmarked Albany, near the top OF the
waste basket, disclosed to the eagle eye OF
Colonel Guffey. In the course Of couple Of
hours Mr.. Mclean heard all about the New
York conferences, and lot besides. Nine-tenths
OF II, ne learned. related &c the fear OF Cleve-
land Thar was all that WAS animating Hill in
his support of Parker-to keep the convention
from stampading 10 Cleveland.
Murphy's pronOuncement for Cleveland months
ago was for the sole purpose of alarming the
J. 3o off
and though IT had been somewhat effectual. Mr..
Mclean told, Tammany was thorough
iy alarmed lest the Parker boom possessed dan
eerous staying qualities. So last week the Cor
rnan-GUffey- -Hearst-Tammany coalition incu-
bsted the GorTnan-Towne proposition, fully
ognizing its elements Of radical weakness, but
hoping that il would appeal for support to a
usually unterrihAd Democracy menaced not only
by Cleveland, but also by Parker.
Mr.. Mclean is president of the Washington
Gas Works. which monopolizes the illumina-
ton Of the entire District of Columbia but he
Is exasperatingly dark in political conferences
unu! he sees where daylight is located He
apparently looking for sunshine to-day-not
,noonshine-and the Gorman-Guffey torch bear
srs We're ove-balIasted with gloom. Their Cor
Snan-Towne transparency emitted faint flicker.
but it did not quite dazzle Mr.. Mclean. even in
The cool privacy Of that well shaded library.
al ii next week at St Louis and may or may
mot then decide to add his forty-siX Ohio votes
20 the fame. II il has a good prospect to win.
III Tammany sticks 10 it and squiImS out of the
Parker rule and if the danger Of Cleveland be-
ZONES real then Ohio may be defeated upon
The Gorrlan-Towne combination long that
proposition has 4 ghost OF a show
But, first Of all, Mr. Mclean insists upon
safe and sane" platform such as he might, in
IN emergency, for instance he willing TO run
on himself. If such emergency turns out TO
Ne preposterously impossible Of occurrence he
Nould hate TO see those forty-six Ohio votes,
cheap they were, be too precipitate and get
themselves into the wrong band wagon But he
was heart and soul with the coalition to avert
Ceveland-a2d, for that MATTER. Hill.
be heard-and he thought McClel'an's foreign
birth made his nomination inexDedient. so the
report runs. So. the whole, Nj Mclean
could be counted for the coalition soon as il
exhibited q little bit more stamina. when ii got
nut Of the incubator and chirruped a little
louder in the bright sunshine.
As they came away Colonel Guffey wondered
whether that letter was from Wolfert's Roost.
end what Was I'm it, anyway.
Senator German went back to Laurel 1T -
O'Clock. Colonel Guffey left here for Pittsburg
ht 7:45 O'Clock and ex-senator Smith returned
10 NeW-ToTk the limited.