The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-01
CLEVELAND TALK.
Ex-President's Boom Makes Its
Appearance at st. Louis.
Is Prominent Feature of Ante
Convention Gossip.
N'LEAN STARTED 1T.
His Advocacy OF Former Chief
Executive Is Having Effect.
Business Interests Are Organ
izing in His Support.

st. Louis, Mo, July Talk in the
interest of Mr.. Cleveland for the presi-
dency constitutes the prominent fea-
ture of the ante-convention gossip
heard today, and the publication here
of a Washington dispatch quoting Mr..
John r. Mclean in advocacy of the
ex-president's nomination has added
somewhat to the volume of prediction.
There is no definite movement dis
cernible as yet in Mr.. CIeveland's in
terest, and the few delegates in the
city generally decline to discuss the
probabilities, saying shat all predic-
tions would be premature at this time.
The discussion is therefore confined 10
4Ioliticians other than delegates with
reference to the Cleveland nominal
ton. These are divided into two
classes-those who favor him and
those who fear him. In general
way eastern arrivals are favorable, on
the ground that Mr.. Cleveland can
carry eastern states. such as New
York, which they say no other man
can carry. 1t is asserted that strong
influence among the business interests
is being organized in his interest.
AT the Jefferson hotel where the
national committee makes its head
quarters the friends of Judge Parker
are cOngregated in large numbers and
included among them are a number of
delegations not instructed for the
New York candidate They are very
antagonistic to- Mr.. Cleveland, and be-
lieving that Mr. Parker is the most
available instrument with which to
accomplish the defeat of the ex-presi-
dent, they are quite prepared to ac-
cepG him. They freely predict Par
ker's nomination at a comparatively
early date in the convention.
Delegates instructed for Mr.. Hearst
gentleman not
to control all his forces in case of
break and the claim is made that even
| aany of them will go to Parker. In
D 'eed, the friends of Parker assert
Y'skat the Cleveland talk which is now
- plentiful, win have the Inevitable
Affect of aiding their candidate. The
, Parker men do not accept the theory
that Mclean and German are sincere
attention to past antagonism in sup
port of their theory.
Delegation Headquarters.
st. Louis, July State delegations
to the national Democratic convention
to be held in this city July will be
housed as follows:
Hotel efferson-Arkansas, Cali
fornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa.
Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, West
Virginia, Wyoming, Indian Territory,
and parts of the delegations from
Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan. Mississippi, New Hamp-
shire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Texas and Virginia.
st. Nicholas hotel-Delaware Flori-
da, North Dakota, Vermont, and parts
of the delegations from Alabama.
Georgia, Mississippi, New Hampshire
Planters hotel-Louisiana, Montana,
and parts of the delegations from New
York (Parker).
Iaclede hoteI-MiSsouri.
Southern hotel-MasSach chusetts, and
parts of the delegations from Michi-
gan, Maryland, Indiana, Georgia, New
York (Kings county, Tammany. and
state delegationsl. and Pennsylvania
in, and parts of delegations from
New York G,0O0 Tammany) and Ohio
(also Duckworth club of Cincinnati).
st. Charles hotel-Idaho (not head
c--erters), and part of Illinois dele
cation.
New st. James hotel-Kentucky
mot headquarters), and part of Mary
land and Texas delegations.
Hotel Stratford-Oregon and North
Carolina.
L Madison hoteI-South Carolina
Not seIected-District of Columbia,
Nevada, Rhode Island, and Washing
ton. y
A Bet on Cleveland.
New York, July IA bet of 81 900
was made on the Broad street curb to-
day against $500 that Grover Cleve-
land will be nominated for the preSi-
dency. There was a good deal of Of
ering of Roosevelt money. Most of
he offers were small, and ranged at
about 10 to s. but none were placed up
to early in the afternoon.
CleveIand's Private Wire.
Portsmouth N. H, July THAT
Grover Cleveland viii keep in close
touch with the Democratic national
convention is shown by the fact that
he is having a private telegraph line
built from Madison to his summer
home at Sandwich, a distance of Is
miles.