St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 16, 1892

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1 ab “vy , * ogy 1 * 1 ‘ 1 7 > 4 a * . * ott * hea . 4 ä 7 * 1 9 * ‘ mA, 24 * aie * me” BS . A 2 Na —— yy AU QUICK Feu estate in St. Louisisabonanza. Real . @state agents point out all the good things in every Sunday’s POST-DISPATOH. St. 4 nis VOL. 43, NO. 307. THE HILL MEN. Tammany’s Chieftains Arrive in 222 Force at Chicago. Morrison's Name Used to Divide’ the Cleveland Delegations, BOIES WILL REFUSE TO ACCEPT SECOND PLACE. ° Gov. The Situation in Illinois Growing Inter- esting—Delegates Puzzled by Ambigu- ous Instructions—Why Iowa Will Stand by Her Fayorite Son—Dickinson Says Cleveland Will Win Without a Struggle—The Big Wigwam. CHICAGO, II., June 16.—The battle has de- gun inearnest. The big Hill leaders are on the ground and at work with their character- isticenergy. Lleut.-Gov. Sheehan, Big Tam- many Chief Croker, Edward Murphy, Chair- man of the New York State Committee, and William H. Clark, the Corporation Counsel of New York, arrived at the Auditorium Hotel this morning and immediately threw open the Um and Tammany headquarters. Visi- tors began to rush to them at once in quest of information but they found the New Yorkers rather reticent. Richard Croker gave the Post-DIsPaTcH correspondent the first audience. **We held a conference on the train coming into the city,“ said the Tammany chieftain, “and we agreed not to talk until to-night, by which time we hope to have been able to make a casual survey of the fleld.’’ Mr. Croker refused to talk for publication regarding the sort ot a campaign that Tam- many intends to make here, but it is safe to say that it will not be of the sort that Tam- many made in St. Louis in 1876 against Tilden and against Cleveland in 1884. Croker isa much more conservative man than John Keily, and he does not Delieve in abusive methods. Tammany will earnestly support Hill, but it will not abuse and villify Cleveland, as it did in 1684, nor will it claim that in chse of Cleveland’s nomination that there will be a boltand that he cannot carry New York. It will be content with asserting thatis extremely doubtfulif Cleveland can carry New York. Lieut. Gov. Sheehan, or ‘‘Blue-eyed Billy,“ as the boys call him, was more communicat- ive than any of the others of the party. Mr. Sheehan is here as the personal representative of Senator Hill. ‘‘I re- gard the outlook as very encourag- ing. be said. Things loox much better for Hill than they did a short time ago. Hill has an excellent chanceof belng nomi- nated and I believe that he will be. The re- sult of the Ohioconvention is grea in His favor and I hear there are encouraging com- 11 in the Illinots legation. The ew York delegation Its all rightand will be loyal to Hill to the end.’ This afternoon the Posr-Dtsrarou corre- spondent-had a talk with Edward Murphy, chairman of the New York delegation, after he had circulated about the lead- ing hotels and sized up the situation. r. Murphy said the only chance Cleveland has isto be nominated on the first ballot, and he regards that as impossible. With Cleveland as an impossibility, he thinks that Hill’schances are better than those of any other man. The New Yorkers are greatly elated with the condition in which they find the Morrison boom. They say that with Morrison as an open can- didate he will take at least one hun- dred votes from Cleveland, They think that from information they have from St. Louis that several of the Missouri delegates will disobey their instructions and vote for Mor- rison. MV. H. Phelps is keeping the Hill men posted regarding the Missour! delegation. The pian of the Hill men isto getas many candidates in the field as possible so as to prevent a nomination on the first ballot. ‘The fight against Cleveland will be very simi- lar to the one that was made against Harri- son at Minneapolis. FOR TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN. There is a good deal of speculation regard- ing the temporary rr ot the con- vention. The sub-committee of the National Committee reaghes here to-morrow, but it is given out that the tem chair- man may not be _ selecte until Mon- day. Henry Watterson, chairman of the sub- committee. Secretary Sherin of the National Committee and several local Demo- crats got together this afternoon to look over the field. The names of ex-Assistant lostmaster-General Steven- son and Speaker Craft of the tate House of Representatives were suggested as available timber for the position. ‘The sub- committee is composed of Henry Watterson, Senators Brice of Ohio, Gorman of Mary- land and Ransom of North Carolina. The vacancy caused My, the death of Senaior Barbour of Virginia will be filled by the Vir- xinia delegation. The committee is decidedly anti-Cleveland and the temporary chairman will, therefore, probably be chosen from among the opponents of the ex-President. National Committeeman ther of Mis- sour! was questioned abo the political situation, ut said that 10 he was a National Committeeman he would not mingle in the fight. Missouri, he said, isa stron Cleveland State and he thought Clevelan would get nearly all the votes of the State. AS TO GRAY OF INDIANA. Will English, a delegate from Indiana, and asonof the Democratic candidate for the Vice-Presidency when Hancock was its Pres!- dential standard-bearer, was seen this afternoon. Mr. English said that his father had come to Chicago, but was visiting his kinfolks and would not take an active in- terest in the contest. He is a stron Cleveland man, and he thought Cleveland would break neari even on the Indiana State delegation, though only twelve of the thirty elegates were Oleveland men. Mr. English considered that there were about four doubtful delegates, — 5 he expected Mr. Cleveland to et some of these doubtful votes. 4 Jevelana has lost one man in the delegation, as Richardson of the district, who was in- structed for Cleveland, will not so vote, but will cast his ballot Indiana delegation meeting Saturday, at which will come the question whether or not Gray’s name shall be presented, The delegation is not pound by the unit rule, and there will be a strong effort made b the Cleveland men to prevent instructions ing given to present Gray's name The anti. Cleveland men, on the contrary, want to put Gray in the race, and also every man who rsuaded itis hoped to divide the strength of the eader, as all concede Cleveland to be, and by getting in the race & number of favorite sons to prevent Cleveland’s nomi tion * the ores Ballot. If the 1. lotin be prolonged it is believed that the dark borses all stand a show of de- veluping strength. A well-iniormed Indiana politician said that if mimois bad a candidate Indiana would almost certainly follow suit, but if Unndois did not show'the lead the matter was uncer- tain. Boles’ name will of course be presented and together with Cleveland, Hill and sibly Cariisie, a sextet would be enter the race A of the gossip to- day was to the effect that Mr. Gorman would not have his name presen rovided Mr. Cleveland was present and it was added that the the Maryland delegation = WF gy 85 Sogo ne eae i yy not 0 leve- 2 intend ‘that. there shall not be any place in town where some ot his foliowers in may not be found, and they will have bead- quarters in at least th „ and, Phere. i more of x 83 herever there is a prospect of namber of dele ™ g. there — leveland 1 will m which to advocate their leader’s a place fro "Last night a large club parlor was engaged atthe Paimer House, aud wor- there, g headquarters will be- opened OTHERED ABOUT INSTRUCTIO nundis hold the key to the Presidential situation when the National Democratic Con- vention next. meets on Tu The men under the bi hate will not be coming into > ong out of t ive southern end of tne State un- to-morrow, and the delegation will not meet until Saturday n when it is ex- ted they Will alf de here. The course to pursued will depend largely upon the con- struction of the resolutions ata at the Spmngseld event aay 2 e SY The utions were a opted e Spring: fleld Convention after a fight bet tween the Cleveland and Pulmer men, and the former won in the formation of the committees, * mee it the Palmer delegates were in — in the convention. The — adopt that night were a sort of com- promise and declare that the delegation Shall vote for Grover Cleveland until it is known that the nomination is to come to this | side of the Allegheny Mountains, when the 1171 is to vote for John M. Palmer. Stoo early to form any opinion regard- ing the action Of the delegation, but the gen- eral opinion 8 Chicago ‘politicians is that on the first ballot the forty-eight votes will go to Cleveland. Tne only two dele gates from out of town who have been in Chicago this week are Sherwood Dixon of the Seventh District and John Donnelly of the Fifth. Both ot them are strong Palmer men and both were members of the big 101 in the last Legislature which elected him to the United States Senate, Sherwood Dix- on is one of the best lawyers in Illinois, and ee a Morrison man at heart, said on Monday that he considered the instructions as calling fora vote for Palmer until it Was apparent that he could not be nominated, John Donnelly, just in from Woodstock, says that Palmer lias twenty-eight votes out of the delegation, and the rest are either Cleveland or Morrison men whose interests are identical. THE MORRISON MEN. The plan of Col. Morrison’s friends in IIII- nois since the State Convention, has been to construe the resolutions as liberating the delegates after Oleveland is gone. They hope by this doctrine to secure a vote for the Colonel for the presidency. Behind this construction it has been said that a scheme lies to place Col. Morrison on the ticket with Mr. Cleveland and run him for Vice-Presiaent, upon the statementto the Cleveland forces in the convention that it was the Colonel’s friends in Illinois who de- feated Palmer in the State Oonvention and made him a less formidable candidate against the ex-President than he would have been under hide-bound instructions for him. Senator Palmer, as his correspondence shows, favored resolutions simiiar to tnose adopte4, and is himself in nofalse position. The truthis that his campaign was badly managed by those who assumed to control it. The disposition onthe part of Democrats in Chicago, however, seems to be to treat Illin- ois’ favorite sons fairly and to give eacha chance. This means that after Cleveland the delegation will go to Palmer and then to Morrison or vice versa if the Colonel appears to have more strength than the Senator. George Fithian is already in the State, and has gone down into Egypt to do work for Morrison. Bill Forman will follow him. 80 that the Coloneil’s campaizn is in active progress. The delegation, aiter considering the known preferences of men in the past and present, can hardly be said to poll twenty-eight votes for Palmer. Twenty-six are about all there are in sight. HOW THEY STAND. Ofthe elght delegates and alternates-at- large, Gen. Stevenson of Bloomington isa Cleveland man; A, Palmer man; ex- Speaker Craft strongly for 1 Ben Cable of Rock Island, Cleveland; „E. Worthington of Peoria is fur Morrison; . atson of Mount Vernon, a Palmer an; John A. King of Chicago is rather doubtful, but counted wih the Palmer men, and Sam Chase is a Cleveland man at heart, although the Palmer men claim him. Of the district delegates Hopkins and McInerney of the First, Kadlic and Joyce of the Second, Sullivan and Gayner of the Third ,Greisheimer and Winston of the Fourth and Donnelly and Goodwin of the Fifth are all tor Paimer. Carrot the Fifth is a Palmer manand Brown, his colleague, is for Cleve- land. Lada ot the Seventh is for Cleveland, Dixon for Palmer. Allen and Eckles of the Eighth are both for of the Ninth is and Taylor for Palmer; Finley of the Tenth is for Palmerand his colleague, Brown, 1s rather scattering, being for Justice Craig of the Supreme Court; Plantz of the Eleventh is doubtful, and his colleague, Scott, is for Paimer. Newcomb and Page of the Tenth and Jones and Ricks of the Thirteenth are ail with Palmer, and Ewing and Durfee of the Fourteenth are Cleveland men, Kimbrough ofthe Fifteenthis doubtful. Then Morrison comes in, where Carson of the Fifteenth, Rinard and Lee of the Sixteenth, Farmer and Thorntom ofthe Seventeenth and Hotles and Holder of the Eighteenth are all for Mor- rison. Cook of the Nineteenth ts catalogued as a Cleveland man and Andrews of the Twentieth is for Senator Palmer. This poll results: Cleveland, 11; Paimer, 26; Mor rison, 8; doubtfal, 3; total, 48. CLEVELAND SURE OF SUCCESS. Don M. Dickinson arrived this morning. The Michigan statesman always takes a rose colored view of everything in which he is interested. He says that Cleveland will win in a walk and that no one saan is in it. Mr. Dickinson is fully convinced in his own mind that the New York delegation will get into the Cleveland tent before the balloting begins. The other big Cleveland leaders, ex Mayor Grace, ex-Secretary Fairchild and E. Ellery Anderson, Will arrive early this even- ing. Inthe meantime the Cleveland literary bureau with its dozen of pret- ty typewriters is grinding out material by the Dushel, which will be given out to- night in the shape ofinterviews with Grace & Co. The literary bureau is in charge of Col. John Tracy of New York, who conducted the famous Tiiden Literary Bureau. Among other things that bureau’ is doing is to organize Cleveland men to cry this refrain: 1676-1873, Tammany.’’ This is intended to convey the impression that Tammany’s advice is worthless or was proven so in 1876 and 1884, when Tilden frst carried New York and then Cleveland, when Tammany had predicted defeat. Bill Morrison’s stock is coming up. It is mae ode ged conceded that Morrison’s pres! ntial prospects never looked so bright, and that he may after all fill the ‘*some good Western man! vacuum. If Morrison succeeds in securing the support of his own delegation he -will be third man in the race. There area great many delegates from all sections who are — eS pager Ea- ward W. Barrett, a Georgia delegate, who is ut down as a i man, is not very much mpressed with the prospects of Morrison, **] would vote for Morrison in preference to Cleveland,’ said Mr. Barrett, for 1 believe that Morrison would be elected. He might lose some support among the New York business men, but if we nominated Amos Cummings for V ice-Presifient we would many more times outset this by the upport we weuld receive from the labor vote. Cummings is a member of the Bég Six and one of itsorganizers. He has al- ways been the champion of organized labor. lie is the ideal of the printers all over the country. With hini on the ticket against for" Reid we would surely carry New Grover. Karr for Cleveland NO SECOND PLACE FOR BOIES. The first surprise of the convention was given the Democracy by the Iowa men, They unferied the flag of their ular Governor esterday, thus putting the frst standard in he field, This was a big boom for the Iowan, for it at once called the attention of the na- tion tothe fact that Horace Boles is in the race to win. The second surprise came to-day in the announcement of Chairman Shields of the lowa * that, under no circum- stances, will Boles take ‘second place. A com- bination that has been more often spoken of than any other for months linked together the names of Cleveland and Boles. This announcement evidentiy means that Boles will not suffer bis wing m to become a part of Cleveland’s strength. John E. Ransom is at the Grand Northern in advance forthe Cleveland Democracy of Buffalo. 8 of the outlook, Mr. Kan- som s it t% encouraging, 1 do not de lieve the New York Democracy wi)! few ambitious men in control of the ma- chinery to dictate forthe whole State, he said. Cleveland is the spontaneous ofthe country. Weare here to assert that can carry New York. We are not bol will vote for the nominee, but we want W. Gren of a land. We have not considered the matter of d choice.’ a secon mii the 8 cuse the Ne — Settee delegates contest = * 1 se delegates Lam * 1 me one . Geog . anything. . to represent the Democracy of e ork "and ill de- in New York?’’ man How is **Favorably ; have not yet thought of him We know he is a mag- netic man from his sugcesses, but we believe that the tariff 2 of Mr. ¢ 1 nad something to do with h eee The interview Commissioner of esterday, ner a nd men. Ley things to say of not represent any scheming we Eugene Higgins said, is a sort of aay ace man boom, is at thet pass the time between of the conver 1 Cc Labor ow Vicks published here — 5 e on the Cleve- — 1 of hard that he did a * If and a few who, it is for the Gor- ( eee He 5 — an e opening os Ging the various 1 of the enmity a compromise . the name of Arthur P. Gorman, — : bimeself will be on the ground by Sat 8 n Maryland delegation. „ i. STATE ay When They Are Expected to Arrive on the Scene of Action. Oma, III., June 16,—In answer to in- quiries sent out by local committees, it is learned that State delegations and clubs will begin to arrive here to-morrow. Some of the delegates chosen by the Syracuse convention to represent Cleveland sentiment in the State of New York at the national convention are expected to-night. The delegation is a com- plete one, consisting of three delegates and three alternates for each one of the 128 as- sembly districts inthe state, and also four delegates-at-large with their alternates. The delegates-at-large are Alexander E. Orr of Brooklyn, head of the firm of Davia Dows & Co. and President of the New York Produce Exchange; Frederick R. Coudert,the eminent lawyer of New York City ; ex- Mayor Charles F. Bishop of Buffalo, Mr. Cleveland’s old home, and Edmund Fitzgerald of Troy, who, like Edward Murpby, the head of t @ Hill forces, has been Democratic Mayor of Troy. The Idaho delegation will reach Chicago, Saturday evening on the Chicago & Alton Railroad. The Maine delegation will arrive at the Lake Shore station on the evening of the 19th. The headqurrters of the delegation will be at the Palmer House, The Vermont delegation will leave the State on Friday evening on a special train, with delegations from Maine and New Hampshire, and expect to arrive about s o’ciock a. m., Sunday. The Connecticut delegates and guests will reportatthe Murray Hill Hotel, New York, at 5 O clock Friday evening, June 17; will leave on fast Western express, Via New York Cen- trai and Michigan Central roliroads at 6 o’clock arriving at Niagara at 6:40. Saturday evening the train will leave the Falls at 6:43, arriving at Detroit at 1:10 p. m. It will lea ve Detroit at 1:20.and arrive at Chicago at 9 o'clock. The delegates will be quartered at the Auditorium. The Rhode Island delegates will leave Bos- ton for Chicago at 10:20 onthe morning of June 18. It will have a car for the Massachu- setts delegation. The headquarters will be at the Clifton House. The Colorado delegation will leave Denver on the night of June 17, arriving in Chicago Sunday morning at 8 o'clock by way of the Burlington. The Pennsylvania delegation, accompanied by a number of friends and about fifty mem. bers of the Young Men's Democratic Associa- tion of Philadeipbia, will leave Philadelphia on Friday at 4:2 p. m. They will arrive at 3:15 p. m. on Saturday. — — —.— bot mea t candidate Mr. Hi MARYLAND’S REPRESENTATIVES. BALTIMORE, Md., June 16.—The Maryland Delegation to Chicago will start to-night in two special Pullman sleeping cars attached to the regular B. & O. train. Senator Gorman, who heads the delegation, has been tendered the private car Delaware of Vice-President Lord of the B. & O. -Tbis will also be attached to the train, and Senator Gorman will go out with the delegation. He will invite some personal friends from Washington to make the trip with him. THE NEW YORKERS. ANTI-SNAPPERS HAVE MADE NO APPLICATION FOR CONVENTION PRIVILEGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 16.—Before leav- ing Washington Senator Brice, chairman of the National Democratie Convention, made a statement that is of peculiar interest at this time. It relates to the delegates chosen at the Cleveland Syracuse Convention. it was that he had received no application from those gentlemen for seats in the convention, for admission or for any convention privileges whatever. This would indicate that the dele- gates who have been called bolters do not in- tend to appear at Chicago as contestants. Mr. Brice inclined to the opinion tbat it meant that the Syracuse Conventiom people would do nothing more at Chicago than protest ayvainst the manner in. which the Hill men had ee tr Democratic affairs in New York. Such a course would make it easier for the two branches of the Democratic party in New York to get together, SOME OF THE CONTESTANTS. NEW YORK, June 16.—The delegates chosen atthe Syracuse Convention embrace some very strong and popularmen. The Brooklyn district delegates include Edward M. Shep- ard, President of the Democratic Club, and Frederick W. Hinrichs, who, asa political orator, rivals John R. Fellows. From New York Git n, districts numbers among.’ members ex- Secretary of the Treasury Charles 8. Fair- child, ex-Mayor William R. Grace, ex-Con- gressman John Quinn, and his successor in Congress, De Witt Warner, K. Kliery Ander- son, the noted Democra reform leader; ‘hristopher G. ‘famous finan- cier; Park Commissioner Nath James F. Archibold,. the iber leader. the Westchester list {fs N Henry L. Nelson. The Albany delegation is headed by ex- sen- aior Norton Chase, withWhom > empty James D. Wasson, the wealth . Albanian, widely with express and known for his connect transportation interests, them as i of the Cleveland the latest With movement, are Daniel ee a Democratic collector of t rt of New York; Herman Rider, aa vo Ad 01 the New York Staats Zeitung; ex+Judae Henry Mar. ray, Robert G. Monroe and others of the Ke- form Club; James Shanpahan, formerly Com- missioner of Public Works the State, ex- Senator John C. Schoeck of Schoharie County ; William A. Pouchar of *. — Robert S. Minturn ot New hbo ta ene: formerly corporat > — Navi Fork city ; JudgeJno, Jerole — * Judge Lyman H. Northro of Wash ounty ; Robert Maxwell of Batavia, 2 State Treasurer and ins ce Superintendent; tative of Mayor Rob- inson of Elmira, the son of the la tion of the Louls Duhl, the repres These bring baby them York — se i their Git to “prove New rac — 2 — nomination e of Grover Oleveland. J HARLEM DEMOCRACY. . Zhe Hrriem Democratic Club had a pro- tracted and lively session last night. At the last meeting a resolution favoring the nom- 33 of Grover Cleveland at Chicago was tred to a committee. 4 4 committee tted majority and minority reports to- 2 Cleve- Was voted down. tabled. imm * — ng Mr. Cleveland’s mr 8 that the ® nominees of the Oni - and ad abilities club ib would stand nd by the OES RET. EXPRESSIONS OF | OPINION. . Hill Discusses — Tammany Pro- gramme "s Views. WasHInoTON, D. O., June 16.—‘*The story is too absurd to be dignified by making a state- ment in reference to it.“ So sald Senator Hill to-day when asked with refereace to a sensational story regarding the Tammany programme in the Chicago Convention. The story was set afloat by a member of Congress who received a letter alleging that the Tam- many forces had practically concluded to drop Senator Hill after the frst ballut and join forces with several Western delegations to secure the nomination ofa Western candi- date. The programme Outlined in this letter tothe Representative’ referred to includes Tammany’s choice for the Vice- Presidency. Robert B. Roosevelt is the name of the gen- tleman who has according to this letter been determined upon as a t man for the second place om the ticket. This very important arrangément is supposed to have been entered into after numerous conference on the part of the Tammany leaders. The alleged conferences were said to have been heid in New York last night and the night before. At these conferences it was devel- oped that the leaders in New York are fear- ful of the result of a continuance of the pres- ent . — situation in that State and adopt the foregoing for the sake of harmony. The Western-candidate upon whom all fac- tions are to unite, was not decided upon, though in connection With it, Palmer, Boles, Gray, Morrison and Carlisle ‘were discussed. Morrison and Palmer were the strong favor- ites in the discussion. Despite Senator Hine empbatic denial there is no doubt that a letter here contain- ing such information was received by a representative in Congress for it was seen this afternoon. A caucus of the New York delegation will be held in Chicago on Friday night and the new 8 will be finall discussed and decided upon, It is cons! ered essential that New Tork, having relin- quished her claim to the presidency, should De given the naming Of the second man on the ticket. PALMER’S VIEWS, „The IUindis delegation, said Senator Palmer to-day will vote for Mr. Cieveland as long as there is any prospect ot his nomina- tion. After that their votes Will goto me. I have every reason to believe, £ continued Senator Palmer, ‘‘that the members of the Illinois delegation are acti fairly. They are not, to use a popular term, ‘playing a gouge game.’ The stories that came from Chicagoto the effect that Interstate Com- merce Commissioner Morrison is stirring up strife in the Illinois delegation I do not be- lieve. The allegation that he counts upon twelve of the delegation as his own and leaves only eighteen for Cleveland after the first ballot, is in my opinion erroneous. „Mr. Morrison worked to secure the the instruction of the delegation for the lat- ter so long as there Was any possibility of his nomination, It is umreasohbable to suppose that after having accomplished his wish in that direction he should now striveto undo his own work.’ It is alleged, Senator, that there are nine Chicago delegates who swear they will never vote for Cleveland. What doyou think of that statement?’’ ‘*‘Idon’t think itis so. AsIsaid before, I think the members of the IIIinois delegation are disposed to and positi intend to abide by the nl e nem at the State convention. tar tn his vi@w because of im- formation that f to mre, No one has any right to suppose that they ſutend planning any tricks or that they don’t mean to do whatthey practically agreed to do. If it were true that nine delegates have no inten- tion of voting for Cleveland, I think they would have refused toactas delegates be- cause the purpose implied and expressed in selecting the members of this delegation was to send a solid phalanx from our State tothe convention for Mr. Cleveland.’’ WILL CLING TO CLEVELAND. Congressman Tracey is thus quoted in a local paper: **lam not one of those, however, who pins his faith entirely upon Mr. Cleveland’s nomi- nation on the first Hot. Ihave been asked recently if I thought the Cleveland delegates would give up hope of nominating the ex- President if he were not successful on the first ballot, Toto these 4 I have an- swered emphatically, No! I do not see why 550 delegates, who earnestly desire his nomi- nation, shouid yield to a minority of 330, tak ing it for granted thatso many will oppose his nomination. I believe the delegates should stand to their colors and ballot fora week If necessary, rather than yield to any compromise proposition. In order to wina victory in the coming campaign we must have our strongest man, andlamfirmly convinced that Mr. Cleve- land will poll more Demorratic votes in the country than any other man whose name has been mentioned in connection with the nom- ination. That he will carry New York State I have not the shadow ofa doubt. Indeed, I think he will beat Harrison in New York by a handsome majority. I think he will carry Connecticut and other doubtful States. while I do not believe we will lose any Southern States on account of his candidacy.’’ MISSISSIPPI EVENLY DIVIDED. Congressman Allen of Mississippi, who has ees returned to Washington from the State onvention recently held in Jackson, said to the correspondent; J have seen numerous erroneous reports as to the complexion of our State delegation. As a matter of fact it is about evenly divided between Cleveland and anti-Cleveland men. There are some original Hill men in the dele- ation, and there are others who would pre- er some other man to either Hill or Cleve- land. No delegate, however, was chosen on account of his personal preference for any candidate. They are all representative Mis- sissipp! Democrats, and they will go to chi- cago without any "prejudice, either in favor of or against any candidate, that would operate to prevent the casting of a vote for the strongest man. In a word, the entire delegation will go uninstructed, and untrammeled by prejudice or bias of any sort, everyono ofr thems pre- pared to be convinced as to what Democrat will make the strongest possible candidate for the 8 ang to vote for him first, last and all the time. CLEVELAND OR BOIES. DUBUQUE, Io., June 16.—*‘It will be Cleve- land or Boles’’ said Senator Shields, Chair- man of the lowa delegation, before leaving for Chicago. Unless New York supports Cleveland Boies will win. Under no eircum- stances will Boles accept ‘second place. We honestly believe him the strongest man the Democrats can name for President. -— THE BOIES BOOM. Why Iowa Wants to Name the Presiden- tial Candidate. CHICAGO, June 16.—Atthe headquarters of the Iowa delégation where the banner of Horace Boles has been unfurled the visitor is not kept long in waiting to clearly under- stand the ground upon which the Boles boom is builded. Here are the arguments whicn are strongly set forth by the spokesmen of the Hawkeye statesman: Iowa has full faith in Horace Boies—in his honesty 5 integrity * nobility of character and in his ability to carry hig own State and some of the other Northwestern States, He is the available man for thé hourand wecome down to Chi- cago to present him to the National Conven- have been consi . changes that t Northwest in re- — easily e ee of the lof this polttte ps the tion of what ca can hrough the. discussion and —— the apne bh 8 — De ‘and aa as a tet Sack ‘Grant c Lg | - that 7 on the sentiment became great. in 1988, but his plurality the very next year Gov. r ticket carried it by a not ough any negiect to 3 but in an election 000 more votes than the prec torial election had done. in 1872 7 lurality in 15 was 8 year, "he af or 1 wi over the State and six 9 men were elected on the Democratic ti gain of five over the dane 9 fall Gov. Boies was ones. the most hotly 98 D State had seen since Goy, if diaced the it from Bene aneen the — N party in 1, * ich remained roken for thirty-fiv re Beer Se nS The significance of th will be un- derstood when it is t the Governor was not only re- t by a r of 8, 2034 a 2 merge over bere of two years Ww was the largest 8 cast in the wpe ig — ing in the aggregate 420, itical revolution eye — 22 ** series of accidents a Se ee could have ——— such leg ous things, and the publican losses and Ugmocratic gains have been too often re to leave the possi- bility that the new order of things is only temporary. One election after another has demon- strated that the people of their minds and fo oraake old political faith w dm produced this — and the party through sult has been achieved who Democratic N is placed at the bea a THE BIG “WIGWAM. Sergeant-at-Arms Bright Says It Is En- tirely Safe. - CuicaGo, III., June 16,—The present con- dition of the work on the Democratic wig- wam warrants the formal prediction made this morning by the Building Committee that the edifice will be completely finished by Sat- urday evening. Workingméen are busy all over the interior of the great pine cup, which from the interior looks like an oblong bowl of yellow wood, about 300 feet long by 200 broad, and in the central space, whence the elo- quence of next week will distill into space, now stands a pony steam engine, straining at State to the v. Boles ticket. ed of the upper floors. Above all is the sky, and a right large sky it 16. But the butider. will have the firmament shut out in the next seventy-two hours, Shifts of 100 men each are Row working day and night; arc lights being brovided for the hours of darkness, and the damage done by Sunday’s cyclone is being repaired so rapidiy that the building seems to grow visibly as one looks at it. The ®ntire change of plan made necessary by the substitution ofa wooden for a canvas roof has naturally affeéted the ap- pearance of the interior. Where before one great pole stood in the center of the Wigwam holding uP the roof, there will now be some hundred large rs made each of thick boards natled Seeder with the broken joists. These dot in twocircles the space be. tween the specté@tors’ and the 2 part of the building, and six of them will stand in the central parquette. The effect of this will be that many of the most desirable seats, as they were before Monday’s storm, willnow be safely ensconced behind wooden screens that are not transparent. With the exception of these great pusts, the interior arrangements are practically un- changed. The convention will face toward the west. The delegates will occupy a platform in the middie of the hall in the shape ot᷑ a flat ellipse; about this rises tier after tier of seats, al- ready chalrea, and on a second story set further back and much more acultey tilted, climbthe seats of the gallery. When the new root is on. instead ofthe former simple device of lifting the canvas to let in fresh air, there will be a long elliptical break in the roof, which will drop down over what might be called the dress circle Seats, and rise again over the delegates, as though a long and deep channel were cut in an ordl- nary flat roofand fitted with pivoted win- dows. Itis thus expected thatthe fixed at- pos of the convention will become un- “~~ a7 the co-operation of the lake breezes. Allen, the builder, who-through no fauit 15 his own has had somuch of his.work to do over again, said: ‘‘Kyerybody ma feel absolutely certain that the — —ꝗ— wil be ready to tuen over to the committee on Saturday evenin To-day and to-night Iam working shifts of 160 men, which are all that cen find room on the present work, To- morrow and until the end this ul be in- creased to 800 as soon as we can t to the oint where the roof can Girectly at- ached,’ Vo you consider the puilding safe?’’ Beyond all question. It is as safe asthe solid ground. The only danger t could by any possibility happen would be a stam- . and that is dangerous anywhere. We ad one down in the park here a while back, several peo- ple were crushed. The wo probes fev thirty feet wide, have been arranged so © be be hind every 4,000 seats and they Sed deliver the crowd without any difficuity. Remember, too, that there are separate stairways 2 the galleries and for the noor. No, Lappre hend no danger; at any rate, none ‘for w ich the building will be to blame, n made much stronger than the specifications demanded.’ Col. Bright, the Sergeant-at-Arms. was found examining the exterior of the building with John S. hopkins — the local committee. The outside of the had def or, is effective father than esthetic. San arrangement tn yel- low pine, in which absolutely. nothing — been sacrificed to ornament. It ance four square against every wind. blows, lik 80 ways. n those ge. banks of steps 9 ap eee it seem to clutch it and buttressit s front still has a further front of eee that will be left there for the time ie Fa pidly you must remember, and then til the decorations which are * r prepared are put in — oe These are to be Democra san. They will consist ben of flowers, fags and streamers sional picture and motto, diag the yellow pine background legend National Ve von i dominate in big black letters the whole of the 1 avenue side. 0 one 1 © not 30. we could per. — * city about ¥.. is more a thing — could put on 2 are satisfied that the: a bad storm I at pe It is the satest cables and jerking long timbers into the. 5) SWEPT AWAY. * Many Lives Lost in a Minnesota Cyclone. A Teacher and Fifteen Children Killed. in a Echool-House. 5 5 . HOUSES AND FARM IMPROVEMENTS TWISTED TO SPLINTERS. 75 Fortunately No Towns Were in Storm’s Track—The Worst Calamity That Ever Visited the State—Another Span of the Licking River Bridge Fell To-Day-—Fatal Wreck-The Casualty Record. MANKATO, Minn., June 16.—one of the worst disasters that ever visited Southern Minne- sota occurred between 6 and 6 o’clock yester- day afternoon. Ihe terrible funnel-shaped tornado again stalked over the land and laid waste scores of happy homes and sent forty or fifty souls to eternity. Every report tbat comes in is worse than the pre ceding one. The extent of country swept by this awful visitation was greater than ever before known in the history & the state. and fortunate, indeed, it was, no town or village | lay in its destructive course. Starting near Jackson, on the Southern Minnesota road, a funnel- shaped cloud swept eastw ard * and passed four miles south of Minnesota Lake, then taok a broad circle to the south and passed away south of Wells. Consid- erable rain had fallen during the after. noon, and at5o’clock the atmosphere became almost suffocating. Curious shaped clouds began to appear over the southwest and many people gazed in wonder at the sight. About 5:80 the wind sprang up and off tothe west rapidly circling black clouds were seen rapidly advancing and tearing asunder everything in its course. It passed two miles northwest of Sherburne, and itis reported that it then struck the district school-house, in which was the teacher and eighteen scholars. The building was demolished and the teacher and fifteen scholars killed. At Easton three buildings were destroyed and several people were injured. Lindon was visited and many houses were torn from their foundations. One family, composed of aman, his wife ana child, were killed. A large grove of trees were completely up- rooted. The storm passed on eastward, destroying farm-houses, barns, andin fact everything in its path. At Wells sidewalks were over- turned, store fronts blown in and otner dam- age done. Several men were blown down} by the force of the wind. Four miles south of Minnesota Lake five farm houses and their buildings were caught in the storm and utterly demolished. Four people were killed. The body ofone of these— John Brown—was taken to Minnesota Lake this morning. His wife, a hireG man and a school teacher were also injured. Section men suffered severe inju- rles. Much damage was done south of Wells, and it is reported that fifty were killed south and west of that village. As most of the damage was done in the country reports are slow in coming in, but what has been already heard is enough to insure the belief that it was the worst storm ever reported in South Minnesota. It is expected that later reports will increase rather than diminish the extent of the dam- age done as well as the loss of life and per - sonal injuries. Many heartrending scenes occurred dur- ing the storm’s height. The log house ofa Bohemian family at Bowen Mills, near _ nesota Lake, was blown entirely away, one log remaining. The famil 8 of man, wife and six chil ren, spen the night miserably in the rain "without shelter from the dampness and the elements. They huddled together on a heap of straw, and with a plece of a sheet endeavored to wa the cold wind and never ceasing rain tha chilled them, At Wells a section man re- ceived a terrible injury in the breast froma fiying rd. A brakeman who saw the storm at that place said cng saw the funnel approaching om the west and as it passed north ot the village he was cast to the ground by the ter- rie pressure of the air, which was so cl that it almost stified him. The air seem ae 8 gas and everything was filled with a. aze It is impossible at present to geta li the killed or wounded. Probably not than a hundred were Injured, and they w mostly in the country, distant from medi ald and their sufferings were terrible. Along the Milwaukee road from Jackson Minnesota Lake the scene is one of devasta- tion. Not every house is gone, but many are destroyed that scene is pitiful, This is 4 4 ia cna he eo PS CASUALTY RECORD. FATAL ox THE NORTH PENNSYLVANIA ; N : : of 22 . Hed, 8 to his —— the father, he se are neg, name 5 — and an un- : lists of the — and in- be iver. ® Unti are 1 iv a — 1 oft = ee , at hiv at by the disaster. 2 D * ara says there were exactly forty t ached 55 it collapsed. be > dea twenty-one, — four 8 t located, making a total deaths and tourteen in red. ~ ROAD~OTHER MISHAPS. PHILADELPHIA, June 16.—A wreck occurred on the “North Pennsylvania Railroad last night which resulted in the killing of one manandthetnjury of several others. The ‘Doylestown Express passes Fort Washington Station at the rate ofa miie a minute, the fastest made as any point along the road. The Jenkintown shifter was running ahead of the passen ger train and in attempting to switch onte the down track was caught by the engine Of the express. The express loco- motive Was thrown from the track against nt. Both engines were com- Ihe engineer of the express ‘enton, was killed outri; , freman, was badly sca’ ally. Oscar Bames, bag » was —— meee. Thee. me seriou itis re ted he t died vd while bein 11 Several passen Were slightly injured. CRUSHED UNDER A WALL. CLEVELAND, O., June 16.—One of the walls of ola Gerlach bDoilding, which is being torn } down to make room for the Detroit & Cleve- land Steamship Co.’s docks at Superior street 1 down this forenoon upon the roof o ’s fish house, which was a hg ead, Mrs. pattie Grady, Charles Packer and Charles Ruhl, who were in the fish. house at the time of the accident were so seriously injured that one or two of them may not recover, IT WASN’T W T WHISKY, NEW Yorx, June 16.—A disputeina liquor saloon in Brooklyn last night ended in an ex- plosion. A question was raised as to whether a certain Mquid wien had leaked on the floor yor. — One of the men in on touched a match to it and jon followed. The front of the store was torn out and every one in the place was'biown into the street. Four men were badly burned and otherwise Injured. DEATH, DEALING TORNADO. MONTREAL, Quebec. June 16.—A tornado passed over . Rose, a small village about ‘om here, on Tuesaay after - r several buildin 80 Foot house, killing three and injuring several others and the “teacher, THE SHELL BXPLODED. Beaux, June 16.—A shell exploded at Magdeburg to-day while some munitions were being unloaded and two sergeants were killed and five soldiers terribly injured. — — DEATH FROM A CYCLONE. MADRID, June 16.—A cyclone has wrecked several buildings at Badalone, including two factories. Eight workmen were kiliedanda number injured. VARIOUS MISHAPS: The remains of W.W. Powell and James McClure, two st. Louls boys, have been found on the desert 8 of Yuma, Colo. , The dead body a man supposedto be that of James Falchn was found on a raliroad track horribiy mangied, near Kahoka, Mo. William Ro aged 13 years, was killed in Perry Township, Indiana, by the acciden- tal aischarge of a pistol in the hands of Al- ny 8 while charivaring Lewis Reihn an ride. LABOR NEWS, „ Typographical Union Convention+Wait- ere Strike. PHILADELPHIA, Fa., June 16.—The members of the Intertational Ty pogra phical Union who went on a pleasure jaunt to Atlantic City yes teraay business resumed the consideration of tils morning. The session was one and lasted from ter 12, when a recess was rhe matters consid- ted entirely to the and the recess 22 was reach ed late this afternoon, . Emco Walters ‘STRIKE. 3 ari June 16.—On the eve of the Demo- „ E ype Convention the leading res- nts of the city find themselves con- e with a strike of the waiters, Rector, the Chi- houses and a ‘At the Sarotoga, (cago and Boston oyster of the richest parts of the State, ee 7 rember of lesser places the union men are prairie, with now and then a wind-break of trees planted by settlers. The wind hada full sweep. ‘Wires have been down all forenoon. Milwaukee train to Wells got no turther t Mapleton last night, owing to the de on the tracks, and laid over ther The morning train from Wells was f hours late, as it repaired the telegraph lin As it came. Telegraph poles and Pia were 2 blown over. Owing washout at Buckley on the Omaha gn | night, the passenger from Twin Cities has not yet arrived. This morning’s tra from Sioux City was held at Kansasota ake repairs on the tracks. * on the Northwestern road delayed | morning passenger train from the Kast. int this city heavy rain fell throughout the afternoon, nixhtand this forenoon, but damage is reported. The, n ANOTHER SPAN FELL. RIVER BRIDGE, Civ aN, O.,June 16.—With the approach | of daylight people began to gather on the banks of the Licking River, where the u- ated bridge went down with its scores of human lives Wednesday, and ina couple of hours thousands of men, women and chil- } dren were watching the work of rescuing the 4% A washout at“ COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE NEW LICKING | | Seas Most of the quit- The mane gement .cCoy’s were ~ 8 fonsider. ‘The Tatoma sur- athe men. The Boston put in a of seventy-five. = FIRES. Disastrous Blaze in the Kanawha Lumber Region. PARKERSBURG, W. Va., June 16.—A great fire is burning at Elizabeth, Wert County, about twenty miles above here on the 2 the heart of the lumber Independence bung factory, controtieg ‘New York capitatists, caught the furnace and is in ashes, inelua - ing 11 large - 1 saw-mill, the ware- number of 400. thea Disastrous FIRE. * . . June 16.— An entire bust First street and Broadway, was burned this m ras occupied by James Mitch- and lodges of Masons rt ot F —̃ — 1 * apes n ** . N * yi ‘hy Oe o, R. . June 16.—The ums; Grana 192 hen . 2 wt | . “sy