Show CITY BY THE LAKE Delegates S to the Convention Arriving Ar-riving Daily PRESiDENTIAL d PREDICTIONS A Committee Examines the Wljnvam and Be ports It Will Be Safe in Every Particular Partic-ular Preliminary Skirmishing CHICAGO Juno lItThe Democratic national convention it la expected will get to actual work ih n shorter time than was the case at Minneapolis Word vas received re-ceived this afternoon that the threatened Louisiana contest had been amicably arranged ar-ranged Over the New York delegation considerable consider-able fuss was expected but interviews with those on the ground show they believe be-lieve in upholding the regular convention and that while many of the convention people peo-ple will be within hearing they will be unable un-able to get seats as delegates L Martin one of Boies men said today they had never placed the strength of Boies below sixty and might goto eighty South Dakota is expected to poll a good number of votes for him Throughout tho west votes are looked for and in the South Atlantic states little support is expected Shaver of DesMoines said today regarding regard-ing Boies reported strength in tho silver states that Boies would get the silver states i because he is in accord with the radical I question ideas which prevail there on the silver THE POLITICAL SITUATION is livening up and more political leaders are in town and more coming with every train Henry Watterson of Louisville is among the arrivals also National Committeeman Commit-teeman Prather Missouri who said he thought Cleveland woula get nearly all the votes of his state Hon William English of Indiana says he thinks Cleveland split nearly even on delegation in that state The delegation will meet Saturday to decide whether to present Grays name The Illinois delegation will also meet Saturday Sat-urday to decide whether or not to present Palmers name On its decision will depend de-pend tho presentation of the names of favorite fa-vorite sons I Illinois presents Palmer Indiana will present Gray Iowa will present pre-sent Boies and there are Cleveland Hill and possibly Carlisle and Gorman His headquarters were opened here today and his literary bureau put in operation Senator Calvin S Brlce chairman of the national committee arrived this afternoon and consulted with Secretary Sherrin SergeantetArms Bright and other members mem-bers of tho national committee on the grounds Brice was unable to say who the temporary chairman would be He said the national committee would probably make up the temporary roll call at the first formal meeting and wherever intricate cases were encountered they would be re ferred to a subcommittee Brice said regarding re-garding tho Ohio convention that It was his opinion of tho convention that no instructions in-structions would be given but the delegation delega-tion would come to Chicago to look over the situation consult con-sult together and then act together to-gether It would not be right to say the delegation was antiCleveland nor yet for Cleveland Tho choice is a matter on which tho delegation has reserved judgment judg-ment until they have talked over the question ques-tion fully hero Brico approved snd endorsed the action I of the Ohio convention Ho said regarding his position as a dark horse Oh I Im not in it this year Iam not in a hurry The committee examining the wigwam reported this afternoon After a detailed examination and inspection of several hours the committee PRONOUNCED THE BUILDING TO BE SAFE In every particular Colonel J G Prather a national committeeman com-mitteeman is the only prominent Missourian Mis-sourian around today My sympathies are with Cleveland he said and I entertain no doubt he will be nominated Certainly he will get the solid vote of Missouri In the Iowa headquarters it Is openly predicted that quite half of Missouri would come to Boies i Cleveland did not get the nomination on the first three ballots Some Indiana politicians are on the ground although the delegation is not duo till Saturday Ben Willetts of Warwick county said the Indiana delegation would CAST ITS VOTE FOIl CLEVELAND although some of them hoped to work Gray into a position which might come to something some-thing if there is to be a scramble for favorite favor-ite sons I Gray scands a chance Indiana will support him I believe Cleveland will win on the first ballot Hon J G Albright one of the Democratic Demo-cratic leaders of New Mexico arrived today to-day and immediately joined the Cleveland following New Mexico will ask the convention con-vention to adopt a plank favoring the early admission of that territory as a state THE UTAH CONTEST which will bo heard in the coming convention conven-tion is almost an exact duplicate of the light from the same territory at tho Minneapolis Min-neapolis convention and proceeds from the same cause the late breakup of the Liberal or Gentile party following the surrender of the Peoples or Mormon party P L Williams of Salt Lake who Is here with the sitting members talked about the situation this evening and said the fact is the contestants are not Democrats Demo-crats at all Henderson and Caine ho said represent the real party The other gentlemen gentle-men he asserted represent only a small Liberal following Mr Atwood of Ogden on the other hand declares the convention will havo to uphold tbo Ferry delegation There seems to bono bo-no serious difference among any of the contestants con-testants on any question but the entry into the convention recognition by the party The preference of each seems to be Cleveland UTAH WILL FAVOR A CILVER PLANK similar to that passed by the Wisconsin state convention strongly endorsing bi motalism and the establishment of a fixed ratio It will also request admission into the Union and ask for the same privilege for New Mexico I Edward Murphy jr of Troy ono of the New York delegatesatlargo and for the I past six years chairman of the Democratic state committee in a statement to tho Associated Press said The Democrats of the country at large who favor Cleveland believe the Democrats Demo-crats of New York are obstinate and willful will-ful in opposing their wishes to those of the great majority and they regard the action of the New York delegations in insisting they shall have their choice notwithstanding notwithstand-ing tbo majority is against him as unreasonable un-reasonable They do not knew I said Murphy Ithat the Democracy of New York would not be for Cleveland if Hill were not a candidate can-didate They do not understand that the opposition to Cleveland is based on an idea a sentiment which has become fixed and absolute os the principal is the ideas of the dislike o the mugwump It mutters mutters not whether he be 0 Republican mug wump like some of the editors in New York or a Democratic mugwump like ex Secretary Fairchild or exMayor Grace TiE DEMOCRATS DISLIKE THEM ALL and their followers aiders and abettors I Mr Murphy assorted that the nomination nomina-tion of Cleve and ouhl mean the destruction destruc-tion of the regular organizations in the k h I great Democratic cities of the state and in the state itself under which organizations the party has successively won victories by increasing majorities for the last seven years The Democracy of the state of New York cannot be made to believe that the nomination and election of Cleveland would not put in power the mugwumps or conditional Democrats over those who contributed to success and our people look upon the contemplated action of the Democracy in some of the other states as intending a reword of the would be Democratic Mug ump assassin The Democracy of New York is inspired in-spired by something besides loyalty and friendship for Governor Hill They are FIGHTING FOr Tnt LIFE OF TiE I T Cleveland by the acquiesencs or at least the inaction of the Mugwump convention proves he is willing togo before the country coun-try as the representative of the bolters and no work that the party leaders in the state would do vsould in my opinion convince con-vince the rank and file they should support the representative of such a body The above interview was carefully revised re-vised and fully considered by the anti Cleveland leaders now in the city and represents their careful nnd deliberate opinion in tho matter ExSecretary of the Treasury Fairchild and also head of the Cleveland delegation has PREPARED A LENGTHY 8TT lE Tin T-in the course of which he says The delegates appointed at the Syracuse Syra-cuse convention dosirsto look the ground over before determining in detail what I they will do He said no fair minded man well informed as to the sentimeut of New York can doubt that Cleveland is by many thousands of votes the strongest candidate for that state as well as with the masses of the part throughout the country Everyone might be sure that the Syracuse delegation after a careful consideration of the situation would do that which would bo for the BEST INTERESTS OF THE DEMOCRATIC ARTY as a whole They were not here for the purpose of stirring up strife Chairman Taggart of the Indiana state central committee says it has been decided de-cided that the name of exGovernor Gray will be presented to the convention as a presidential candidate his name to be presented pre-sented by Senator Voorhees |