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Show Not In Any of the Calculations. Indianapolis Journal. "My lightning rod is up." said ex-Governor Isaac PuscyGray to a friend in thu'Dcui-son thu'Dcui-son house lobby last evening, "and the lightning light-ning is going to strike it. for there is nothing no-thing under heaven that can prevent me from getting that noinatiou for president of the United States." Mr. tiray evidently has a great deal more ("iirlilcuce in his presidential inspiration thau even his must enthusiastic friends. Careful perusal of the newspapers throughout through-out the country leads to the conviction that he has become obsolete. He does not appear in any of the political calculations or suggested sug-gested combinations. When Mr. Isaac Purcy Gray declares that "nothing under heaven can prevent me from getting the presidential combination,'' lie sizes himself up before the country in a way that a column of description might fail to uo. Mr. tiray is Just big enough for a wind politician of the trickest sort, but that kind of a man is not big enough for a presidential nomination even iu the democratic demo-cratic parly. The .. , ei would suggest to the friends of Issac Piisey tiray that while it wilt do for a candidate for the council in a democratic district to pn laim that "the lightning is coining to strike It, for there is nothing under un-der heaven to prevent me from getting that Domination for president of the United States," it Is simply shocking in an aspirant for n presidential nomination to indulge in such commonplace aud vuglar boast, lugs and that they should kindly but (irmly tell him that he mast stop that sort of tiling. It will make no difference with the result, w hen ex-(i-;vernor tiray "is not in it," hut the man wno imagines that he is a candid ate for the highest ot!lce in the nation should assume a matting dignity. |