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Show with tin? Huif i. M I.kan influence to put Ohio in line, ami with Gorman unit ICHISf looking after the south, the strength of thin combination is readily I seen. That it will dominate the next Democratic national convention we do not doubt. TIIK llll.t ,-OORM XN A I . I . I A N f K. The iignlftonl oonterenoos ut Wash-! inejton between Senators Hill and Go i Han tiro oooatrueil liy shrewd iioliii-ciaus iioliii-ciaus n.s fontinuino; tbu smpoi totl alii- nnco fonv.od by those two great leaden for the purpose of controlling the detn oeralic presidential nomination. The alliance also in. dudes Senator Hrick, and its lirst olTeotiro work was the election elec-tion of Crisp for speaker. That was an important step it: the programme of relegating Mr. Cleveland to the background. back-ground. The election of Mr Mn.i.s to the spoakorship would have foreshatl- I owed the nomination of Mr. Cleve- I Land as the Jogieal candidate on the is-auo is-auo which thi' election of Mr. MlLLs would have emphasized. But the defeat de-feat of the Texas free trader means a halt in the advance free-tratlo movement, move-ment, ami the elTaeemoiit of Mr. Clkve-nd Clkve-nd as its leader. With the fifty-second eongusss organized or-ganized ou this hasls, the progress of tho senatorial triumvirate is made easier. Senator Hill now . litis the Now York machine thoroughly thor-oughly in his grip. Mr. Cutvis. lam- might got au occasional delegate from that state, hut Senator Hill will have at least three-fourths of then, composed of his personal friends, nnd under the unite rule this mean-that mean-that the ex-president will not get ti del. egate from his own state. This will dispose of his candidacy. What of .Senator Hill's? The probabilities are very great that the. fueling moused in tin. patty throughout the country against Senator Sena-tor Hill for killing off Mr. Clkvl-lanii Clkvl-lanii will be so strong as to render his nomination also out of the qsastion, Hut that will be alt to future development. The Hill-Gomav Huh k alliance comprises lirst the elimination of Mr. Ci.kvelanp, and it is doubtful if the purlins to it aro yet agreed as to whether their candtdats is to he the senator from New York or the senator from Maryland. As mat ters now stand, the chances favor Sou. a'or (imtM.w With ihe .New l'olk delegation .solid, j |