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Show HUNTING FOR A MOSES. Democrats Are at Sea as to Who to Put Up as a Presidential Candidate. TRIBUNE SPECIAL. Washington. Jan. 2.-Thc meeting: of the Democratic National committee within two weeks has not excited particular par-ticular ijQtercst. New York and Chicago Chi-cago are the only two candidates seriously seri-ously considered for the national Democratic Demo-cratic convention, and New York seems to have the best of the argument at this time. Owing to the very great doubt as to who the Democratic candidate for President will be, there W not much gossip as to the name of the man who will succeed Chairman Jnc!" chairmanship of a national committee goes to a man acceptable to the nominee, nomi-nee, and widely different Interests are represented in the men suggested for this honor. , Gossip as to the probable Democratlo nominee for the Presidency is me. Judge Parker is looked upon aa a formidable for-midable candidate, but the point is raised against him that he is a close and intimate friend of ex-Sonator David Da-vid B. Hill. Tammany does not look with favor upon any movement to put Mr. Hill Into power. Parker as a final choice would mean that he was manifestly mani-festly the best candidate for the party, and that New York prejudices had been set aside in view of this. Ex-Secretary Olney has recently had a new boom, but he Is not popular among the Democrats, although he Is regarded as a very strong" man intellectually, intel-lectually, and as possessing many other qualities which would particularly recommend rec-ommend him as a candidate. His advanced ad-vanced age is against him. It is not expected that Mr. Olney will go to the convention with a very large following, but it is believed that unless Senator Gorman can get control of the convention conven-tion at once upon its assembling, he being the candidate who is expected to be far in the lead iit the outset, there will be considerable discussion before any .candidate Is selected, In which event a man like Olney, with a solid delegation standing earnestly and firmly firm-ly for him. would be favorably situated. As f the situation appears today. Mr. Gorman seems to be the only candidate under discussion who possesses positive strength adhering distinctly to his personality. per-sonality. The other candidates are looked upon with more or less favor as being- advantageous ad-vantageous to the party. Gorman has a following that is distinctly his own, ready to stand by him through thick and thin for a determined fight, and this might speedily result In bis nomination, nomi-nation, but it is yet to' be determined how strong this following Is numerically. numeri-cally. Up to the present time there Is nothing sufficiently determined in regard re-gard to a candidate to prevent the Democratic national convention from being "wide open" and subject to argument argu-ment or manipulation in favor of one candidate or another. |