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Show I 'T CLEVELAND I Boom for Presidency HI Eastern Arrivals at St. Louis IE Talking for the Former Hj President. Hjj Politicians Aro Doing. Most of the Hl Booming', Few Delegates Having Arrived. Hj T. LOPIS July 1 Tallc In the In- Hf terest of' Mr. Cleveland for the Hj 3 Presidency, constitutes the most f prominent feature of the nntl- convention gossip heard today, and the publication here of a Washington dls i patch quoting John R. McLean In ad- vocacy of the ex-President's nomlna- f "on has added somewhat to the volume of prediction. No Organized Effort Yet. There is no definite movement dis-ccrnlblc dis-ccrnlblc as yet in Mr. Cleveland's ln-terest ln-terest and the few delegates In the city r gnerally decline to discuss the proba- bilitles, saying that all predictions would be premature at this time. The discussion Is thqrcforc confined to 1 politicians other than delegates, and with reference to the Clevelund noml-.ii noml-.ii nation these arc divided Into two classes those who favor him and those who f. fear him. East Wants Cloveland. In a general way Eastern arrivals are 1 favorable, on the ground that Mr. Cleveland can carry Eastern cities, such as New York. which they say no other man can carry. j It Is asserted that strong influence among the business Interests is being organized In bis Interest. At the Jefferson hotel, where the na-' j tlonal committeemakes Its headquar- j ters, the friends of Judge Parker are congregated In large numbers, and in-eluded in-eluded amonc them are a number of delegations not instructed for the New York candidate. ) J Say Parker Is Man. They are very antagonistic to Mr. Cleveland, and, believing that Mr. Par-kcr Par-kcr Is the most available instrument with which to accomplish the defeat of the ex-President, they are quite pre-pared pre-pared to accept him. They freely prc-diet prc-diet Parker's nomination at a compar-BH compar-BH atlvely early date In the convention, Hearst's Strength. Delegates Instructed for Mr. Hearst- B say that gentleman will not be able to B control all his forces in case of a break, B and the claim Is made that even many H of them will go to Parker. Indeed, the B friends of Parker assert that the Cl.ve- M land talk which is now sd plentiful, Jl will have the Inevitable effect of aiding B their candidate. The Parker men do B not accept the theory that McJ.ean and PB Gorman are sincere In their support of PB Cleveland, calling attention to past nn- PB tagonism in support of their theory. B Jones on the Ground. B Former Senator James X. Jones1, PB chairman of the Democratic National PB oemmittee, arrived In the city today PPJ and took apartments at the Jefferson PB hotel. He said that no definite arrange- PB ments for the organization of the con- PPJ ventlon had yet been made, and pre- PPJ dieted that none would be made until PPJ the meeting of the full National com- PPJ mittee which will take place next Mon- PPJ day. However, he advocates the selec- PB tion of John Sharp Williams of Mlasls- PPJ slppl, leader of the minority in the PPJ house, for the position of temporary PPJ 'chairman, and there is now little or no PPJ doubt that the selection will fall upon PB Mr. Williams. B Permanent Chairmanship. BJ The permanent chairmanship will PPJ probably go to some northern delegate PPJ and Thomas E, Harkworth of Michigan PPJ and Patrick A. Collins are mentioned In PPJ that connection. The committtee on ar- PPJ rangements for the convention will hold PPJ a meeting tomorrow, but it is not ex- PPJ pected that It will make any recom- PPJ mendatlon with regard to convention of-PPJ of-PPJ B Hearing Contests. B The National committee will also take PPJ up and dlspo&e of the contests on the PPJ part of the rival delegates. The' most PPJ prominent of these Is the Illinois case, PPJ and Delegate Hopkins, who holds cred- PPJ entlals as delegate at large, has been PPJI In the city all day busily occupied in PpK presenting his claims. B Considering the Platform. Longer in advance than usual the PPJ platform question is receiving the sorl- 1 oua consideration of delegates and PPJ others Interested In the party's welfare PPJ and It Is already evident that there will PPJ be a persistent effort to secure an ex- Ppi prcsslon of party viewy which will meet PPJ the approval of all factions. "We must, PPJ get a pronouncement which will meet PPJ . the demands of all Democrats," said PPJ Representative Clayton of Alabama, PPJ "and I believe It Is going to be a com- Ppi paratlvely easy matter to accomplish Ppi that result." Hj Principal Contention. H Other party leaders on the ground ex- PpB pressed themselves In like optimistic ftVBM manner. But when they entered upon PPPJ a comparison of views It became evi- PpBj dent that there are differences which PIH will have to be smoothed down beford PpH the desired result can bo secured. Evl- PpH dently the principal contention wi)l be PIH over the point as to whether there shall PPPI be a specific declaration favorable to af- PPP flrmatlon of the principles enunciated PPP In the platform of 1S9G and 1900. There PPP Is today some strenous contention as PpH whether there shall be any references, B whatever to those two declarations, and PPB there are many shades o views as to B how thesubject should be covered. What Bryanitea Want. Delegates who are close to Mr. Brj-an, PpH want a re-alllrmation In tet-ms, but PpH .wme of them arc content to say that, B while making the re-assertlon, they con- B slder other and newer questions of B leading Importance- and arc willing on PpH that account to give more prominence PIB to them.'-Others take the position that PIB it would bo lndlvldlous to mention the Chicago and Kansas City utterances, and urge that i will bo sufficient to reaffirm re-affirm the principles enunciated by all previous Democratic conventions and then pass to the consideration of newer questions. A third class would have all references to recent party declarations declara-tions entirely omitted, Will Bo Left to Gorman. Some express the opinion that tho preparation of tho platform will be left almost entirely to Senator Gorman and Representative Williams, tho Democratic Demo-cratic leaders In the two houses of congress. con-gress. It Is generally believed that the character of the platform will have a marked influenco upon the presidential nomination, and as. only a majority vote Is required for its adoption, Its exact ex-act wording will be awaited with much interest John B.. Walker of New York, Is urging urg-ing the adoption of a financial, plank declaring for a currency so adjusted as to meet all business requirements. To Hush. Nomination of Parker. Two distinct lines of operation developed de-veloped today In the preliminary skirmishing skir-mishing of the Democratic National convention. One is a scheme to rush the nomination of Judge Parker on tho first or second ballot and tho other is to scatter the vote and prevent an early nomination, with a view of nnmlnr Cleveland or Gorman. The friends of Gorman and Cleveland are working to hold the convention for several ballots In the hope that their candidate may bo named. The Gorman men are not parties to the Cleveland movement nor are tho Cleveland advocates combining with Gorman's friends. There Is no alliance, al-liance, hut it Is to the Interest of both that the Parker strength be disintegrated disinte-grated as soon as possible. "Old Cleveland Guard." There are a few men here men of the old Cleveland guard who are watchlnr every point and who are in close communication with Cleveland's supporters, and In a subtle and subterranean sub-terranean manner they have been feel-the feel-the pulse of men as they arrive. They ai-o using the race Issue on the Southern South-ern men and with all delegates they use the argument that Cleveland is the" only man that the Democrats can elect. With some effect they arc pointing out to the Southern delegates that they need no better excuse for suporting Cleveland than that-they did so for tho purpose of preventing negro domination domina-tion by the Republicans. Ryan Heads the Move. I The man who Is credited with being the head and front and manager of the Cleveland movement. Thomas F. Ryan, will arrive tomorrow. Ryan Is a delegate from Virginia, and has been identified with the Atlantic coastline road. Ho has also been associated with Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany hall. Ryan is credited with having some Southern State delegations delega-tions up his sleeve, ready to throw to Cleveland. Gorman's Position. Gorman's position Ib stated to be that he will not enter into any combination to prevent the nomination of Parker, unless It means his own selection. He will not be used to pull out chestnuts for Cleveland. Around Gorman are gathered the Maryland, West Virginia and District of Columbia delegations, and some from other States, with a bare possibility of securing New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But, like Gorman, Former Senator Smith of New Jersey, and James A. Guffey of Pennsylvania, want to see sudcess In sight before they jump. Little Talk About Bryan, There is a little talk about what William Wil-liam J. Bryan may- do, but some strong assurances are given that he will not bolt A topic of discussion also Is what the convention may do with Bryan It Is expected that he will have a vigorous dissent to the platform and possibly to tho candidate, but some Democrats say that, after expressing his dissent, It Is not the intention of the leaders to allow any great latitude to him after his minority report has been rejected. |
