Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — CLEVELAND AND GRAY. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND AND GRAY.

The Indinapolis News says the democratic editors, or most of them, who attended the stare meeting in that city last w k go their heads together after adjourmont and talked over the gubernator u fight, » ,ioh ts now waxing warm: It w s the | sense of the gathering that ns ther Bynum nor Sh vely will be iu lhe race, and a majority of those present wi-reinclin d to think that Secretary of St te Matthews is the man to nominate. Several editors expressed the belief that Matthew* possessed elements of strength which no other candidate had.

The presidential poll ■of he editors, taken bY the News is the subject of omment. Ex-Governor Gray has been considered a prime favorite among the democratic editors of the State, and it was supposed the press of the party in Indi .na was unanimonsfor him on the first i choice. The pool, however, bhows that Gray has a b *rc majori y of one on first choice, or in other words 20 out o' 39 editors named him as the r first e o ce Cleveland was only so r votes behind Gray. Commenting on the the poll, a democrat s id to a News reporter. “It shows that Indiana is for Cleveland, notwithstanding Gray’s candidacy and means that Gray is really in the race ifor vioe-prasident. The ticket will he Cleveland and Gray.