Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — SURE TO BE NOMINATED. [ARTICLE]

SURE TO BE NOMINATED.

Indications That Harrison Win Bo tho Winner at Minneapolis. The last of the Republican State Conventions for the selection of delegates to the Minneapolis Convention has been held at Atlanta, and as the Georgia delegates were instructed for the renomlnation of President Harrison, it becomes an easy matter at this time for the President's friends to figure just how their favorite stands as to renomination, says a Washington dispatch. The figures heretofore given out by them upon this subject have been attacked by the finding of uninstructed delegates now and then in States where delegates-at-large have been instructed to vote for renomlnation. Deducting all of the uninstruoted delegates in States where the State conventions have instructed for the President there have been 442 delegates absolutely instructed to vote for the renomination of the President They are as follows: Alabama 22jlndiana SO California a Kentucky 28 Illinois 44 Maryland 10 Kansas 8 Minnesota 2 Louisiana. 16|Miseouri 80 Michigan 4 New York 26 Mississippi .. isfohio 6 Nebraska 18|South Carolina 18 North Carolina 12iTennessee 20 Pennsylvania 2 Virginia H South Dakota 8 Wisconsin ", 10 Texas.. 30|Georgla 28 West Virginia. 19i Arkansas 10 Total Instructed Florida s| delegates. 442 By the above it will be seen that there is a total of 442 delegates instructed, or within nine of the number required to nominate. These figures do not include the number of uninstructed delegates who have voluntarily pledged themselves by letter or otherwise to vote for renomination upon the first ballot. These number about one hundred. They exclude every delegate who has not specific instructions from a district or State to vote for renomination from the very beginning of proceedings in convention. For instance, the four delegates from districts in Illinois which did not adopt resolutions of instruction are left out of the calculation, although it Is held that the instruction in the State convention binds delegates from districts which did not instruot. For the same reason four delegates are dropped in Missouri, although it is reported that the delegation as a whole will act under State instructions. Of the instructed delegates 230 are from the South and 186 from the North and West. Private information from uninstructed delegates leads the friends of the President to claim that two-thirds of the 900 delegates will vote for Harrison on the first ballot.