. Review of reviews and world's work . es of theprotesting Syracuse convention were not admitted toa share in the formal work of the Chicago body; butthe May movement had made it clear that the Hillmen and the Tammany braves were not the onlyDemocrats in the Empire State ; that in point of factMr. Cleveland was far from being forlornly friend-less in his own State, and, indeed, that his allegedunpopularity there was largely mj^hical. An in-structed delegation working under the unit rule mayseem very formidable, but it is shorn of much of itsinfluence when it is found to misrepresent the senti-
. Review of reviews and world's work . es of theprotesting Syracuse convention were not admitted toa share in the formal work of the Chicago body; butthe May movement had made it clear that the Hillmen and the Tammany braves were not the onlyDemocrats in the Empire State ; that in point of factMr. Cleveland was far from being forlornly friend-less in his own State, and, indeed, that his allegedunpopularity there was largely mj^hical. An in-structed delegation working under the unit rule mayseem very formidable, but it is shorn of much of itsinfluence when it is found to misrepresent the senti-ment of the voters at home. Mr. Hills great Feb-ruary delegation held together at Chicago in splendidform, and did everything for their candidate thatmortal men could have been expected to do. Buttheir cause had become discredited in the period be-tween February and June, and they waged a bootlessfight. Mr. Hill had become impossible, and therewas no rallying ground for the opponents of the man of destiny. .; THE RBl^lFM OF (From a photot,rai)h by C. M. Bell, Washington, D, C.) HON. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, OF ILLINOIS,Democratic Nominee for the Vice-Presidency j^g ^Q The i)arallel between the strategics of theConvention tvvo great coiiventiotis was strikingly simi- ac ics. i^j,^ jj^ each, there was a candidate and an«)|)position. Mr. Blaine was not a candidate atMinneapolis in the senses in which the word is com-monly nsed at conventions, and his name was onlyused as a fo(nis for tlie opposition to Mr. that the Harnsonian leaders had to do was tomuster tlieir forces and assure themselves of theirown strength by a test vote early in the (piickly foun<l tliat they had a majority of thedelegates, and the knowledge of this fact was enoughto hold all their men in line. For why should anydesert when the victory was assured? Similarly, atChicago, Mr. Whitneys perfectly simple and straight-forward tactics speedily evolved certainty out of a seemin
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