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A Graphic Description of the
Conyention City, the
People and Hall.
YERY LITTLE ENTHUSIASM
On the Tart of Minneapolitans, but
Plenty of Hospitality.
The Churches Like Libraries and Public
Halls Like Cathedrals Beautiful Dec
orations of the Convention Building
and the Streets Leading to It Snap
Shots at Prominent Men as They Ap
peared During the First Day's Short
Session A Little Hint at a Dark
Horse The Opening Prayer and
Chairman Fassett'e Speech Cheers
for the Leading Spirits at All Con
venient Opportunities.
rrnOM A STAFF CORKECrONDExr.l
Coj.vej.tio H ill, I
,MiM.roLis, June 7.
Minneapolis shows up curiously in Con
ner on with such a great event as this.
This city is dis
tributed over so
wide an area, and by
the medium of its
numerous lines of
electric roads its
population, at the
close of business
hours, retires so
Jama S. Clarkson. promptly that busi
ness men here have been wondering where
the people are going. The shop girls and
clerks come out ot stores toward 6 o'clock,
hop on a trolley car, and in ten minutes are
a mile or two away. The distance of Min.
neapolis from the old settled cities which
maintain political clubs seems to have dis
suaded such clubs from coming here, or at
lean they make no impression on the
streets. We hear some drumming and fife
ing, but no big procession has been seen at
any time here. The campaign is without
much hurrah. A lonesome Harrison club
make a periodical appearance in the big
square lobby of the AVest House, elevates a
Harrison portrait, and winds on, uubejruil
ing, alter which nobody cheers. A Blaine
club arrived by the side door, comes in and
gives three cheers, and goes through a form
ula of a colleg ort, and seems to be pain
fully aware in a few minutes that Minne
apolis does not cheer. Thev go down the
street behind music, and they comeback
again, concluding that it is not worth while.
ot a Bad Convention City.
Meantime, the city is giving itself up to
the entertainment of this convention with a
homelikeness suggestive of old Maine. The
houses of all the gentlemen are filled with
guests, and breakfast, lunch and dinner are
nude continuously fine. Almost every
business house seems to have something to
Jo with the taking care of strangers. A big
Bureau of Information and Accommodation
is in full blast lor Tom. Dick and Harry.
I caught four negroes the other day
charging on Mr. Xire. who has been working
here a month or two to take care of the
pres. One negro was saying: "Mind, I
tell you, you will hyar from me." He wanted
some six or 1G tickets close up to the
speaker, on behalf of the Ethlopic Eaifle, or
something of that sort. The uncompensated
Minnesotan listened as politely as if the
city authorities had instructed him not to
nlind having his ears boxed by a negro, and
managed to discharge the delegation with
out any tickets, but satisfied that their elo
quence had made a deep impression.
Except a small thunder storm or two
which kept the thermometer down, the
weather has been delichttul here for a
week, but on the morning ot the convention
the streets were pretty wet from a nieht's
rain. The sky was dingy and the smoke
down. Everybody could see from almost
every part of the city the convention build
ing, on Old street, and the armory across
the river among the flour mills upon an
elevation. A tall Italian tower, with a
loftv window, stood at the head of the
building, and behind it seemed to be a
cathedral with trausepts and tour great tall
windows in the nave and four in the choir.
iT-ltIcs of Minneapolis Architecture.
The churches up this wav look like clubs
ana libraries, and the secular buildings have
steeples and ecclesiastical lines. The per
manent exhibition hall from the side looks
like a big cathedral of the French sort. You
might almost take it for P.heims orTotre
Dame, and suppose that it had a second
tower abreast of the first one, and when vou
see the high lumber strips going up 40 or 50
feet against the front and sides of this build
ing the idea is conveyed that a coronation
or something is going on in the cathedral
These, however, are only steps to assist the
people to reach the very high galleries which
surround the halL The great body ot visi
tors go down the two main streets of Minne
apolis which converge at the big bridge just
above the Falls of St Anthony, and on 'I
which are living cars of all kinds. On the
way down they pass under the first arch at
the "West Hotel, which is double and has
tiers of flower pots irom bottom to top, and
e ergreens festooned among the flags.
Down at the foot of the street, near the
bridge, you come to two lumber arches,
also a number of staves and fine bits of
lumber to showthere sources of Minneapolis.
Across the bndce, on the opposite side,
near the convention hall, you come to the
flour-barrel arch, which is of horseshoe
shape and discloses nothing whatever but
flour barrels reaching to the ground and set
up in srveral ribs, while at the side is an
other machine, made of flour barrels, whicli,
perhaps, suggests how they grind the wheat.
The frequent device all over the city is the
wheat heal. This shows to beautiful effect
in the huce convention hall, where, against
the galleries, are planted these inimitable
golden bundles of W straw with the wheat
in the seed.
"H hat the Hall Looks Llkr.
The hall itself is a short block from the
main avenue uescnueu, and in front of it
are a parcel of tents set with refreshments
nnd there is a lumberman's hut, or log
cabin, to dispense -very cold water with
some lime in it to cive sufficient consistency
to the Minnesota bowel. This bone-making
water is now protiered to us by the
church, and in a moment our hand is unon
our stomachs and we slightlv assume 'the
attitude ot prajer.
We pass through wickets admitting us to
the hall, and the tickets are carefully ar
ranged so that everybody entitled to go in
shall hae his seats lor each session, steel-
engraved and carefully numbered. We jro
up four flights of steps, broad enough to
march a regiment of men in twelres or
twenties, and suddenly e look down upon
a place big enough for a tournament, with
galleries reaohing into the far eaves and
cornerfl. sn far nnart that it would be a
gigantic trapeze performance for a man to
come down irom one gallery in mat
deep pitch, swing through and land on the
other side.
The general aspect of this hall, when
empty, is that everything in it is made of
straw, and the frequent wheat sheat eives
the suggestion. The galleries are so deep
that their planed rafters from below
look like an immense ribbed ceiling. All
the chairs, seats, etc., are of new hardwood.
Above the delegates, in the ceDter, is a
huge bridge or truss, supporting a glass
roof, both bridge and skylight painted blue,
and in this blue are large golden stars to
imitate night, softening the effect of the
light in all parts of the halL The people
here almost look like ants in some patent
hive with a glass top, from which mankind
may observe their politics and processions.
Arches and Colors All Around.
The speakers' stand comes out well to the
middle of this hall, and before him and on
either side, enclosing the delegates, are
arches of American flags with a great eagle
catching up the folds at the top. Two real
eagles, native to this region, are behind the
speaker, agaipst the old-gold pillars there,
and behind this is anotherarch of American
flags, draped with a gilded tassel from the
top. The huge labric is supported upon
pine timbers which have been colored like
goiu, ana me loiuings kuu ihukus aiwut iuc
cornice and stage are in old gold and laven
der. A band of music is placed opposite,
far up, to fill this mighty trunk or cedar
chest with resonance.
And thus, in the course of its 36"
years of wandering, the Republican partr
has progressed from Philadelphia, in 1856,
to Minneapolis in 1892, having checkered
the country with its conventions at Balti
more, Cincinnati and Chicago.
Minnesota is only 6even years older, as
an organized political community with a
territorial government, than the party, and
the convention meets here amid 350,000
urban inhabitants. The land grant system
of railroads, started by Stephen A. Douglass
in 1850, with the result of making Chicago
the emporium of the Northwest, has nearly
all been fostered by the partv now meeting
here. At the close of Lincoln's two terms,
and at the commencement ot Grant's, the
Union Pacific Railroad was opened to the
coast, followed in a year or two by the
launching of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
which has made all the towns in Minnesota
except St. Paul, and, queerly enough, while
this convention is meeting here, steamboat
navigation by government aid has come up
to Minneapolis, and last Sunday more
steamers lay at the Minneapolis levee than
ever at one time before.
A Country of Vast Distances.
The Soo and other railroads hereabouts
have all come into life through land grants.
Three railroads running north of Minneapo
lis go to a point beyond the Boeky Moun
tains, and yet, in 6pite of all that has been
done, it seems to have taken the California
delegation five or six days to reach this con
vention. Such is the distance and latitude,
that while one newspaper man must save an
hour or two to get dispatches East before
midnight, another from the Pacific coast can
give two hours wav in sending hisdispatches
at near 2 o'clock in the morning, and file
them before midnight in Portland and San
Francisco.
When the skies are clear we can write
here till past 8 o'clock at night by the light
of day, and commence work again at 4
o'clock in the morning by the "daylight
also.
Here comes a crowd of people from Bos
ton which has traveled first to Montreal
and thence to the Sault Ste. Marie, and so
through th6 woods to Minneapolis, never
having touched any American State but
"Vermont on the way.
"I came here," said Theodore Cook, of
Cincinnati, "35 years ago; hardly anything
was to be seen around the falls ot St. An
thony, except the hillaze on the other side.
Mv wife was taken sick and I stopped at a
small hotel here, and went tosee these falls,
ierv picturesque amidst their mighty
oouiaers, ana now tne uovernment nas put
an apron over them and they are grinding a
1,000,000 barrels of flour a month."
1'ecullarltles or American Politics.
Yes, the course of events has resulted in
two political conventions, but the parties
are nearly the same, living under one ma-
l teriality, using the same implements and
instruments. This mighty continent has
absorbed into one stock all the nations of
man.
And now let us look aronnd the hall of
the convention. When 12 o'clock had come
and gone the seats in the upper galleries
were hardly filled, though the people were
still pouring in, and it seemed apparent
that few who desired to witness the pro
ceedings in this quarter of the world would
be debarred from gratifying their wish.
Notwithstanding the good treatment of
everj body here by the citizens, I scarcely
think it probably that another National
Convention of the existing parties will set
tle down so far upon the circumference.
Thirty or 40 posts obstructed the view. The
light, however, was cool and good
Whispers were heard of a new drive from
New England to manufacture a third can
didate, and some said: "Suppose it should
be Chauncev M. Depew, after alL"
The political clubs which marched into
town made very little impression, and
among them was the Indianapolis Blaine
Club, containing a good many negroes.
One felt like a mote inside of a vast grand
piano when the music vibrated upon the
infinite wooden kegs and chords in this
edifice, and the roof let in strains of white
light as in the garret ot Noah's ark.
Snap Hiots at Prominent Men.
Distinguished men were almost light in
the human acreage. Tom Eeed sat bi Mrs.
Hitt; 6he, dazzling and stylish and Blaine's
greatest favorite; Heed, pop-eyed and hun
gry looking, as if his Pickwickian fat had.
from the contiguity of a great ambition,
borrowed leanness from Cassius. Jim Bel
den, a Hebraic copy of Martin Van Burcu,
and Minister Palmer, the World's Fair
President, in a procrastinating way came
in with Depew, as placid as a rose, talking
io a inac-iiaireu escort, ana anderbilt
Shephard behind, good looking and gray.
John C. New came in with his son's wife,
and the Harrisonites loudly cheered. Matt
Quay had the front seat a pale, Edgar A.
Poe sort of man. He had a nervous hand,
winch brushed his face ever and anon, a
pale, nearly ghastly complexion, a small,
white hand, and reminded of an old news
paper editor, used to wearing an eye shade
and reading proof by gas light.
Clarkson arrived with a harmonious head
and big mustache and introduced a preacher
to pray, which made a spectator applaud,
probably because his University of Dakota
was thus honored. About all the delegates
arose anu swuu. iiigni ana gray clothes
prevailed.
Michael DeYoung. quite bald, read the
call. A fine white light settled upon the
parterre of delegates. They looked intelli
gent and generally young." Fassett's name
was mentioned and the applause was long.
He got 5800,000 from one of the Crockers
with his wife. New York arose and gave
him a round. He has sharp features, with
reddish mustache, a bald peak, and spoke
as it from the steam arising, his forefinger
striking the keynote of protection.
Tin- lirst Illaino Charge in the Hall.
Applause followed thick and fast, of the
grapeshot sort, but when he added recipro
city to his bouquet Tom Eeed turned pale
to "hear the sharp and rattling musketry of
the first Blaine charge. While he spoke
the empty seats filled. His voice was heard.
He kept conservative, with a shaking of the
plume, the tone on the floor gradually be
coming enthusiastic Warner Miller sat right
opposite Senator Cullom, clean-shaved and
Lincoln-faced, who was next to old General
Oglesbv, looking like a presiding elder.
Pfatt, "of New York, worn out and over
worked, sat behind Miller.
All these were under the speaker, whose
fire burnt out after a while. The imagina
tion of that house was for Foraker as an
orator. In some way his reputation has
extended be ond Ingersoll and Depew's.
At last he got to the name of Blaine, and
cheers were strong, but it was yet fresh, a
THE
yelling audience. Four times the shouts
went up. Depew laughed with a hearty
good wllL The speech was quite long
enough.
The ancient Dick Thompson, 81 years
old, seemed to hear everything, as he sat
far back, upright as a naval officer, and all
thatched with silky skeins. He marks the
iailure of the De Lesseps canal, now a
chaparral-grown ditch, to serve which he
left the Cabinet, while Miller represents
the American sequel of it.
As the speaker continued, and went out
of his way to mention Tom Eeed, a real
wild, original yell arose. Delegates sprung
to their feet and shouts went forth of
"Eeed! Reed!" He arose, green and
countryned aud bald, something of Ben
Butler and Bismarck in his drooped eye
lids and prize fighter's sidewise edging in.
He bowed, and some thought they beheld
the candidate.
lined as the Possible GarOald.
After half an hour Mr. Fassett was still
holding his audience, but we did not see
where he was bound and poetry concluded
the oration, and amid applause yells of
Reed were heard. He was felt to be the
possible Garfield of the convention. He
turned pale, heard the snouts continued,
and, crowding down, thrust his knees for
ward and came out from among the pretty
women. He was received with a wonder
ing, delighted roar. He stood forth at the
rostrum a giant, with shoulders broad,
chest broad, arm muscular and raised like a
smith's. He struck the ancient chord of
liberty. His accent was the educated
Yankee's from well down East The sight
was enioved. Suddenly he stormed and
ended and went back the nearest to Jesse's
oil he had ever been.
To offset a possible Trojan horse in him
the Harrisonites loudly called for McKin
ley. The Ohio delegates hearkened to the
cry. After a respectable and pallid.silence
the second Garfield aroe. all badged over
with blue and gold and Stars and Stripes,
and bowed and looked like Napoleou before
the Institute, and sat down to wait before
the Consulate and Empire.
By this time the audience concluded to
run the convention and have a symposium,
so they called for Ingalls, Clarkson and
Fassett. Up stepped the Polish man, and
Sewell, ot JNew Jersey, a jNortnwest rail
road man with a divinity look, got up and
moved to work. He has been Senator, and
suspects his railroad employer with trying
to get his Harrison equipment and yard
gang away from him. As the delegations
are called there are great men arise to find
themselves nearly obicure in that great
market house. ""When Dick Thompson
stands up in the cave of Macpelah he is ap
plauded. So is Ingalls, who looks like a
laded mullen stalk, on which some passing
traveler has hung a pair of gold spectacles.
Maine gets a great cheer.
A Room Uncoimclonsly Made,
Louis McComas rises for Maryland, when
a wild man in the gallery, disgusted with
the silence, veils: "Hurrah for McComas!"
and becomes himself the man of recog
nition. The first colored man arose for Missis
sippi, and was darkness visible. 'Warner,
of Missouri, was applauded. John B. Jones,
of Nevada, the old bosom friend of Conk
ling, now for Blaine, spread out handsomely
as his State was called. "When McKinley
arose again he looked surely respectable
and magisterial, a man whose consciousness
of the public task is worn like a clergy
man's. The Pennsylvanians raised a cheer as the
feeble, modern-looking Quay arose, and, by
some occult sympathy, halt the audience ap
plauded aud drowned his feeble voice.
Mahone, of Virginia, was greeted warmly,
ana wun tne sort 01 a reoei yen wnicn
adheres to the Eepublican party. He stood
up like a combination of Eip Van "Winkle
and Thomas Jefferson, all frozen cascades of
beard and owlish spectacles and blue
clothes. How he has fought and marched,
ended here!
A mellow light fell through some open
window upon the scene as some slight hisses
arose over the Southern States where Blaine
men have been selected. Acoloredman from
New Jersey made a loud kick, but Spooner,
of New Jersey, moved an adjournment.
Carried at 2 o'clock.
George Alfred Townsend.
SPARRING FOR POINTS.
Both Factions Still Glaring at Eicb. Other
at Midnight.
nr ASSOCIATED PBISS.1
Minneapolis, June 7. MidnigU report
The prolonged suspense and uncertainty
in the Presidenfal situation is haying a
telling eflect to-night on the enthusiasm
of the crowds in attendance upon
the convention. "While frequent confer
ences are being held by the leaders behind
bolted doors, the followers of both factions
gather in knotB about the lobbies and cor
ridors of the hotels anxiously awaiting in
formation that may throw some light on the
situation, which appears to be hopelessly
uncertain.
The chief interest for the moment is cen
tered on the proceedings ot the Committee
on Credentials. Its decision is expected to
realize a gain of some votes
to the faction which succeds in con
trolling the majority of the convention.
So close appears the contest between the
elements for control that both sides are
making a determined fight to capture the
whole of the delegates in dispute. The
Blaine people claim that they have every
thing to gain by .the postponement of
balloting, and for that reason it is under
stood they will endeavor to delay the per
manent organization of the conyention as
far as possible. The Harrison leaders deny
that they are losing ground.
, COMIHQ CLOSE TOQKTHEE.
Neither Side Claiming a Victory Now by
Sloro Than SOO Votes.
Minneapolis, June7. With every dele
gate to the National Convention present in
his seat, it will require 452 votes to make a
nomination. Three days ago both of the
rival factions were claiming the
nomination of their candidates by
a vote of GOO or more, but as
delegations arrived one by one, and it he
came manifest to the public how thev
would stand, these claims have been mod
ified and reduced, until to-night neither
side is claimine the nomination of its panel i.
,date by over 000 votes.
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PITTSBURG DISPATCH.
A TIME TOf THUSE.
Both Eepublican Factions
Unite in an Old-Fashioned
3Iass Meeting.
WHATEVER THE DECISION,
The Only Fight After the Convention
Will Be With the Enemy.
A BANQUET OP WIT AND WISDOM.
Horr, of Michigan, ProYides the First, and
Thurston the Other.
BOTH ARE STRONG FOR PROTECTION
Minneapolis, June 7. The mass meet
ing at Convention Hall to-night under the
auspices of the State League of Eepublican
Clubs was attended by fully 10,000 people,
the rainy weather outside appearing not to
dampen the ardor of the enthusiastic Ee-
THE CONVENTION HALL DTJEING THE PEOCEEDINGS.
publicans Upon the platform were seated
nearly all th most prominent Eepublican
leaders in attendance upon the convention,
and in the vast hall were seated indiscrim
inately delegates, officers of the various Ee
publican leagues, and a fair attendance of
ladies.
The meeting surpassed even the conven
tion proceedings of 4he day in point of en
thusiasm and evidences of good feelkjg.
The frequent references to Blaine. Harri
son, McKinley, Sherman, Alger and other
prominent Eepublicans of national or world
wide reputation evoked the usual manifes
tations of approval and admiration.
The speakers were about equally drawn
from the two factions, and, although there
was much friendly rivalry manifested in the
cheers and counter-cheers throughout the
evening, there seemed a general desire to
maintain good feeling and harmony.
Gooilenow's 'Words of Cheer.
The meeting was called to order by John
J. Goodenow, President of the Minnesota
State League, who said that this meeting
augured well for the future of the Eepub
lican party, when 12,000 men will turn
from the excitements of a political conven
tion to discuss calmly and dispassionately
the issues on which the .party is founded.
He added:
Our party Is a great tree. The storm1) may
rage and tin eaten destruction, but the
mighty roots are down to everlasting rock,
and the tree s upright, stalwart and In
destructible. It defies all dangers. "We have
come heie to listen tc-nlght to the men who
teach the truths on wlilch the Republican
gti ty is founded. We will listen to-night to
!on. John M. Thur'ton, of Nebiaska,
(cheers), and Hon. K. G. Uorr, .of Michigan
(cheeis).
The Marquette Quartet Club, of Chicago,
opened the proceedings with a campaign
song to the air of "Marching Through
Georgia," and on an encore responded with
a political hymn beginning "Cleveland's a
hoodoo, as sure as you are born."
John M Thurston was now introduced,
and after the cheers of welcome had sub
sided addressed the audience as follows:
Thurston Fredlcts a Cyclone of Zeal.
We are In the vortex of the converging
storm center of preliminary politics, and
there aro those who pi edict that out of the
pussibnate personal nreterences of indi
viduals at this conyention there will
come disaster, disappointment and de
feat to the Republican party. Let us
not worry tor the future. Out of
this Eepublican contest will come a
ginnd cyclone of Kepubhoin entliuslasm
that will sweep away, onco and forever,
every barricade that tho Democratic party
has elected upon the pathway of American
firogress. Applause. Thl assemblage
ere to night is not a conyention, not is it
proper that we hero should voice our indi
vidual wishes or our in llvldual hopes.
This is a mass meeting of Republican
clectois, and no matter what name may be
nearest the heait of anothot man, the name
upon tne lip or every itepumican in cue
United States day after to-moi row will be
the namo of tho nominee of the Republican
Convention. Applause. There ii no po
litical vendetta within the Republican
party. There are no squaw men
within tho Republican ranits. There
will be. no halting when
the battle is once on, and the flag that repre
sents Republican principles, whatever name
may be inscribed upon It, is the banner of
Republican patriotism, Republican progress.
Republican piotectloti, and Ameiican power
against all the nations of the earth, and es
pecially against the Democratic patty. Ap
lause. Milestones of Process Placed by the Party.
We believe In the Republican party, he
cause within a single quarter of a century it
has placed more milestones upon the' high
way of human progress than all other
instrumentalities in any four centures of the
earth's existence. We believe in the
Republican party because every star
in the Republican flag shines for the pro
tection of every Aineiican man. Applause.
We believe In the Republican party,
for every policy of Its governmental admin -lstration
stands with the highest measure of
American prosperity. We believe In the
Republican party beoanse every pi oposed
measure of legislation is Intended to light
the fire of contentment and happiness upon
the American hearths, and to put the crown
of sovereignty upon every American head.
We believe in the doctrine of the protection
or American industries. Applause.
We stand face to face with the Democratic
party as it proclaims to tho woild that it is
the right of the American people to buy
what tney want where they can buy It the
cheapest. I., deny that, broadly and
utteily. It Is not the right of any
man worthy of American citizenship
to buy the product of human
labor without paying a fair price for the
brain and the brawn that enter into Its
manufacture. Applause. It Is not the
right of any man who deserves the blessing
ot liberty and good government to buy any.
thing so cheap that some man Is robbed of
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8,
somejnst measure of his daily toll. Ap
plause. lire and let Live Follcy of Protection.
It Is not the rig tit of any man worthy of
American citizenship to buy a coat at such
a price that the family of some poor tailor Is
deprived of the comforts, yea, of the necessi
ties of life. It is not the right of any man
woitby of American citizenship to
wear a shirt upon which some poor
woman has worn out body, heart and soul,
for a pauper's price. Applause. If there
Is any man under the protecting arms of the
Stars and Stripes who desires to buy the
product of human liberty at such a price,
lor God's sake let him go Into some other
country, where there Is neither freedom nor
justice nor conscience, manhood nor liberty,
nor a flag that carries power and elory into
every corner of the earth. Great ap
plause. In almost every other land upon the earth
tne lnianc in tne cradle is Dorn so an escaio
from whioh It Is scarcely possible he can es
cape. In almost every other land of all the
earth the son or the peasant lives and dies a
peasant, the son of the butcher lives and
dies a butcher, the son of the mechanic lives
and dies a mechanic, end the son of a lord
ditto, hut within the United States, nnder
the splendid inspiration of its free institu
tions, the son ot the American peasant Is
born an American piince on the broad high
way of American possibility, the barefooted
boy outstrips the colden chariot of ances-
tial wealth. Prolonged applause.
In concluding, Judge Thurston defended
the McKinley law and the force bill of the
last Congress, and predicted that in the
coming election, the Republicans would
elect their candidate for the Presidency and
regain control ot both of the law making
branches of the Government.
Congressman Horr Tickles the Audience.
Hon. H. G. Horr, of Michigan, then ad
dressed the convention, and the delicate
sarcasm of his utterances and the lofty elo
quence of his frequent perorations threw
the vast audience into alternate paroxysms
of laughter and enthusiasm. He said:
Fellow citizens of the United States: "I
come tojou this eyonlngafterbelngtwofull
weeks preaohins the gospel In the State of
Oiegon. I think the news from that State
wllL bear me out in saying that it has al
i eady added to the triumph In little Rhodo
Island Annlanse I was lucky enough to
be In Rhode Island with Grover Cleveland,
and help him carry that State. Laughter
and anplanse Ko person who has had any
experience In nddresslng audiences In the
United States would be troubled In the
least to stand nnd look this audience In the
face, to tell to Just what party these people
belong. Applause
I like the Republican party because, nnder
the creat law of human development, it
strikes alittlo higher average than our Demo
cratic brethren can leach. Applause and
laughter. I like It because It Is the partv that
believes in building up our country Urst
the United States of America first, the rest
of the world afterward. Applause. I like
It because it has the Intelligence to compre
hend the great line to protection to Ameri
can industry. Applause OurDemocrntio
friends differ fiom us on tills greatquestion.
1 here is no dispute about where we stand on
it.
The Republican Protective Plan.
A Democrat will tell you right off. In
stantly, "If the tariff which I would enact
would do any one any good here la the
United States It Is unintentional on my
patt." Applause and laughter. The Re
publican party believes In so enacting laws
as to help the people of the United States.
Four things always take place when you
levy a duty on the protective plan, and that
is always to levy our duties on articles that
you can produce here In onr own country,
and if they are articles of necessity that we
cannot produce the Republican puts those
ai tides on the free list. Laughter and ap
plause. But ai tides that we can produce
we try to produce here In the United States.
Whenever you levy a duty on that plan four
things directly follow.
First, we bnild up a new Industry in the
United States. The Democrats admit that.
Laughter and applause. They say we
cieate a large number of robbers, you know,
and thev could not get the robheis if they
did not build up the industries don't you
see? Laughter. So they admit that.
Secondly, we enable the neople of the
United States to pay better wages for wors:
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the globe. Cheers! Now, then, the Demo
crats deny that. Laughter. Here Is what
they say: They say yes, we do pay larger
wages in the United States than
they pay anywhere else, that is,
that thev sou nil so largo that
if you are not careful you think they are
lniger. Laughter. But they say nere
Is the trouble, and everything In the
United States under our protective sys
tem that a laboring man uses is
so high that when yon take these
wages that sepin so large laughter you can
not buy as many necessities of life with your
work as yon can on the other side of the
ocean, wheieyour wages seem to be smaller.
Laughter. lint everything is so much
cheaper over there that you can buy more
with a day's work over there than yon can
oyer here, you know. Laughter.
Mr. Horr Pnt a Poser.
Ton have heard them say that a thousand
"times, havn't you? Ciles of "Yes," "yes,"
and laughter and cheers. Now, if that is
true, I wish they would answer me
one question; If that is true,
are those who work on the other
side ot the ocean better off than those who
work overheie? Thete is not any better
measure of value than the articles of com
fort nnd necessity hat a man can buy with
his day's labor, nnd If they tell the
truth, men are better off over there
than they aro overheie. Laughter. Now,
if that Is so, what makes so many come
over here? Laughterand cheers. Why don't
iney go irom nere over ineie. LLaugnter.l
But I can see how these steamboat men and
transportation companies may drive the
poor fellows over there, may tell them of
the wonderful things labor receives on this
slue or the ocean and get them over here, yon
know, so as to get their fare across the
ocean laughter; but theygetover here.und,
after tney find out what a tough time they
are haying here. 3 ou know laughter, then
they lecollect what elegant times they used
to have over there. Laughter.
Why don't they go back? that's the ques
tion. Laughter aud applause. Did you
ever see many going that way? Laughter.
There is now and then a chap comes over 111
tho steerage and goes back In the cabin; so I
don't need to argue that. Laughter.
We do build up new Industries. We do
pay better wages.
V. S. Minister Coolldge Received.
Pakis, June 7. Foreign Minister Eibot
received T. Jefferson Coolidge, the new
American Minister, this afternoon, and,
discussed with him the proposed inter
national monetary conference.
GILMORE This (Wednesday) morning,
June 8, 1892, at 2 o'clock, A. S. Gilmobe, at
his residence, No. 1M Second avenue. Pitts
burg. Notice of funeral hereafter.
1892.
ITHE- SILVER PLANK
Will Make Things Lively
in Both Committee Room
and Convention.
TELLEMOT WELL PLEASED
With the Free Coinage Men Se
lected by Foraker.
HIS SIDE WILL FIGHT IT. OUT.
Ihey Have a Kovel Idea for Submission,
and Are in Earnest.
THE PRESENT LAW WJU BE INDORSED
Minneapolis, June 7. The announce
ment of the appointment of the silver sub
committee of the general Committee on
Platform is received by the silver men in
two lights. The light in which a" part of
the silverites view the sub-committee is
pleasant, while others of the silvermen are
inclined to look.at it through smoked glasses.
Those who take the former view feel en
couraged to expect lairly, liberal treatment
of the silver question, from the fact that
the foremost advocates of free coinage in
the Senate are on the committee, and think.
considering the number of absolutely lree
coinage men in the National Legislature,
that they did well to get two out of five.
Senator Teller expresses himself as not
particularly well pleased with the selection
of the free coinage members of the com
mittee. He is acquainted with the views
of Messrs. Brackett and a Cannon, but Gen
eral Fairchild is not known to him, and he
does not know how far the commander of the
6. A. E. is inclined to go in the direction of
consolidation of the silver interests, but he
seems to fear that Mr. Fairchild, coming
from Wisconsin," perhaps the most con
spicuous hard money State in the North
west, is not good material for missionary
work.
The silver plank is generally regarded
with more interest than any other of the
resolutions that will constitute the plat
form. This sub-committee as a whole is
the best known as to its membership and is
pernaps tne strongest 01 any committee into
which Governor Foraker divided the Reso
lution's committee.
Want to Convert Some Opponents.
The trouble which confronts the silver
men is, so far as the sub-committee is con
cerned, to win over to their side a single
member of the opposition. They under
stand that free coinage cannot by any possi
bility be obtained as a declaration of the
principles ot the Eepublican party, and the
composition of the committee was to make
it unlikely that any of the ante-free coinage
men would consent to anything which
would not win the assent of Messrs. Jones
and Teller as a proposition with which they
will be content.
Mr. Cannon is probably the most liberal
of the three in his silver views, but it is
likely that he will be unwilling to give his
consent to any step in advance of the pres
ent law. It is, therefore, quite probable
that the plank will be substantially in
accord with the present statute, with per
haps a modification looking to larger coin
age of the purchased silver bullion and
some reference to a willingness to act in
conjunction with other nalionsttn a mone
tary agreement for an enlarged use of silver.
The coinage of the silver, instead of its
storage, is one point which the more intelli
gent of the free coinage .men earnestly de
sire, as they fear that the piling up of the
bullion in the Treasury will not tend to
make people regard sliver as money, the 1
YES
We Have Sacrificed
All Our Profit.
DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE
FURNITURE AT
WE RESERVE NOTHING-
WE MUST HAVE THE ROOM,
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v TSPOT CASH. MM EDI ATE DELIVERY
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434 and 436 Smithfield St., - Pittsburg.
tame ai gold is regarded a thing the silver
men are anxious to inculcate into the public
Sliver Men Prepared to Figh.
The silver men are prepared to fight the
report of the majority ot the sub-committee,
and when the general committee gets to
work on the platform it Is likely
that the greatest efforts of the silver
men will be made. They have held
a number of conferences for
the purpose of preparing a free
coinage plank for submission to the com
mittee. In some respects it is novel, as it
involves a limitation, (of course not legally
but as a party declaration) on the exercise
of the Presldental veto so far as the cur
rency question is concerned. This plank pro
poses to declare that the Eepublican party is
iu favor of bi-metallism on the present ratio,
or such other ratio as may be agreed upon,
and is then coupled with a clause, carefully
drawn, but amounting in effect to a state
ment that the determination of the extent
to which the United States will go in silver
coinage is a question which should be left
to legislative determination, the implica
tion, of course, being that it is not a matter
for the Executive.
FORAKER TO THE FRONT.
The Ohio Ex-Governor Made Chairman of
the Committee on Besolntlons No
Chance for Opposition The Platform
Parcelled Among Fire Sab-Committees.
Minneapolis, June 7. Ko less a per
son than ex-Governor Foraker, of Ohio,
was chosen chairman of the Committee on
Eesolutions, and he it is, therefore, who will
have the honor to first voice in the National
Convention the official declarations upon
which the coming Presidental campaign
will be fought. The first meeting of the
committee began immediately following
the adjournment of the convention, and
before the slower members had realized
what was going on, Governor Foraker was
at the helm.
Delegate Oliver, of Pennsylvania, on
entering the room, rapped immediately for
order, briskly named Foraker for the place,
and, getting a prompt seconder, put the
motion, announced that it was carried, and
Governor Foraker was the man. If there
was any idea of opposition it had no chance
to develop, and the hearty "ayes" of the
lively Ohioan's friends on the committee
went wholly unchallenged by any hostile
negatives.
When the committee had caught its
breath, ex-Governor Gear, of Iowa, offered a
suggestion, which was adopted after some
desultory discussion, that the preparation
of the pla.form be referred to five sub
committees of five members each. Later
Mr. Foraker nominated the sub-committees
as follows:
Tarlff-H. W. Oliver. Pennsylvania: J. G. Gear.
Iowa; J. W. Bourne, Jr., Oreron: David It.
Pierce, New Hampshire; George Denny. Jr..
Kentucky.
Sllver-Luclns Fairchild. Wisconsin; John P.
Jones. Nevada: Joseph Q. Cannon. Illinois; J. 0.
A. Prackett, Massachusetts; Henry M. Teller.
Colorado.
Elections Newton Hacker. Tennessee;.TimesP.
Piatt, Connecticut; tdmond Waddill, VIrglnH
A. S. i'owler. Arkansas; Charles Austin, Michi
gan. Foreign Relations-George A. Knight. Cali
fornia: C. F. Llbbv. Maine: John A. Ilutchlnson.
West Virginia: Kdmuud O'Connor, Aew iork;
W. 1". Heybuni. Idaho.
Miscellaneous O. E. Learned. Kansas: James
H. Wilson. Delaware: C. F. Uriffln, Indiana:
Frank J. Harris. Rhode Island: Edward U. Eric
son, south Dakota.
SLOW WORK IN COMMITTEE.
Harrison ald to Dave Gained by the De
laySeveral Days Expected to Be Con
sumed If the Present Bate of Progress
Is Adhered To.
Minneapolis, June 7. The leaders of
the opposing hosts held important confer
ences, lasting late into the night.
The Harrison conference was at
tended by Michener and New, of In
diana, Spooner, of Wisconsin; Jones, of
Illinois; Hiscock, of New York, and others.
At the conclusion of the conference it was
stated the reports received by committee
fromthe various delegates showed that the
President made substantial gains during
the day, and that the Harrison vote pledged
to-night is larger than It has been since the
beginning of the convention. The most en.
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couraging gain was made by postponement,
and they are disposed not to force the or
ganization lest such action be construed aa
an evidence of weakening on their part.
The Blaine people apparently accom
plished their purpose of delay in twice
securing the postponement of definite
action bv the Committee on Creden
tials. The committee is making
slow progress with its work.
There seems to be no special haste in pro
ceeding with the contested cases and the
hall outside the National Committee rooms
is thronged with about three-score of men
who want to know whether'they will hays
seats in the convention or not.
The committee met immediately alter the
adjournment of the convention this morn
ing, pursuant to the direction of the con
vention, and organized. A. poll of
the committee would indicate that
the Blaine men are in the majority
and control affairs, though tne Chairman
selected is General Cogswell, of Massachu
setts, one of the stanchestof Harrison
men. After getting organized the com
mittee concluded to adjourn to
meet at 4 o'clock the same place,
a room nnderneath the conyention
hall and not very well adopted for the pur
pose. It had the advantage, however, of
being quiet, which certainly cannot bo
said of the National Committee room.
Governor Warmouth, of Louisiana, and
his followers in Louisiana, and the Lynch
faction in Mississippi, both of which dele
gations were left off the temporary roll,
were present in some force as well as
also some of the other interested
parties. The committee assembled at
the appointed hour but the only result was
a decision to adjourn again to meet at the
National Committee Headquarters uptown.
Mr. Warmouth -did not like the conclusion
to adjourn again to the National Committee
rooms, evidently fearing that it boded no
good to his contest.
At 8 o'clock the committee reassembled.
hut if it continues to progress at the same
rate at which it went ahead for the
first two hours, several days at least
will elapse before the numerous contests
before the committee are settled and the
permanent roll made up. At 10 o'clock to
night the first contest had not yet been taken
up, and all that had been accomplished was
to make up the roll of the delegates in
uncontested districts. The probabilities
are that with a possible exception or two,
the decision of the National Committee
in these contests will be affirmed in the
Committee on Credentials. Soon after
10 o'clock the committee decided to ad
journ until 9:30 A. M. The adjournment
was looked upon as an evidence of the
standing of the committee, as the Harrison
men as a rule wanted to continue in session.
OBASOEMEN TAES A HAND.
Their Supreme Grand Master Says the Order
Won't Vote Tor Blaine.
Detroit, June 7. W. J. H. Traynor,
Supreme Grand Master ot the Loyal Orange
Institution of the United States, will send
the following telegram to Minneapolis to
day. Stewart Gamhle, Grand Master I. O. L No. 103
Bridge Square, Minneapolis, Mhm.:
You are authorized to state for mo to dele
gates of the National Convention, that
Thomas W. Palmer, of Michigan, or any
other equally good American on either
ticket, will receive one million and one
fourth votes, none of wnlcli will ever bo cast
for Blaine. W. J. Ibatsor.
When seen by a reporter about the mat
ter of supporting Mr. Blaine, 3Ir. Traynor
said:
Theorangomen aro not prejudiced politi
cally. They are Interested in politics only
so fur as to prevent the usurpation of
political power by any religious denomina
tion. They know 110 partv, but they will
not support Blaine for President. The prin
cipal objection they have to him Is that ho
has shown partiality to Catholics In makliyf
apDOlntments. He alto attended high mass
celebrated In tho Capitol building ac Wash
ington over the body of Senator Harbour.
He was not opposed by our order In ISM, but
we will vote against him to a man in case ha
is nominated now. Wo are united and will
stand by our colors. I have not overesti
mated our strength. Instead of 1,250,000
votes we have over 2,000,000 of votes in our
ranks. They are scattered all over tho
Union and will respond to a call from their
leaders. Blaine has offended us and we ;y "
not pass it by. We pay great attention to
snch things.
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