5T.LOUIS.MO. June isse. IT WILL SEAT 14,000. ST. LOUIS AUDITORIUM THE LARGEST CONVENTION HALL. Bow the FracaidlDii of the Convention Will Be Bandied — Number of Dele {■(« and National Committeemen— Routine Work. T. LOUIS Is a hot city In .Tune, but so was Chicago In 1888 I and Minneapolis In 1892, as Republican delegates will tes tify. Over-crowd ing nnd incon venient accommo dations are more to be dreaded during National conven tlon week than not wea'.ner. bu according to all reports, will furnish better facilities than ever before have been accorded to a National convention, The immense new auditorium, where the '-Republican National Convention will be hold, will accommodate 14,000. There will be 900 National delegates In the convention this year--more than ever before—and the same number of alternates. There will be 53 members of the National Committee pvesent, and the reat of the vast audlenco, will eon alsl mainly of "rooters" for the several candidates whose names are to be pre eented for the highest honor In the gift of the American people. Accordtpg to recent estimate, there wlll.^erncne too much room. It Is customary to give to the city In which the co|(|entlon is held, the largest black |of seats. St. Louis will have more seA^s in the auditorium than any conveo>fbh city ever obtained before. ft hai put in a modest request for S.500 sehts, and will probably receive 2,500*-least. Ohio anil Iowa, being near*W and both having prominent candidates, will probably send the two largest State Delegations. Ohio, It Is estimated by zealous Republicans of the Ilucfceye state, may have as many •a 26,000 Republicans In St. Louis, but, of coulee, only a small per cent of them Will get seats in the auditorium. TImofby E. Byrnes of Minneapolis, who' hat! been elected sergeant-at-arms of yrg convention by the National Com mRtef, *wlll have charge of the distri bution, of tickets for admission. Each NationSl delegate and alternate will re ceive two tickets—and as many more as tlToy can get. The member of the National Committee from each stale Will m^ke cut a list of all Republicans ft Irii state who may want to attend th$:proceedingB, and the tickets will be distributed among the different states, pro Under the system of dlstri butkjp swhich Scrgeant-at-Arms Byrnes wllLemploy it will bo practically im possible for the friends of any one can didate to “pack** the convention hall, despite the fears ofsuch an event which have teen expressed.* Mr. Byrnes has ■aid flfet, eo far as he has the ppwer, the.friends of all the candidates, will be tfcHtcd- alike. ’i’he real work of the convention, loading up to and providing for tte Miration of the National ticket, Is done4 committee rooms. Spacious nccojomodatlons for committee work ho® been provided In the auditorium, nnJ^the newspaper facilities will be es pecially convenient. A novel scheme tata he pnt In opera recognizing delegates who think they have a duty to perform by claiming the attention of the convention. The telegraph facilities for dispatch ing to every corner of the Nation the names of the nominees will be ample. Nine new copper wires are strung from St. Louis to Chicago and six from Chi cago to New York. About fifty loops will be run Into the Auditorium. Wearied delegates can repair for re freshment to any number of gardens and open-air restaurants and cafes, where the best that. St. Louis can offer will be placed before them at prices that may make them complain. But what is the loss of a few hundred dol lars to an enthusiastic Republican, fired with Interest in his party’s wel fare, and perchance, in some instances, with irons of his own in the fire? Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, chair man of the National Committee, will call the convention tv order. Bat im portant work of the convention will have been done by the National Com mittee even before the delegates as semble in their seats. On the day preceding the convention a temporary roll of delegates has to ba formed, for manifestly no’ State can have the advantage of another in repre sentation. Some states will send con testing delegations, but only one set can be seated. It would not be proper, on the other hand, to shut a state out entirely because of contests. Kach must have representation In tho organiza tion of the convention. General Clark son of the National Committee from Iowa says there will be about 110 con Vic importance of these decision*) in committee cannot be overestimated, for while they arc in no way binding upon the conveniion, the action of the committee, based generally on good and sufficient grounds, is seldom over turned. The National Committee selects also by a majority vote the temporary and permanent chairman of the convention; that is to say, it selects a name for each position, to be presented to the con vention. A bitter contest may arise within the National Committee over these selections. Sometimes, as in 1892, the minority may withdraw their candidate, and make the selection of temporary chairman unanimous, as they did for J. Sloat Fassctt. Again, as in 1884, a majority and minority re port may be presented and the fight brought to a head in the opening of the convention. As the Democratic National Con vention in 1892, after Mr. Cleveland's friends, who controlled the Committee on Resolutions, had prepared a tariff plank under Mr. Cleveland's supervi sion, the convention, which afterward turned to and nominated Cleveland, broke away at one word from Henry Watterson and rejected the tariff plank as presented by the Cleveland commit tee. No better example of the Ameri can principle in politics—that the sov ereign will of the people must govern —is accorded than in a National con vention. CONKLING STOPPED TO TALK. ■ That Incident Prevented Windom'e Num Inatldn for the Presidency. From the Minneapolis Journal; In the political history of the state ‘‘Windom Ten" has been written down as a bur lesque incident. When the campaign for the republican nomination for president in 1880 was in progress Min nesota was an overwhelmingly en thusiastic Blaine state. Senator Conk ling’s daring ambition was to defeat Blaine, and he was shrewd enough to eee that Minnesota could not be swerved from Blaine save by springing a “favorite son.” Mr. Windom was flattered by Conkling's suggestion and the poison spread to his friends, with the result that Minnesota went to Chi cago solidly instructed for Windom. At that time Minnesota only had ten dele gates to the national convention, and during the four days’ balloting the reading clerk would announce in sten REPUBLICAN CONVENTION HALL AT ST. LOUIS. tested seats out of the 909, and that the nomination may really hinge upon the results of these contests. It should not be supposed that the National Committee reserves to ttseU the power to decide contests: that must Anally be done by the convention Itself. This much, however, the Na tional Committee will do, and Its ac tion may have an important bearing on the result in the convention--the National Committee will meet, and u sub-committee on contests will be se lected. Each member of the committee will report to this sub-committee the list of delegates from his state, and if there be no contests these names will be placed on the temporary roll by the t THE FAMOUS WIGWAM CHICAGO:" (Where Lincoln was nominated in 1860.) it,;. fji' jr K. "■Vi tifl^ i| me convention - h«U. ” Each •ecUon of the half where in 4lTiMl flute delegations are seated, will be connected by telephone with the chairman's desk, that he may* easily ascertain the name of every dele gate who may claim recognition. The •choice, It is said, will do away with the usual annoyance and worry in secretary of the' National Committee, in states where contesting delegations have been elected the claims of both sides will be heard, and the National Committeeman from the state will give his version of the contest. The sub committee will dectde and Instruct the secretary which delegates are entttled to representation. torian tones, “Windom, ten,” and much of the time the announcement would provoke derisive laughter. Blaine's friends always felt that if Minnesota had been loyal he would have been the nominee, and in their estimation “Win dom, ten,” was a badge of tricky poli tics. The delegation was undoubtedly sincere, but It seemed at the time like grasping for a will-o’-the-wisp. I met ap old politician yesterday, an Intimate friend of Windom, who said he called on Windom in Washington some time after the event and Windorr said to him, "Did you know I cairn pretty near receiving the nomlnatio: for president'” The visitor conceded that he did not understand how "Win dora, ten,” was very near the goal, and Mr. Windom then explained. He said Postmaster General James of New York told him that the Grant forces had decided to go to him and have the credit of nominating the president, even though It was not first choice. This was thought to be better than to allow tho Blaine forces to win a semi victory In a similar manner. Mr. James said that Conkllng actually left his seat to go over and notify the Minnesota delegation that they were going for Windom and urge them to do the rest, when someone halted him and advised delaying one more ballot. He accepted the advice. This was fat<-i. On that one 'ballot the stampede to Garfield be gan and then It was too late. If tho "Grant 306" had been added to “Win dom, ten,” it would have carried the stampede in tho Windom instead of the Garfield direction. '* * --,-:---i-- . . . * H: aa Old l«oa& Hf'iklp, IV , The Soar family, of Ambaatnn, Derbyshire, England, have a curious heirloom in the shape of a loaf of bread that is now over six hundred years old. The founders of the family, it appears, were great friends of King John. When I that monarch died he made several land grants to the Soars. One of these tracts, it appears, had always been chnveyed with a loaf of hreadalongwlththe“wtlt ings,” and the deed and the loaf are both kept to this day as sacred relics. Bryton Early—I thought you were going to save so much money, by re signing from the club. Minos Coyne —Well, Just look ho'flr much I’m not in debt.—Life. : ; EEPUBLICAN PARTY. | SOUND DOCTRINE OF PROTEC j TION THE WAR CRY. I - j The Democrat* Will Mot Be Permitted J to Dodge the Issue That Is Engaging | the Attention tf the American Pco | P'e* _*_ Englishmen appreciate the fact that the Gorman tariff’s lease of life is lim ited. In the Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser of No vember 7, 1895, we find the following: “A significant feature of the elec tions is that, not only do the Republic an victories foreshadow a Republican President next year, but they render it probable that the Wilson tariff will, in the near future, give place to one of a more stringently protective charac ter. This result is especially pointed to by the election In Ohio, the home of Mr. McKinley. The tariff question en tered largely Into the electioneering issues, the Democrats sunporting the Wilson bill, the Republicans asking for further protection, and the candidate of the latter party was elected by a large majority. For the first time, Utah takes part as a state in the elec tions, and the tide of Republican vic tory has, apparently, reached as far as the Salt Lake City. The victory of Tammany Hall is not a matter upon which the United States can be com plimented, and the prospect of an un favorable revision of the Wilson tariff is one which is not satisfactory to our selves." London Views Our Wool Market. Messrs. Helmuth Schwartze & Co., of London, comment upon the fact so well known here, that the United States In 1S95, in addition to the unprece dented imports of raw wool, also im ported “manufactures of wool to the extent of over sixty million dollars (860,000,000) as against less than seven teen million dollars ($17,000,600) for the preceding year.” This increase in the American im ports of woolen goods is roughly cal culated as equal to 130 million pounds of raw wool, which is exactly the amount of the increase in the world’s supply of the year 1895. If American wool had been used to manufacture the Increased amount of imported woolens, more than one half of the entire Amer ican clip would have been consumed in their production. The increase in the imports of wool, including that used in the manufacture of woolens imported in 1895, over the average of the previous four years was over 257 million pounds (a quantity within 37 million pounds of the Ameri can wool production for 1895), an in crease of about 114 per cent. The effect of this extraordinary increase in im ports upon American prices is now be ing very seriously felt. Taxing Commercial Traveler*. The colony of New Zealand has im posed a tax on commercial travelers from other places. The apparent object of this new form of protection is to secure business for the local agent, and to pre vent travelers from abroad selling di rect to distributing houses. As an al ternative, the object of the tax is to raise revenue. Needless to say the Real Free Trade Gflod3 Imported Free of Qutg *-« 431,213,966 *TO'0«,o