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JUNE IS06.
IT. WILL SEAT 14,000.
8t. louis auditorium the
Largest convention hall.
How the rroceecllnit of tlm Convention
Will He Handled Number of Dole
. Ritt nntt National Committeemen
"ltoutlne Work.
T. LOUIS Is a hot
city In Juno, but bo
was Chicago lu 1888
land Minneapolis In
1 1892, ns Republican
delogates will tes
tify. Over-crowding
nnd Incon
venient accommo-
IW5' datlonB aro more- to
l'. bo dreaded during
NntloAal conven
tion week than hot weather. St. Louis,
according to all reports, will furnish
better facilities than over before have
been accorded to a National convention.
The-immenso now auditorium, whoro
the Republican National Convention
will bo held, will accommodate 14,000.
There will bo 909 National delegates In
the convention this year more than
over before and the same numbor of
alternates, Thero will bo 153 members
of the National Committee present, and
the real of tho vast audience will con
sist mainly of "rooters" Tor tho several
candidates whoso nnmoa are to bo pro
Bciitcd for the highest honor In tho
gift of, tho American poople.
According to recent estimate, there
will bo nono too much room. It Is
customary to glvo to the city In which
thu convention is held, the largest
block of seats. St. Louis will have
more seats in the auditorium than any
convention city over obtained before.
It haB put In a modest roqucst for
3.CO0 jsoats, and will probably receive
2,R0jf at least. Ohio and Iowa, being
nenr, by and both having prominent
candidates, will probably send the two
largest State Delegations. Ohio, it la
estimated by zealous Republicans of
the Buckeye state, mny have as many
ns 20,000 Republicans in St. Louia, but,
of courso, only a email per cent of them
will get scats in the auditorium.
Timothy E, Byrnoa of Minneapolis,
whohas been elected sergeant-nt-arms
of th'o.convcntlon by the National Com-
mlEtae. will hnvo charge of the dlstrl
butlorrof tickets for admission. Each
Nntlfbnal delegate and alternate will re
ceive two tickets and na many moro
' as they can get. The member of tho
NaUonnl Committee from each stato
wllljnrake out a list of all Republicans
In IHb Btate who may want to attend
the proceedings, nnd tho tickets will bo
distributed among tho different states,
pnj&Eata. Under tho system of distri
bution, which Sorgoant-at-Arms Byrno3
wllgemploy it will bo practically im
possible for tho friends of any one can
didate to "pnek" tho convention, hall,
deaUo the fears of such an event which
hate been expressed. Mr. Byrnes has
nap-that, so far ub he has tho power,
tho friends of all the candidates will be
, treated alike.
The real work of tho convention,
leading op to and providing for tho
Kcfnctlon of tho National tlckot, Is
dotic in commlttco rooms. Spacious
nccnmtnodatlonB for commlttco work
!iHveboon provided In tho auditorium,
and 'the newspaper facilities will bo es
pecially convenient.
Ajnovcl scheme is to bo put In opera-
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THE FAMOUS WIGWAM CHICAGO.
(Where Lincoln was nominated in 1SG0.)
tlon in the convention hall. Each
section of the hall where in
dividual State delegations are seated,
iwlll bo connected by telephone with
'the- chairman's dcak, that he may
easily ascertain the name ot every dele
gate who may claim recognition. Tho
scheme, it is said, will io away with
'the usual annoyance and' worry in
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rccognizlng delegates who think they
havo a duty to perform by claiming tho
attention of tho convention.
The telegraph facilities for dispatch
ing to overy corner of the Nation the
names of tho nominees will bo ample.
Nino now copper wires are strung from
St. Louis to Chicago nnd six from Chi
cago to Now York. About fifty loops
will bo run into the- Auditorium.
Wearied delegates can repair for re
freshment to any number of gardens
nnd open-air restaurants and cafes,
whoro tho best that St. Louis can offer
will bo placed before them at prices
that may make thom complain. But
what Is tho loss of a fow hundred dol
lars to an enthusiastic Republican,
tired with interest in his party's wel
fare, and perchance, in some instances,
with Irons of his own In tho flro?
Thomas II. Cnrtcr, of Montana, chair
man of tho Nntlonnl Committee, will
call tho convention to order. But Im
portant work of tho convention will
have been done by tho National Com
mittee oven boforo tho delegates as
semble In their scats.
On tho day preceding tho convention
a temporary roll of delegates has to
bo formed, for manifestly no State can
havo tho advnntago of another In repre
sentation. Somo states will send con
testing delegations, but only one sot
can bo seated. It would not bo propeg,
on tho other hand, to shut a stato out
entirely because of contests. Each mu3t
havo representation In tho organiza
tion of the convention. General Clark
son of tho National Committee from
Iowa says there will be about 110 con-
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
tested scats out ot tho 909, and thnt the
nomination may really hinge upon tho
results of these contests.
It should not be supposed thnt the
National Commlttco reserves to itaolf
tho power to decide contests; that
must finally bo done by tho convention
itself. This much, however, the Na
tional Commlttco will do, and Us ac
tion mny havo an important bearing
on tho result in tho convention tho
National Committee will meet, and a
sub-commlttco on contests will be se
lected. Each mombor of tho commlttco
will report to this sub-commlttco tho
list of delegates from his state, and It
thero bo no contests theso names will
bo placed on tho temporary roll by tho
secretary of tho National Committee.
In states where contesting delegations
havo been elected tho claims ot both
sides will be heard, and the National
Committeeman from tho stato will glvo
his version of tho contest. The sub
committee will decide and instruct the
socretary which delegates are entitled
to representation.
.gjii -tor j-4-mtMfc Kt. itj-mr
The (rtnortonro uf these derision In '
for while they are In no way binding
upon the contention, tho action of the
commute, basod generally 'on good
and sufficient grounds, hi seldom over
turned. The National Committee selects also
by a majority vote tho tempornry and
permanont chairman of the convention;
that Is to say, .It selects a name for nach,
position, to bo presented to the con
vention. A bitter contest may arise
within tho National Commlttco over
those selections. Sometimes, ns in
1892, tho minority may withdraw their
candidate, and make the selection of
temporary chairman unanimous, as
they did for J. Sloat Fassett. Again,
as in 1884, a majority and minority re
port may bo presented and tho fight
brought to n head in the opening of
tho convention.
As tho Democratic Natlonnl Con
vention In 1892, after Mr. Cleveland's
friends, who controlled tho Committee
on Resolutions, liad prepared a tariff
plank under Mr. Cleveland's supervi
sion, the convention, which afterward
turned to nnd nominated Cleveland,
broke away at one word from Henry
Wattcrson nnd rejected tho tariff plank
as presented by tho Cleveland commit
tee. No better example of tho AmcrU
onn principle In politics that tho sov
ereign will of tho people must govern
Is accorded than In a National con
vention. CONKLING STOPPED TO TALK.
That Incident lrovented Vf Inrinm Nom
ination for tlin l'renldency.
From the Minneapolis Journal: In tho
political history of the state "WIndom
Ton" has been written down ns a bur
lesque incident. When tho campaign
for tho republican nomination for
president In 1880 was in progress Min
nesota was an overwhelmingly en
thusiastic Blalito state. Senator Conk
llng's daring ambition was to defoat
Blaino, and he was shrowd enough to
eeo that Minnesota could not be
swerved from Blaino save by springing
a "favorite son." Mr. WIndom was
nattered by Conkllng's suggestion and
tho poison spread to his friends, with
tho result that Minnesota went to Chi
cago solidly instructed for WIndom. At
that tlmo Minnesota only had ten dele
gates to the national convention, and
during the four days' balloting tho
rending clerk would announce in atcn-
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torlan tones, "WIndom, ten," and much
of tho time tho announcement would
provoke derisivo laughter. Blaine's
friends always felt that if Minnesota
had been loyal ho would havo been tho
nominee, and In tholr estimation "WIn
dom, ton," was a badgo of tricky poll
tics. Tho delegation was undoubtedly
sincere, but it seemed at tho time like
grasping for a wlll-o'-thc-wlsp.
I met an old politician yesterday, an
Intlmato friond of WIndom, who said
hn called on WIndom in Washington
some tlmo after the pvent nnd WIndom
said to rum, uiu you Know I came
pretty near 'receiving tho nomination
for president?" Tho visitor conceded
that ho did not understand how "WIn
dom, ten," was very near tho goal, and
Mr. WIndom then explained. He said
Postmaster General James of New York
told hint that tho Grant forces had
decided to go to him and have tho
credit of nominating tho president,
even though It was not first choice.
This was thought to be better than to
allow tho Blaino forces to win a 3cml
vlctory In a similar manner. Mr. James
said that Colliding actually left his ?eat
to go over and notify the Minnesota
delegation that thoy wero going: for
WIndom and urge them to do tho rest,
when someone halted him and advised
delaying one moro ballot. He accepted
the advice. This was fatal. 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 havo carried the
stampede In tho WIndom Instead of the
Garfield direction.
An Old Loaf.
The Soar family, of Ambaston,
Derbyshire, England, have a curluus
heirloom in the shape ot a loaf ot bread
that is now over six hundred years old.
Tho founders of the family, it appears,
were great friends of King John. When
that monarch died ho made several land
grants to tho Soars. One of those, tract's,
it appears, had always been conveyed
with a loaf of breadalongwlththo"wtlt-'
Ings," and tho deed and tho loaf aro
both kept to this day as sacred relics.
Bryton Early I thought you wore
AT ST.
going to savo so much money by re- -where he could not say a word to any
signing from tho club. Minos Coyne one ot his old associates without ex
Well, Just look how much I'm not plaining the' cruel embarrassments of
in debt. Lite. 'his situation. He could not ask Mr.
POWIf ft'PTfYN OT? 1 (HIO
WHY BLAINE ENTERED THE
RACE AT ELEVENTH HOUR.
President Ilarrlxili Hail Greatlr Offended
Mri. lllnlna mul She Forced Ilor lln
bmiil to' Iletlffii ut tlie Lut Mo
ment. ROBABLY THE
moat sensational
event thnt took
place during tho
national republican
convention of 1892
was the entry of
Blaino into tho raco
at the eleventh
hour and his crush
ing defeat Tho
Bccret of Blainc'B
was only' recently
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untimely action
made public by T. C. Crawford In Les
lie's Weekly. It is quite likely that if
Mrs. Blaino had not become angry at
the President because ho could not
make an appointment which she wished
made, Mr. Blaino would havo remained
at his post in tho department ot state,
and his name would not have been
used to trail at the end of a defeat
at Minneapolis. Mrs. Blaino wished
her son-in-law, Col, Coppinger, to bo
promoted to tho rank of brlgadler.gen
cral. In this she was actuated by tho
motives which would Inspire a mother
to seek to advance the fortunes of a
son. The President could not make
tho appointment without violating the
precedents qulto as strong as laws and
trampling on the rights of thirty-live
officers who stood between tho colonel
and his desired advancement. The dif
ficulty of making this appointment was
conceded by Mr. Blaine, and he at
tached no blame to tho President when
ho refused. But Mrs. Blaino was not
so considerate. Tho day following tho
President's final decision Mrs. Bliine
called at the White House--
This Interview between Mrs. Blaino
and the President was tho beginning
of tho Blnine campaign. Tho Interview
wns remarkable In many ways. No
President was oyer so openly defied to
his face. All courtesy due to the Presi
dent's high olTlco was omitted. First,
Mrs. Blaine entered one of the lower
reception-rooms of tho White IIouso
and asked that tho President should
conio down from his office to see her.
This request, remarkablo from tho
standpoint of etiquette, was acceded to
by tho Piesident. When ho descended
and entered tho room Mrs. Blaino at
onco opened tho conversation by de
manding imperiously that tho Presi
dent should recede from his decision in
tho Coppinger case.
Tho President betrayed no Impa
tience or temper at this request, not
withstanding the manner In which tho
demand was made. He had repeatedly
gone over tho case with Mr. Blnine.
It wns not necessary to repeat his tea
sons to Mrs. Blaino
Her fiery mood '
was not ono appreciative of the cold
logic of the situation. Tho President's
firmness and calmness did not havo a
quieting effect upon Mrs. Blaine. Sho
now turned upon him and charged him
dlreotly with unklndness to her fam
ily, cruelty in his former lnck of con
sideration for tho ambition of her dead
son, Walker, and with general lngrntl
tudo to Mr. Blaine, whoso Influence nad
placed him where he was.
Tho President did not wince under
this fierce attack. At the close of the
fiery address of Mrs. Blaine oho an
nounced to the President that sho
would defeat him for his renomlnation
and that sho would force Mr. Blaino to
run. This dramatic announcement
was followed by Mrs. Blaino herself
closing tho interview, again In defiance
of White House etiquette, and then
leaving the room.
From that moment Mr. Blaine wa3 in
tho field, although he himself did not
apparently understand thnt he wa3 to
be forced to run. He called upon tho
President soon after Mrs. Blaine had
gone, and gave tho President to un
derstand that ho did not sympathize
with his wife in her vigorous expression
of displeasure.
Later on tho Blalncs went to New
York. While tho secretary was thero
Chauncey M. Dopew called upon him
for tho purpose of learning If ho was
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EXPOSITION HALL, MINNEAPOLIS.
(Where Harrison was nominated in 1892.)
a candidate. All that ho could learn
camo from Mrs. Blaine. It was she
who assured him that Mr. Blaine would
' runi Mr. Depew obtained nothing from
Mr. Blaine upon the subject. The fact
was that Mr. Blaine was in n position
Depew. who had been one of his inti
mate friends through many yean and
who was thoroughly dovoted to his poli
tical fortunes, to go ahead now and
champion him as a candlate. He had
withdrawn In good faith and had so in
formed Mr. Dopew. Tho agitators who
called at tho Fifth Avenue Hotel never
succeeded in getting Mr. Blntno to say
that he would be a candidate. All that
thoy did succeed in wns to obtain from
Mrs. Blaino assurances thnt she would
see that no more letters should bo writ
ten, and she also gave the leading op
ponents of Mr, Harrison to understand
that if Mr. Blaino was nominated he
would accept.
Mr. Blaino never affirmed to any one
who has appeared upon the surfaco
what ho would do or would not do.
He was kept In a negativo attitude, and
If he had been nominated undoubtedly
the same influences which kept him in
that position would have made him ac
cept tho nomination.
Mr. Depow evidently understood tho
situation clearly, and saw that a nom
ination coming tinder such circum
stances would only result in an over
whelming defeat for the party. His
position was very clear. Ho had no
Intimate relations with the opponents
of the Harrison administration. He
wns previously committed to Mr. Har
rison after Mr. Blaine withdrew. Mr.
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THE AUDITORIUM CHICAGO.
(Whero Harrison was nominated in 1888.)
Blaine did not ask him to change thnt
attltudo, and bo Mr. Depew entrenched
himself in the impregnable position of
taking his old leader at his word, re
specting his carefully-expressed wishes,
written with due deliberation over hlB
own signature.
Tho situation which followed was ns
unfortunate ns anything that could
liavc DCCn devised by Mr. Blaine's most
vigorous enemies. Tho campaign from
tho start wna foreordained to fail. Its
solo reason was a personal quarrel, and
Its solo strength was In a union with
certain opposing elements In the party.
Mr. Blaine's attitude, too, fettered
every one. He knew that ho was in a
false position, and with his clear vision
must have seen the outcome. The fact
that throughout tho campaign at Min
neapolis he never expressed a word to
tho public, and, so far as Is known,
sent no instructions to the peoplo who
wero supposed to represent him, shows
clearly what he must have thought of
his own campaign.
Tho President never nsked Mr. Blaino
to write his original letter of with
drawal, and never asked him to make
public any further expressions of opin
ion upon the subject. Tho February
letter was written without the solicita
tion of any member of tho administra
tion family. After It was published
Mr. Harrison decided to becomo a can
didate, and this decision had tho tacit
approval of Mr. Blaine. None of the
silly or malicious BtorleB circulated in
any of the antl-Blalne circles could bo
traced to any member of the adminis
tration. None of them sought any
quarrel with Mr. Blaine. On the con
trary, they strenuously sought to avoid
a difference until they know it was in
evitable. It Mr. Blaine had given the real rea
sons to the public or to tho President
ho would probably have said in hla let
ter: "I go out of your Cabinet and
break with you, In preference to n
break with my domestic cablncL"
This situation was well understood
within the inner circles of the Republi
can party, and was tho best explana
tion of why the prominent friends of
Mr. Blaine did not iUnd with him at
Minneapolis.
SPEECH AT CINCINNATI.
Nominating Jutnog (5. HUInn for the
l'renlilener, Jniif. 170.
(By Robert O. Ingersoll.)
Massnchusotts may bo satisfied with
the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bristow; sa
am I; but if any man nominated by
this convention cannot carry the stato
of Massachusetts, I am not satlsllcd
with thiJ loyalty of that state. If the
nominee of this convention can not
carry tho grand old Commonwealth of
Massachusetts by seventy-five thousand
majority, I would advise them to sell
out Faneull Hall as a Democratic head
quarters. I would ndylBo them, to take
from Bunker Hill that old monument
of glory.
Tho Republicans of tho United States
demand as their leader in the great
contest of 1876 a man of intelligence, a
man of integrity, a man of well-known
and approved political opinions. They
demand a statesman; they demand a
reformer after as well as before tho
election. They demand a politician in
tho highest, broadest and best sense a
man of superb moral courage. They
demand a man acquainted with public
affairs with the wants of the peoplo
with not only the requirements of tho
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hour, but with the demands ot the fu
ture. They demand a man broad enough
to comprehend the relations of this
government to tho other nations of tho
earth. They demand a man well versed
In the powers, duties, and prerogatives
of each and every department of this
government. They demand a man who
will sacredly presorvo the financial
honor of the United States; ono who
knows enough to know that the na
tional debt must be paid through the
prosperity of this people; one who
knows enough to know that all the
financial theories In tho world cannot
redeem n single dollar; ono who knows
enough to know that all the money
must bo made, not by law, but by labor;
one who knows enough to know rhat
the peoplo of the United States have
tho Industry to make tho money, and
tho honor to pay It over Just ub fa3t as
they make it.
The Republicans of tho United States
demand a man who knows that pros
perity and resumption, when they como,
must come together; that when thoy
come, they will come hand in hand
through the golden harvest fiolds; hand
in hand by tho whirling spindles and
tho turning wheels; hand in hand past
the open furnace doors; hand In hand
by tho flaming forges; hand in hand by
tho chimneys filled with eager fire,
greeted and grasped by the countless
sons of toll.
This money has to bo dug out ot
the earth. You can not make It by pass
ing resolutions in a political conven
tion. The' Republicans of the United States
want a man who knows that this gov
ernment should protect every cltl.dn,
at home and abroad; who knows that
any government that will not defend
Its defenders, and protect its protectors,
Is a disgrace to tho map of the world.
They demand a man who believes Ja
tho eternal separation and divorce-"
ment of church and school. They de
mand a mnn whose political reputation
Is spotlesB as a star; but thoy do not
demand that their candidate shall have
a certificate of moral character signed
by a confederate congress. The man
who has, in full, heaped and; rounded
measure, all theso splendid qualifica
tions is the present grand and gallant
leader of tho Republican panty Jame3
G. Blaine.
Gentlemen of the convention, In tho
raumw of the great Republic-, the only
Republic that ever existed: upon thi3
i ,uii ua un nn nn mi
uw-ku-JH nt i pa i
earth: in tho name of all her defenders
and all of her supporters; in the name
of all her soldiers living; In the name
of all her soldiers dead upon the field
of battle, and In the name of those who
perished In the skeleton clutch of fa
mine at Andersonvllle and Llbby,
whoso sufferings he eo vividly remem
bers. Illinois Illinois nominates for
the next president of this country, that ,,
prince of parliamentarians that lead
er of leaders Jamea G. Blaine.
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ing on tho bagpipe. It was occasion
ally used In churches before tho intro
duction of the organ, which occurred
early in tho fifteenth century.
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