St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-18
Allison Men Fly Gay Bunt-
ing in Elegant Apart
mentS.
They Will Not Allow Him
to Take Second
Place.
The Dakotians Arrive and
Chose the National Com
mittee.
They Get Ten Votes in the
Temporary Crganiza-
ton.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 17.-If Chicago is
Sabbath-respecting city, the evidences
of it were not seen at the principal ho-
tells to-day. But this is Republican
gathering. and the party that puts tax
on Bibles and admits
PLAYING CARDS
free OF duty is not expected to be over
scrupulous about Sabbath observance.
Of the Minnesota delegates O'Brien is
the only one who kept the Sabbath, ac-
cordng to the commandment, by going
to church. The others keptit according
to convention fashion. Senator Lang
don and Joel Heatwole had private
services in Room 165, at the Grand Pa
cific, for short while, and Delegate
Edgerton acted as usher. The services
were not strictly divine, yet they
seemed to have had refresh
ing effect on the communicates,
for when the doors were opened
the congregation emerged with satisfied
looks on their faces, and an air of peace
prevailed the remainder of the day and
evening. The outcome of the little
Sunday caucuSing has been to make it
certain that Edwards will 90 on the COM
mittee on resolutions, and very uncer-
tain whether Davis will get the chair
manship. O'Brien has been formally
entered as a candidate for chairman of
the delegation, and while he was at
church this morning
DEMURELY CONSIDERING
the matter in prayer, Langdon was
experimenting the secular part of the
scheme to Oust Davis. The last named
gentleman has not been idle either. He
has been seeing the delegates, all of
whom are here now except Steenerson,
and if he is defeated it will be after
hard fight. Evans has improved his
chances for remaining on the
national committee by his po-
lite attentions to the delegates.
While the tired delegates were lounging
around the corridors of the hotel, ours
ing their luck for not having their head
quarters opened up so that they could
have a comfortable loafng place, Evans
slipped around to the proprietor and
coaXed from him the key to room 165,
which had been assigned by the local
committee here to the use of the Minne-
sofa delegation, 1t was shrewd dodge
on the part of Evans and won for him
the everlasting gratitude of the entire
delegation. Already murmurs had been
heard against LangdOn, who is million
aire and ambitious for political prefer
ment. and it was supposed that he
would have been generous enough to go
down into his pocket and pay one days
room rent for the sake of making his
fellow delegates comfortable. But he
didn't, and now they say that if Alger
is going to be as close with his barrel as
his Minnesota cousin, there is no
use in nominating him. AT all events,
Evans forethought has helped both
himself and his man Gresham. 1t looks
now as if Evans would have majority
of the delegates and will probably hold
them. Langdon has a proposition that
the selection of committeeman be de-
ferred until after the nominations are
made, with the assurance that if Alger
is not nominated he will not press him
self for the place. The only other
place that there will be any contest
over is for the committee on notifca-
ton. They all want this. The delega-
ton will meet in the morning for Or
ganiZation, and the chances are that
all the places on the various commit
tees will be filled at that time.