The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-21
Raaidantial Beams.

tiaI boom In Chicago was holding its
breath tonight waiting the portentous
sounds expected to issue from New
York and California. On the arrival
OF their iegions awe-stricken booms for
favorite sons gazed open-mouthed in
silence at the huge transparency being
placed over the doors of the three big
gest and most conspicuous parlors in
the Grand Pacific hotel. The words of
the banner upon which all eyes seemed
fixed read simply NEW York Delega-
same New York delegation would do
was the question that the hundred
badged and white hated on-lookers
tried IN vain to guess. Many pressed
out from the hot crowded corridors of
the Grand Pacific down to the cool lake
confronted there at the Leland
hotel with the equally Ominous prepar-
atlons to receive the united delega-
ton from the Pacific slope. Would
those delegations hurrah in chorus for
Blaine to the very end or was the great
Blaine war cry really only ruSe? One
thing was settled pretty definitely.
The probability of few days ago, that
John NJ. Thurston, of Nebraska,
would be made temporary chairman
of the convention and that Warner
Miller, New York, would be the per-
manent chairman became this evening
almost certainty. Those who were
unacquainted with Mr. ThurSton, or
for any reason desired some one else,
had apparently settled upon Patrick
Egan, ex-preSident Of the Irish Ma
tiOnal League and delegate at large to
the convention from Nebraska, as the
most available man, and as one nation
al committeeman remarked, the Sc
lection of MIR. Egan would
be a stroke of policy that would
certainly be of service to the party in
the coming campaign, and at the same
time be well deserved honor to him
and the position of trust he has held
among his compatriots. 1t was. con-
coded that Mr.. Egan possessed all the
requirements and experience for q
capable presiding officer of a national
convention, except possibly that his
voice, though well rounded and elo-
quent, might lack volume for a NAM
moth hall: This objection was OBJ
waited by Mr.. Thurston showing that
an ordinary voice much below his in
range would be ample, considering the
ingenious arrangements of the audi
forum accoustically. Another idea
pressed in Egan's favor was his out
spoken declaration that the issue be-
tween the two parties next fall would
not be candidates so much as free
trade VS.. protection, and this had
ranged the friends of the various as
pirants distinctly in Egan's favor and
it seemed as though he might have the
honor if he chose. When this after
noon the subject was preached to him,
Mr.. Egan declared point blank that the
Nebraska delegates and large num-
Der of other western men had declared
for Mr.. Thurston, and that while he
appreciated the honor, he, with the
other Nebraska delegates, would De
solid for Thurston, the chairman of
their delegation. AS indicating the
feeling regarding the proposed selec-
ton of Thurston and Miller as the pre-
siding officers, Colonel George Davis,
one of the Gresham managers, was
asked how it would be received.
1.-The selection of temporary officers
for the convention" replied Colonel
Davis, ''is ordinarily matter for the
action of the national committees; you
may put it down that the Gresham men
will acquiesce in the recommendation of
the committee"
at General Harrison's headquarters
to-day it was emphatically denied that
there had been any conference between
the friends of General Harrison and
Judge Gresham. John G. New, whose
name had been mentioned as one of
the participants in the confer
ence, said: mo conference was
held and none was sought for
by friends of either candidate.
There is nothing to confer about.
We are making no fight on Judge
Gresham, and as far as we know his
friends and managers are making none
on General Harrison. The business of
the Indiana delegation here is to carry
out the instruction of the republican
state convention, and do what
we can to secure the nomination of
General Harrison. and that we are do
ing, and nothing more. The impress
sion which is so persistently circulated
| that Indiana has two candidates is not
a correct one. Judge Gresham doubt
less has has many friends among the
republican party in Indiana, but the
sentiments as expressed at the county
and state conventions and the instruc-
tionS given there are for Harrison and
these instructions Indiana will carry
out.