Morning journal and courier., 1891-11-20
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

 Cities That Want 10 Entertain the Delegates-Five Places in the Field New York's Effort to Secure the Honor-Quay,s Successor. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.-The contest for
 the honor of entertaining the next republi- can national convention has not opened up in earnest in this city as yet, but the skir- mishing will doubtless increase in brisk ness, beginning with tomorrow morning, until it results in a general engagement by Monday, the 23d inst, when the repubH- can national committee is to meet. The work of the several cities at present is with the view of securing advantageous positions and discovering the most effeo- tive modes of pushing forward their claims when the proper time comes. The friends of each of the contestants are doing what they can to advance the interests of the cities from which they hail or in which they are interested by state attachments and by personal repre- sentations and letter writing are endeavor- ing to proposes the members of the re- publican national committee in favor of the places whose claims they advocate. Quar-
 
 hotel, in which the national committee will hold it's sessions for the representa- tives of five of the cities which are an- nounceG to be in the field. These are San Francisco, Cincinnati, Omaha, Minneapolis and New York. Chicago also has engaged 8 parlor at the hotel, but it is generally understood that the worlds fair city is content with her honors, and while willing to entertain the convention will not strive for the honor.
 So far as known only two of the national committeeman are now in town, namely, ex-Governor Clayton of Arkansas and E. NJ. Brayton of South Carolina.
 Ex-Governor Clayton said to-day he had not consulted with any of the other mem bers of the committee and had not formed an opinion as to where the convention should go. He thought it should go to the city with the most convenient location and best accommodations. His experience of fourteen years or so on the committee led him to believe that thatsso far as party prospects were concerned they were not advanced to any extent by the place in which the convention assembled and, place.
 'Does the most convenient place elimi- nate San Francisco?" he was asked
 "There would have to be very strong reasons, which cannot foresee, to induce me to go so far out of the way" was Gen eral Clayton's response.
 MT Clayton did not know how the mem bers felt toward New York city, for with in his recollection New York city itself had never before made an attempt to se- cure the convention.
 The only other business, aside from se- lecting the time and place of holding the, convention, which, so far as known, will come before the committee is that of se- lecting a successor to Senator Quay as chairman of the committee, together with perhaps the consideration of a report from the executive committee on the state of its finances.
 With respect to the time of holding the convention there is no doubt it will be held at an earlier date than heretofore. There has been some thought of holding the convention in May, but it would not be possible to hold it before the last week in that month, and as many active repub- licans make speeches on Decoration day the probabilities favor some time early in June as the time for proceeding to nomi- nate the next republican candidates for president and vice president. The last convention adopted resolution providing that at least six months should intervene between the time of calling and the time of holding future national conventions. As the national committee does not meet until the 23d of this month. the six months period in which preparations are to be made for the convention will not elapse until May 23, and it Is believed many dele gates would desire to be home on Decora- tion day