St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-17
they've GONE AGAIN
Clarkson and His Henehmen
Leave Minneapolis With
Their Tempers Cooled.
They'll Not Be Allowed to
Spoil the Exposition Build
ing at Will.
Practically an End Put to the
Famous Aldermanie Pump
Investigation.
Two Years at the Public Ii
brary--Cool Attempt at
Daylight Robbery.

Yesterday afternoon the delegation
from the Republican national commit
tee, accompanied by dozen of the
prominent citizens of Minneapolis and
| st. Paul, went out to Minnetonka to
look at the hotel facilities there. The
| party was taken to the Hotel Lafayette
| only. They were shown that bic
| structure. with its ayenue-like halls and
! its hundreds Of rooms, and they were
told all about the capacity of the other
! houses at the lake. The night before
they were taken for little drive over
the city, and shown part of the houses
that will be drawn upon to receive the
| convention visitors. The men doing
duty the skirmish line of the nation
al committee have been satisfied that
Minneapolis can take care of all the
people who want to come to this city
| during the convention. They went
back to their homes last evening fully
satisfied Oh that point. A. l.. Conger is
the only member of the party who has
| not gone. He and his wife will remain
| in Minneapolis for several days yet.
| The trip to Mnnetonka yesterday morn
| ing demonstrated one thing-Chairman
| j. s. Clarkson, of the Republican ma
| tiOnal committee, Will never be asked to
come up to Minneapolis and accept a
| quit-ciaim deed to the entire municipal
| ity. He has impressed the men with
| whom he came in contact much as he
| impressed the few newspaper men VINO
! met him the day he came as man
| who is in constant fear of forgetting
| that he is the chairman of the Repub-
| iican national COM hittee. Yesterday
an architect named d. Adler arrived
| from Chicago in response TO
| The BeheSt CT Cha rman Clarhson
to show the people OF Minneapolis how they
mnst remodel their Exposition building TO
make IL suitable for national convention pur-
| poses. he IS the man who had charge of the
| preparation OF the Chicago auditorium for
! the convention of four years ago. Shortly
! after he came the representatives of the ia
| uonal committee, accompanied by the local
mOguls. went over to the exposition to see
| what could be done with building that had
| been, according to the statement of Chairman
! Garrison, misrepresented to the national
| committee. Mr.. Adler was inclined to say
| that little could be made of the Exposition
| when be first looked at it He changed his
mind little later, and was willing TO admit
that it might possibly be put into condition
| even to accommodate national convention
! His idea of how the hall should be arranged
| was outlined thus:
1T IS the best policy always to get an audi
| ence as near TO the ground as possible Ii
! not only makes the seats easier of access, but
! does away with all danger in case of panic
which in large crowds. such as this will be-
! are easily started. This light well is about
| 16OX60 feet, / understand. and will seat a
large number of people in itself. The speak
! ers stand could be placed at one end, the
! delegates occupying the seats in the light
well. Starting at the edge of this, and raised
about two feet could begin the tiers of seats
/ audience n mi
! about sixty feet of the edges of the gallery
! floor need be taken out, the posts remaining
as they are. 7 his would be simple plan,
and one easily accomplished. The idea is to
inquire what seating capacity such change
| would give
Objection was made that seating the peo-
! lie far from the roof would make il al
most impossible to hear. Mr.. Adler would
obviate that difficulty by stretching canvas
over The whole building just little above
| the heads Of the occupants Of the top seats
| the canvas TO act as sounding board. Then
| Mr. Adler was Brought back over the river
| after outlining these ideas and was intro
| duced TO Mr.. Hayes the local architect
| They went over the plans together. They
| Will continue the conference today. Moth
! ing has been decided vet as TO the arrange
ment of the building. The final plans Will
| be drawn today. Chairman Clarkson, Ser
! geant-at-ArmS Meek and Architect Adler are
| not the only men VINO will have something
! TO say about the
RemOdeIing of the Exposition,
II happens that the exposition board has
still some interest in that building over there
| on Main street. The board met YESTERDAY
! after reading in the morning papers that
! Garrison and his men insisted that the build
| ing must be Quilted. They would have in
| formed Mr.. Glarkson. had he been present
| that the building would never be gutted
! They had no intention of letting any one
| spoil the building for exposition purposes
convention or 10 convention. b. p Nelson
+. ). COrser, W. Z. Steele, W. NJ. Regain and
! c. P. Lowell were appointed a committee to
| confer with whoever might be delegated to
| prepare the convention hail. and to COM
| municate TO that person or persons just what
| the exposition board would allow 10 be done
| to the building. There will be no quitting of
| ii, that is certain.
| the Exposition building, said ". NJ. BracE-
| EFT yesterday. Just shows that some of these
| people do not know what they are talking
| about. They see the building under the
worst possible conditions, and they are I'M
| able to see how anything can be made out of
| it. As il stands today, the building does not
| look as if ii could be made into a convention
! hail. 1t is too bad that we could not have
made the alterations before that delegation
came. With the light well fioored over. and
| the platform moved back to the wall and the
seats all in, they would see the best conven-
| tOn hall i'll the United States.
And it is an admitted fact chimed in
| Secretary Byron, that the acoustics are as
! good as can be found anywhere in the coun-
l
| surpassed. With that building prepared as
the original plans call for, the plans that
| Hayes drew up. il would make the best con-
vention hall in the country with the greatest
! seating capacity
so they want to have a hall where every
| person can see every other person inside the
walls, do they, Bracket went on. We'll,
| all | have to say is that would like to see
such a hail. If they can arrange such hall
as that they can do more than any one has
been able 10 do yet
Bat it will all come out right. The expo
| sltlon building viii be made to accomm Odaie
| the crowd without difficulty, and ii will do
| so without being drawn and Quartered, or
| even disembOwled
Politics, Rooms. Etc.
The pooh bahs of the Republican national
| committee are men of diplomatic and unique
| thoughts They are fixing up scheme now
| whereby everything is 10 be cooked and dried
| before the convention is called to order; in
| other words. the nominee will be decided
| upon before anything formal is done then
when everything is in readiness he will be
| named and nominated by reclamation. Col
| A. l.. COnger of Ohio, who is in the city at
the present time is authority for the state
| ment that this scheme will be decided upon
| AID put into practice when the convention is
! held. IL Will do away with ali contests in
the convention, he says. and will tend TO
strengthen the party, inasmuch rs all will be
look over the entire field of candidates and
then proceed to draft the strongest one. In
this manner they say that the will of the peo
pie will be obeyed. and the Office will seek
the man, instead of vice versa.
The matter OF assigning rooms for the ma
tional committee men at the West has been
finished The following members of the ma
tional committee will be qusriered there:
j. :. CIarkson Iowa, chairman: s. y. Ho-
bart. j. ) FasSett, New York; John c. New.
Indiana; A. L. COnger, Ohio; Samuel Fessen-
den, Connecticut; j. NJ. Haynes, Maine;
NJ. II. DeYoung, California; H. g.
| Payne, Wisconsin; n. B. Scott West
Virginia: Powell Clayton, Arkansas;