The record-union., 1895-12-09
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The Meeting Of the National Committee
to be Held Tomorrow.
NONE OF THE OoNTESTING CITIES
HAVE AN ADVANTAGE

Prize. While the st. Louis Com
mittee are Confident That Victory
VIII at Last Perch Upon Their
Banner.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S.-The rotunda
of the Arlington hotel presented an
animated scene tonight. Everywhere
Republican politicians of national re-
pute were to be found. Joe Nancy
of Maine, Chauncey N. Filley OF MIS-
souri,, Fessenden of Connecticut, Payne
of Wisconsin and Clarkson OF iowa
were conspicuous among the throng.
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island looked
in for a short time to renew his ac-
Quaintance with some of his New Eng
land friends. Senator Sherman OF
Ohio. fresh from a lcng conference IN
the upper rooms Of the hotel, with
Mark Hanna of Cleveland and others
of the Ohio friends of Governor NC
Kinley, shook hands with Senator rom
Carter of Montana, the Chairman OF the
National Republican Executive Com
mittee.s Senators Platt and Hawley OF
Connecticut were in group with De
Young of California, while Senators
White and Perkins OF the same State,
obIiterating for the moment the politl-
cal lines that divide them in the Senate.
We're using their united efforts to secure
the Republican Convention for San
Francisco.
Tomorrow the eleven members OF
the Executive Committee, of which Mr.
Ndanley of Maine is Chairman, will meet
in that gentIeman's rooms at the Arl-
ington to dispose of certain diminished
business remaining over since the last
campaign The first meeting OF the
+ full committee will be held at o'clock
on Tuesday. Every member is already
in the city, or is represented by proxy.
The proposition to change the basis
OF representation from the Southern
States, which provoked a storm OF op-
position at the last meeting of the COM
mittee, will be only incidentally con-
sidered, and its final settlement will be
referred to the National Convention, as
already foreshadowed in these dis
patches.
1t is not unlikely that Tuesday will be
devoted to a discussion of such routine
matters as will naturally form part
OF the committees work, anu that the
placing in nomination of the cities
which are seeking the honor OF enter
tanning the convention will be post
pOned until Wednesday. The commit
tee Will thus be two days in session.
1t does not appear tonight that any
of the contesting cities has at this time
any especial advantage in the race. Ed
itor H Z. Osborne of Los Angeles, speak
ing for the California delegation, ex
pressed himself as very hopeful of sue
cess. He and Mayor RAIDER of that city,
who were the advance couriers of the
California committee, have. spent the
past ten days in Washington, and dur
ing that period have uone very effective
missionary work in behalf of the Pa
cific Coast metropolis. Mr.. Osborne
says that San Francisco will start with
nine votes from the Rocky Mountain
country. which will not desert San
Francisco under any circumstances
He claims two votes in New England
and a number of others in the Middle
and the transmississippi country He
predicts that San Francisco viii show
greater strength on the first ballot than
any of its competitors.
The committee from ST Louis, headed
by Mayor Walbridge and consisting of
NJ Kennard n. Frank, William War
ner, c. c. Rainwater, w. H. Thompson,
c. II. Sampson, w. G. Boyd, F. Gain
nill II. c. Townsend, j. NJ. Hayes,
Thomas Booth. G. H. Hack and 5. A.
Thompson, arrived this afternoon at
the Arlington, and at once opened their
headquarters. They were preceded sew
eral days ago by Chauncey 1. Filley, the
ex-Postmaster and veteran Republican
politician of that city
r. c. Kerens, speaking with a United
Press reporter, expressed the belief that
while St. Louis claims will be vigor-
ously opposed by the friends of other
cities victory Will at last perch upon
their banners. Without attempting TO
disparage the rival claimants, he di-
rected especial attention to the central
location of the Missouri metropolis, to
its splendid railway connections, to its
numerous and commodious hotels. ca
pable of accommodating 10000 strang-
ers with ease. and to the generous hos
pitality which St. Louis promises to ac-
cord to the delegates Missouri, he
says, is now Republican State, ma
jority of her delegation being Republic
ans, and the locating of the convention
within her borders would be a matter of
great qualification TO the rank and file
of the party. He ADDED, in conclusion,
that he had received encouragement
from unlooked-for quarters. and that he
was certain St Louis would develop a
strength which would ultimately result
in giving her a majority of the votes.
II may be said in this connection that
the number of votes cast in the commit
tee will be fifty-three. There will be
one each from the forty-four States and
seven Territories. including Alaska, the
Indian Territory and the District Of
Columbia. and those of Senator Carter
of Montana, the Chairman, and Mr..
Bliss of New York, the Treasurer OF the
committee 1t will thus be seen that
twenty seven votes are necessary 10 a
choice
A careful inquiry among committee
men and others tonight reveals the
fact that no one city will secure ma
jority of votes on the first ballot To an
unprejudiced observer ii is evident that
San Francisco Chicago, st. Louis and
Pittsburg viii be well represented at
the start New York, which is also a
claimant, is not regarded seriously.
The Western men regard New York as
being too far East to justify sending the
convention there and it is also thought
that the enormous population sur
rounding the city would so COM
pietely swallow up the convention that
its Identity and prominence would be
practically destroyed. Information was
received this afternoon that the COM
mittee of New Workers who will visit
Washington in it's behalf will not reach
here until late hour tomorrow. They
also will establish headquarters at the
Arlington
The Pittsburg committee appears to
be little late reaching the field but
word was had tonight that two Pull
man cars had been chartered by the
delegates from that city and that they
would leave the Smoky City tonight,
arriving in Washington tomorrow
morning.
The Ohio people are scrupulously re-
framing from participating in the
struggle for choice of location, content
Ing themselves with booming the candi-
dacy of Governor Mckinley and leay-