Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-13
ALI HAIL sT. LOUIS.


Chicago Inter Ocean; Chicago has met her
rival OF long ago and was knocked out In
the fourth round. St Louis, as the newest
recruit In the column Of republican cities.
will entertain the next republican national
convention.
ST. Paul Globe: Leander swan the Hell
lespont because his sweetheart was on the
other side Has the republican party crossed
the Mississippi for the same reason? Prob
ably not. That party is sentimental only
when campaign is on.
St Louis Globe Democrat: The selection
of st. Louis as the meeting place OF the con-
vention OF 1896 has a profound and lasting
significance. IL Is recognition of the fact
made plain by the recent elections that the
geographical line erected by Texas anneXa-
tion and made hard and fast by the Kansas
conflict has at last dropped out OF poll
ties.
St. Louis Republic: St. Louis is the sue
cessful competitor in the convention contest
because its location and convenences endow
II with superior adaptablity to the purposes
Of a great national gathering. To some ex-
tent this obvious reason may have been sup
plemented by the hope that Missouri and
other states Of the southern group may be
flattered into doubtfulness.
Kansas City Journal: ST. Louis Is on the
dividing line between the north and the
south and the selection Of that city as the
place for holding the convention empha-
sizes, II 1t do;s not typify, the fact that the
north and the south are one. The Puritan
and the cavalier can meet as at common
gathering place and neither can feel uncom-
Portable regarding his environment.
Chicago News: st. Louis will profit by
the convention. The people will see the ac-
tivity which Is characteristic OF pr sident-
makers they will be in contact with the
big world of which they know so little and
II they ever learned anything they should
then. 1t would seem that no greater benefit
could have struck st. Louis than the con-
vention. We believe after 1t is held St.
Louis will be heard of quite often.
Chicago Times Herald In some respects
the decision Of the committee was a good
strategic move. The. growth of the re-
publican party in the south and southwest
has been striking and must be taken into
account by political leaders in all future
campaigns. Missouri is, to say the least a
doubtful state on the presidency and the
assembling of the convention in St Louis will
give new encouragement to the party within |
its borders.
Chicago Chronicle: Chicago accepts this |
defeat without shame and without particular
sorrow. The republicans will suffer and not |
this city. They will be called to a town
where the weather Is tropcally hot and |
hospitality boreally cold. But no question of |
the qualification Of the city chosen deter |
mined the issue Hotel accommodations. |
the necessary hall, telegraph facilities, prob |
able weather. were all ignored. Doodle set
Chicago Record ST. Louis deserves con-
and good wishes for her success
in the competition for the republican ma
tional convention. She went forth to get
the convention with more earnestness and
than her foremost rivals dis
played, the lack of enthusiastic and con-
certed effort being especially noticeable in
the case of Chicago, which has at no time
felt that the convention was indispensable to
its interests. st. Louis exerted herself with
credtable enterprise and the result of her
efforts is that she has won the prize fairly
and squarely over all competitors In the
elegant parlance Of ward political circles, the
other cities were mot in it,"
Chicago Tribune: If Chicago had really
wanted the convention it would have taken
the necessary steps long ago and raised the
Did dead-horse money in jify. Chicago
was about as apathetic as New York, so there
will be no disappointment as there was no
enthusiasm or general desire to make an
arduous chase to secure it on the part of the
people. the politicians or the press Nor
was Chicago sufficiently interested in any
,ne candidate as against others to put I'D
with the snub and insolence of
,:rtain men on the executive committee who
overdrew their accounts last time by fifty
Or sixty thousand dollars and thus set bad
example for future profligate committees.