Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-06
Some Members of the National Re-
publican Committee Here.
LOCKING AFTER M'KINLEY'S INTERESTS
Effort of the Pacific Coast to
Secure the Convention.
BUSINESS PROPOSITION


committee, to select time and place for
the national convt ntion are being made.
The executive committee of eleven men,
bers meets on Monday night. and the full
committee will be called to order by Chair
man Carter at II o'clock Tuesday morn
ing in the banquet hall of the Arlington Ho
tel. Large delegations are expected from
the cities seeking to secure the convention,
viz: Pittsburg, San Francisco, Chicago and
St Louis. While these are the main con-
testants, New York state will have dele
cation seeking the convention, with Sara
toga as the convention place.
In Mckinley's Interest.
the most considerable delegation yet here
is that representing the interest of Governor
Mckinley. 1t includes Messrs. Joseph p.
Smith, eX-Rcpresentative Thompson of
Ohio, General w. NJ. Osborne of Boston,
Powell Clayton of Arkansas, and other we'll
known men. William NJ Hahn, the ma
tional committeeman from Ohio, and Major
Charles Dick, ex-state chairman of Ohio,
also will be here. Mark Hanna of Cieve-
land intended to come but is detained by the
illness of his wife. The party make no con-
cealment OF their purpose to look after the
interests of Gov. Mckinley, as the Ohio can
didate for the presidency. Mr. Smith, one
OF the most active men of the delegation,
said: We have no plans to submit and are
not favoring one city as against another.
But the candidacy of Gov. Mckinley is
fully understood the country over, and we
are here, without any request from him, to
look after OhIoS choice. The state Is abso-
lutely united, and all talk of division has
passed away
Work of the Committee.
The national committee meetings will be
open when the claims of the various cities
are presented After that the committee
will go into secret session. The first bus:-
ress to be passed on is the resolution of
Committeeman Payne of Wisconsin for a
change in the basis of representation to
the convention, the proposed basis being
proportioned to the republican vote cas-,
for President in the last presidential cleo
Lon. me resolution was introduced by MT.
Payne and seconded by Mr.. Hahn of Ohio.
1t was last discussed in Louisville in May,
1893, and was then laid on the table, to be
taken up at the meeting next Tuesday.
There are three ways of dealing with it,
namely, to adopt it, to vote it down or to
refer it to the national convention. The
last course is likely to be taken.
San Francisco has oeen exerting much
activity and influence of late to secure the
convention. The main points being urged
against going TO the coast are that the tel
egraph service would not be sufficient, and
that the difference of three hours time
would be detrimental to the afternoon
press of the east during day sessions, and
to the morning press during night sessions.
Pittsburg's advantages are being urged
with equal vigor. Senator Quay has an in
fuential circle of friends in the COMMITTEES,
and he is urging the choice of Pittsburg as
a personal request.
The Question of Date.
On the question of date there is a divi-
sion of sentiment between June and Sep
tember, hut the prevailing impression is
that there will be adherence to the Gus
tom of June convention. Against this it
is being urged that there should be short
"nine.y days campaign" with the least
disturbance of business. This is met by
the statement that even with June con-
vention the campaign does not begin until
September, and that it is needless to keep
the country in suspense until autumn.
An erroneous impression prevails that a
chairman of the national committee is to
be chosen to succeed Chairman Carter.
The latter's tenure lasts until the next ma
tonal committee is chosen, at the time of
the national convention. Mr.. Carter is not
national committeeman, but was chosen
from outside its ranks for chairman, and
as such is, eX-oflicio. a member.
Working for Frisco.
Every one is aware that the people on the
Pacific coast are unanimously in favor of
the next national republican convention be-
ing held in sen Francisco. committee
composed of the influential and representa-
tive citizens of that section has been ap-
pointed t. present the claims of San Fran
cisco to the national committee which meets
here next Tuesday. Mr.. Frank RAIDER, the
mayor of Los Angeles, and Mr. Henry z.
Osborne, the editor of the Los Angeles EX-
press, have arrived in the CITY and are stop
ping at the Ebbitt House. They are some
what ahead of Their associates of the eX-
ecutve committee which was appointed to
come to tn-s city. Mr.. NJ. H. de Young,
VINO, in his capacity as national committee
man from California, is cX-otfic.o a member
of the executive committee, is expected to
reach here today, and the other members
VIII arrive in short tine. The executive
committee of five appointed to attend the
meeting of the national committee is COM
posed of the following: Gen. y. p. Chip
man, Col. George A. Knight, Gen. r. A.
Friedrich, A. q. Booth ana ii. u. Osborne
The volunteer ux.liary committee is COM
posed of Frank RAIDER, .. a. Hale, Lipman
Sachs and Henry I. Scott.
Associated VITA this committee are the
Senators and Representatives from Cali
fornia.
A Business Proposition.
1t is a business proposition that the ad-
yocates of San Francisco have to present
and the substantial men who compose the
committee are competent to do this. In
regard TO such an incidental question of
providing a hall for the convention, the
committee state that they have a fund of
SO 5000 pledged, and they think that there
will be no question of their ability to do
everything that is required III that line.
The next matter which is of somewhat
greater Importance, is that of railroad
rates ard the California delegates have a
written guarantee from the railroads of
$50 a round trip from Chicago, q lower
rate than has ever been offered before.
But the main reason, in the opinion of
the committee, as well as of the people of
the Pacific coast, why the national COM
mittee should select San Francisco as the
meeting place for the convention, is that
the convention has never but once met
west of the Mississippi. and that was in
1892, when it was held in Minneapolis and
that It is important that the representative
men of the great republican party should
come west and get acquainted with the
country The Pacific coast people say
that their section of the country
is too much isolated from the rest
of the country, and a meeting of the
national convention in their opinion af-
fords an opportunity for bringing the ex-
treme sections of the country together and
making the people better acquainted with
each other. The argument in favor of San
Francisco is therefore a patriotic one, and
in the opinion of the Representatives from
the coast it will have much weight with
the national committee.