Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-12-10
PRIZE AWARDED TO ST. LOUIS
Meeting of the Republican National
Committee in the City of Wash
ington To-day.
JUNE TIE HoATH, ST. LOUIS The PLACE
San Francisco Turned Down-Poor
Little Pittsbur g Not In It-Chicago's
Ice Trust Can Supply Her
Rival with Crystal Cubes.

Washington, Deo. 10.-The Republican
politicians assembled early this morning
at the Arlington to pull the convention
wires and incidentally to promote the in
terests of their several presidential candi
dates.
Regarding the convention cities, ther,
were only four seriously in the feld-Sar
Francisco, Chicago, st. Louis ard Pitts
burg.
At 1880, Chairman Carter raped tn.
called.
r There we're no responses from Ala.
bama. California, Delaware, Distrlct Of
Columbia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mis-
souri,, New York, North Dakota and Wyo
ming; but it was said that there were
committeeman or proxies for most oi
these states in the city.
Mr.. Hahn, of Ohio, read the telegram
of congratulation sent to Gov. Bradley
of Kentucky, by the special committee.
Chairman Carter asked the delegates to
agree to the half hour limit for presenting
the claims of their cities.
Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, moved
that the delegations be heard in alpha.
betical order by states. The motion was
carried.
CHAIRMAN CARTER's DENIAL.
At this point, Chairman Carter, in an
impressive way, said that he was not &C.
customed to notice many silly, unfounded
and malicious stories put afloat with the
purpose to arouse the rejudices and ex-
cite ill feeling; but reflections had been
made on members of the national COM
mittee and they had been placed before
the country in an unenviable position.
'sUnder such circumstances" said Mr..
Carter emphatically, II desire to state in
behalf of the committee that at no time,
under no circumstances, direct or indirect,
has any person or persons urged that the
good graces of this committee should be
influenced by any mercenary consider
alton whatever"
There was ripple of applause at this
announcement.
Mr.. Carter then proceeded to state that
geographical considerations largely in
Auenced the feelings of the committee,
and, aside from this, the only purpose of
the committee was to consult the pur-
poses and requirements of the great
gathering and to make a choice based
wholly on fitness.
IN sEoRRT SESSION.
The national committee did not 60 into
secret session till 2:80 this afternoon and
and at 2:50 had not yet balloted.
STRONG PLEA ROB SAN FRANcrsCo.
These preliminaries over, the oratory
began.
Gen. N. P. Ohipman, of California, was
introduced by NJ. H. De Young to present
the Golden Gates claims.
The action of this meeting, Gen. Chip
man began, was TO decide whether or not
California was to be forever a political
dependency. Over n per cent of the ter
ritofy and 28 per cent of the population
were west of the Mississippi river.
Twenty-Five of the fiftyone committee
men came from beyond that river.
That country was an empire that
might have mighty influence on the po-
litical destinies Of the country, if it
should stand together as it ought. Yet
many there were who legislated for the
country and knew nothing Of this vast
section.
George A. Knight and M. n. De Young,
of California, also presented San Fran
ciscO's claims.
Samuel Allerton and Mayor Swift did
the same for Chicago.
st. Louis was urged by Mayor Wal
bridge, Congressman Frank and s. M.
Kennard.
New York's attractions were act forth
by Gen. ButterAeld and Murat Halstead
Then Pittsburg, the last of the big
four, had her case urged by Representa-
tive Dalzell.
SPEECH MAKING CLOSED.
The speech making was closed by Rep
resentative VIM. A. Stone, seccnding Dali
xells presentation of Pittsburg's claim.
Then the committee adjourned till 2 p.
m., when balloting will begin.
CONVENTION IN JUNE.
The committee adopted Clayton's res
olution. June l8 was selected as the date
for the Republican national convention.
RESULT OF THE FIRST BALLOT.
The first informal ballot resulted as
follows: San Francisco 20, Chicago 8, st..
Louis 18, Pittsburg 3, New York /.
The first formal ballot resulted: San
Francisco IS, st. Louis Il, Pittsburg 8,
Chicago 8, New York dropped.
Second formal ballot: San Francisco 19,
st. Louis 1s, Pittsburg s, Chicago 8.
,l.j.,.ep ST. LOUIS THE WINNER.
st. Louis wen on the fourth ballot as fol-
lows: st. Louis 20, San Francisco l6, Chi
oago 6, necessary to choice 26.