The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-12-20

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New York Added to the List at the VERY
Last Moment-Half an Hour Allowed to
Each Delegate-st. Louis is Said to be
Backed by Reed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-On the fourth
ballot st Louis was selected as the
place for holding the next Republican
convention and June 16 as the date.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 1.-THE Repub-
llcan politicians assembled early in
force at the Arlington hotel this morn
ing to pull convention wires and in
cidentally to promote the interests of
their several Presidential candidates.
Their was nearly as much talk about
candidates as about which city would
win the prize.
Shortly before 10 o'clock the poll
ticians gathered in the flag draped
banquet hall of the hotel, and were
seated in a semi-circle, with members
OF the National committee in the CEN
ter.
At :0:3o o'clock Chairman Carter
raped the meeting to order and the
roll of committeeman was called.
There was no response when several
States were called, the absentees be-
ing Alabama, California, Delaware,
District of Columbia, Kentucky, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, New York, North
Dakota and Wyoming, but it was said
that there We're committeeman or
proxies for most of these States in the
city. Alaska had a representative.
Chairman Carter asked the delegates
to agree to a half hour limit for pre-
senting the claims OF their cities.
General Butterfeld for New York re-
sponded: sit will take but a very brief
time for New York to demonstrate her
superiority" and representatives of
other cities agreed to the limit sug-
gcsted.
Powell Clayton Of Arkansas moved
that delegations be heard in alpha
betical. order by states. His motion
was carried.
At this point Chairman Carter said
that he vas not accustomed to notice
tche many ''silly, unfounded and ma
Scious stories put afoat at times with
a purpose to arous prejudices and ex-
cite i'll feeling. But a reflection had
been made on the members of the Ma
tional committee and they had been
placed before the country in an I'M
enviable position. "Under such cir
cumstances," he wenton emphatically,
II desire to state in behalf of This
committee that at no time, under no
circumstances, directly or Indirectly,
has any person or persons urged that
the good graces Of this committee
should be influenced by any mercen-
airy considerations whatever"
There was q ripple of applause at
this announcement. Mr.. Carter pro-
ceeded to state that geographical con
siderations largely influenced the feel
this, the only purpose of the commit
tee was o consult the purposes and
requirements of a great gathering and
to make a choice based wholly on lit
ness.
The p~reliminaries over, the oratory
began. General N. P. Chapman of
California was, introduced by M. H.
De Young to present the Golden Gates
claims. Samuel Allerton and Mayor
Swift did the same for Chicago. st.
Louis was urged by Mayor Walbridge,
ex-Congressman Frank and S. M. Ken
nard, and then New York attractions
were set forth by General Daniel But
terrified and Murat Halstead. Then
Pittsburg, the last of the big four,
had her case urged by Representative
DalZell.
The speech making closed by Repre-
sentative William A. Stone secondlng
Dalzell's representation of Pittsburg's
claims, and then the committee adj
journed until 2 o'clock, when ballot
ing was begun.
Each of the cities was prepared to
offer the Republican committee
enough and more than enough to pay
off the old debts of the committee.
This debt is %variously placed at from
$50. 900 to $54,0 600. Pittsburg has a
fund of $75 ,000. subscribed, st. Louis
and Chicago have $55, 900 each and
San francisco is said to have 5000, 900
and more if money will avail. Each
city declares that it will pay anything
in reason to secure the convention.
The Reed influence was said to be
secretly against Chicago. The Reed
feeling was declared to be hat Chicago
was a hostile territory, and that any
other place would be preferable.
Pittsburg would be satisfactory but
for the discovery that that town was
saturated with Mckinley sentiment.
Simultaneous with that discovery
came the disclosure of lack Of hotel
accommodations. San Francisco be-