Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-10

| ton In five minutes than the boss ever
are the real LEADERSHIP. Maniey, Mr. Han
| ma, Senator Proctor, Chairman Carter-and
| men OF that rank are always accessible. II
you d"ht Know them you get nothing for
| your questioning but feigned Ignorance, ex-
| pressed In courteous manner. of anything
| going on. If you have their acquaintance
I ana perhaps possess their confidence you
ask direct questions and get satisfactory
| answers.
The colored brother. who Is coming to
me convention as q delegate and is having
! difficulty in finding quarters, Is not alone
! IN TINS predicament.. In fact, I know a few
| white men myself, IN whose bosom there
throbs chord of sympathy for "the man
| ana BROTHER. The gentleman of exclusive
! disposition who may have declared before
| ne left home that he would not stop at the
| Planters or The Southern If color ed dele
fates We're harbored. will be very willing
by the time he gets here and looks around
! 10 get into either if there are a hundred
| Colored delegates there.
only he won't get in. The man who
starts FOR St Louis now without having
! engaged quarters about two months ago
| would do better to stop at Cincinnati and
READ accounts OF the convention in the pa
| PcrS. However, there seems to he a disuo-
! sitloh on the part of St. Louis to do a little
lor nef guests. as is evidenced by para
efaph IN a morning paper. This paragraph
sfaVeiy and in good faith says: Rooms
| can be mad where clean towel goes to
each occupant when he wants to take a.
Larh''
Gentlemen IRON the east. who have not
been accustomed to saving a clean towel
ior each occupant who wants to take a
| bath, will doubtless bc delighted to know
| 'nat inns luxury is in store for them, pro-
Vided' or course. always that they can get
| the ROOM In the same article in This
morning paper there occurs another very
| significant statement. as follows:
All that inquircrs will have to do will be
| to say what amount of money they have
Wi ha
proper place.
I'm other words. they will size you up
ana take your pile" The delightful frank
less, the refreshing GOODNESS of this sup-
| gestion is only epualed by the sincerity Of
| 1t, as hourly demonstrated by practical ap-
r.icatioa.
Col. Perry Carson has arrived on the
scene from Washington. l found him the
| center Of an adniring throng of colorcd
| Heiesates, who were basking in the sun
SHINE OF the colOneiS presence and hanging e
! upon his words like the bee upon the clover
| ilossom The colonel proudly sportel an
! Allison button and drew his stalwart form
an inch higher as he pointed to it.
| Here / am. he said, and here I'm to
| stay right in the Allison camp. ! am for
| Allison first, last ard all the time Yo' can
! see right smart of these count tTiln'
darkies with Mckinley buttons. he said.
| with whitening scorn. as he pointed to a
| roiored mah on the outskirts of the crowd
| "ho wore the Ohio mans insignia. "But
| mark my word. they is goin' to get scarcer
| and scarcer from this time on
| Col Carson located himself in a small
| hosiery dowr town and is row putting in
! his time hunting the picket lines of the
! Allison forces. Owing to the extent Of the
| serried brigades of the Mckinney forces,
| Col Carson is having some trouble in re-
| porting for duty to his superior officer but
| will doubtless be able to join his regiment
before night
| No snap shot of the scene today could he
! taken without including the colored dele
| gate He Is here in numbers, collectively
| sp' King, and is constantly arriving As a
| whole. he Is on hand earlier than his white
| brother. 1t may be a case of the carry
| bird and the worm. or perhaps. an excess
| of political zeal. He is radiant with nap3!-
| ness born of hope. He Is now the minis
| ter 10 Dahomey,' and is soaring high on
| the wings of expectancy. He is greeted
| effusively. is treated frequently. and lines
| up at he bar with distinguished company
He is tapped Familiarity the shoulders
| addressed as "Majah,'' strols the corridors
| at all the hotels. arm-in-arm with portly
gentlemen in high silk hats. These are
palIny days for the colored delegate. His
| happy disposition renders him enne1tly
| fit to extract all the sweetness possible
| from the situation. Like the butterfly that
basks in the warmth of an unseasonabl
not May day. he iutters about, and has 40
thought OF falling temperature or a change
| of barometer
Col, Powell Clayton of Arkansas brought
delegation from the black belt of that
state of colored delegates and engaged
rooms a the Planters Hotel When the
question arose of admitting the colored
men Col. Clayton was a diplomat He stood
by his delegates. proclaimed that they
should go with him. His able and sa bIe
licut' nant, however. convinced the dele
gates that the Planters was "a very noisy
place. altogether too gay for plain agri-
cuturalists like themselves, and that they
would do better to seek the secIusioo of
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10th to part with the boys. but was finally
induced to let them GO n O NJ
An object Of interest for the snap shot
takers is Joseph Manley of Maine, secretary
OF thu national committee. and the right
hand man of Mr.. Reed. Mr. Nan!ey has
ms hands fun Of contests now, and is ar
ranging for their disposition. He stops
long enough to make a statement in a
manner emphatic and absolute that Mr.
Reed would not accept the nomtna ton for
the vice presidency, and that If the con-
rention should force it upon him and adj
iourn. he would decline it neverth ciess
There has been talk of MIR. Reeds friends
putting Mr.. Manley forward for the vice
presidency. | asked one of the Mckinley
! managers about it today and he said: We
do not understand that the Reed men now
have any right - make any suggestions
as to second place Mr.. Reed refused it
when he could have had 1t. and now The
Reed men have lost their deal We are not
likely to consult them about second place.
The same man said it was almost certain
that New York would not furnish the vice
presidential candidate. He said il would be
impossible TO get man out of New York
without offending one Of the factions there
| and that would be suicidal in the present
delicate condition of republican politics in
| the state.
A ubiquitous figure in the corridors of the
political headquarters is the who has
| heard of or thinks of a scheme to beat Nc
kinley. He Is of the Col. Sellers type. Po-
| litIcally speaking, There's millions in it
with his scheme. When you get him down
| to details he cannot specify. His scheme
| is based upon the action of the national
committee with regard to the settlement
of the contests in the several state delega-
tionS. There are 1916 contests, the majority
of them by anti-Mc Kinley men. The lates;
scheme of the kind is based upon this pro-
cedure and superstition: IF the lieutenants
of presidential candidates who must con-
! test with Mckinley for the nomina ton dis
cover that they can control the national
committee, there Will be no contests in
important states decided until Monday
next. Then If the anti-Mckinley combine
| finds that the Ohio candidate cannot be
elected without the assistance of the con-
tested delegations he will never be the
nominee"
With reference to this plan, Perry Heath
one of Mr.. Mckinley's managers said TO-