The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-15

ST. LOUIS, June 14.-When the Re
publican national convention is called
to order on Tuesday it will be found
the preliminaries have been looked
after with exceptional thoroughness.
There will be no obstacles in the way
of Immediately beginning the work for
which the convention has been called.
and present indications are that the
meeting will not be of long duration.
The convention hall will be in COM
plete readiness. The states are ex-
pected to have their recommendations
for committee plans in readiness by to-
morrow night. The national commit
tee has entirely concluded the consid-
Grafton of the unusually long list OF
contests, and it is believed by those
who have given attention to the sub
ject that this work will be found to
have been done so well that compare
lively little will be left for the
COMMITTEE ON CREDENTIALS.
Necessarily there has been no formal
consideration of the declaration of
principles upon which the party will
make it's appeal TO the country. but
it will be found that this branch Of
the work has been by no means neg
lected. There has been very general
exchange Of views upon this important
point, and much done looking to the
harmonious crystalization of views.
which. it is believed, will render it
possible for the platform committee to
reach a conclusion with comparatively
little delay Selection has been made
of the chairman and other officers of
the temporary organization. and a pro-
gramme has been radically agreed.
upon for the permanent organization,
with Senator Thurston of Nebraska.
for presiding officer Of the convention
When we add to these accomplish
ments the fact that the presidential
nominee has practically been named.
it must be conceded that the conven-
ton has apparently a Comparatively
easy and brief task before it.
OBSTACLES MAY BE ENCOUN-
TERED.
but as yet comparatively few of them
are discernable.
The length of the time the convention
shall sit will in all probability be de-
termined largely by the plan of pro-
ceedings, which shall be determined by
the committee on credentials. If this
committee should elect to reopen all
the contests for seats in the conven-
ton and to make an original investi-
CATION of the various questions which
the disputes cover the proceedings
tests involve the right to 1853 seats and
cover wide range Of controversy, in
GLIDING the comparative validity of
many rival party organiZatinC0. state
and district, and involving much of
heated personal rivalry, race prejuddce
and factional jealousy. to say nothing
of questions Of proceeding in rival con-
ventions and even Of methods en-
ployed at the polls. There are stacks
of papers that might be examined in
almost every case. The preponderance
of opinion is that the credentials COM
mittees will not deem it necessary to
go into many of the contests in detail,
but that, on the contrary, the verdict
of the national committee will be
practically
ADOPTED AS FINAL
in a large majority of the con-
test cases. The committee spent
four days and a. large part Of as
many nights in sitting the facts in
these cases and hearing arguments by
either the principals or their counsel
The meeting of the national committee
was called earlier than usual. in order
that this work might be done with
more than the ordinary thcrouShness
for the facilitation of the progress of
the conventions work The convention
also departed from the usual practice
in hearing each case as a body, and
not in dielegating the task to sub-com-
mittees 1t is believed this course Will
have a strong influence in commencing
the verdict in all cases to the commit
tee to which the convention will for
mally assign the task of inquiring into
the qualification of its members.
On the other hand, there will be
strong pressure on the part Of the
delegations whose claims have been
adversely passed upon to have the
controversies re-investigated.
THE DEFEATED DELEGATES
generally regard. the credentials COM
mittee in the light of a court of APP
peals, and in many cases they will
insist upon a hearing. In exceptional
instances this request will probably be
granted and the committee will unani-
mously take up cases like that of Della
ware, where both sides to the contest
were denied seats; or like that Of Ari-
IONA, where the names of both parties
were placed upon the roll and each
delegate ava rdied only half a vote. In
some instances it is understood no
pressure will be brought to bear to
secure a reopening of the cases and
New York is one Of these. In that
state both parties to the dispute will
abide by the decision Of the national
committee. 1t is even suggested that
a proposition may be made in the
convention to make the temporary roll
permanent in all but exceptional
cases, which would, of course, if ad1p-
ted. relieve the committee on creden-
tails of the greater part Of it's labor
and materially expedite the work OF
the convention.
(, The contest in the committee on
resolutions is expected to be sharp but
not protracted. AS it now appears,
there will be
LITTLE OR NO DIFFICULTY
in agreeing upon any of the blanks of
| the platform except that relating to the
financial policy of the party With the
selection of a. candidate to head the
ticket so completely eliminated from
the realm of speculation, the financial
question has almost entirely monopo-
lied the attention Of party mep In