The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-14
Probable Programme Of the ST.
Louis Convention.
NOMINATIONS SATURDAY
A Hundred and Sixty Eight
Contests to be Decided.
tbs WHOLE CITY DECORATED
The Men Who are to Nominate the
Various Candidates We're
Among Yesterdays
Arrivals.

St. Louis. June 13.--Every incoming
train to-day brought crowds of dele
| gates and others who had come to at
| tend the Republican convention and
the immense waiting rooms and the
| midway of the Union station present
| a scene Of activity.
Among the prominent people to ar
| rive to-day was exGov. Foraker, and
| party, of Ohio, who came in on the
Glover Leaf route at TAO a. IN. Gov
| Foraker will place Maj. Mckinley III
nomination before the convention. He
was Immediately driven to his hotel.
Chauncey Nj. Depew, who is to nom
mate Levi z. Morton came in his pri-
vate car on the Big Four which reach
| ed Union station at 1880 a. IN.
Gov. Daniel FL. Hastings and party of
Pennsylvania, came in later over the
Vandalia.
The whole town is assuming a con-
yention aspect, and every where can
| be seen decorations in which the red,
white and blue pictures of presidential
candidates predominate
In the leading hotels the decorations
are especially fine, the different head
quarters being elaborately decraped
and the corridors hung with bunting
ard flags.
The probable procedure in the con-
yention viii result in series of in
teresting sessions each day from the
opening on Tuesday until adjourn
ment on Saturday or later. Those
familiar with the situation think it not
improbable that the convention may
continue beyond the week.
1t Will be called to order at II o'clock
on Tuesday by Chairman Carter. The
day will be consumed in the reading
of the call of the roll installing Of tenn
porary officers and the appointment
Of committees on permanent organi-
zation and order of day business in
resolutions and credentials.
1t is not known whether Chairman
Carter will make any remarks in open
ing the convention or not. Tt is safe
to say, however, that the temporary
chairman he presents to the conven-
tion will make the best speech of which
he is capable. The varied proceedings
of the session which will
follow in the evening will probably be
interspersed with oratory.
On Tuesday the report of the COM
mittee on permanent organization and
order of business will probably be
presented and acted upon and the per-
manent officers will take charge of the
convention.
The permanent chairman will be
Hon. John NJ. Thurston, of Nebraska,
and the temporary chairman, c. W.
Fairbanks, of Indiana. Both of these
gentlemen are far-famed orators and
the temporary chairman will, on talk
ing up the gayel, undertake to deliver
the speech of his life.
1t is safe to say that pending receipt
of the report of the committee on cre-
dentials the session of Wednesday
and Thursday, and possibly Friday,
will be devoted to general convention
business interspersed with oratorical
efforts by famous orators OF the Repub-
liean party in attendance. At all of
the sessions it is probable resolutions
will be received and referred to the
committee on resolutions with or with
out reading or debate as the conVen-
tion may direct. Whether the lm-
portant money question will be pre-
cipitated before the convention before
| the report is received from the commit
! fee on resolutions is questionable, but
! regardless of any rule which may be
| adopted, the tension of this question
| is so great that the discussion is liable
| TO be precipitated at any time and IS
| threatened by some silver men.
| Tt is hardly to be expected that the
report of the committee on credentials
can he prepared and presented before
| Thursday night or Friday morning
! if the contests are considered as thor
oughly as by the National committee
There are 168 contests and 1T IS doubt
full If the committee on credentials
can pass upon the question giving any
attention to the facts short OF three
days and three nights unless the rule
Of the National committee should pc
adopted. The report Of the committee
is liable to precipitate the most lVelS
convention scene witnessed in recent
years.
Next will probably come the report
of the committee on resolutions. This
committee will have clear sailing uh
til the currency question is reached
On that question. in the committee
and later in the convention, interes
will be intense and the orltofical ct
forts pronounced.
A member Of the National commit
tee discussing the probable length
Of the convention. said: considering
the whole situation, IT is difficult t.
see how the report of the committct
on credentials and the committee oI