The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-15
improbable the National Repub.
lican Convention Will End
Before Saturday.
Credentials Committee Nav Not
Be Able to Report Until
Friday.
Fairbanks Temporary Chairman
and ThurstOn Permanent.
Gossip.

ST. LOCiS, June l5.-Every incoming
train brought crowds of delegates and
others who have come to attend the
Republican national convention, and
the immense waiting rooms and mid
way of the Union station presents a
scene Of activity. Among the prominent
people to arrive was Ex-Governor For
aker and party of Ohio, who came i'll
on the Glover Leaf route at 7:4O a. m
Mr.. Foraker will place Major Mckin-
ley in nomination before the conven
ton. He was Immediately driven to
the ST. Nicholas and had breakfast with
Governor Bushnell of Ohio and several
companions, who arrived at Z :l2 a. m,
in special car. Chauncey NJ. Depew,
who is to nominate Levi p. Morton,
came in his private car on the Big Four
which reached Union station at 80
q. III.
The Probable Procedure.
The probable procedure in the ma
tional Republican convention will result
in series Of interesting sessions each
day from the opening on Tuesday until
adjournment on Saturday or later.
Those familiar with the situation, think
1t not improbable that the convention
may continue beyond the week. 1t
will be called to order at IL o'clock on
Tuesday by Chairman Carter. The day
will be consumed in the reading of the
call, the installing of temporary officers
and the appointment of committees OH
permanent organization and order of
business, on resolutions and credentials
1t is not known whether Chairman
Carter will make any remarks in open
ing the convention or not
Temporary Chairman VIII Talk.
1t is safe to say, however, that the
temporary chairman he presents to the
convention, will make the best speech
of which he is capable. The varied pro-
Ceedings of this session and the session
which will follow in the evening will
probably be interspersed with oratory
On Tuesday the report of the committee
on permanent organization and order of
business will probably be presented and
acted upon, and the permanent officers
will take charge of the convention.
The permanent chairman will be Hon.
John M. Thurston of Nebraska, and the
temporary chairman G. w. Fairbanks of
Indiana. Both of these gentlemen ore
far famed orators, and the temporary
chairman will, on taking up the gavel,
undertake to deliver the speech of his
life
General Business and Oratory.
1t is safe to say that pending receipt
of the report of the committee on Gre
dentials, the sessions of Wednesday and
Thursday and possibly Friday, will be
devoted to general convention business,
interspersed with oratorical efforts by
famous orators of the Republican party
in attendance. At all Of the sessions it
is probable that resolutions will be re-
ceived and referred to the committee on
resolutions, with or without reading or
debate, as the convention may direct.
Whether the important money question
will be precipitated before the conven.
tion before the report is ready in the
committee on resolutions is questionable
but regardless of any rule which may
be adopted, the tension on this question
is SO great that the discussion is liable
to be precipitated at any time and is
threatened by some silver men.
Credentials Committee VIII Have Work.
-I 1t is hardly to be expected that the
report of the committee on credentials
can be prepared and presented to the
convention before Thursday night or
Friday morning, if the contests are
considered as thoroughly as by the
national committee. There are 1853 con-
tests, and it is doubtful if the commit
tee on credentials can pass upon the
question of the facts in any time short
of three days and three nights, unless
the rule of the national committee
should be adopted. The report of the
committee is liable to precipitate the
most lively convention scene witnessed
in recent years. Next will probably
come the report of the committee on
resolutions. This committee will have
clear sailing until the currency question
is reached. On that question in the
committee, and later in the convention,
interest will be intense, and the oratori-
cal efforts pronounced.
Adopt Platform First.
A member of the national committee
discussing the probable length of the
convention said:
considering the whole situation, it
is difficult to see how the report of the
committee on credentials and the COM
niittee on resolutions can be disposed Of
before midnight OH Friday by the con-
vention; therefore, according to the
order OF things, the presentation of can.
didates viii not occur until Saturday
morning Owing to the interest taken
in the money question, the convention
will scarcely defer action on the plat