St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-11
KANSAS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
is AFRAID TO FACE THE
MUSIC.
SPLIT ON MONEY QUESTION.
DELEGATES ELECTED AND STRONG
M,KINLEY RESOLG EIONS ARE
ADOPTED.
ALLISON CROWD MEETS TODAY.
Des MOines Rapidly Filling With
Delegates to the Republican
Convention.

: WACHJTA, Kan, March 10.-The
Republican state convention was
called to order at IL a. m. by Cyrus
Leland, chairman of the state central
committee, and ex-Chief Justice Albert
H. Horton was elected temporary
chairman by reclamation. He made
a brief speech in accepting the honor
The usual committees were appointed
and an adjournment taken till after
noon. Before adjournment Cyrus Lee
land offered telegram of greeting to
the Ohio Republican convention in ses-
sion at Columbus, and it was adopted.
Judge Horton, in accepting the
nomination of temporary chairman,
made spirited address. He congratu-
lated the people upon the removal from
power In the state of the Populists, say
ing: THE state house has been cleans
ed and purified from the hungry greed
OF cOrmorants, spawned upon our state
IN its days of misfortune and disaster"
ReVerting to national politics, he said:
cleveland will be replaced by a sturdy
American, more interested in the in
dustries of this country and the ad-
Vancement Of our commercial and
financial interests than the free trader
now occupying the presidential chair"
The enthusiastic delegates punctuat-
ed Judge Horizons remarks with fire.
QUent applause and were especially
demonstrative when he alluded to Nc
klnley, to whom, however, no direct
reference as a presidential POSSIBLE
1ty was made.
When the convention reconVened at
o'clock the several committees were
not ready to report and several
speeches were listened to. J. R. Bur-
ton created something of a commotion
when he delivered a strong
FREE SILVER SPEECH,
urging the convention to make plat
form of it's own without the aid or
ing: THE keynote should be sounded
right now. We know what we want.
Let us say so.' Further debate was
shut off by the report of the committee
on credentials, and the committee on
permanent organization, on whose rec
ommendatiOn the temporary organiza-
ton was made permanent Owing to
vast difference of opinion within the
party no platform was made, the con-
Vention agreeing to accept the national
platform when it is made.
The committee on resolutions in it's
report tC the convention said:
Your committee on resolutions are unani-
NOUS in the conclusion that this is not the
time nor occasion for formulating and re-
solving upon platform of defined policies of
national administration. That work, as we
believe, can only be done wisely and we'll by
a convention, after patient and patriotic in
Ierchange OF views, by representatives of all
the states delegated to speak for them in that
convention. We, therefore, submit to you dec
1aratons of existing facts and fundamental
principles, upon which there is no contention
or diversity of opinion in the Republican
ranks
The declarations of principles which
follow condemn the present Democratic
administration; declare in favor of a
protective tariff and indorse Mckinley
for president, in the following words:
eve recognize with pride and comfort the
spirit of growing Americanism and in Will
lam Mckinley the incarnation of that spirit
the defender of the American home, the pro-
tector of American industries and labor; the
embodiment of the Republicanism of Wash
ington, the father; Lincoln the savior and
Grant, the defender of the republic. Repre-
senting the people of Kansas we voice a pub
lie demand in hereby instructing the delegates
u the Republican national convention cho-
sen by US, and in appeal to the delegations
from the respective congressional districts, to
vote and all just means for his nomina-
ton to the presidency of the United States"
There was a hot contest for dele
gates, and after much oratory and
balloting, the following delegates to
the st. Louis convention were elected:
Cyrus Leland Jr., of Troy; M. M. Muir
deck, of Wichita; A. P. Biddle, of Min
neapolis; c. S. Swenson, of McPher-
son; Nate Barnhof, of Kansas City,
Kas., and T. J. Anderson, of Topeka.