The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-08


ST. LOUIS, June up to date there
are fully FIVE times as many out-of-
town newspaper correspondents in St.
Louis who have come to the national
convention as politicians.
A bakers dozen political news dis
seminators arrived last week, and to-
days trains brought in as many more,
while all told less than half a dozen
politicians OF national repute have put
in an appearance.
1t is not expected there will be much
real activity in political way until the
arrival of NJ. A. Hanna, Major McKin-
ley's manager, with his forces. He is
expected Tuesday, as is also the Hon.
Thomas c. Plat. who is coming to
look after the interests of Levi p Nor
ton. It is also said that Ex-Governor
Gear of Iowa will put in an appear
ance before the middle of the week
with a corps of assistants. to engage
in the preliminary skirmish in behaf
of Senator William B. Allison. The
bill-posting brigade for the Hawkeye
state candidate was here today, and as
a result Autograph
PORTRAITS OF SENATOR ALLISON
have been hung in shop windows and
posted upon the dead walls of the town
The national committeeman will all be
here before the close of the week
With them will come scores of dele
gates, especially those having contests.
and a horde Of camp followers in the
way of citizens who desire to serve
the state, or rather party, in the ca
pacity of assistant door keepers and
other useful and necessary positions
about the convention hall. Then, too,
the crowd in the hotels will be aug
mented to considerable extent by
members of congress and other states
men and patriots from the national
capitol.
All arrangements for handling the
convention have been completed. All
the hostelries and boarding houses
have laid in their supply of food and
extra rooms. The street railway COM
panies have, by working forces of men
night and day, repaired the damage
wrought by the tornado sufficiently to
enable them to handle the crowds OF
people that are expected to come. The
convention hall has had
ALL THE FINISHING TOUCHES
and will be dedicated with pomp and
ceremony this week.
] In fact, ST. Louis. in spite of the fact
| that fortnight ago storm swept a
! hole mile and a half wide through
her center from the western limits to
the river, is ready to comfortably ac-
| commodate and handle the scores of
thousands of>visitors who 1T is eX-
pected will attend the convention. None
of the managers of the Republican
presidential candidates have as yet ar
rived. Mckinley has number of lieu
tenants here, however, who are busy
preparing the way for the Ohio can
| didate's manager Marcus A. Hanna.
The latest arrival is ex-Congresman A.
c. Thompson OF Ohio, who. with Cen
eral Grosvenor. will argue the cases OF
the contested Mckinley delegates be-
fore the national committee. AS yet
but two national committeeman have
arrived. They are G. w. Hill of Ten
nessee and j. G. Long of Florida. Both
are avowed Mckinley men. Judge
Thompson. who is looked upon as the
only Mckinley spokesman yet in the
field said he was certain there will be
| but one ballot for the naming of a
presidential nominee. He also said the
! Hon Thomas 3. Reed would not ac-
cept the vice presidential nomination.
He was quite as positive of this as he
was that Mckinley would be nominal
ed on the first ballot
SOUND MONEY"
In regard 10 the platform he had this
TO say:
at will be a sound money platform
It will be platform that will be ac-
ceptable to the Republicans, east and
west However. some of the delegates
may go away dissatisfied at not hav-
ing been able tc word it just as they
desired vet it will be a platform they
can support"
In making this statement, Judge
Thompson SAID he did not wish to De
understood as attempting to dictate
sentiment to the delegates or to the
party as a whole He was merely
speaking from the knowledge he had
of the platforms adopted at the var
ious state conventions.
When asked as to who he thought
: would be named for the second place
: on the ticket he said he had heard nc
> one talked of h7 the Mckinley men.
Regarding the contests, he said he
! had no idea hrw many would be
t brought before the national commit
= tee A week ago there were sixty-sey
en- contests involving the rights of 15
delegates from the states of Alabama
: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia
T Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi
{ North Carolina, Pennsylvania. Soutf
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Arlz
+, ona Many of these contests, he be
lieved,
e WOULD BE AMICABLY SETTLED
t or abandoned before the meeting of tn,
g national committee. Another of TIL
e Mckinley force, in reference to tn
e platform, said it would make a squar
t issue with the Is to 1 Democrats.
e would read so as to admit of no doubl
u Interpretation. 1t would be for a gol,
I standard.
e G. w. Hill of TIE national committe
g said the delegates from Tennessee
i were squarely for single gold stand
II ard and for Mckinley.
: 1.-The Tennessee delegation will pre-
y sent the name of H. Clay Evans TO
k the vice presidency" he said, land Wi
s do all in its power to secure vic
e tory for him"
FOREIGN FINANCES.
a Reason For the Falling Away l.