Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-15

nesday Rev. ]. S. Lindsay will address
the Society of Alumni, and that even
ing the degrees and diplomas will be
awarded.
The arrangement for the reunion OF
Confederate veterans, in Richmond, the
| first week in July, are being made on
an extensive scale. The new audi
forum for the meeting, to seat 1000,
was turned over to the committee by
the contractor on Saturday. The COM
mittee on entertainment established an
Office and opened headquarter on Main
street Saturday.
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
The national republican convention
will meet tomorrow at noon, IN st.
Louis, and so far as can be forecast the
work will be about as follows: Will
liam Mckinley, of Ohio, will be nomi-
mated for President. For Vice Presi-
dent Garrett A. Hobart, ofNew Jersey,
is now the central and leading figure.
The temporary officers of the conven-
ton will he chairman, Charles w.
Fairbanks, of Indianapolis, Ind. score
tary. Col. G. w. Johnson, of Mime
sofa, with assistants and reading clerks.
The A. P. AS. scared Mr.. Hanna and
Mckinley managers. The PROPOSE
ton to select Archbishop Kain (Catho-
lic) to open the convention with prayer
was quietly smothered. The other ex-
IRENE was resorted to, and Jewish
rabbi-Rev. Samuel Sale, of st. Louis
was chosen to conduct the religious
exercises.
The convention will declare for
sound money, but whether for gold
standard is matter not yet deter
mined upon. Conferences are con-
stantly taking place upon this subject,
and if the action of the McKinleyites in
selecting Senator Foraker, of Ohio, as
chairman of the committee on resolu.
tions is to be taken as guide, there will
not be pronounced declaration for a
"gold standard"
Indications are that there will prob
ably be three candidates for national
committeeman for Virginia and that
Colonel Lamb, the present committee
man, will finally withdraw from the
race. He says he is not anxious to be
re elected. Colonel Lamb has strong
opposition, the leading competitor be-
ing ex-C Congressman Bowden, of Nor
folk. 1t is also understood that eX.
Congressman Brady, of Petersburg,
and Congressman Walker are feeling
around in the same direction. Colonel
Lamb says that as he is State chairman
he will be content with that.
The contest between Bowden and ex-
Congressman Libbey for delegate from
the Norfolk district resulted last night
in drawn battle. The committee de-
cided to give each half vote in the
convention. AS heretofore stated, the
contests in the Third and Eighth dis
trict were withdrawn. In the second
district there was spirited contest.
| John S. Wise represented the Reed con-
testants, while Mr.. Bowden represented
himself and colleague. In closing the
case Mr.. Wise said that there was no
fight against Mr.. Mckinley, but Bow
den claimed it was in order to get him
self elected.
In the twelfth New York district, in
which Cornelius n. Bliss and S. V. R.
Cruger, anti Platt, were contested by
Howard Carroll and Thurlow Weed
Barnes (Platt), the four were seated,
with half vote each. Mr.. Platt said :
81 don't think we will bolt" In two
other districts the Mckinley delegates
were seated.
Sunday was busy day at st. Louis.
The air was filled with the blare Of
brass bands and the streets with
marching clubs. Senator Lodge
took charge of Mr.. Reeds can.
didacy there, and stated that the
Massachusetts, delegates were solid for
the Speaker. Headquarters for Reed
were formally opened. At the McKin-
ley headquarters it was stated that his
managers would not oppose the action
of the committee on resolutions should
the words gold standard" be used in
the financial plank.
1--WE favor the maintenance of the
existing gold standard, and are opposed
to the free coinage of silver, except by
international agreement for bimetallism
with the leading commercial nations of
the world" This is the text of the
uuhuCldl plduh upou WuiSu LII. iooI
and his friends agreed at conference
which adjourned late last night and
which was attended by leading eastern
men and number from the middle
western States.
A dispatch from St. Louis dated last
night says: On the eve of the meeting
of the republican national convention
the party leaders are at odds over the
fnencial plank to be adopted. Man.
sger Hanna, on behalf of Mckinley,
desires to avoid the use of the words
"gold standard" in the platform. MIR.
Platt, of New York, representing the
business interests of the country, de-
mands that the word gold" must be
inserted in the platform, and proposes
to carry the fight into the convention.
A draft of platform has been made,
and it has been Endorsed by some east
ern men.
Your Boy Wont Live Month.
So Mr.. Gilman Brown, of 81 Mill
street, South Gardner, Mass, was told
by the doctors. His son had Lung
tnorh1a fo11ou,;pO Tonhoid Molor;o