The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-06-12
Many Small Parties Of Dele
gates Arriving
NEW YORK EXPECTED ON SUNDAY
And other Large Delegations Are soor
to FoIIow-A Lively time is
Expected.

ST. LOUIS, June 11.-None of the large
delegations have arrived in the city yet.
The delegates now in the city are simply
those who have come ahead of the state
delege tions to arrange matters for the
delegations from states where there may
be contests.
By Saturday or Sunday night the big
delegations will arrive. New York is
expected Sunday night, as also Ohio and
Pennsylvania. Illinois will be here
Monday. They are expected on special
trains with brass bands and banners,
and propose to wake the dead when they
get here. The Blaine Club, of Cincin-
natl, with 900 rooters for Mckinley, will
come on decorated train Sunday night.
A second special train will bring 500
members of the Lincoln Club of the
same place. Senator Foraker and the
Cincinnati end of the delegation will
come on,this train. The Lincoln Club,
of Toledo, will also arrive Sunday night,
with 300 shousers for Mckinley. Most
of the OHIO delegation will come on this
train. Among them will be James R..
Garfield and Webb Hayes, sons of former
presidents. The Tippecanoe Club, of
Cleveland, with 700 howlers, will arrive
either Sunday night or Monday morn
ing. The Buckeye Club, of Columbus,
O., with Governor Bushnell and staff
and many delegates will arrive Sunday
night.
The Topeka Flambeau Club, with
their red paint and light, will be here
Monday. The Mckinley Clubs, of
Evansville, Ind, Detroit, Minneapolis,
Chicago. and Leavenworth, Kan, will
arrive Sunday night. The Marquette
Club, of Chicago, will get in Monday
morning, and the Americus Club, OF
Pittsburg, will arrive either Sunday
night or Monday morning, so that the
town will be full of bowling marchers by
Monday noon.
Great preparations are being made to
receive the delegations and clubs as they
pected Monday.
Henry Cabot Lodge, who is talked OF
for chair man of the committee on plat
form and resolutions, has telegraphed to
Murray Crane, the national committee
man from Massa chusetts, to rally the
friends of the gold standard. Mr.. Lodge
SAID that no evasion would be tolerated,
and that straddle would be disgraceful.
He said the Indiana platform, which has
been popular in certain circles for the
past few days, would not be acceptable.
The Indiana platform, so-called, declares
for the best money known to the world,
and pronounces emphatlcally against
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l.
1t has been suggested to amend this
declaration by striking out the words
cat ratio of 16 to l" so that the para
graph would read "unalterably. opposed
to the free and unlimited coinage Of
silver" It was argued that if the worde
cat ratio of 16 to 1" were kept in the
platform it might be constructed to mean
that the Republicans were in favor oi
the free coinage of silver at some other
ratio. There has been so much talk
about this Indiana platform that the
suspicion gained ground that the Nc
Kinley people were in favor of it. Moth
ing definite or authoritative, however, car
be had from those supposed to represent
Mckinley. The supporters of the Ohio
man from the East declare that McKin.
ley is in favor of the gold standard. The
supporters of Mckinley from the West
insist that he is in favor. of the largest