The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-06-10
THE COLOR LINE DRAWN.


tion Get tho Cold Shoulder from Hotel
Keepers.
ST. LOUIS, June 9.-The complication
that arose Sunday over the hotel ac-
commodations for negro delegates
was not settled Monday. National
Committeeman George w. Hill, OF
Tennessee, sought in vain for rooms
for the Tennessee negro delegates. In
the Southern hotel he said "Unless
quarters are provided Immediately /
shall telegraph the colored members
OF the Tennessee delegation to stay at
home. l don't intend that they shall
come to st. Louis and either go hun
CRY or eat in a place in which they
would not stable horse at home"
Judge Long, national committee
man from Florida, said: 81 am thor
oughly disgusted with the whole mat
ter. | have spent all day looking for
rooms for the colored delegates and
have met no success. The doors Of all
the hotels are barred against them.
The local committee promised us quar-
ters for colored delegates, but there
are none"
James Hill, national committeeman
from Mississippi, arrived in st. Louis
Sunday night and was busy all of Mon
day trying to find headquarters for his
delegation. So far no suitable quar-
ters have been found.
Whatever sleep a large number of
politicians are to get during their con-
vention sojourn here, will be enjoyed
in the railroad cars which bring them
to the city. Arrangements have been
made by the Terminal Railroad asso-
citation to store 800 passenger cars at
different places in st. Louis during the
latter part Of this and all of next week.
More than 200 of these coaches-all
sleepers-will be converted into tenn
porary hotels. This arrangement will
provide lodging places for at least 30
900 persons within five minutes walk
of the convention hall.
The committee on contested seats
will have problems to solve from Is
states and one territory.
Ex-Gov. Foraker, who is to present
McKinley's name to the convention,
will not be in st. Louis until next Sun
day or Monday. He will be escorted
in special car by the Blaine club, of
Cincinnati.
The gavel for the use of the perma-
nent chairman was received yesterday.
The gavel will be presented to the
chairman by Senator Berry, one of the
Illinois delegates. The gavel is an ex-
cellent piece of wood carving done by
w. H. Bartels, of Carthage, Ill. Mr..
Bartels selected the wood-a hickory
log taken from the log cabin occupied
by President Lincoln at New Salem,
ILL.,, in 1882
There are panels on either side which
are filed in with inscribed plates OF
gold and silver. This gavel is to be
presented to the nominee at the con
clusion of the proceedings.
CHICAGO June 9.-Richard C. Kerens
and eX-Congressman Frank, of St
Louis, stopped in Chicago yesterday
on their way home from their politica
visit to VIM. Mckinley at Canton. Al
q Missouri delegate to the St. Louis
convention, Mr.. Frank said "We will
nominate Mckinley on the first rol
call. There will be Mckinley strength
not only to dictate the nomination
but the manner of doing it. We will
permit a suspension of the roll cal
long enough to make the nomination
unanimous and then we will adopt
financial plank satisfactory to the hon
est money men of the country. 1t will
be unequivocally against free coinag,
of silver at any ratio. 1t will be fo
the preservation of the financial statu
and it will make no mention of an in
ternational conference. 1t goes with
out saying that the United States ha
always been in favor of such a confer
ence We will not straddle on tina
plank. AS for McKinley's position,
can say the financial plank cannot b.
made too strong for him. He is sound