The morning times., 1896-03-18
HIhIhG THE DELEGATES
all the Candidates Have Champ
ions for Their Boom.
SENTIMENT rs DIVIDED
Reed and Mckinley Share Texas. Man
ders9n Has IA Hold In Nebraska,
PIatt Has "a TussIe ia New York
Many Points Heard From in the
Preiiminaries of the Campaign.

Dallas, Tex, March t7.-DaIias County
Republicans, kno Wn as the BLACK and Tan"
wing. held mass convention today and
split, sending Reed and Mckinley contest
Ing delegations To the state convention at
Austin, which is to send delegates at-arge
10 st. Louis. riot which lasted fully
fifteen minutes was suppressed by squad
Of police after several persons had been
stabbed. There was fully 500 persons.
mostly negroes in the hail at the time.
York, Pa, Ma rch 17.-In the York
County Republican convention held here
K. II. SEendel was elected delegate to the
national convention.
Resolutions were adopted indorsing VIII
lam Mckinley for President and instruct
ing the national delegate "a support him as
long 6s his name is before the national
convention.
WISCONSIN MCKINLEY MEN.
Beloit, WIS.,, March 1.-THE First Com
gressional District Republican Convention
today eleuteds Mckinley delegates TO the
ST. Louis Convention.
Bloomington. H., March 17.-Thc Nc
Lean county Republican convention was
held here today and Mckinley Instructions
were voted 10y large ma iority. The vote
on Instructions for governor was: Tanner,
l 3S; Hopkins, ~. The Tanner forces were
led by ex-Goycrnnr Fifer, the newly elected
national committeeman, who lives here.
Omaha, Neb, March 1.-THE repre-
| sentatiyes Of the Man.lcTSon and Mckinley
| forces met this morning and remained In
| session for several hours, and got SO far
| along In their deliberations toward an
| amicabe settlement that they prepared
| plans and telegraphed them to Senator
| Thurston and Gen. Henderson, both OF
| whom are DOW. in Washington. with In
| stru Ctions for them to consult, with word
| that what they agreed upon would be
| satisfactory tn their followers IN this city.
| Manders0n's friends insist that hts name
| shall 60 before the convention at st. Louis.
| and that the State delegation vote for him
| On the informal ballot.
MoRToN-PLATT COMBINE.
| New York, March 17.-At Republican
! headquarters late this evening members
of the Republican county committee claimed
that everything was coming i'll the Morton
| Platt direction. In support of their con-
tention that no Que could steal the New
! York delegation To st. Louis, from Gov.
| Morton they showed some figures. which
they said represented the result Of Monday
evenings primary election. These figures
gave the result in seven districts and sho wed
total OF ls1 Platt delegates out of 303.
New York, March 1T.-CommissiOner
| Wright and Gen. Coils claimed today that
they beat the Platt forces in the Sixteenth
| Congressional district yesterday, obtain
ing $50 to 250. They assert that these
figures are official, and if so, they will,
of course, be chosen delegates to the st.
| Louis convention.
York, Pa, March 17.-In the York county
Republican convention, held here today,
R. II. hndel was elected delegate to the
national convention. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing William Mckinley for
President and instructing the national del
egate to support him as long as bis name
Is before the national convention.