Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13

case SO rank as to call for severe rebuke
from Senator Gear Of Iowa. The contests
from the first Alabama district were under
consideration, having been laid over from
Wednesday. The contestants were Reed
men. The committee rode them down in a
manner SO summary as to cause Senator
Gear 70 remark that this vote will have
a bad effect on the country. The opposi-
ton now declare that the national COM
mittee has simply resolved itself into an
aid society for Mckinley.
AS already stated in these dispatches, Mr..
Platt Is waiting in very grim humor for
the committees action in the New York
contest cases. He has not minced words in
threatening the Mckinley outfit with
trouble If they do not act fairly This
threat was promptly followed by an ans an.
swer of defiance from the other side
Mr. Piatt was informed that the contest
ants In these cases were republicans of
good standing in the state, and that If
their claims were found good they would
be upheld, Mr.. Platt and his threats to the
contrary notwithstanding. Flushed with
success, the McKinleyites are inclined to
hold stiff hand with Mr.. Platt
trouble Is brewing over the tariff plank
Mr. Mckinleys managers have put out as
a sounder the suggestion that the people
60 not want as radical tariff as the late
mckinley bill. This is the sentiment of
the great agricultural states, it is said,
ana strons pressure has been brought to
bSoi " nave tfllS lOea dominate the
atlon or the tariff plank. Chris Magee the
great Mckinley man of Pittsburg discovered
the existence of this feeling upon his ar
rival here, and Immediately set to work to
So;un.eIact 90; II. He has done nothing since
MS arrival but urge a high tariff campaign,
ana even goes so far as to threaten Nc
kinley If Pennsylvania interests are not
amply covered by the protection clause of
ane PlatLorm' ana. OF course, when he says
amply. he means a figure higher than the
majority of Mr.. McKinleys advisers want
70 CO. The Pennsylvanians also Join the
New Workers In demand for straightout
gold platform.
Thus it transpires that McEinlav is f,d
ing himself between the devil and the deep
sea upon two issues. He has the east pull,
lnS at him for gold and a way-up tariff:
a ane west demanding as the least of favors
que them that no declaration for gold shall
De made outright. while the Central states
want moderation in the tariff.
Washington city has but a small delesa-
tlon at the convention, only two 1t is lit
tle Dut when it comes to fame the Wash
1ngton delegation is way up in 1t. Why, Col"
IeIry carson is host in himself. Every
oouy KNOWS him, everybody stops to talk
to him, and he is as gummed I'D with
the sweets of adulation as a bear that has
Waliowed in the contents of a beehive.
he Is regarded as the head of the colored
contingent. the noblest Roman of them
an, and when he stops In the corridor his
Dig white hat looms up out of a sea of
aark faces Ike great, gray owl in a
bunch of blaek5irds.
-, Your Uncle Perry has been keeping a
close watch on Mr.. Frank B. Conger and
LIS Vaccinations in tehalf of those addi-
ional delegates from the District. Since
ne mas observed the way in which the ma
tlonal committee has been dealing with
contested cases he is prepared to hear
Sc me Mckinley man move to admit the ad-
oltlonal delegates, and when he doc
mere going to be trouble. The Tall
sycamore Of the Potomac loves a scrap
and he knows how to talk for himself.
Mr. Frank P. Morgan of Washington.
VINO IS delegate to the coming democratic
convention at Chicago, is here in his capac-
ny OF neWspape. man. Today local pa
per printed picture of Mr. Morgan stand
ing In close and familiar converse with Col
Ferry Carson. Mr.. Morgan has not done a
thlng all day but take his friends aside
ana with tears in his eyes explain that
"hen that picture gets back to Washing
ton 1t viii ruin him with his constituents
he says he knows he will be a dead duck
pchtlcally from this time on, and can no
longer march his procession across Capitol
i1iif headed by a transparency labeled.
vote for the workinsmen's friend"
N. O. NJ