The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-06-13

regarded as having c0MmeAceQ.lH} estfIl--tt
est The mornings on the late trains last
night and those Of the early morning were
50 numerous fas ITO take by surprise the
hotel people and the local committee and
who, going ~ the reports from different
parts; Of; the country. had been led to be-
the visitors would. be very much in evil
llence. Beforesthe breakfast hour was over
this morning. however. four pages OF
freshly written utqgraphs had been adj
ded to the convention register at the
Southern and about the same number az
the Planters
Despite the assurance Of the citizens
committee Of arrangements that ample
Accommodations will be placed at the COM
associates, the national committee is to be
requested to look into the situation and to
appoint a subcommittee with instructions
to report not later than noon tomorrow.
Three resolutions to this effect have been
drawn and will be submitted. The Flor
ida committeeman is in a position to give
the committee a chapter Of personal ex-
periences, for on Monday and yesterday,
he tramped for hours seeking quarters for
the prescribed visitors only to admit he
had been ba fled at every turn. One lead-
ing hotel offered to set aside portion
Of one of it's wings for the entertainment
Of the full corps of co]ored delegates. to
give them q separate entrance and to
serve meals in the rooms, but when this
agreement came to the ears of the walters
there was a vigorous Kick and negotia-
tons were declared off.
There were a score or more of CID
friends at the Union station to welcome
the head center Of Major Mckinley cam
paign, Mark Hanna. when the Bee line
train from Cleveland pulled in at 1880.
Before he had time to register Mr. Hanna
was the center Of a group of other dis
tingushed = Republicans. There We're
greetings and =handshakes and then after
q hurried breakfast he betook himself to
his private floor and conferred with Judge
ThoTnpson to- whom, he had wired last
night asking that quarters be secured Tor
the .eoIored delegates. Mr.. Hanna then
~turlled TO the, task of greeting the crowd
that besiegeta, him, f,5
to provide suitable accommodations for
THE colored sefele gates, Judge Long, it is
said, will submit a resolution to the gen
eral committee that the convention be
taken toEsorne other city on the ground
that the city fails to furnish proper ac-
COI4lIIlOQdllClES lOyI al lAS OcISbdlCa'
Prominent among the callers We're
General Garrett; ID. Hobart, delegate at
large from New Jersey; G. r. Manchester
secretary Of New York Republican COM
mittee, and Delegate r. B. Rentfron of
Texas
M. H. DeYoung of San Francisco de-
clares that while the California delegates
were instructed for free silver they would
not bolt the convention in the event Of
the gold standard element being supreme
and this was one Of the leading topics OF
discussion this morning. It was noticeable
this morning that the delegates on the
ground from Mississippi and Alabama
and who at home are supposed to be ard
ent free silverItes are talking sound
money and Mckinley
Delegate RentfreW, Of the Texas Lilly
Whites, and who has a contest on his
hands. was also loudly proclaining that
the seated delegates from his state, no
matter who they might be would be found
voting for the Ohio man and q clean cut
declaration for Sound money
David Martin, the Philadelphia leader
and member Of the national committee.
registered at the Planters at IL o'clock
and sthen went over to the headquarters
at the SoHthern.'S Enr QUITE he expressed
the opinIon III that the platform would
declare for sound money" without strad-
die or equivocation. Tint eastern Repub-
licans, he added were not anticipating any
bolts or disruption and at any rate did
not propose to give way to fear or worry
no matter what might develop on this line.
ell added his belief that Mckinley's nom
ination would come on the first ballot.