The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-29
CONVENTION At ALLENTOWN
Democrats Are 10 Possession OF the
City Of Peanuts.
MR. HARRITY IS THE KING
Delegates low Meekly to His Scepsre.
Work Of Initiating tho PattisOu Boom
Begins Representatives TO
National Couventi0n.

Allentown. Pa, April 2S.-The DEM
ocrats are in possession of Allentown
tonight. The city Is alive with march
ing clubs and the decorations are
The state convention
which will be called to order ut noon
tomorrow in Music hall will start the
boom of Ex-Governor Rob-
ert +. Pattison, and a strong endorse
ment will be given the man who has
twice been elected as the chief eXecu-
tive of Pennsylvania.
The executive committee Of the state
Democratic committee met this after
noon and decided upon William Is. Civ
en-, of Columbia. Lancaster county. for
temporary chairman of the convention.
Mr.. Given Is lawyer. editor and busi-
ness manager Of Columbia. he being
editor of the Columbia Weekly Herald.
The secretaries will be George II. Hoff-
man, of Philadelphia; W. J. Kountz.
Allegheny; p. S. Cotter, Mexican. and
P. c. Shearin, Crawford. The slate for
congressmen-at -at-large nominees so far
as agreed upon, names Smedley ID.
Garrett, of Delaware county, and
James NJ. Braden. Of Washington coun-
ty The delegates at large to the ma
tlonal convention will probably be Ma
tional Chairman William F. Harrity.
of Philadelphia; Charles A. Fagan. AL
legheny; State Senator y. Henry Coch-
ran. Williamsport; John $. Killing,
Erie; John r. Lenahan, Luzerne, and
Benjamin +. Meyers. Harrisburg. The
eighth delegates may be either DR.. John
Todd. of Montgomery, or 4. NJ. Hold
ing. of Chester.
The presidential electors at large will
be William NJ. Singerly, of Philadel-
phia: James Denton Hancock, Venan-
go; George w. Guthrie, Allegheny, and
Thomas Collins, Center. The district
electors have not yet all been agreed
upon. for the reason that number of
the delegations will not caucus tomor-
row morning. The names Of Dwight Nj.
Lowrey, of Philadelphia; John NJ. Gar
man, LuZerne, and Robert Z. James.
Northampton, are mentioned in con-
nection with the permanent chairman
ship of the convention.
a large parade took place tonight and
the streets were ablaze with fireworks.
Two thousand men were In line and
Lieutenant Colonel +. c. O'Neill was
chief marshal. The members of the
state committee and the local reception
committee rode in open carriages.
hfIS Et' lISJIN III I1AnIl I.
National Chairman Harfity was CIV
on q reception at the Hotel Allen after
the parade by the William F. Harrity
club of South Bethlehem. The recep-
tion continued for two hours and Har-
rity shook the hands of hundreds OF
persons.
A special. dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Record says: The selection of fifty.
six delegates to the national conven-
tion from the twenty-eight congress
sional districts. as announced by the
different delegations, and which will be
ratified by the convention, are as fol-
lows: First district (Philadelphia) Geo.
w. Gibbons and John ]. Curley; Sec
ond (Philadalphia). Charles e. Ingersoll
and Louis ]. McGrath; Third (Philade'-
phia). Peter Monroa and Matthew Dit
man. Fourth (Philadelphia), Thomas
Delahunty and Gustave a. Muller;
Fifth Philadelphia), Edward +, Ben
mis- and John Taylor; Sixth. Frank E.
Hause, Chester. and Frank B. Rhoades
Delaware; Seventh, Edward F. Kane
Montgomery. and Paul Appelbach
Bucks: Eighth, Howard Mutch!er
Northampton. and either Francis Shar-
key. of Carbon, or John B. Storm, OF
Monroe; Ninth, w. Oscar Miller, OF
Beiks. and either Superintendent Of tfC
Mint Kretz or William H. Shaffrer, also
of Berks; Tenth. Horace l.. Haldemar
and Richard NJ. Reilly Maristta Elev-
enth, Postmaster Frank NJ. VandlinC
and John e. Roche. both Of Scranton;
Twelfth, John NJ. Garman and Elliott
p. Kisner, of Luzerne; Thirteenth
James Ellis and William A. Mann, OF
Schuylkill; Fourteenth. r. p. Light
Lebanon, and JOHN X. Royal, Dauphin
Fifteenth, not announced; Sixteenth
John u. Reardon. Lycoming. and Will.
lam Dent. Tioga; Seventeenth. Grant
Herring. Columbia, and j. klinger
Northumberland; Eighteenth. Jay G
Weiser, Snyder. and either Mr.. Petri'
ken, of Huntingdon, or Mr.. Sweeney, o.
Franklin: Nineteenth. Jere Carl ol
Harry Gitt, of York, and either A
Brady, of Adams. or ex-Congressmar
Frank BeltZhOOver, of Cumberland
Twentieth, County Chairman George
w. Rhine. Blair. and ex-Sheriff JOSEPH
Gray. Cambria: Twenty first. John B
keenan,, Westmoreland. and w. X
Stoneback, Indiana: Twenty-secont
(Pittsburg), George =. Fleming and Ed
win araHefitiseeififa 4.%eHE4tyttlaaiird He
gheny), Hay Walker, jr., and Samue
w. Black; Twenty-fourth, Franl
Thompson. Allegheny. and A. +. Sil
vius. Green: Twenty-fifth, Robert $
Ritchie. Beaver and Robert Markham
Butler; Twenty-sixth. Frank r. Nc
Lane Erie. and William II. Gaskill
Crawford; Twenty-seventh, not an
nounced; Twenty eighth, Matt Savage
Clearfleld, and ]. X. P. Hall, Elk.
MIR. FAHEY LEADS THE ANTS.
The only contests to be settled by tn
committee on credentials affecting tn
choice of District National delegate
are in the Nineteenth and Twenty
fourth districts. Fight Of the nine del
egates to the convention from Lacka
wanna county are contested. The Har
rity delegates who were elected by tn
| legislative districts are headed b,
Postmaster Vandling. of Scranton, an,
! the "antis" are headed by ex-Sherif
| Fahey. Of the county committee. Elk
Senator Mcdonald will appear befor
the credentials committee on behalf O
the Harrity delegates.
The contest caused in the Nineteenth
district by the York trouble will re
suit In sending to the national conven
Congressman BeltzhoOver, Of Cumber
| land (Harrity mem, or Harry Git, o
York, and A. Brady. of Adams, VIII
are said to also be for Pattison.
The platform will declare unequivo
cally for gold standard Of the eur
rency, the retirement of all treasur
notes and all evidence Of government
| obligations and for the redemption Il
gold of every form Of government
notes; for the subsidiary coin and 70
the rigid maintenance Of the gold stand
ard. 1t will declare for government
taxation for revenue purposes only b
customs and excise tax and agains
every form Of protection and favorit
ism. The maintenance of friendly rela
tions with all foreign countries and en-
tangling alliances with none, as pro
claimed and expounded by Jefferso
and Monroe will be insisted upon.
The platform will strongly denounc
the last Republican state legislature fO
its failure to economise In expenditure
and to eQualize taxation; for It's crea
ti0n Of superfiuous and unnecessary Of
fees In order to pension political "a
vnrites; for it, refusal and failure {