Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-06-14

worthy tactics to carry his point Mich lgan's star delegate is General Russell A. Alger, who received 143 votes for the presidential nomination eight wears ago. His most prominent colleague is Congressman Brewer. Minnesota is bril- liantly represented il part by George Thompson, The able editor of the St. Paul Dispatch, and ex-Gtovernor Mer- riam. Mississippi sends two able men of strongly contrastcd types, John R. Lynch, the only eolored man who ever presided oyer q national convention, and General J. F. Chalmers, an ex-Confed- crate. who, when he WAS a Democrat. was charged by Republicans with par tioipajion in the Fort Pillow massacre. Both are sound Republicans, who have suffered for the faith tEat is ii them.
 Ghauncoy l. F:iiey and Thurston. the magnetic orataf from Nebraska, lead their respective delegations, and will play prominent parts in all that goes on ut St. Louis
 Nov York's delegation ranks with the best that tho Empire Stale eyer sent 4e @ national convention.
 Nothing can keep PIa6t rem being | man of mark in this convention. aI- thongh if may be his last Everybody is curious to see the man who has main tained his hold upon great party in the greatest of statys. Depew is | Doren- nial joy at national conventions, and whether he over szts q chance to nomi- hlr7stfA,a st.I, d lit, Other New Y0rke.s whose faces will be familiar and welcome are War her Miller, Frank Hiscock. Cornelius N. Bliss, Serene E. Payne, w. H. Robert son, w. A. Sutherland and George Mat theWs
 Pennsylvania, too, presents delega- tion crowded with noteworthy men, some with past, all with Il present and some with future.
 Governor Hastings, who first won na- tional laurels by his speech nominating Sherman, is at the hea3 and among his colleagues at large are MT. Elverson, Sr., of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Dr Flood. editor of The Chautauquan. Among the district delegates are Quay, his sworn foes Chris Magee, David Mar tin and William Finn, and his able lieutenant. Representative Stone, be- sides ex-Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia and half dozen other Republicans whose mettle has been tested i'll many frays.
 New Jersey is strongly off1eered by Senator Sewell. long a familiar figure ill national conventions; Garret A. Ho- bart, who is a strong vice presidential possibility; John Kean and George Hires.
 Ohio. with full sense of her respon- sibility, on this occasion has q delega- ton splendidly endowed with brains, judgment, dash, diplomacy and good looks-on the whole, next to New Y nk's, the best all around delegation i'll che convention.
 The Big Four of the present year are Senator Elect Foraker, Governor Bush nell, General Grosvenor, and last, but not least, the Warwick of the campaign of 1896, big, brainy, astute, lovable Mark Hanna. Along with them will be ranged c. L. Kurtz NJ T. Herrick and Sylvester Everett, to say nothing of 9 dozen more good men and true, worthy representatives of great state and of an ideal candidate. Wait and see the gallant Forakef belle the infamous sug- gestions of traitorous purpose which the enemies of Mckinley and of Foraker alike have sowed like tares i'll the pub lie press ever since this campaign be- gan. Watch Grosvenor shake his shaggy head and jump at the chance to hit somebody with his broadsword i'll de bate. Feast on Bushnell's benign coun- tenance and Hanna's benedietory sm1 . as they see the states come tumbling l. one after another-and the devil take the hindermost-to swell the Mckinley column to the proportions of unanimity.
 Oh, the Ohio delegation alone will be worth the price of admission.
 After this 1t is rather a drop to view the delegations from the remaining states in their alphabetical order But you may be rewarded none the less with the sight of some men of note Vermont, for instance will be right in front in the person of Senator Redtield Proctor, who leads the Mckinley con tingent from New England in his own guileless way. South Dakota presents Senator Pettigrew, chastised and chas- tened by his state convention. No South Carolina delegation would be complete without coal black smalls or Texas without Cuney, both representative southern Republicans Tennessee's Hen " Clay Evans is man of mark any whore, and may be reserved for higher things Virginia has brace Of notable men in General James A. Walker, who succeeded Stonewall Jackson i'll the command of Jaeksons immortal foot cavalry, and Colonel William Lamb, upon whose shoulders has fallen-a rather loose fit-the mantle of William Malone. Virginia has never sent a stronger delegation to Republican na- tional convention, but many will miss Mahone and Wise. Strong, too, is Wis eonsin's Mckinley legion with Hoard