The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-06-10

tested by William Pitt Kellogg A. II. Leor-
men. In the First district the fight is be-
The regulars are III. c. Yarmouth and
The contestants are George Boothby and
George Demsen.. Reed men. In the Second
district the regulars. are A T. Wimberly
and Richard Sims; the contestants, Morris
Marks and Lucien Como. In the Third dis
trict the regulars are w. j. Berham. s. c.
Clark; the contestants, A. q. Cage and
and contestants, c. s. Ferris and c. An
toni. The former are for Mckinley; the
Mississippi has two full sets of delegates,
due to the standing quarrel between Lynch
and Hill. South Carolina is in the same
fix. II has two delegations. The ''regu-
lars are led by E. II. Webster, chairman
OF the State committee, and the others,
assisted by z. NJ. Brayton of the national
committee. The lilly whites are against
Mckinley.
From Tennessee there are two contests.
j. W. Cheatham and ]. B. Bostwick are
contested by J. c. Crawley and J. w.
snoner in the Sixth district. The latter are
B. b. Walker and en r. II. Neely. Mckinley m men. n.
are contested by j.. A. Num- and 5. r..
Austin, also Mckinley men. Both grew
out of alleged irregularities.
TEXAS SPLIT UP.
Texas is all split UP with contests. The
w. Quincy, colored. processing friendship
for Mckinley, obtained the chairmanship
but Immediately began arbitrarily ruling
against the Mckinley naen, refusing divi-
sion on the report of the committee on Gre
dentials, refusing to permit minority re-
port by a Mckinley man to be presented.
Four names of anti-McKinley men were
offered for delegates. when the Mckinley
people presented four other names for dele
gates Quincy, as chairman, by a vote on
the first four names. declared them elected
as delegates, and that the four Mckinley
men were elected as alternates. A row fol-
lowed, during which Cuney and his follow
ers left the hall, on the assumption that
Mckinley delegates, however, remained
reorganized the convention and elected
John Grant. Frank Hamilton. r: L. Smith
| Mckinley. The other four who come as
contestants, are w. X. Meekeham. A. N.
| The contests in the various districts are
based on alleged irregularities.
In Virginia there are contests in the Sec
certified delegates are c. w Boden and r.
n Smith. and the contestants II. A. Mar
tin and Harry Libbey. In the Third the
regulars are Edmund Wagon and G. w.
Harris. both Mckinley men.
All the seats in the delegation at large
from Arizona are contested. Two conven-
the first are: j. w. Mahoney, Ralph Cam
eron. w. o. Christy, F. L. Stoddard and J.
A. zeabriski. The delegates of the Second
are c. HI. Ackers. j. NJ. Ford, NJ. H. Nc
Cord. W. II. Cleveland. j. W. Bennington
and r. A. Johnson. The last are for Nc
The contests in Delaware. it is charged
are due to bribery. The Mckinley dele
gates are Anthony Higgins, ]. c. Pitereg.
Hiram Reedy. George s. Hall. c. p. Swan
j. e. Addicks d. F. Stewart, j. +. Layton
and Charles r. Burton.
New York has twelve contests. They are
In the Sixth. Seventh, Ninth, Twelfth, Thr-
teenth and Fifteenth districts. All are in
New York city. and most are by Platt fol-
names being. it is claimed. the regular
delegates: Sixth district-H c. Saffon. J.
schaafer soTep 8 D rsSsr
Seventh district-Corneius Van Cott. Hugh
MMcRoberts Mls,, ,,u- Martin HeaIy, .Abram Coe.
Nd5,,ns Ndntn disSrict-charles II. Murray, J. j.
Twelfth misunderstanding N Bliss. S. V.
Cruger Mckinley men: Howard Carroll. T.
trict~Wiiiam BrookeId ieIa A c!eenta e. Mecoos as-
Mckinney men; John Reinsenweber A T.
Mason Morton men: Fifteenth district-c.
Friedson. All anti-Platt delegates are for
mckinley, while the Platt men favor Nor
| ton.
THE NATIONAL. COMMITTEE.
Nearly all the members of the national
committee are here. and .''e others will ar
| rive tomorrow morning. The first meeting
will be held tomorrow at IL o'clock. Chair
man Carter arrived tonight from WASH
ington with several others members who
came from the East. Mr.. Clarkson, the
member from Iowa, is i'll at PHILADELPHIA.
and cannot be at the meeting Senator
| Gear has his proxy. Z. Z. Cleveland has
the proxy of Enoch Strother, of Nevada.
and Oscar Meyer, of New York, and of
Joseph Simon of Oregon. The committee
will tomorrow take up the contested seats
and also the selection of temporary chair
named by the committee. Aithongh tbere
| mas been considerable talk to-day about the
selection of General Fairbanks of Indiana,
Tor Temporary chairman, and Senator Proc
TOR, or Vermont, for permanent chairman.
| tnere has also been movement on foot to
make Samuel Fessenden. member of the
national committee from Connecticut tenn
poray chairman, and to select the per-
| manent chairman from the West. Senator
ihurston, of Nebraska, has been mentioned
Ior the place. 1t is also probable that the
| subject of accommodations for colored DEL
| egates will be considered
Vice Chairman De Young. of the national
committee. speaking of the meeting to-
morrow, said: THE national committee will
decide on the names of the temporary off,
Gers Gers. IL VIII also take. up the contests SO
lar as settling them for the preliminary
| roll The general idea now is to do away
with the subcommittee. taking up each
case and reporting to the main committees
as has heretofore been the custom i think
they. will probably sit as a committee of the
wnole and take up each contest In almost
every case at previous national conventions
Where subcommittee have heard the ,esti-
mony and made its report to the whole
committee there has been an appeal and
the whole committee has had 10 go over the
| testimony again. For that reason some of
| the leading members think 1t will be a saw
| ing OF time for the general COMMITTEES to
near the testimony in the beginning
The ilst OF vice presidential candidates
has been largely speculative. Governor
| Hobart, OF New Jersey, has the active sup
| port of many of the Eastern delegates, as
also has Senator Proctor. of Vermont Ii.
Clay Evans. of Tennessee, will be named
| by the Tennessee delegation, while u. s.
Grant, of California, will have the sup
| port of some of the delegates from the far
| West
The Globe-Democrat (Rep.) prints the
| following this morning: The suggestion
| has been made informally to members of
| Archbishop Kaine be invited to offer the
| prayer at the opening of the convention.
| 1t Is customary to have a prayer at the
| opening of each days proceedings Repre-
! sentatives of different denominations are
| selected The argument that is being used
| with the national committee men is that
| the Archbishop is the head of the Catholic
| that this is his home and that it would be
| a graceful thing for the representatives
| of the Republican party to do so."
THE AUDITORIUM.
| Arrangements for Caring for the
CrOwd-Hall Decorations.
ST. LOUIS. June s.-Sergeant-at-arms
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