The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-13

VINO are not delegates TO the convention.
Among these will be the members of tho
national committee. Above the heads of
the guests will be the band gallery and
stretching around tho four sides of the hall
will be galleries, pitched at n sharp angle,
from which thousands of men and women
will look with intense interest on the gath
ering below.
Many faces made familiar by newspaper
portraiture Will be In evidence on the floor.
There will be the grizzlcd countennnce of
the "easy boss' OF New York ex-senator
Platt. Near him will be the loose jointed
Warner Miller of HcrlSimer, whom Ingalls,
of Kansas once pictured In the United
States senate as an elephant walking
tight rope. Another of Now York's big
four" is Chaunccy Depew, tho ever cheer
full president Of tho New York Central.
He will have in his pocket speech plac-
ing In nomination Governor Morton Of
New York. Another specchmaker con-
splcuous on the floor will bo ex- Governor
Foraker of Ohio, known to the paragraph
ers as Fire Alarm" Foraker He will name
Mckinley II everything goes according TO
present plans. Ohio's governor Mr.. Bush
nell, will be another figure not so familiar
Missouri's high priest, Chauncoy /. Eli
ley, will look from the floor with somo
amusement at his enemy, Dick Kerens,
seated with the national committee. Kcrcns
beat Filloy for membership In the commit
tee four years ago, and Filley has rctaliated
by refusing TO let Kerens come as dele
gate to the convention.
Philetus Sawyer, who retired recently
from the United States senate, will head
Wisconsin's delegation, and with him will
be his old colleague, John G. Spooner.
The silver haired, vitrioi tongued ingalls,
will he with the Kansas delegation. San
Francisco's famous editor, De Young, so
long follower Of Blaine, will be among
the Mckinley shouters. There will be
many of the old Blaine crowd, but their In
terosts will bc divided. James S. Clarkson
Of Iowa, that industrious promoter of
booms, will bc for Allison. joe Manlcy ot
Maine will be upholding Tom Reeds in
tcrcsts
Some of Harrison's old friends and sup
porters will bc scattered through tho hall.
John G.. New of the indianapolis Journal
and his son Harry will be on hand ready
90 take up Bon's cause at any minute 1.
he will only say the word. Proctor of Ncr-
mont will be at the head of his delegation,
but he Is convert 60 Mckinlcyisr.. Chan
dler Of New Hampshire will Inc on hand
uncertain under his states instructions
whether ho Is for Resd or Mckinley. Then
there will be Aldrich Of Rhode Island and
Lodge Of Massachusetts and Kellogg OF
Louisiana, that warhorsc of reconstruction
days, and ecller of Colorado, who won't
play II silver Is neglected, and n great
many moro whose names arc linkcd with
the recent history Of the Republican party.
The preliminary organization Of n con.
vention is usually clt and dried. The ma
tionnl committee names temporary officers
and reports them 60 the convention, which
ratlfcs the selection. But there was a
memorable exception 10 that rule l2 years
ago. Then the arti-Dlainc mon deter
mined TO test their strength In the convcn.
ton by moving to reject the committees
'hoice for temporary chairman, Powell
clayton, and 90 namo John II. Lynch Of
Mississippi Ia his place Lynch was elect
ed, but tho Snti- Blaine crowd went to
pieces after that, and Blaine was noIni.
rated
When the temporary organization hns
been effected. tho convention, after trans
acting unimportant business, usually al.
journs until the following day. when tho
COMMITTEES on organization, named 10y tie
state delegations, reports the names of the
| permanent officers Of hc'cOnvention.
Permanent Organisation.
On the second day tho temporary chair.
man rcsiri4f his cfllco % tic pcrmnncf 9
chairman. IL Is to bc hoped that the chair.
man Of the ST Louis convention, unlike
| the one who presided AZ Miuneapolis. will