The record-union., 1896-06-15
dates.

IN EIeCtlng SOmc DdiA iAoi ~
Sketches of the Principal Candi-
dates.
ST, LOUIS, June 14.-Members OF
the National Republican Committee are
pluming themselves on their success
in disposing of the immense mass OF
work thrust upon them without hold
ing a Sunday session, against which
the conscientious scruples of several OF
the members strongly rebelled. True,
is was nearly o'clock this Sunday
morning before the last contest was
disposed of and the tired and worn-out
committeeman crawled away to their
neglected beds But inasmuch as the
session began at 10 a. m. Saturday and
was continued without adjournment
and with only brief recesses until all
the cases had been disposed OF, the
extra hours after midnight are regarded
as merely an extension of saturday
legislative day and not violation OF
the Sabbath. The committee disposed
in all of 16S cases, only remitting to the
convention for settlement the delegates
at large from Mississippi, Delaware
and Texas and the delegates from two
New York and one California districts.
The number of cases was so great that,
as one Of the members of the committee
frankly admitted, it was a physical i'm
possibility to give all of them care
full judicial consideration; and many
were decided almost at haphaZard. A
very large proportion of the cases will
be fought over again before the con-
vention Committee on Credentials
when the convention is organized and
may delay the nomination until late in
the week.
None of the several hundred Platt-
Morton men went to bed last night until
the National Committee disposed of the
last of the New York contests. Mr..
Platt was the one exception. He re-
tired to his room for the night at IL
o'clock. His friends, however, dis
played a feverish interest in the out
come and were not willing to leave until
a final settlement was had.
Among those with whom the Senator
was in consultation during- this fore
noon were Senators Ellsworth, Raines,
Stewart and Lexow, Speaker Fish,
Francis Hendricks, George w. Aid
ridge, William Barnes, Jr., B. H. Davis,
Edward Lauterbach, John S. Kenyon
and Chairman Hackett of the State
Committee. Mr.. Platt declined to ex-
press an opinion with reference to the
National Committees action. Some of
the gentlemen whose names are given
above We're not so reticent Occupying,
as they do, intimate personal and po-
liticaI relations with Mr. Platt, they
NAV fai ri IN c
views and what they say therefore has
all the force of an ex catheslra state
ment. 1t cannot be said that they are
pleased with the result They had
hoped that Morton men only would be
seated. To this extent they are disap-
pointed On the other hand they were
led to believe that anti-Platt men would
be favored without exception. That
they were not so favored is naturally a
source of qualification to them and to
this extent they are satisfied. AS one
of the number expressed it to United
Press reporter: I'VE shall acquiesce in
the committees conclusion, for we have
won practical victory, but we would
have preferred to have all our men
seated
1t may be said in this connection that
all talk of a bolt of the New York men
OF the convention is at an end. Mr..
Piatt will not press the matter any fur
ther if the convention shall approve the
National Committees action. 1t really
represents a loss to Governor Morton of
oEly three and a half votes. This
means that Platt and his friends will
remain in the convention and partici-
pate in it's deliberations. What Mr..
Pladt and his followers will do when the
Presidential campaign actively begins
is questionable. though it is supposed
that they will perform with cheerfulness
any political duty that may be assigned
& them.
General Anson McCook. seated in
place of Alexander T. Mason in the
Thirtieth District, will, it is said, vote
fo:. Governor Morton. 1t is estimated
at Mr.. Platt's headquarters that Gov
eronr Morton viii secure 80 of New
Yerk's ~ votes. The Mckinley voters
in the delegation are these: George
II. Roberts, Second District William b.
Atterbury, Third District; Frederick w
Wurster, Fifth District; William III
Robertson. Sixteenth District; Thomas
w. Bradley, Seventeenth District;
George E. Matthews and Wesley c.
Stearns, Thirty fourth District. with
Messrs. Bliss and Cruge- in the Twelfth
District casting one-half votes each for
Mckinley, and Brookfield in the Thir-
ieenth and Collins ard Wright in the
Fifteenth casting one vote each for Nc
kinley, making in all thirteen votes in
The New York delegation Tor the Ohioan.
There was openly expressed dissatis-
faction among the Plat men this morn
lng that Governor Morton should have
choSen Chauncey Nj. Depew as the me-
dunn through whom to announce his
determination not to accept the nomi-
nation for Vice-President. Platt was
so much surprised yesterday when Mr.
Depew showed him Governor Morton $
telegram that he instructed Chairman
racket to wire the Governor immedi-
ately about it. Hackett did SO. He
received reply stating that the Gov
ernor had travelled with Mr.. Depew
from Rhinebeck to Poughkeepsie on Fri
day last, and that he had then informed
Mr. Depew he would net allow mis- name
tc go before the convention for Vice
Presidential honors. Since then, he
added. he had had no further commu-
nication with Mr.. Depew. This raised
at once a question of veracity between
the two gentlemen. In other words,