Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-16
Committee Of A. P. A. Said to Have
Called on tho Ohio Candidate.
REPORTED DENIAL FROM CLEVELAND
Advisory Boards Report to Be
Acted On This Afternoon.
ADO UARTERS HER E

to have made its report to the council, but
did not have the report ready at l o'clock,
and the matter will not come up until the
afternoon session, which opens at o'clock
But there is going to be fun when the
report is made and the council gets to
work." said a member of the board to
Star reporter, and then the reporter STUN
bled on some big news.
At the first of this week The Star gave
it as coming from one of the anti-Mckinley
men that their plan would be to have
committee appointed to visit Mckinley and
to get from his own lips his opinions of
board when 1t met the early part of the
week were so secret that it could not be
learned for certain whether the committee
was appointed. This morning. however,
the news came from undoubted sources that
the committee had been appointed, that 1t
left here Wednesday, spent some time in
Canton Thursday and returned here last
night. These facts were known to but Few
men. Judge Stevens, it is said, appointed
the committee, and it was his plan to have
this done
What Mckinley Did.
Mckinley received the committee at his
house" delegate told Star reporter this
morning, land they are said to have spent
the night with him. At any rate the COM
that they had seen Mckinley, and that he
had promised that If he was elected Presi-
dent he would support the principles of
the order. That is the report the COM
mittee made to the advisory board. and
the report to be made to the council today
by the advisory board will contain the
written report of this committee.
II see a statement in the New York
parers this morning that Mckinley de-
MES that the committee visited him or
that he knew anything about a proposed
visit from the committee. The committee
did see Mckinley and the fact is in black
and white and will be before the Supreme
Council to be passed upon by it,
How 1t Leaked Out.
A Star reporter learned that a member of
the committee which vert to Canton, and
probably the chairman of 1t, was Delegate
Huddleson of California. and that the COM
mittee was accompanied by two delegates,
one of them being Col. Won Fossen Of
Washington and the other State President
Sapp OF Kentucky, who is said to be a Nc
kinley delegate to st. Louis.
On receiving this information The Star
reporter called Mr.. Huddleson out Of tho
hall in which the Supreme Council is in
session, and the following conversation en-
sued:
Were y. the chairman of the commit
tee which is reputed to have visited Nc
kinley at Canton?"
Il cannot tell you anything.
You say you were not chairman of the
committee a member of it?'
Il cannot tell you anything, except that
the matter will all be laid before the Su-
preme CouT ell
Did YOU stop at Potei in Canton or at
a private resdeEce?
I'VE were there only short time I can
not tell you any more" Then MIR. Huddle-
son turned on his heel ard walked away,
but he confirmed the report that a commit
tee went to Canton.
If He Had Refused to See Them.
That the committee did see Mckinley ano
had some kind of a conversation with him
is confirmed. 1t is said. by the report which
the committee is making to the advisory
board. Had Mckinley. 1t is said, refused to
see the committee or given 1t no satisfac-
ton the report made by the committee
would have been very different, and would
have resulted in the entire Supreme Council
turning against the Ohio man.
The Denial Referred to.
The denial referred to is in the following
dispatch in today's New York Herald, from
Cleveland. Ohio. dated yesterday:
William Mckinley was the most distin-
guished visitor at the Office of NJ. A. Hanna
today. He came to discuss the canvass
with Mr.. Hanna, and will remain over Sun
day.
A report was sent out from Canton that
Mckinley was to meet here a committee Of
the A. P. A. from Washington. Mr. McKin-
ley said there was no truth in 1t.
MANY people come to see me every day."
he said land / see all who come, but no
conference has been arranged and I have
not been notified Of the coming of any
committee from Washington"
The Ban to De Removed.
AS it stands now. 1t is said that the ban
placed upon Mckinley by the campaign
committee is to be removed, and that he
will be placed upon the same footing with
all the other republican candidates, that Is,
that the A. P. A. will decide that his rec
ord is such that he can be supported bv
the order. This will DE in the report to be
made by the advisory board this afternoon.
and the opinion is that the report will be
unanimously adopted
As to the Committee Itself.
1t Is understood that the report will fully
exonerate the campaign committee, and
will take the position that with the evil
dence before it, it had a perfect right to
come to the conclusion it did as to McKin-
ley. But, at the same time, the report will
severely criticise the reliability of those
who signed affidavits against Mckinley In
other words, the Supreme Council, If it in
dorses the report, will set the campaign
committee all rlSnt, Will make It all right
for Mckinley. and will give few affidavit
makers slap in the face. The order will
stand in an attitude Of supposed indiffer-
ence to Mckinley, and this will allow all
the republicans of the order who desire to
do vote for him.
Talk of Two Reports.
There was some talk this morning that
there might also be minority report from
the advisory board which would not fully
exonerate the campaign committee, but
from the best sources the Indications were
that this would not be done. The report
drawn up by the advisory board Is said
to have been the work of personal friends
of the campaign committee and of Judge
Stevens. There Is prospect that MANY
of the extreme Mckinley men will try
to have substitute adopted severely criti-
cisfng the campaign committee, but this is
not likely to be adopted.
There is No Doubt of 1t.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon there was no
doubt among the delegates that a commit
tee had visited Mckinley at Canton, and
that 1t had an Interview with him; also that
1t bad made report to the advisory board
as to that interview.
The report Of the advisory board was
70 no 90