New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-01
AT REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS.

THINGS took on a lively appearance yesterday
morning at the headquarters on the fourth moor OF
No Madison-ave. 1t was the second nay thaI
business was done there and there was plenty OF 1t
Yesterday Visitors coming and gong con-
stantlv and the special elevator provided for the
fourth floor was seldom Idle. Mr.. Hobart did not
come TO the headquarters yesterday. being detained
by important business and, as Mr.. Hanna was ia'e
| In arriving Committeeman n. b. Scott OF west
Virginia was In charge. and occupied the room at
| the Twenty-t hrd-st corner. in which MT Hahha
will be found things become setteo'
MANY Of the Offices are as yet without furniture put
| several OF them were fitted out yesterday and II
will not be many days before the whole suite Is IN
order for the immense amount OF business that Il 10
| be transacted In them. Campaign decorations are
already to be about the premises. and OF course
| the portraits of the soundmoney candidates are
conspicuous above everything else. On the roof Of
tho building been placed big portraits OF NC
Kiniey and Hobart, feet by feet and they make
a good showing and can be seen for long distance
Among the prominent callers Of the day were W.
J. Arkell the proprietor OF Judge" and John w.
Noble, exSecTetary OF the Interior ana senator W.
j. Sewell, Of New-Jersey.
Mr. Noble brought hopeful news from the West
in general and from Missouri in particular. He
thinks that Missouri will be carried by the Repuo-
lican ticket
1t was said that Mr.. Arkell had called to assure
the members of the National Comm ittee that they
would have no trouble in obtaining campaign funds
in plenty. Mr.. Arke said that he had little doubt
that the free-silver craze would die OUT to con-
siderable extent between now and election tiine'
Wilbur r Wakeman. secretary of the American
Tariff League called on Mr. Hanna TO consult with
him IN reference to a tariff poster that he has mad
prepared and which he plans to have sent out over
the country in large quantities Mr.. Wakeman SAID
that in his official capacity he had received re.
quests for more than 10000 copies OF the painPn'et
called Defender No. B. and argued from ms t.ti
the people large were not exclusively INTERESTED
in the money question. even at present. ..,
Early in the morning delegation repreSeii'iihs
the Colored Republican County Committee ana NE
CoIored Republican State Association calico az ,hs
beadnuarters to see Mr. Hanna. After tney nhu
waited some time for his arrival the qelegaoll p
gan 10 dvindlc and by the time MI ftahha aIIINeu
The only members Of the delegation IeIt wer. Iaeo
Simms the Rev r. Hunt. the Rev. Ernest l 9E
m Wishtr Major Poole. Benjamin Mlpes' JOIN Jonn
little Edward Lee and Colonel toWah ,2lhJo
Poole acted as spokesman. He told MT. Iia .ii
that they wished to form campaign , ~
and Mr. Hanna made an appointment I'D meet ''0
en,ire delegation on Tuesday afternoon. ,.aa
Yesterday morning James Guthrldee asSu iu t.
oporoo Of the literary bureau and began Work. IN
oarnes, Mi Guthridge has been for some time tle
Washington correspondent Of a prominent news
paper. 80, . .ox,a,n long al headouarters,
,n1 ioft The building after O'Clock anu wth'
Sowntown where he said he had an engagement