The Portland daily press., 1896-03-30
Contested DELEGATIONS
Will Be Numerous at st. Louis Con.
YentiOD.
CONTROL OF ORGANIZATION BIG
FACTOR IN CONTEST.

This Menace Hangs Over Mckinley Shout
ers-The So-ca1led Revolt of Friday
Night-Reed Sentiment in Maryland
Oklahoma Pronounces for Maine Man.
Washington, March 2S.-While to out
ward appearance the Mckinley boomers
are as noisy and confident as ever and
while General Grosyenor Is announcing
his intention to put forth more figures
at an early date, underneath the enthus-
iasin and the boasting is the menace
that hangs over the shouters that the
INSTRUMENTATION will control the tenn
porary organization OF the convention.
The Mckinley leaders are worried at the
prospect of this. and one of them, a
man who will he national figure at
the convention, intimated as much to a
reporter who tried to pump him on this
phase of this question. The average
voter has no idea how big a power is
welded by national executive commit
tee On national convention. The COM
mittee has the making up of the rolls Of
the convention and the naming of
temporary chairman. In the present Re-
publican fight there are contests from
nearly every Southern state, and the list
of contested delegates means much to
Mckinley. 1t has been the policy of his
managers, as illustrated in Texas, to
control a convention if they can and if
not to get up another and
SEND CONTRASTING DELEGATES.
Of course these tactics have not been
confined entirely to the Mckinley people,
but the others have been imitators after
they have seen the plan on which Han
ma has operated. By far the larger mum.
Der, in fact substantially all, the contes-
tants are McKinleyites. Hanna's lieu
tenants began the plan of creating con-
tests weeks ago in the early district con-
yentions in Texas. Before the National
convention meets it is expected that there
will be between sixty and one hundred
delegates whose seaus in the convention
will depend great deal on the temporary
organization. There may be more than
the maximum number mentioned. 1t
is certain that there will be double dele
cations from Florida, Texas, Alabama,
South Carolina, Mississippi, and proba-
bly, Louisiana. There will also be con-
tests from some of the Congressional dis
triots of all the other Southern states. 1t
is impossible now to estimate accurately
how many of these problems the National
convention will have to solve. 1t is not
impossible that the nomination or
DEFEAT OF M'KINLEY
may hinge altogether on these contests.
The Ohio man cannot get enough dele
gates independent of these contests to
nominate. There seems to be little
doubt that the opponents of Mckinley
will control the credentials committee,
and see to it that the convention is not
packed by delegates from side show con-
ventions.
There has been some talk that the 40
ton of the House Friday. in side tracking
business from the appro priation commit.
tee and putting private business ahead,
was really revolt against the policy of
Speaker Reed. This is not So Mr..
Hepburn. who led the revolt,so called, is
an Iowa man and wanted Congress to
adjourn over Saturday in order that the
Iowa people might attend the launching
OF their war ship at Philadelphia today
They knew that if the sundry civil appro-
priation bill got under way Friday there
would be no adjournment Saturday. OF
course Hepburn was supported by most
of the southern Democrats who wanted
private business put ahead in order to get
at some of their war claims and by new
Republican members who thought Ger
tain bills of their own might get chances.
The Southern war claims are at the head
of the calendar and would naturally
come first but after the order had been
obtained the Republicans turned around
and voted to take up pension bills and
bills of that class. This maddened the
Democrats who had been used to pull the
ohestnuts from the fire, and they turned
around and flibustered, which they could
do In committee of the whole, where
there is no previous question. So only
two little private bills were passed after
all.
The Baltimore American Favors Reed.
Baltimore, March 29.-The Baltimore
American. a leading Repu hlican paper of
the South, of which Gen. Fitz Agnus is
editor. in today's issue announces it's adj
yocacy of the nomination of Speaker Reed
ZOE the Presidency In its leading edi-
torlal the American reverts to the Repub-
lean convention in Massachusetts, and
adds: Yesterdays convention was the
formal beginning of the Reed campaign.
The sentiment in Maryland is for him
and when the time comes the South will
rise spontaneously to his name" 1t also
endorses the Massachusetts, platform, and
says: "On such platform and with such
candidate the party would carry the
country by magnificent majority"
n o Instructions Given in the Ninth Massa-
chusetts District.
Boston, March 2S.-The ninth district
Republican convention this evening
nominated as delegates to the ST. Louis