New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-22
DELEGATES COMING HITLER.
TUESDAYS REPUBLICAN STATE CON
VENTION.
APPROPRIATIONS FOR A BIG MORTON BLOWOUT
THE PLATFORM DESIGNED TO ATTRACT
THE SOUND MONEY ELEMENT

TO TIL; GOVERNOR
ruosdsv.s State Convention at the Grand
Central Palace has already brought many fe-
.Au, ob,efs from the interior to the city.
The corridors of the Fifth Avenue Hotter were
e,led with statesmen yesterday discussing the
outlook for the convention.
No device of the modern politician Is 10 De iel'
unused to make the gathering stunning guy
burst of enthusiasm for Governor Morton anu
his Presidential boom. 1t must eclipse anu
oyershadow in every respect the rehia'hao
exhibitions Of faith in and admiration ioi MI
Kinley which have thus far characterized "'"'o
Conventions Of the West. Mr. Piatts oroe'9 al
.hat everything must bend to the scheme OF
waking II appear that Morton is the reai anu
on,v choice Of the people of New-York ana tha'
,.X,,,ov ba, mo show" here. whatever may
befa Morton
Twill Mr. Platt be able 10 40 'ii' wa"
question often asked yesterday.
SOME OF THOSE HERE.
c.or Correlius r Parsons Of Rochester,
rbo 10 IN be the temporary presiding officer or
the convention conspicuous inquire AMONG
tho politicians hobnobbing about the Firth
avenue Hotel during the morning hours Al
Though he oppoesed the Raines bill from start
10 finish Mr. Parsons is hand-n-glove WIN 'ie
Platt machine and it is said that MS No'e
could have been had for the much-denouhceu
,,.asrre ~ an ave" from Monroe County had
been necessary for ITS success Inc restless
and indomitable Henry G. Burleigh OF Whl'e-
hall who led the coup d'etat at the state Con-
vention of 1884 which deprived Chester ~
Arthur Of two delegates-at-large from MS own
State and transferred them to James G. Blaine.
was another active promoter OF Morton mar
mony. Some of the machine experts remarked
casually that they Thought B'rer Burleigh
would bear watching Tho trip" No open ac-
cusation Of McKinleyism has yet been brought
against the ex-Congressman from washington
County. Ex-Speaker George r. Malby. now the
Senator from ST. Lawrence; Senator clarence
Iexow. Speaker Hamilton Fish. ex-senator r.
n Kilburn. Governor Mortons State Bank
Superintendent; James NJ. E. OGrady, OF
Rochester Republican leader OF the Assembly;
ex-senator Frank Hiscock. Of Syracuse: John =.
Kenyon Reuben L.. Fox Senator Henry j.
Coggeshall Of Watervile. who still exhibits the
scars of battle received in downing Chairman
uackett's candidate in Oneida County last fall;
= ex Collector Francis Hendricks, Senator Hobart
y Krum Of Schohare County: Senator Myer
Nussbaum Of Albany; ex-senator F. = Gibbs.
Senators Page. Pavey and Ford. Assemblymen
Austin Andrews and Wilson. ex-Justice
Clarence w. Meade. Abraham Gruber. Thurlow
Weed Barnes Wilbur F. Wakeman. Amasa
Thornton William H. Ten Eyck. Chief Clerk OF
the Board Of Aldermen: Charles f. Coon. of
Madison County. and dozen others Of local
celebrity snapped stories about former conven-
TONS and told each other how things should be
run here next Tuesday.
Senator Redfeid Proctor Of Vermont. General
Harrison's Secretary of War, sat unobtrusively
In corner watching the flower of the Plat
army from under his black sombrero and telling
friend at his side how different were the ways
peler on April 90 TO voice the Presidential senti-
ments Of the Green Mountain State.
THE PLATFORM.
The appetite for platform which would lead
off with a sweeping demand for gold was being
whetted by the machine agitators yesterday. 1t
was pointed out that sharp and uncquivocal Ian
guage must be used to rally the sound-mOney ele-
ment to the Morton standard and concentrate
upon him the opposition to Mckinley. Some of
the conversationalists were not slow to admit
that the rapidly Increasing Mckinley column
was making the field look small. and the
opinion often heard that there was no time
to be lost II the advance Of the Ohioan was to be
checked. There seemed TO be general concur
renee in the proposition TO nall the gold-standard
flag to the Morton masthead.
Our only hope for beating Mckinley, said an
up-country yesterday. us to arouse the