The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-10
M'KINLEY MEN ARE BUSY
LITHOGRAPHS, BANNERS IND BUT
TONS IRE DISTRIBUTED.

The Political Kettle at st, Louis is Now
Boiling-The Currency Question Is the
Main Theme of Discussion and 1t "a Be
lieved That tho Financial Plank VIII be
the Indiana Plank-NTanaSer Hanna is
on the Way to the Field-Fairbanks VIII
be Made Temporary Chairman.
st. Louis, June 9.--In anticipation of
the arrival to-day of the Mckinley
leaders the lieutenants of the Ohio man
were busily engaged last night in dis
tributing throughout the downtown dis
tricts Autographs, banners and bu, tons
bearing splendid portrait of the ma
jor. SO far Mckinley has had things
pretty much his own way in st. Louis,
but the arrival of Messrs. Manler of
Maine Clarkson of Iowa, Teller of olo-
rado, Fifer of Illinois, and hume Gus
other prominent leaders, it is expected,
will check the display of Mckinley pic
lures.
The finishing touches of the Audi
torium were made to-day and the deco
The portraits of General Grant and .Ad-
1 miral Farragut were put up yesterday.
The great naval commander will book
down on the convention from the sal
lery railing at the east end. Dire :tly
opposite is a portrait of General Sheri-
dan representing the army. Lincoln
4 and Grant are on the two sides, the
first almost directly over the speakers
NF r1on
south gallery opposite. Higher than
ALL just above the Lincoln portrait is
Washington. Each is surrounded by
American flags
The currency question is still The
main theme of discussion and bellies is
growing that the financial plank of the
platform adopted at the convention will
be the Indiana plank. with little eEab-
oration or change if not verbatim. At
least the declaration will be against Che
independent free coinage cf silver at
the ratio of 16 to l. 1t will be a sound
money plank, but there IS strong San
ttiment against the use of the term
"gold standard" 1t is stated that
twelve clubs will come as a body to
the convention from Ohio. General j.
c. Howe, ex-adjutant general of OF 10,
will haye charge of the club parade in
St. Louis. H. G. Beedle, editor of the
True American, local A. p. A. organ,
is quoted as follows:
"Since the action of the nation al
council it is out of the question to sup
pSse that the association as unit Will
fight Mckinley. But this does not
mean that opposition to him by TIE
individuals has stopped. There will 2e
members of our order who will never
Il consent to support Mckinley under any
circumstances. The fight will also he
made against the election of RomAn
Catholic committeeman. The local sea~
timent in st. Louis among our mer1-
bers is almost solidly against McI<i1-
ley, but the fact that Filley and Ker1s
are both Mckinley men will not pr%-
vent us from giving our support to a
man who is trying to head off Roma,l-
ist"
1t Is almost the universal opinion Of
those who have SO far put in an appeal
I ance that the A. p. A. will not cut mud Il
of figure. 1t has been claimed by tie
A. P. A. people that $50 delegates al p
members of the order, but no statement
of their presidential preferences has
been made public. The suggestion has
been made informally to the republican
national committee that Archbishop
Kane be invited to offer the prayer .t
the opening of the convention.
Hon. Richard c. Kerens and ex-Cor.
gressman Nathan Frank returned this
morning from Canton, O., where they
went to confer with Major Mckinley.
Both gentlemen declined to state what
was discussed at the conference. Judge
Trumbo of Utah, who arrived to-day, is
in charge of a silver resolution which
will be presented to the committee o
resolutions and is canvassing the situa-
ton and securing signatures as fast as
favorably inclined members of the COM
mittee arrive.
The ST. Louis w. C. T. .. will not
take UP the crusade inaugurated III
Boston against the use of liquors at the
coming convention. Mrs. F. H. Ingail
of the local w. C. T. U. says the Chris
tian men do not consider the liquo'
question enough in politics. If they
would give the liquor question in ma
tional politics more effect the country
would be better off than it is. /.
Cleveland. June 9.-Wearing the ai.'
of conquering host, the advance guart
\ of the Mckinley boom, with Manager
I NJ A. Hanna in the lead, marched to.
4 day to the Union depot, where they
X embarked for the ST Louis convention
on the Big Four flyer at 140 this after
z noon.
The party was composed of NJ. A.
81 Hanna, General w. Nick. Osborne of
4 Boston, George Matthews of Buffalo,
E Colonel Myron T. Herrick and s. T.
4 Everett, delegates from the Twenty
first congressional district of Ohio, and
z Senator Redfield Proctor. No Demon
stration was made when the train pull
ed out of the depot, which was in ac-
cord with Mr.. Hanna's wishes. A Sc
ilect party of politicians bade the party
&good-bye Mr.. Hanna was repeatedly
gstold to come back with McKinley's
snomination in his vest pocket, to which
fhe answered, with one of his blandest
Fsmiles: II will"
n Backed up by the slate made by Nc
AKinleys managers, Hon. c. NJ. Fair
|tbanks of Indianapolis will be made
Temporary chairman of the St. Louis
|3convention, and Hon. J. III. ThurstOn of
Nebraska will be made permanent
lfchairman. These selections come in
|lkhe nature of a surprise, as neither had
|speen prominently mentioned during the
|hanvass for the positions. It had been I
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