The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-28
RALLY OF The REPUBLICANS.
THE STATE CONVENTION SURE To
BE LIVELY.

A Determined Fight 10 BE Made
Against Sending Mai. J. +. Hanson
of Macon 10 st. Louis as One OF the
DeIegates-st-Large - The Reed
Morton Combination Also to Fight
the Mckinley Faction Tooth and
Nail.
Atlanta. Ga, April 1.-THE republican
state convention viii meet here on We'd
nesday TO select delegates to the ma
ti0nal convention at ST. Louis.
The convention will be held in the hall
OF the House Of Representatives at the
capitol and from present indications il
will be one OF the liveliest gatherings
that has ever taken place within those
walls.
The forces of Mckinley and the Platt-
Quay-Clarkson combination have been
waging a bitter war against each other
in every militia district in the state for
the past six months. Both Reed and
Morton have been put forward by the
combination against Mckinley TO pre-
vent him from securing the Georgia dele
cation, so that it can be handled" to
suit conditions when the clans gather at
St. Louis.
Col. A. E. Buck, for years known as
the boss Of the republican party in Geor-
gia. has been engineering the Mckinley
campaign. and he and his friends claim
confidently that they have whipped the
fight, in fact viii swipe the deck clean
when the convention meets.
On the other side, W. A Pledger the
well known negro politician of the Eighth
district, has been at the front in the in
tereSt of Reed, Morton and the combina-
ha ha M Of afd
the outside, too, and has been giving Col
Buck and his lieutenants a barrel of trou-
bic.
Both sides claim that money has been
used galore to capture delegates and to
an onlooker there does not appear to be
much doubt as TO the truth of this charge.
Already, in advance of the meeting OF
the convention, headquarters have been
opened up by both the McKinleyites and
the opposition under the Reed and Nor
ton banners. Usually the state cOnVen-
tions Of the grand old party come unher-
aided by any premOnitory symptoms Of
TINS kind, and these preparations show
up.
The Mckinley headquarters have been
opened in the old Young Mems Library
building on Decatur street, more recent
" occupied as a dime museum, while the
Reed headquarters are just across the
street in the Imperial theater building.
Flags and banners have been flung 10
the breezes at both places.
An advance crowd of delegates and
workers Is being marshaled under both
banners for Wednesdays melee
The plan of the Platt-Quay-Clarkson
combination, or the Reed faction, is to
throw the convention into confusion by
threatening contesting delegations to
nght the seating of the Nc
hinleyttes, who will probably
have most of the credentials from the
district managers, and in this way either
force a division of the delegation named
to go TO st. Louis or have a contesting
deIegatlon sent. Contests promise to be
made from nearly every district, and with
the natural propensity of the colored
politician to elocute and wrangle It is plain
that the convention will present a most
remarkable scene.
One of the features of the convention
VIII be the Tight on Maj. ]. F. Hanson of
Macon, who has consented to the use of
his name as delegate from the state at
large. Col. Buck of Atlanta will, in all
probability, be the other delegate and as
the slate Is made up by him, Mai Han
son Will be the other But stronger senti-
ment has shown itself toward the Macon
man, and even if the McKinleyites have
full swing in everything else, there is con-
siderable doubt about their ability to car
ry Maj. Hanson through.