Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-06-12
Judge rrumbo, of Salt Lake. is IN charge

Judge Trumbo, of Salt Lake, is IN charge
of the silver resolution which will be pre-
scented to the committee on resolutions,
and is canvassing the situation and Secur-
ing signatu to the resolution as fast
as favorably inclined members of the COM
mittee arrive.
The ST. Louis w. c. T. U. will not take
up the crusade inaugurated by Boston
ministers against the use of intoxicating
liquors at the coming republican conven-
ton.
VIII Work for Temperance Plank.
Mrs. T. H. Ingalls,. president of the To-
cal W. G. r. L., says:
"Chrstiau men do not consider the liquor
question enough in national politics. If
they would give the liquor question in ma
tional politics more attention the country
would be great deal better off than 1t Is.
Nobody knows what Mckinley is, for
he doesn't stand squarely on any question
but the tariff, so that the prohibition peo-
pie don't know whether he is their friend
or not. There will be no memorials or res
olutions from the local w. c. T. U.
against the drinking that will be done at
the convention. There will be SO much OF
1t that any resolutions will be futile. We
expect to have a committee from the w.
C. r.. L. go before the platform committee
of the national convention, ana ask LOT
temperance plank"
Wants a Hard Money Platform.
r. l., Fox, secretary of the New York
delegation, arrived Monday night and mada
arrangements forquarterng that delegation
at the Southern He was much aVerse to
being interviewed, saying that he had come
on ahead of the delegation to make arrange
ments for it. When asked if he thought
Mckinley would be nominated on the first
ballot, he answered by saying that New
York was for Morton for president. He
would not venture guess as to who would
be nominated for the vice presidency. Con-
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the eastern states will not be satisfied with
anything but hard money platform.
E. II. Dess, Albert Lathrop and E. A.
Webster of the South Carolina delegation.
got in Tuesday morning. Mr.. Lathrop says
that South Carolina is for Mckinley and
Evans on a platform which declares for
protection and honest money.
George T. Wiswell of Wisconsin,
Sergeant-at-Arms Byrnes' right-hand man,
reached here Tuesday. He is an enthusi-
asttc McKinleyite, but beyond favoring q
sound money financial plank in the con-
vention platform he declined to be quoted
for publication.
Boom for Grant.
Part of California's delegation arrived
Tuesday and inaugurated a boom for
Ulysses S. Grant for the vice presidency.
George A. Knight. of San Francisco, is
with the party, and will place Grant in
nomination. 1t is predicted that unbound
effort which is sure to associate father
and son. and play to the Grand Army SEN
timent
Hon. Richard c. Kerens and ex-Con-
gresham Nathan Frank returned from
Canton. o., Tuesday morning, where they
went in response to an invitation from
Maj. Mckinley for a conference. Both
gentlemen claim to have had a delightful
visit, but declined to state what was dis
cussed at the conference
Senator Teller's programme has been
changed somewhat, and telegram was
received Tuesday stating that he will not
be here until next Thursday
Colored Men Are Barred.
No solution has been found for the puz-
cling question as to what shall be done with
the negro delegation to the national con-
vention. The proprietors Of the leading
hotels deny that they have refused to en-
terrain colored men, but say their rooms
are ''all engaged" and that they cannot
accommodate the negroes, much as they
might wish to. A large number of ma
tional committeeman arrived Tuesday
morning, but they were reticent about CIV
ing their views regarding the treatment OF
the negroes by the St. Louis hotel and
boardinghouSe keepers. NJ. H. De Young,
of San Francisco, owner and editor of the
Chronicle of that city, and a member of
the national committee, said it was not
a part of the duties of the committee to Sc
cure hotel accommodations for any dele
gates, either white or black. He would
oppose any effort to bring the matter be-
fore the committee.
National Committeeman James Hill. OF
Mississippi, and negro, thought he had
secured rooms at Hursts hotel, but when
he returned there Monday evening from
the headquarters Of the Merchants Re.
| publican League club he found the door;
/ barred against him, as it We're. He was in
| formed that the clerk had made mistake
in assigning him room, every room ir
i the hotel having been previously engaged
Mr.. Hill took in the situation at once. He
quietly paid his bill and took a street car
for the home of William p. Dye. He is
still there and will continue to make that
place his headquarters until the close OF
the convention. in the event that the Bust.
ness Mems league does not succeed in open
| ing hotel for him.