The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-15
FACTIONS READY FOR A FIGHT.
BITTER TAUNTS IN THE NATIONAL.
COMMITTEE ROOM.

one OF the New Workers Casts a SIur
on the Hebrews-Chairman Carter
Orders the Offender Denied Ad-
mission to the Committee Room.
The Hotels Now Deeked Ont in All
the RegaIia Characteristic of Ma
tiOnaI Conventions.
St. Louis, No, June list. Louis now
looks like a convention city. 1t has long
out its bunting in tasteful prOfusion to
bid welcome to the big republican gath
ering. A little slow in starting the dem
onstration it has landed it in good form
at last.
All four of the leading candidates-AIc-
Rinley, Reed, Morton, and Allison-have
their headquarters at the Southern hotel
MeKinley's headquarters are designated
by an allegorical representation of pro
teotiOn"-a marvellous work of art. 1t rep
desents in the foreground five female fig
ures, fat and fiorid, one Of them standing
and holding aloft in one hand the stripes
and stars and a shield labelled "protec-
tion." and holding in the other hand a
naked sword, on which she leans. The
other females are squatting around in
rather ungraceful attitudes, one Of them
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which looks as if It would like to get
upon its feet. but was too heavily laden
to do so. In the background of the pic
ture is a wild prairie with no sign of life
or human habitaton; so that 1t puzzles
even an Ohio man to determine where the
protection" is meant to come in.
But in the Ohio headquarters on the
first floor corridor, where Mark Hanna
presides, there is a graceful array of
festoons and flags and state shields and
every one of the big crowd of visitors
constantly passing in and out is made well
come to Mckinley badge.
While it appears to be conceded that
Mckinley has the votes, it is quite certain
that the Maine people have made the fin
est display in behalf of the man Of their
choice. The Reed quarters are in the par
4ors or the Southern, a magnificent suite
of rooms that have been elabOrately dec
grated with tri-colOred bunting, fes tooned
from the chandeliers. Banners bearing
lAe seal OF the state and other flags have
also been utilized.
The largest room on the parlor floor, at
the head of the stairs, and in normal
times the ladies ordinary" is the temple
sacred to the governor of New York The
walls and ceiling are profusely draped
with bunting and at one end Of the room
the serene and tranquil countenance OF
MT. Morton, rejuvenated a decade or two
Dy the artist, beams upon all who enter
these precincts.
Down stairs on the office floor, and close
10 one OF the four large entrance doors
of the hotel, another room is fitted up for
those who are attached to the political
fortunes Of Senator Allison of Iowa, and
whose faith is strengthened and stimua-
ted by editorial assurances from a Des
Molnes paper copies of which are strewn
around) that he has no idea of withdraw
ing from the contest and that his name
VIII be presented for the presidency. New
ertheless, the Allison boom is not develop
ing the proportions that were expected of
It, The terminal railroad officials have
received notification from the superinten-
dent of the Wabash line that the special
convention trains, scheduled from the
HaWkeye state, loaded with Allison BOOM
ers, had been countermanded. one of
them was expected to bring 1000 Allison
rooters from Des Moines alone.
In the spacious and decorated halls, cor
ridors and rooms of the Southern, the
friends and adherents of the several pres
idential candidates meet as on neutral
ground without the slightest exhibition
of political animosity On two opposite
sides of the square hall, which forms the
landing of the parlOr floor, the counter
felt presentments of Mckinley and Reed
Gigantic heads and faces) look upon and
seem to glover at each other, while they
appear to strive to look pleasant and am
liable to the crowds that surge past them.
To some of the intervening columns are
attached, more modest in proportions as
to size, photographs displaying the feat
ures of Senator Quay Of Pennsylvania,
wearing his constant, but inpenetra-
bic, half smile, suggestive of a world of
1t words.
The rush of coming delegates to-day
has been continuous, but though their in
creased numbers added largely to the vol
ume OF sound, no charge was indicated In
the trend of sentiment. 1t still ran strong
~ for Mckinley for first place, and with
no very marked choice for second place.
The vice presidency, in fact, seems to be
fteld-marshaPs baton, which may be
hidden in the knapsack of anyone of the
half dozen private soldiers who have been
named.
About o'clock this afternoon a bat
talon of Reed men from Massachusetts,
headed by a local band marched down
Fourth street to the north front of the
Southern hotel and saluted the Reed flag,
This first arrival was soon followed by
republican club from Alton, Ill, and
il carried the Mckinley banner. 1t was
headed by its own band in very hand
some Hungarian uniform, and the men
cheered Justify for their candidate as
they passed the Southern hotel.
Al the Planters hotel, two squares fur
ther up, Senator Quay is sole monarch
of the candidates. His pictures hang on
the pillars and staircases and row of
lncandeScent lamps kept constantly light
ed shows al the head of a staircase to
the parlor floor the name of Matthew
Stanley Quay. His headquarters there
consist of a suit of rooms, in one of
which stands on an easel large, hand
some painting of himself, the gilt nodded
frame of which is now wreathed in ever
greens. In the same room a Vlsltors
book is open, at which the delegates and
visitors from the Keystone state are re-
quired to record their names. All these
are unmistakabe indications, If they do
not amount to positive announcement, that
Mr.. Quay is to be considered as regularly
entered on the list of the runners on
the presidential race-course.
The sensational scenes and incidents
that transpired this morning in the closing
moments of the session of seventeen hours
of the national com mmittee furnished an
abundant topic of discussion this after
noon and tonight. Very few of the mem
bers were seen around their hotels until
late in the day, for, with scarcely an ex-
ception, they were physically exhausted
when the protracted session was brought
to close with the dawn of day.
The scenes in the committee room at
Z o'clock this morning, when, save for a
few minutes recess, the body had been
In session for seventeen hours, resembled
on miniature scale, those of the closing
session of congres In the corner and on
The big table back of Chairman Carter's 5
seat, committeeman who had succumbed
10 the strain slept during the debates and
We're aroused when the roll calls were
reached to record their judgment as be-
tween the contestants and contestees. The