The Red Cloud chief., 1896-01-31
BOOMING COL. MORRISON,


Presidency.
hANsAs CITY, Mo-, Jan. 25-There
were Democrats from almost every
corner of Missouri at the Midland
hotel to-day. The State central com.
mittce will meet tomorrow at Excel.
sior Springs, but s. Il. Cook of Next.
co, chairman of the subcommittee on
organization, called a meeting of his
committee for to-day in Kansas CITY.
and when the committee members
came they found many Democrats who
were here in advance for various pur-
poses. The State committee to-mor-
row will call the State convention To
send delegates to the national Dem.
ocratic convention and, in oil proba-
bllity. call the convention for the
nomination OF q State ticket.
n talk to-day was chiefly of state
politics, but whenever the question of
whom Missouri will favor for presi.
dent was mentioned William Il. Nor.
rlson, otherwise "Iorizontal Bill"
Morrison of Illinois seemed to be the
favorite. lit is this way" q Demo-
cratic leader from Interior Missouri
aid Missouri naturally wants a
western man for president, Hill, Oh
ncy and the rest of the Eastern men
are not available. Mr.. Cleveland saws
he doesn't want n third term and Nor
rison is all right, anyway. He hasn't
declared himself strongly on the
money question, but Is friendly To
silver. In short, he is such a man as
the Missouri Democrats can unite on
II they agree on n compromise between
extreme elements. Then he is our
%neighbor, which would naturally make
us friendly to him."
Much of the talk was about the
place for holding the conventions. IL
generally taken for granted that
the convention to- send delegates To
the national convention will be called
for April II, the last date allowed
under the instructions at the Pertlc
convention. 1t was also taken
granted that the state nominating
will be called for August
5. The committeeman who are here
favored h n date and none of the
Democrats objected. Sedalia
and Jefferson City sen delegations to
ask for both conventions. with instruc-
to get one IL they could not get
both. The Jefferson City delegation
the nominating convention by
OF custom, as this convention
is usually held at the capital. The
Sedalia delegation evidently rccop-
nized that fact, for they paid more
to the convention to scnd
delegates to Chicago. During the
forenoon they struck a stumbling
block, which may interfere with their
plans. The Pertle Springs convention
last August ordered that the conven-
lion to send delegates to the national
convention be held in st. Louis.
The subcommittee met in extra ses-
zion in one of the hotel parlors. The
is composed of Samuel l..
yook of Mexico, chairman; Harvey
W. Salmon of Clinton, II. l.. Rozier of
ste. Genevievc, j.. G.. Brown of Rich
and j.. s. Gosshart of Odessa.
Cook said the committee re-
bort would not be made known to-day.
The subject under discussion was or.
,anization for campaign work. Tho
,lan adopted is known as the school
district system. In each schoo, dis
riot in the State and in each precinct
the cities " or more persons, who
re known to be reliable Democrats.
re called on to poll the district in
ihich they live and submit the re.
orts, showing the political inclina-
ions OF cach voter, with such recon-.
.iendationS As to the best method of
Democrats of the doubtful
mes MS the man who makes the poll
n uppcSt