The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-03
WHO WILL NAME THE
E NEXT PRESIDENT
THE FAMOUS men WHO'LL BE THERE
Major Handy, the Scribe Of the Vic.
tofious Band Of Mckinleyites,
Passes In Review some Of the Noted
Warwicks Who Are Expected At St.
U.nuia.
From the Times-Herald.

Louis.
From the Times Herald.
A little less than one thousand men
constitute the eleventh Republican ma
tional convention which will assemble
at st. Louis on the 18th of June to NOM
mate the next president and vice-prest-
dent Of the United States. 1t Will be q
remarkably representative gathering,
quite the peer In personnel OF any ma.
tional convention held In late years. and
the interest in its proceedings Will not
he materially impaired by the circum-
stance that, SO far as the first place on
the ticket is concerned, 1t will simply
ratify the choice of william Mckinley.
In fact, this ought to enhance It's sig
nificance, for the nomination OF Major
Mckinley will be the most notable IN
stance on record of the peoples triumph
over the Vaccinations Of the bosses VINO
have attempted to defy their wishes.
The roll Of q national convention Is
always made up and called alphabetic-
ally. / begin with Arkansas, the dele
gates from Alabama having yet to win
their spurs. Powell Clayton, the leader
of the Arkansas delegation, has been q
Republican through good and through
evil report. An adopted citizen Of Ar
kansas, he Is a northern man, but as
loyal an Arkansan as any native:
There have been times when he has had
to take his life in his hand in defense
Of Republican principles. His brother
went to death because Of them. Powell
Clayton has been a conspicuous figure
in former national conventions ana
was the chairman OF the one which
nominated Blaine for president.
From California come the son and
naMesake of General Grant, John ID.
Spreckels, son of the sugar king and
rising man in Californian politics, ant
S. w. Shortridse, editor of the Call.
Connecticut sends Sam Fessenden. one
OF the best politicians In New England.
and Governor Buckley, who Is believed
py his friends 10 be q vice presidential
possibility. Colonel 4. u. Puck IS the
foremost man ,afaong the Georgia..
he has been one OF the wheel horses of
the Mckinley movement in the south.
K9edger, one of his colleagues, is mem
Der of group OF colored men who have
labored in vain to keen the negroes or
the south away from Mckinley.
ILLINOIS MAGNATES.
The Illinois dele CATION Is headed by
almost the last of the war governors,
the venerable and gallant Dick Ogles-
by. than whom there will be no more
picturesque figure on the floor or the
convention. Associated with him as
delegates-at-large are Private Joe
Fifer. Altgeld's predecessor In the gov
ernorship. and William Penn Nixon and
r. w. Patterson.
Nixon and Patterson come to Mckin-
ley against their viii and under instruc-
tions, but are now with him IN good
faith. George Schneider. another CHI
cagoan, is probably the only member OF
Y .rr,,,+i inv .t,f,
Il member OF the convention which NOM
mated abraham Lincoln. He was, in
fact, one Of the founders of the Re-
publican party and was one Of Linz
coins trusted counselcrs before and af-
ter his nomination. Sam Raymond. Of
Chicago, is another interesting charac-
ter. He is a great wit and q stalwart
Republican. II he ever takes the floor
he will win the hearts Of all who hear
him. The only other notable man In
the Illinois delegation Is Asa Matthews,
who was once well known In Wash
ingtcn, and I think had the Office Of
comptroller Of the treasury.
Old Dick Thompson, who was secre-
tary of the navy under Hayes, was
deskmate of Lincoln in the house of
representatives, and has been on speak
ing terms with almost every President
OF the United States In this century,
and General Lew Wallace. who has
worldwide celebrity as the author Of
"Ben Hur," come from Indiana. One Of
their associates is young Harry New,
who Is almost as good a politician as
his. father, dear old John c., who Is ex-
President Harrison's best friend and
who had the best plum Of patronage
under the last Republican administra-
tion. Iowa Is we'll led by Senator Gear,
General d. b. Henderson, and ]. s.
Clarkson. 1t ia a pity that Dolliver Is
not a delegate-at-large to make the
quartet complete. Kentucky presents
Mr. Hunter, who came SO near, and yet
80 far from being United States sena-
tor. and, strangely enough, the only
other notable man In the Kentucky
delegation is notable because. although
a Republican. he is namesake Of
Clement L. Vallandigham.
THE NORTHWEST.
Ex-Governor Kellogg, who has been
member Of every national Republican
convention In my time, comes again
from Louisiana. His has been stormy
life, but he approaches old age in
affluence, upon which he has
willingly drawn to oblge his old friends.
Quay and Plat. without, however. i'm
peding the Mckinley tidal wave.
Names most notable delegate is Har-
old M. Sewell, who has only recently
renounced the Democracy, which was
his inheritance. He was the consul
general at Samoa whom Bayard ap-
pointed and whom Blaine retained and
vindicated. From Maryland come Sem
ator-elect Wellington and the gallant
and bullet-riddled General Felix Agnus,
editor of the Baltimore American. How
many people remember that Wellington
made his national debut in the Har-
rison convention Of 1888, when he got
the floor to move resolution of SYM
pathy with the German people in view
Of the deaths in one year Of William the
First and Frederick the Noble
Massachusetts, has been more ably
represented than now in national Re-
publican conventions. but Henry Cabot
Lodge Is big enough and brainy enough
to redeem 1t from the charge OF
mediocrity. He is the very man to
move to make the nomination of Nc
Kinley unanimous, for he has been
Reeds safest adviser and yet never re-
sorted to unworthy tactics to carry his
point Michigan's star delegate Is Gen.
eral Russell A. Alger, who received Ia
votes for the presidential nomination
eight years ago. His most prominent
colleague is Congressman Brewer
Minnesota Is brilliantly represented, in
part, by George Thompson, the able
editor of the st. Paul Dispatch, and ex-
Governor Merriam. Mississippi sends
two able men Of strongly contrasted
types-John r. Lynch. the only colored
man who ever presided over a national
convention. and General ]. Il. Chalmers
an eX-confederate. who when he was O
Democrat was charged by Republicans
with participation in the Fort Pillow
massacre. Both are sound Republicans
who have suffered for the faith that Il
in them
Chauncey I. Filley. under whose
leadership Missouri has been rescued
from Democratic clutches. and Thurs.
ton, the magnetic orator. from Nebras.