Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-06-18

representative of Mckinley, the lists
were handed up to the platform to be
read by the clerk
Announcements of committee meet
ings were shouted from the platform
Powell Clayton of Arkansas offered a
resolution and asked that it be read, but
Chairman Carter said that it should be
done only on unanimous consent, and
Grosvenor objected.
! Then at 1:50 Grosvenor moved that
the convention adjourn until Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock, the motion was
| carried with shout and there was a
confused rush for the entrances while
the band struck into waltz.
/ Ticket and Platform.
| Ex-senator ingalls, was not III the pit,
but on the platform reserved for news
paper men, reporting the convention
along with such old journalistic veter.
sns as Field Marshal" Helstead, Joe
Howard and others as brilliant, but of
the younger generation. The only
significant demonstration came when
@. w. Fairbanks, the temporary chair
man, outlined the position the party
should take on the financial issue, which
now las at all times since the delegates be.
gan to arrive, has been the question
about which the whirlpool Of specula-
ton and interest swirled. The out and
out gold men and the conservative sill
yer men made counter demonstrations,
but the radical silver men sat silent and
glum. The sentiment regarding the
vice presidential nomination rapidly
| crystallized when it became definitely
known that Governor Morton Of New
York was willing to accept il the nomi-
nation came to him with any sort of
unanimity. 1t seems almost as reason
ably certain now that the ticket will be
Mckinley and Morton as that the plat
form will be conservative but I'M
equivocal declaration in favor Of the
| maintenance of the gold standard as
| long as the present conditions prevail.
The committees were hard at work
as soon as the convention adjourned.
The shock of the battle which took place
in the committee rooms will thunder
and reverberate on the floor of the con-
vention today. The action of the COM
mittee on credentials in deciding in
favor of the findings of the national
committee, save III two instances, it is
believed will make the convention brief
and many now believe final adjourn
ment will be reached Thursday. The
indications are that the sensational
climax will come today, when the re-
| port of the resolutions committee is pre-
| sented. The adoption of the platform
is assured by large majority, but the
radical silver men are expected to carry
| the fight to the last ditch.
Fight In the New York Camp.
Despite the general feeling that the
ticket will be Mckinley and Morton,
Governor Morton's name will not go ON
the ticket without the most vehement
protest of the anti-Platt faction in New
York state. Headed by Warner Miller,
they are bending their energies to pre-
vent Morton's nomination for vice pres
ident. The breach in the New York
delegation between the Platt and Mil
Ter factions was intensified when the
telegram from Morton to Platt was re-
ceived, signifying his acceptance of the
vice presidential standard if he failed in
the presidential race.
Levi P. Morton cannot go on the
ticket with William Mckinley" said
Warner Miller, the leader of the anti
Platt faction. 1--WE will invoke the aid
of the Mckinley managers to assist us,
their friends in New York state, against
this injection of national politics into
our state ticket fight" and his follow
ers added their assent to the statement.
1t was nearly o'clock when the men
in the Miller camp heard that Mr.. Platt
had received Mr.. Morton's consent to
the use of his name for the second place.
At o'clock they had gathered their
forces to consult over the matter, and in
short time a. bitter warfare was pro-
jected. By 7 o'clock a petition was
finding its way through the New York
delegation, reading: SIN the interest
OF the Republican party, we, delegates
from the state of New York to the ma
tional Republican, convention, protest
against dragging the party struggles in
our own state into the national canvass,
dllI ltCOIu ouISSINcS us OPP
posed to placing any of our fellow citi-
zens upon the ticket as the candidate
for vice president.
All Take Hand.
AS the evening wore on, the question
gradually drifted out of New York state
politics to one of national import. Lead
ers of delegations were visited and
buttonholed and tables of possible votes
were made up. Ex-senator Hiscock of
New York took hand and said: "In
the event of Morton not being NOM
mated for president, the vice presi-
Dental sentiment is for him. don't
think anything could stop him."
Senators Quay and Lodge also were
taking hand in the matter and Russell
A. Ayers aid was procured by the
Morton people. Perhaps the most curl
Gus feature of the evening was the an
nouncement by Mr.. Hackett of New
York that Foraker has told him that if
Mr.. Hanna's loyalty towards the War
ner Miller faction in New York kept
him from an expression for Morton and
bade him assist Miller, he (Foraker)