Birmingham state herald., 1896-08-01
WAITING FOR BRYAN ID FIRE MckinIey'S Letter of Acceptance
 Held Back. WILL DETERMINE THE ISSUE 2 Whether Money or the TarIff'--Mr. Hobar! Is to Run the Eastern End of the
 Business.
New York World.

in the Mckinley campaign. Mark Hanna
 was up early in the morning and re-
 mained up late last night, and he hustled
 all day. He tried to be pleasant with
 every one and make Mckinley votes all
 the time, but his patience was sorely
 tried.
 At an early hour the exclusive corri-
 dors of the beautiful Waldorf hotel held
 the most motley crowd that ever gather
 ed within it's fashionable walls. States
 men and politicians of national proml-
 hence touched elbows with as persistent
 and impudent gang of election strikers as ever tried to sell political gold bricks to a campaign manager.
 q say, Hanna," drawled Senator Quay in his dry way, q see a lot of gentle men here whom 1 met in the campaign lof 1SSS Any one of them can give you a scheme to carry this campaign
 Nc" said MT. Hanna, you mistake not give, but sell --
 The senator saw that the Cleveland
 man was "on," smiled grimly and said no more.
 The conference and the subsequent
 meeting of the executive committee MT. Hanna had expected to hold at the Wal dorf In the morning, however, the chair man was informed that the furniture would be put in the rooms of the national headouarters early enough to hold the meeting there Consequently word was passed around of the change, and at national headquarters the members or | the national and executive committees | met at D. m Not even a chair had as | vet been moved in to the bare, cell-like | rooms of the marble mauSoleum on Mad- | ison avenue For half an hour the mem- | bers stood around and talked things over | as they perspired and wondered "hae l they were going to do . "Reinp no longer presidential candi- | date, I guess I'll take off my coat ana | be comfortable" remarked senator quay | to Candidate Hobart and he suited the | action to the word. Two or three other | gentlemen followed suit and carried their | coats on their arms. But not Mir. Hanna. | He was as cool as cucumber, and as 1 soon as he realized the situation he sent | out a messenger and soon announced l that the president of the insurance com | pany had rendered the use of his private l office. In the party which followed | Chairman Hanna down from the fourth l foor to the second were MT. Hobart, Sen | ator Quay former Gov. F. C. Cheney or | New Hampshire, Senator Redfeld Proc | tor of Vermont, Gen. c. H. Brayton of | Rhode Island. Samuel Fessenden of Con- | necticut Gen. w. M. Osborne of Massa- | chusetts. N, B. Scott of West Virginia. | Col. J. w. Bowden of Virginia. Judge l John E. Long of Florida, Frank 5. With
 erbse and Fred s. Gibbs Of New York.. 1 Senator Wellington and J. A. Gary or | Maryland and National Committeeman | Lyman of Massachusetts. The party
 was soon joined by former Postmaster l General John Wanamaker and Congress- | man Harry Bingham of Pennsylvania l and Mai J. F. Hanson of Georgia. | This roundup of state leaders, as MT. | Hanna called 1t, remained in conference 1 until nearly 6 o'clock. Reports or the | situation were heard from each state
 represented and the remainder or the | time given up to the ways and means of | raising campaign funds. In this com
 nection there was brought out great | deal of talk about the issues of the cam
 paign, whether protection or sound
 money should be put ahead.
 l John Wanamaker made an extended l address, in which he strongly urged that protection be not shunted to a side track. | Many of the speakers showed very plain | ly to MT. Hanna that they wanted to re- | ceive money for their localities rather | than to raise it, but all promised big re- sults-if the money was forthcoming. No | definite action was taken at the meeting.
 It was merely an interchange of opinions. The executive committee meeting
 which followed lasted until o'clock. | Ther were present Chairman M A. l Hanna, Garrett A. Hobart, M. 5. quay, l P c. Cheney and Redfield Proctor. Cornelius N. Bliss was reelected treas | urer
 The question of Mckinley letter of ac- l ceptance was discussed and finally the | members were brought to agree to the views of the chairman, that the letter had l better be withheld until after Bryan's | sDeech to the national democratic notif- | cation committed so that the letter might | be an answer to 1t. In the same light 1t | is thought best that no big meetings or
 extended stumping tours be arranged un- | til the letter is brought out, which will | not be much before September l.
 McKinley's letter will settle the ques- | tion which is still dividing republicans.
 whether sound money or protection shall | take precedence as a campaign issue. l It was decided that Candidate Hobart should direct the campaign in the east. | He had made arrangements to spend the summer with his family at Lake Cham plain at Bluff Point. He will not. go 1 back now, but remain in this city and at | his home in Patterson.
 l Gen. w. M. Osborne of Massachusetts, | secretary of the executive committee, will be at headquarters during the cam | paign and Senator Quay, P. c. Cheney | and some other members of the execu- | tive committee from the east will also l be on hand. Col Harry Swords resumes his old place as sergeant-at-arms. 1 MT. Hobart had little to say after the | meeting was over, except that he should | spend most of the campaign at head 1 quarters.
 l q have had some little experience in | that sort of work" he said modestly. and the gentlemen of the committee l think that may be of use."
 Senator Quay said 1t was too hot to | talk politics, and as there would not be l much doing before September l he was
 thinking of going fishing for three l weeks.
 q cannot say much more to you than I have said already" said MT. Hanna l last night. You know practically all l that we did today. shall be here until Monday, I think. and before go back may be in a position to talk to some purpose. All can say now is that the | opening of the campaign is entirely sat- l isfactory to us."
 l Stephen B. Elkins assured MT. Hanna l that West Virginia would surely go for l Mckinley, and that there was little free 1 silver sentiment there. He said. how ever, that he was emphaticaIly in favor l of but moderate tariff
 1 Mr. Hanna and MT. Platt had not come together yesterday but it was 1 said that MT. Hanna had been strongly | advised to invite conference with the | New York leader, and had said he in- l tended to do so as soon as the routine