Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-06-18


the start We have telegraphed for .
lot OF Reed supporters who had in
tended to stay at home, asking them
TO come here at once. II we had
another week, and the Reed sentiment
continued to grow as it has to-day, We
could win on the first ballot"
The selection by the various stats
delegations yesterday Of their member
ship committees was not marked BY
any sensational incidents save In
New York. In New York all the
smoldering bitterness between the
Platt and anti.Platt factions broke
forth, and ex-senator Warner Miller,
the head Of the anti-Platt faction,
threw drawn the gage Of defiance TO
the New York leader He made
ringing speech, in which he spurned
the leadership of a man who had de-
clared that Mckinley was unfit for the
presidency, and moved to dispose him
by making Chapncey NJ. Depew chair
man Of the delegation. There were
hot words on both sides. Thurlow
Weed Barnes denounced the Herkimer
statesman, who had been instructed
for Morton, as a traitor The anti
Plat faction polled only II out OF the
70 votes in the delegation voting, and
Mr.. Plat was reelected chairman.
Senator }. II. Gallinger, Of New
Hampshire, chairman OF the senate
committee on pensions, has prepared .
resolution on pensions which he will
submit to the committee on resolu-
tions, and ask that 1t be incorporated
In the platform. 1t follows:
The veterans OF the union armies deserve.
and should receive fair treatment and geneS.
Gus recognition. Their herosm and sufierinr
are matters OF history and furnish brigns
contribution to the glory OF our nation, ana Inc
grandeur OF It's institutions. Whenever prac-
ticabe, they should DO given the preference ID
the matter Of employment and they have .
right TO demand the enactment Of such laws
az are best calculated TO secure to thom
the blessings and liberties for which they
fought A grateful government should un-
grudgingly and gladly contribute Of Its revenue
TO fulfill the pledges made In the dark days q
the country's peril, and we demand that the
pension laws shall be 80 construed and exc
cuted as to protect soldiers In their rights ano
to make less dffculty than now the ad1udics-
tion Of their claims We denounce the prao-
tice In the pension bureau Of reducing pensions
and arbitrarily dropping names from the roilss
40 rocklessly and unjustly carried on by inc
present administration, as subversive OF the
rights Of soldiers and deserving Of the severe
condemnation Of the American people
The members OF the American Pro-
tective association will ask the Ms
tional convention to recognize them
to the extent Of inserting a plank In
the platform which, after conceding
to all the utmost freedom In the exer-
else Of the right to worship God ac-
cording to the dictates OF their own
conscience. will declare for the restric-
ton Of immigration to the extent OF
excluding all undesirable persons; for
changes In the naturalization laws
and their administration 10 AZ to pre-
vent unfit persons from becoming c'ti.
zens; for one general pon-sectarlan,
free public school system; no public
aid Of any character to BE- given ~ tn13
other schools and that all approprlpp
tions Of public money or property shall
be solely for public institutions and
Tor the benefit Of every class OF the
people, to DO disbursed by responsible
public otllcala
The republican national committee
had under consideration Yesterday the
resolution offered by Mr.. Payne, OF
Wisconsin, providing for a change Of
the basis OF representation In the ma.
tional convention. After long and &C
rimonious debate, in which the south
ern mem bers took leading part, thu
national committee, by vote OF 81 10
4, decided that 1t was inexpedlcnt ia
make any recommendations to the M
tional convention regarding the change
Of the basis Of representation.
The Colorado delegates arrived early
yesterday morning, bearing aloft tho
banner OF free silver on q sixteen ID
one basis They took apartments at
the Southern hotel and later In tho
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