The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-16
REED BIRDS REJOICE
The Maine Mans Boom is Be
ginning to Boom.
HIS FRIENDS HARD AT WORK
The Negroes are Deserving Nc
Kinley for Reed.
OF THEIR TREATMENT
The North Carolina Delegation Met
and Organized.
COMPLAIN OF THEIR TREATMENT
FIGHT FOR rHEWcE-PREsl0ENCY
The Trend Toward the Adoption of an
Out and Out Gold Platform is
Hourly Growing More and
More Marked.
More Marked.

st. Louis, June 15.-On the eve of
the Tenth National convention of the
Republican party st. Louis resembles
a bride declled for the coming of her
liege lord. The buildings flame with
bunting, the windows are adorned
with pictures of the various candi-
dates, the air beats with the pulsating
of martial tunes, parading clubs go
marching by, the streets surge with
people borne along in resistless
streams, while the hotel corridors are
chol<ed with a jostling, pushing mass
of humanity. Tt is estimated $4,000
strangers are the guests of the Mound
City tonight. The Southern and the
Planters Hotels, where the headquar-
ters of thep rincipal delegations are
located. were thronged to the doors
all day. Bands played in the rotundas
and kept in good humor the crowds
that pushed their way up and down the
broad marble stair cases until they
seemed to creak under their burdens,
while delegations met and leaders con-
ferred behind closed dooors. The most
remarkable feature about the conven-
tion so far, has been the absence of bad
blood among the partisans of the yari-
ons candidates. The triumph of Nc
Kinley has been SO complete thus far
that his friends can afford to be mag
unanimous and his opponents can do
nothing but acquiesce to the will of the
majority. The partisans of Reed,
Quay, Morton and Allison still wear
Al -%n oh
ever in their loyalty but they realize
the helplessness of making shrieking
or offensive demonstrations in favor of
their champion and the managers of
the anti-McKin1ey candidates have
practically sheathed their swords.
This does not mean that they have
abandoned the field, with the reception
of Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky, who
dropped out last night. The names of
the other candidates will be presented
and voted for and will probably poll
their full strength. Indeed, the Reed
men to-day have appealed to his
friends to 90 down with colors flying.
So too. with the followers of Morton,
Allison and Quay. But no one ven
lures to suggest the possibility of
McKinley's defeat The real struggle
JnaU Is going oI 10 ONtl JllN AiAiSAliSit|A
plank in the platform. Around it all
interest centers. Beyond the disputes
in the various delegations over the SUI
uremacy of men and factions, it is al
most the sole subject of plots and coun-
ternlots. Tt is the real battle ground.
TTnon tariff and all other questions
there is a substantial unity, but the
differences upon finance are as VIDE
as the contingent. Free silver and
| gold are as irreconcilable as the poles
and the radical silver men are prepar-
ed to stake their all upon the issue
Knowing they cannot succeed they are
even now formulating the manifesto
that will sever their allegiance to the
Republican party. But these radical
silver men are largely out numbered.
Headed by Senator Teller, of Colorado,
| they have only mastered five States
| and perhaps one territory-less than
fftv delegates in all, out of total OF
| over 900.
The real struggle is between those III
| favor of a gold declaration for the
| maintenance Of a gold standard except
Through an international agreement,
| and those who are friendly to silver, al
though opposed to free coinage, makes
| them seek to avoid specific endorse
ment of the gold standard. The result
| of the meeting of the various state del
| egations to-day demonstrated emphat-
| icallv that the convention will not
| dodge the issue, nor equivocate in Ian
| guage. Twenty-eight States, compris-
| ing the territory east of THE Mississippi,
| and almost the entire South, elected
| members of the resolutions committee
| and instructed them to vote for gold
| declaration.
| Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, Or
| egon also took strong ground for gold.
| In Indiana, Gen. Lew Wallace was
| chosen a member of the resolutions
committee, after he had declared that
| he would not stand on the Indiana
| plank and THAT the utterances for the
| maintenance of the gold standard
| could not be made too strong for him.
| Minnesota, with her eighteen votes,
| instructed Ex-Governor Merriam to in
| sist upon declaration of the gold
| standard. Michigan, and several of the
| Northwestern States, notably Iowa and
| the Dakotas, and several of
| the Southern States, Georgia,
| Mississippi, and Louisiana, an
| nounced their opposition to free
y coinage but did not favor a too