The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-29
The Republican Chairman Fixes His
New York Headquarters and
Talks to Reporters.
A DELEGATE FROM Mr.. PLATT
CALLS ON MIR. HANNA, AND POLIT-
ICAL GOSSIPS ARE AMAZED.
SOund-Noney Documents Prepared by
the Treasury Department for
General Distribution.

NEW YORK, July 2S.-Mark a. Hanna.
chairman of the Republican national COM
mittee, arrived from Cleveland to-day. He
said he could no. give any outline at pres
ent as to his movements while here. He
did not know whether any of the members
of the national committee had reached the
city, nor exactly when the first meeting of
the committee in this city would be held.
He suggested possibly tomorrow. He ex-
pressed his willingness TO talk TO the re-
porters after luncheon, but added II don't
know how much / shall have to tell YOU"
Mr.. Hanna was asked If he had come
East to consult with the advisory commit
tee.
There is advisory committee" he
replied. Il am going to advise with every
man who knows more than ! do, and there
are probably a good many of them. ! ex-
pect Mr.. Quay here tonight and Mr.. Ho-
bart will be over here tomorrow. In the
afternoon tomorrow we will have meet
ing of the Eastern members of the COM
mittee and We hope soon to have thiT gs
moving: / cannot now be further inter
viewed.
of inspection of quarters eligible for the
uses of the national committee in its East
ern campaign work.
Mr.. Hanna announced during the after
noon that the city headquarters of the Re-
publican committee will be established in
the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
Madison avenue. The headquarters will
occupy the. greater part of the fourth floor
OF the building and will be opened for busi-
During the afternoon and evening Mr..
Hanna had many callers. Among them was
Fred s. Gibbs. the national committeeman
for this State. He accepted an invitation
to attend the conference of the executive
committee tomorrow afternoon. Mr.. Han
ma was asked whether Mr.. Gibbs came from
Mr. Platt. He said Il presume that in
one way Mr.. Gibbs represents Mr.. Platt
No l did not see Mr.. Platt to-day. and I
have not invited him to the meeting of
the committee Tomorrow and l don't eX-
pect that he will come up.
Put see here, why draw Platt's name
into this thing? / am chairman of the ma
tional committee. There is a factional
fight in this State. 1t is not my purpose TO
add fuel to the flames. | recognize no fac
ans @ are rs'1 WORKING for % the good of their par
ty. The meeting is for the purpose of
planning the campaign in this section:
he will not be here until tomorrow morn
ing. j shall remain in town for the rest of
the week at least and then return to Cleve-
land. OF course my time from now on will
be devoted TO the campaign
When Mr.. Hanna read of the action of
the Democratic State committee in main
tanning silence over the Chicago ticket he
said: We'll. if they keep this thing up
won't have much opposition. The action
to-day means that there Will be nothing
done in New York State for Mr.. Bryan
until after Sept: 16 at the very earliest. We
will therefore have practically six weeks
advantage of them in active work"
During the evening delegation from the
Tariff Reform League called on Mr.. Hanna
and asked that he make tariff the issue in
stead of the money question. Mr.. Hanna
said that he could not decide that ques-
ton. but the delegation could send a repre-
sentative to the committee meeting to-
morrow and the question could then be dis
cussed. Those who called were Frank b.
Witherbee, N. A. Hartshorn and ". f.
Wakeman. of New York: Joseph f. Phropp
Of Pennsylvania; Maj. j. =. Hanson. of
Georgia: Ex-Governor Cheney of New
Hampshire; Homer Laughin, of Ohio: Col.
William Barbour of New Jersey. and c. s.
Landers, of Connecticut.
Senator Stephen 3. EllSins and Melville
f. Ingalls,, of the Big -Four railroad. were
with Mr. Hanna during the evening. and
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster. president of the
Woman's Republican Association of the
United States. called and advised Mr. Han
ma TO have the campaign headquarters To-
Gated in the West Mr. Hanna told her
that he would be pleased 10 have her at
tend the meeting tomorrow