The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-06-19
CONVENTION FLASHES
HALL ARRANGEMENTS ALL
COMPLETED.
Talk About Platform-Cyrus Leland OF
Kansas Strong for the Gold Standard
Perry Heath, McKinlcy's Literary Bureau
Chief, Says the Indiana Plank is Good.

10y NAAA \ b1AN 40 oOONs
ST. Louis, Mo-, June l0-Sergeant-
Alarms Byrnes and First Assistant G.
N. Wiswell of Milwaukee visited the
convention auditorium and decided
upon a number Of details, such as the
s~tationing of inside doorkeepers and
neutrality-suspicious. and distrib-
utlng the force Of ushers and pages.
-Four doorkeepers will be stationed
at each door, two outside to inspect
the tickets as the crowd passes
through and two inside to tear off the
coupons. Each division will have four
ushers. There are forty divisions in
the dress circle and gallery and eleven
in the space for the delegates, alter
mates, national committeeman, news
paper workers and notable guests.
There will also be a small army OF
pages and several hundred sergeants-
alarms.
Chief Harrigan has promised a
couple of hundred policemen, but they
will take no part IN the disputes until
requested to do SO by one or more Of
the colonel's assistants. A good many
o.the policemen will probably be at
tired as private citizens and known
only to the convention officials and
employees.
The work of the decorator of the
auditorium is about finished. The
portraits of Genera! Grant and Ad-
mlral Farragut were put up yester-
day. The great naval commander
will look down on the members OF the
convention from the gallery railing at
the east end Of the hall. Directly OPP
posite is a portrait Of General Phil
Sheridan, representing the army.
Lincoln and Grant are on the two
sides, the first almost directly over
the speakers stand and Grant at the
center OF the south gallery opposite.
Higher than all, just above Lincoln,
is Washington. Each is surrounded
By American flags. The absence Of
pictures and notices representing
leaders of the Republican party Of to-
day will be noticed The omission
was intentional.
CT LELAND TALKS AGAINST SILVER.
Cy Leland of Kansas. who is finish.
ing his twelfth year as National com
mitteeman, is here. Regarding Nc
Kinley and the money plank he said:
He is for sound money-gold, if you
pie2se-and whatever silver is needed.
He is as much opposed to this is to ]
heresy as he is to free trade
Then there will be no concessions
made to the silver men from the West,
such as Senators Dubois. Teller and
the chairman OF your National COM
mittee, Senator Carter, demand?n
None whatever. Those fellows
will take what I'VE give them. and if
they don't like it they can bolt, that
As all there is TO it. In fact, l expect
10 see some of them bolt. And what
if they do? It won't affect the suc-
cess of chr ticket in the least. We
can easily do without them, with New
York and New Jersey-and we've got
q cinch on those states-and Connecti-
cut, too
T. q. Lanneu, editor of the Salt
Lake Tribune, arrived to-day with
National Committeeman Salisbury of
Utah. Both are for free silver and
will advocate a plank of that char
Ecter for the platform. 1T would be
folly Tor any one man to say what the
convention will do on the money
question said Lannen, .sbut l am
confident that it will NOT declare for
. single gold standard. Neither do l
think that the platform will declare
for free silver. ] am not pretending
TO say what the convention will or
will not do, bnt it is my honest opinion
the money plank will be of a
character that the free silver men OF
the party stand on it"
DE Young and Salisbury, who were
both present while Lannen was talk
ing, coneurned in what he said.
Powell Clayton of Arkansas is here
and favors q single gold standard
platform
Y. "A. WeDsrer. VINO is at the bead
Of q contested delegation from South
Carolina. arrived to-day. The oppos-
ing delegation will be l4l by Z. M.
Brayton, national committeeman
from that state.
TALKS ABOUT THE PLATFORM.
w. s. Manning Of Albany. N. Y,
who claims to be a close friend of
NJ Mckinley, said that Mckinley was
for a gold standard and Teller would
have to bolt. He referred to the
Of Mckinley in Chicago, Feb
ruary ~, in favor Of sound money and
said that McKinley's views as ex-
pressed then would be followed.
Perry Heath. McKinley's literary
bureau chief, declared that radical
on both sides had Soned
down considerably in the past few
days, and the Indiana platform would
probably be made the basis of the
plank.
C~ongressman w. s. Linton, the A.
p. "A. leader, will be here, but no or
Ranized effort will be made to defeat
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