Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-06-13
Mistaken for a Bandit, a Texas Negro
Delegate Was Shot Five Times in
st. Louis Last Night.
REPUBLICANS POURING INTO ST. LOUIS
Coniectures as to the Duration of the
Convention-N Nominations Not Ex-
pected Before Saturday-Old
Man Morton Will Not Play
Second Fiddle Com
mittee Considering
Contests.

this morning Chas. N. Losee, colored
delegate from Texas, while on his way
home, halted Robert w. Thiel, aged 81
to inquire the way. Thlel pulled pistol
and fired. Five shots were fired, one OF
which took effect in Losee's right should
er. Losee was taken to the home of his
brother. His wound is pronounced not
serious. Thiel, who is in Jail, claims that
he thought he was about TO be held up.
DELEaATEs POURING INTO ST. LOUIS.
Every incoming train to-day brought
crowds of delegates and others to attend
the Republican national convention.
Among the prominent people to arrive
were exGov. Foraker, of Ohio, who will
place Mckinley in nomination before the
convention; Chnuncy M. Depew, who is
to nominate Levi P. Morton, and Gov.
Daniel Fl, Hastings, Of Pennsylvania.
Everywhere are decorations in which
the red, white and blue and pictures of
the presidential candidates predominant.
PROBABLE DURATION OF THE CONVENTION.
A member of the national committee,
discussing the probable length of the con-
vention, said: "Considering the whole
situation, it is difficult to see how the re-
ports of the committee on credentials and
committee on resolutions can be disposed
of before midnight on Friday; therefore,
according 80 the natural order of things,
the presentation of candidates will not
occur until Saturday morning. Owing to
the interest taken in the money question,
the convention will scarcely defer action
on the platform until after the nomina-
tion of candidates. After the nomina-
tions the convention will rapidly disin-
tegrate, and the gold standard men, who
seem to predomiuate in the convention,
will not take chances on leaving the silver
men in possession when the platform Is
to be passed upon"
MORTON WOULD NOT ACCEPT SECOND PLACE.
Chauucy NJ. Depew received the follow
ing telegram from Gov Morton: "Please
Announce that stated to you before
left New York that | would not under any
circumstances accept the nomination for
vice president" Depew will place Gov.
Morton in nomination for president.
Ex-senator Warner Miller, delegate-at-
large from New York, arrived to-day.
He said: "There is not Republican in
the New York delegation that will bolt.
Further, there is no man in the delega-
ton who can take ten New York men out
of the convention under any pretext
whatever"
GOLD WILL NOT GO IN IDAHO.
Lyttleton Price, a delegate from idaho,
arrived to-day. He says that a ticket
nominated on gold platform could not
secure $50 votes in Idaho. He Intends to
offer the following to the conventions:
"We hold that the veto power, given to
the president, was not intended to be
used to defeat the authority of congress
to make laws on proper subjects within
constitutional limitations. We condemn
such exercise OF this power as an unwar-
ranted invasion of the legislative depart
ment of the government and we demand
a return to the legitimate use of this
power as II was understood and exercised
by the fathers of our constitution"
EVANS ACCEPTS P1E- COUNTER BR1BE.
A rumor is current that Evans, of Ten
nessee, has been induced to withdraw
from the race for vice-president in favor
of Hobart, of New Jersey. He is said to
have taken this step in Difference to
the wishes of the Mckinley managers.
As reward to Evans, the postmaster
generalship will be given to him in case
of McKinley's election, it is said.
NO SILVER MAN NEED APPLY.
Senator Teller will probably be here
tonight and q conference of silver men
will be held. The western men find the
gold sentiment so strong that they have
no hope whatever Of making any par
ticular showing in the convention.
COMMITTEE CONSIDERING CONTESTS.
When the Republican national commit.
tee met to-day, Chairman Carter warned
the parties to contests of the Importance
Of being present wien their cases we're
called, in view of the order made yester-
day requiring cases to be presented in the
order called, whether the parties at inter-
est were present or absent.
The Tennessee contests we're promptly
taken up, the first being that in the 9Th