The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-09
ST. LOUIS CIRCUS.
Humbug and Pretenoe Hold
Sway Among the G. O. !
P. Hustlers.
DECORATING THE BIG TENT
Cuban Flag Conspicuous Dead
Leaders OF the Party Dis
played.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 9, 1S96-In an
ticipation Of the arrival today of the
anti-Mckinley leaders, the lieutenants of
the Ohio candidate were busily engaged
last might in distributing throughout the
downtown districts Autographs, banners
and buttons bearing a splendid portrait
Of Mckinley. Up to the present McKin-
ley he's had things pretty nuan his own
way In st. Louis, but the arrival of Messrs
Afanley, of Maine; Clarkson, of Iowa.
Teller of Colorado; F'ifer, of Illinois.
and numerous other prominent leaders, is
expected to make divisloa in the al
most universal display of Mckinley
pictures. The finishing touches of the
auditorium are being made today and
the decorator will nave concluded his
work tonight. The portraits Of General
Grant and Admiral Farragut were pu.
up yesterday.
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 opposite is a por-
trait of General Phil Sheridan, represent
ing the army. The still greater leaders,
Lincoin and Grant, are on the two
sides, the first almost directly over the
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of the south gallery opposite. Higher
than all, just above the Lincoln portrait,
is Washington. Each is surrounded by
American flags. Some have wondered
why Sherman, who lived and was buried
in st. Louis and who outranked Sheri-
dan when he retired from the army, was
not selected, instead of the latter. for
one of the four places of honor with
Washington
The answer Is that the local committee
desires to have the cavalry, as well as
the infantry, represented. The absence
Of pictures and notices representing
day may be noticed. The omission was
intentional. The local committee, suppos-
ed TO be tinctured with McKinleyism
was placed under restrictions in this mat
| ter. Here Is one of the clauses of the
contract signed by Chairman KenHard
a Democrat. by the way, and his col
| league;-
| The Citizens Committee of ST. Louis
agrees to furnish to the Republican Ma
tional Committee, a hall of the seat
| ing capacity OF 1890 or more, hand
somely and properly decorated and light
ed, without any expense whatever to said
/ National Committee, 1T being understood
| that IN the decoration of said hall said
committee shall not use the picture, pho
| tograph or name of any living Republic
| can; nor shall any insignia or motto be
used calculated to advance the cause OF
any candidate for the Presidency.
Probably no flag in the Auditorium will
attract more attention and cause more
| comment as that of the Cuban insurgents.
| tt occupies a conspicuous place; in faat,
| the most conspicuous place il. the entire
| building. he aolors of tho Cilban Re
| public ean se seen from any seat in the
gallery or dress circle and thar is more
| than can be said of any other national
| emblem in the building. Even the Pre5i-
dents flag or banner, jlsst above the Cuban
colors, will not be visible to some of the
| occupants of the dress circle.
| The currency question is the mair
| theme of discussion and the belief is
| growing that the financial plank of the
national platform adopted ait the ST. Louis
| Convention will be the Indiana plank
| with little elaboration CIR change, if no,
| adopted verbatim AIT least the declara-
| ton will be against the independent free
| coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to
| 1t will be sound money plank bu
| there is strong sentiment against the
| use of the term gold standard" There
/ is strong talk of the expression, 'Wt
are unalterably opposed to the free coin.
age Of silver at any ratio, independent
| of other nations" thus defining the po
| sition more clearly. w. B. Gaitre, wh(
will be Mr.. Hanna's secretary, says tha
twelve clubs will come as a body to the
convention from Ohio. The Blaine ant
Lincoln Clubs of Cincinnati and the Tip
pecanoe Club of Cleveland will come or
a special train, reaching ST. Louis Sun
| day night.
On tire Ohio League train, which viii
leave Columbus Sunday morning, will b.
/ the Dayton, Toledo and Springfield Repub
Iican Clubs. the East Liverpool, Canton
/ Warren and YOUNGSTOWN Mckinley Clubs
the Buckeye Clubs. of Columbus and the
Glassworkers' Club OF Massillon. Thi.
train viii be q dos5ble-header and vii
carry 1000 people. General James c. Howe
-Adjutant- General OF Ohio, will have
4 charge of the club parade in ST. LOU.
| Wednesday night.
The Union Club of Philadelphia Will hav,