The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-16
PHILADELP HIA WILL
GET CONVENTION
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reach and within 80 minutes of each
other.
Madison Square garden accommo-
dates without crowding $4,000 people
| and is also so centrally situated as to
be within easy and convenient access
from the city hotels.
! This convention will probably be in
| session a fewer number of days than
any Of its predecessors. The ticket will
| be nominated by reclamation. There
| is no division of sentiment in our party
as to who shall head it. The wisdom
! and craftsmanship of President Nc
| Kinley have satisfied the party and the
| country so that he will receive the i'm
mediate and unanimous nomination of
| the convention, and that choice will just
as certainly be ratified by the people.
| By the time the convention meets the
choice for vice-president will be equally
| clear
| We shall have the unique interesting
| and inspiring spectacle of great party
| going before the people without any
| of the iealousies or the acrimonies or
| heart-burnings of defeated convention
! candidates.
The platform is already formulated
| in the minds not only of the party lead
| ers, but of the voters of the country. 1t
| will point to an unexampled record of
| pledges fulfilled, of the beneficent re-
| suits of republican policies and extra
| ordinary prosperity. Its keynote will
be gold and glory-gold, the standard
which, once fixed beyond question, has
| given us the first rank among CONNER
I cial nations, and the glory of our arms,
! which has made us a world power and
opened for the enormous surplus of our
| fields and furnaces vast remuneration,
| The presence of the convention in
| New York city would have an inspiring
| effect upon the greatest of our states,
whose electoral vote has so often
! turned the scale of the presidency. 1t
will also give increased enthusiasm to
| the republicans of Connecticut on the
! one side and Of New Jersey on the
other, who have rescued from free sill
yer those ordinarily democratic states.
! The west, the SOUTH and the Pacific
| coast are represented by the most act
| i've and energetic business men of the
| metropolis WHO are there also to rep
resent the business interests of the sec
! lions from which they come. There
are more Yankees than there are in
| Boston.
| 1t is by contact with these states
within a state that the delegates from
the several states will be brought in
| to more intimate and close connection
| with the sections from which they
come, and with all other sections of
| the country, than is possible anywhere
except in the cosmopolitan city which
| Is the first city in the world and the
metropolis of the western continent,
which has within the last two years
| been treading upon London's prestige
| as the financial centre of the world.
Lieut.-Gov Woodruff followed, also
| advocating New York
Simon Ford, president of the Hotel
! Mems association of New York, con-
| cluded New Yorks claims
Gen. Harry Brigham, representative
| in congress from one of the Philadel-
| phia districts concluded the presenta-
| ton of Philadelphia's advantages as a
convention city. After the presentation
of the claims of the four cities was
completed the committee, upon the
| suggestion of Chairman Hanna, took a
recess.
When the committee went to ballot
| ting on reassembling, the first vote TAX
| en- was as follows:
Whole number of votes cast. 40
| Necessary for a choice. 25
Chicago had. ...............20
| Philadelphia had.
| st. Louis had. .............9
| New York had..,..........
On the second ballot, Philadelphia re-
| y ..
vote was contested and gone over with
again, finally resulting in Philadelphia
receiving 20, as before, and Chicago "a
This decided the matter, and the Sc
| lection Of Philadelphia was declared
unanimous.
| The date was next considered Tues
day, June 5, was decided upon but this
| was later reconsidered, and the date
changed to June 10.
l.
clock tomorrow morning, when the
Payne resolution for changing the sys-
| TEN of representation will be brought
up for consideration. At o'clock to-
morrow morning the committee will
call upon the president to pay their re
spects to him in body.
During the meeting Of the commit
tee Cyrus Leland of Kansas offered
the following resolution, which went
over, under the rules:
Whereas, the constitution Of the
United States provides that representa-
tives shall be apportioned among the
several states according to their re-
spective numbers, counting the whole
number of persons in each state, ex-
Guiding Indians not taxed.
But when the right to vote at any
election for the choice of electors for
president and vice-president of the
gress, the executive and judicial officers
of state, or the members of the legis-
lature thereof, is denied to any of the
male inhabitants of such state, being
q years of age, and citizens of the
United States, or in any way abridged,
except for participation in rebellion, or
other crime, the basis of representation
therein shall be reduced in the pro-
portion which the number of such male
citizens shall bear to the whole number
of male citizens u years of age in such
state.
Resolved, that the republican ma
tional committee respectfully petition
congress to reduce the representation
of the house of representatives of the
congress of the United States in any
state which has in force laws denying
to any of the male citizens or abridg-
ing the right to vote, as provided in
said section of the constitution"