New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-22
CONVENTION SKETCHES.
PERSONALITIES CLEANED FOR THE
TRIBUNE AT THE CONVENTION


Philadelphia, June d
AN ALASKA EXPANSIONIsT-W D. Grant
one or the delegates from Alaska, is a resident
Wrangel, and has had a better time at the
Convention than Mr. Grant. We've got the most
interesting country in all the world" said Mr.
Grant at the Lafayette yesterday i've been to
the Kondke and Cape Nome and am familiar
with our gold fields in Alaska. I believe them
to be practically inexhaustibe. Our experience
with Alaska should make everlastingly expan-
slohlsts. remember that there a tremendous
camor raised early in the Grant Administration
when Secretary of State paid large sum for
Alaska. In the light of present history that cIamor
back in 1868 and 1863 was ridiculous Last year the
Federal Mining Company at Juneau produced $25-
ooVo IN gold by crushing ore that assayed from
s. 80 to 81 a ton They've got enough ore to last
them right for two decades. AT Cape Nome
the placer productions going to be enormous
The gold bearing sand being worked out with
crude methods the beaches around Cape Nome
washed down from the high mountains of
the inlands centuries ago. When the sand IS ex-
hausted the miners go further back. At
Wrangel where I live the thermometer never
reaches zero and in my garden raise fifty or
sixty different kinds OF flowers. We have rainy
spells there of thirty and forty days at stretch
but We get used to them"
PLEASED WITH THE TRIBUNE.-Charles s
Hernly. chairman Of the Republican State Com
mittee of Indiana, is a sodly built man. about five
feet eight inches in height. and Weighing two hun
dred pounds. He resembles w. J. Arkeu of New
York. Il want to say for The Tribune that its re
ports of the National Convention have excelled
those of any other paper in the United States and
I have managed to find time read a dozen.
There has been a delightful absence Of claptrap
and the plain. straightforward. truthful narrative
OF the Convention from day day has been emf
nently satisfying In addition to the reading mat
ter the photographs of the Convention in actual
session, with hundreds OF the faces easily recog-
nizable, OF such surprising excellence that
they make The Tribune's record at this Convention
worthy OF the highest admiration and praise l
don't understand how you got those Convention
pictures. The faces Of the Indiana delegates can
be recognized at a glance. Other papers gave So
called photographs OF the Convention In session.
but the pictures are blurred and unacceptable.
I am going TO take home a lot OF the Convention
Tribunes as souvenirs my friends
ABNER NTKINLEy A VIsITOR-Abner Nc
Kinley the Presidents brother, one OF the
Interested spectators the Convention yesterday.
and after the adjournment he received scores OF
congratulations supplemented by requests to be
remembered 10 the President.
FARMERS DESERVING BRYAN.-Congressma
David H Mercer, OF Nebraska. believes that Re-
publican prospects in that State are vastly better
than for several years past. There is telling
just how far State pride in the candidacy OF VIII
lam J. Bryan Will reach in Influencing Republicans
TO vote for him. Four years ago he had little diff
Guilty in estrangln thousands OF Republican farmers
from their party. They then n distress
account Of maturing mortgages. the interest
which they found difficulty IN raising and they
hocked 10 the standard OF Bryan with enthusiasm.
Since then they have had time 10 think. and I be
leve from recent observation. that shall see
many backsliders marching IN the Republican col
This fall. The straight out PopuIlsts Will vote
for Wharton Barker. and the Mddle-oS-the-Eoad
people viii for Debs We shall poll the straight
party vote. with large number o, FIRST voters
added. I talking the other day with farmer
who four years voted Tor Bryan and believe
he IS typical or large class OF men who were
estrangcd from four years ago. He voted Tor
Bryan then because he was hard up and wanted
10 pay of his mortgage cheaply as possible In
the last years his success IN raising wheat.
corn and hogs has enabled him 10 NGUidate all his
Indebtedness and he has become stockholder IN
a National bank organized under tho currency
revision law. so that now. instead o. wishing
destroy the gold standard. he IS anxious 10 main
tain it
TROUBLE WITH ELEVATORS.-The delegates
and visitors Philadelphia viii to their
homes with painful recolections OF their expert
ences with Quaker city elevators. They are a
disgrace TO a city of PhlIadeIphias size and I'M
portance. On two different occasions people were
nearly killed by a falling elevator at the Walton.
At the Bellevue which George c. Bodt OF the
WaIdorf-Astoria Is Interested. tho elevator got
Ok or r0raa occasions