The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-18
REPUBLICAN HARMONY.
The Difference Between This Year
and Three Years Ago.


and Three Years Ago.
New York Sun: The Republican Ma
tional convention which nominated Mr..
Mckinley for President at St. Louis in
June, 1896. was composed. exclusive of
the representatives Of the territories, Of
s92 delegates; but 1t Is a fact not now
generally recalled that in the cOnven-
ton there were 152 contested seats.
arising from fractional controversies
and rival assertions Of regularity in a
number Of states. The oacial list Of
contested seats, as made up by the
secretary Of the Republican national
committee, was as follows:
Alabama, 20 seats out of q; Califor-
mia, out Of IS; Delaware. eli 9; Flori-
da, all 8; Georgia, 10 out Of 90; Ken
lucky. 2; Louisiana, u out Of 1s; Miss
issippI, the whole delegation Of IS; New
York, - out of ~; North Carolina, 2;
Pennsylvania, 2; South Carolina, 4;
Texas, the whole delegation Of 80, and
Virginia l. There was also a contest
over the representation OF Arizona,
and the following delegates who after
ward withdrew from the convention
were not in harmony with its policy,
thought their title to regularity was not
disputed: Colorado. 8. the whole dele
CATION; Idaho, 9, the whole delegation;
Utah, 8, half the delegation; Nevada, 2.
third of the delegation. and Montana
and South Dakota each-a total of q.
In the subsequent ballotlng these q
constituencies were not represented, but
the various contested elections had
meanwhile been decided in accordance
with the evidence in the various cases.
Later there were rival Republican cleo
toral tickets in Louisiana, there were
rival Republican state tickets (assur-
ing the success Of the Democratic can
didates) in Delaware, there were rival
Republican state tickets in Nevada,
and the factional differences which ex-
listed before the holding of the st.
Louis convention continued during the
earlier part Of the canvass, and It re-
qulred the Efforts Of the national COM
mlttee to adjust them, though the task
was made easier By the fact that the
contests were in states SO strongly.
Democratic as to make futile, in prac-
teal effect, the efforts Of local Republic
cans, whether divided or united.
On March 4 next, the Mckinley adj
mlnistratlon will have been in once for
three years, and about that time, be-
tween March 4, 1900. and June 1.-THE
date Of the Republican national con-
ventIon in Philadelphia is June 19),
delegates will be elected In the various
states under conditions more marked
in respect to harmony than ever before
in the Republican party. In the doubt
full states Of the Union. in those which
have not been steRdfaSt in their alle-
glance to either party, the harmony
among Republicans is almost without
precedent. Instead of a turbulent and
almost riotous convention for the NOM
nation of delegates-at-lsrge, as was
the case in New York four years ago,
present Indications point to complete
unanimity, and, probably. to unani.
nous vote from the sIxty-one counties.
In Illinois and Indiana the harmony
among Republicans is complete; there
ore no longer any rival factions in
those two states, and throughout the
whole Of New England there is discern
ible in no state and in no congressional
district q ripple OF controversy as to
party regularity among Republicans
and the game condition OF affairs pre-
walls in party councils on the Pacific
The conflict which has been going on in
Missouri between the rival Republican
factions there, which dates back for
twenty-five years, has at last been adj
justed, and the disturbing elements
among the Texas Republicans, long d.
vided between "the LIly-whites" and
the "Black!and- tans," have been elm
mated. From present indications there
win not be more than a dozen contested
seats in the next Republican national
convention, IL so many, and the expla-
nation of this contrast Of party organI-
cation compared with what was the
case four years ago is to be found in
the widespread and universal popular
ity of the policies of which the McKin-
ley administration is the representa-
tive.