The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-06-06
The TICKETS ARE
AT A PREMIUM
Quay and Reeder Pressed Hard by
Pennsylvanians For Con-
vention Cards.
HAVE VERY FEW TO GIVE.
Republicans OF the Keystone state
Are Taking n Lively Interest I'm the
Arrangements For the Renomina-
tion of President Mckinley In the
Quaker City.
Especial Correspondence)


Philadelphia, June 5,-While every
day shows an increasing interest
among Pennsylvanians in the arrange
ments for the Republican national con-
vention to be held here on the 18th
inst, the prospects of getting tickets
OF admission to the hall are not a bit
brighter today than they were three
weeks ago, when the original plan for
the distribution of these coveted cards
was announced. 1t begins to look as
though there will be but a small con-
tingent OF the Republicans OF the Key
stone state who come here during con-
vention week get into the auditorium
during the sessions of the convention.
Colonel Quay, member OF the national
committee from Pennsylvania, and
General Reeder, chairman of the Re-
publican state committee, were both
here within the last few days upon a
still hunt for convention tickets in or
der to comply with at least a few re-
quests that have come to them from
Republicans from every county of the
state. Men who ordinarily take very
little interest in matters political are
croppsng up in every quarter of the
commonwealth with anxious eyes upon
tue seats in national convention hall.
They want to see President Mckinley
renominated and listen to the speeches
from the representative party men who
will be assembled here from every
state in the Uniol. They have read of
the spleEdid hall in which the conven-
tfon is to be held and OF the many
features of convention week which
promise to be so attractive to the vis-
itors.
QUAY AND REEDER ACTIVE.
1t was to satisfy at least a small
proportion of these anxious Republi-
cans that Colonel Quay and General
Reeder came here TO confer with Col
onel Wiswell, the sergeant-at-arms OF
the national convention, and Mayor
Ashbridge, who Is the chairman of the
citizens committee of arrangements
for the convention. They soon learned
that the demand for tickets is quite
universal and that every member of
the national committee and every
member of the local committee has on
file big list of applicants for tickets.
General Reeder made special plea
to Mayor AShbridge, but he was in
formed that the four thousand tickets
which will go to the citizens commit
tee of this city are to be distributed
among the subscribers to the national
convention 100000 fund, and that as
there are.abont i, 500 subscribers to this
fund there will be but small allot-
ment to go to each subscriber Colonel
Quay remarked before he left town
tnat he had not found much encourage
ment and that the applicants for tick
cts had better see the national dele
gates from their respective congress
sional districts at once before they
shall have promised their extra tick
cts. Each member of the national
committee is to receive 25 tickets. each
delegate to the convention will get,
besides the tic ket which will admit
him to the dele gates section, two tick
cts OF general admission to the hall.
WILL SHARE TICKETS.
These tickets will be in coupon form,
so that IL there shall be three sessions
a day each ticket can be employed to
give three different persons admission
to the hall for one session each. II is
possible. although not probable, that
the convention will last three days.
There is not much doubt about there