The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-28
Ice-Trust Croker, 'Me-Too" Murphy
and the Awful Sulzer to Con-
fer with Mr.. Bryan.
DISSERTATION OF THE FLAG
DELEGATES AT KANSAS CITY TO
WEAR THE STARS AND STRIPES.
FOur-Inch "Old GIorfes" to BE At
tached to Badges, and Independ-
ence Day to be Made Bryan Day.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 27.-Represent-
ative William Suzer, who is being doomed
for Vice President on the Democratic
ticket, and Richard Croker and ex-senator
E. G.. Murphy, of New York, will have a
conference at Lincoln, Neb with William
J. Bryan before they come to Kansas City
to attend the national convention. Ster-
ling Price. of Texas. who has opened head
quarters here for Mr.. Sulzer, to-day re-
ceived telegram from that gentleman
saying he had left New York for Lincoln
at noon to-day. Another telegram says
Messrs. Croker and Murphy will be in the
Nebraska capital this week. Mr.. Sui
ger hopes to be on the ticket with Mr..
Bryan, and it is said the latter expressed
desire to confer with him. Further than
this Mr.. Price would vouchsafe nothing.
President O'Connell, Of the Sons Of Lib
erty. the oldest organization in New York,
is on his way to Kansas City and will open
headquarters for Sulzer tomorrow even
ing or Friday, and Fred Feigl, editor of the
Tammany Times. another Sulzer boomer,
will arrive Friday.
The city is beginning to take on gala
appearance in anticipation of an early arri-
val of delegates. A good sized contingent
of Eastern newspaper reporters have al
ready arrived, but a general inflow of peo-
pie is not expected until Friday. Ex-Gov-
ernor William j. Stone, national commit
teeman for Missouri and vice chairman of
the national committee, is expected Friday
night with other members OF the subcom-
r1ittee. which viii mold meeting on Satur-
day
James Boyle, district leader of Tammany,
will arrive on Saturday with about a dozen
of his colleagues. They come to prepare the
way of the Tammany delegation, which will
reach Kansas City Monday evening on two
special trains. Sunday the state delega-
tions will begin to arrive. The Pennsyl-
vania delegation, made up of one hundred
people, and the Montana delegation, headed
by w. A. Clark, are due Sunday morning
and the Kansas delegation in the evening.
On Monday the Northeast delegates from
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island,
with George Fred Williams. of Massa-
chusetts. their vice presidential candidate,
will reach the city. and on the same day
the California and Missouri delegations will
arrive. The greatest rush of delegations
will be on Tuesday Nearly all of the States
not mentioned are booked to arrive on that
day.
convention innovation, the reading of
the Declaration of independence from the
platform, will be introduced at the first
session on July 4, and according to the pres
ent programme the music and decorations
of that day will be selected with par
ticular idea of commemorating the national
holiday.
The badges for the delegates have been
received. They elaborate affair.
There is an oxidized silver bar for the pin,
below which hangs a silk flag about four
inches long. To the flag is attached a
medallion of gold or oxidized silver
The United States Monetary League.
which will meet here at the Auditorium
on July 2 and 3. will be addressed by a
dozen speakers of national prominence.
There will be three sessions, morning.
afternoon and evening of each day, and
two speeches at each session. Acceptances
of invitations to speak have been received
from Senator w. V. Allen, of Nebraska; J..
r. Sovereign, former president of the
knights of Labor; Gen. j. B. Weaver, of
Iowa. John p. Altgeld, of Illinois; George
Fred Williams, of Massachusetts; w. H.
(Coin) Harvey, of Chicago; John p. St.
john of Kansas; Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent Of the American Federation of Labor;
Charles A Towne, of Minnesota; William
Sulzer, of New York, and others.