Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-16
THE ELKINs BOOM LAUNCHED.
Senator Scott of West Virginia Out for
His Colleague.


PHILADELPHIA, June 1G-'Don't you
think it about time to launch the Elkins
vice presidential bcom?" asked Senator
Scott of West Virginia of a fe.low-member
of the national committee today and then
continued by expressing his own opinion.
For myself, he said, II consider the
time quite ripe, and l have wired our dele
CATION to get an Elkns banner, swing it
TO the1r car and come in with an ElEins
shout. think they will do this, and prob
ABLY you Will see the boom well noated
when they gel here tomorrow. And, do
you know, the convention could not do bet
ter than take my colleague in the Senate
for this important place. | think he would
make strong candidate and an excellent
Vice President.
Arrangement of Seats.
The diagram showing where the state
delegations will be seated in the convention
hall was made public last night The task
of assigning tnc delegations was performed
by Sergeant-at-arms Wiswel The dele
gates will be seated in four solid squares
and in two oblongs, which flank the quar-
tet of blocks. The choicest seats will be
occupied by the delegations from Alabama.
Idaho, Indiana, New Jersey, New York
and Texas, they having been assigned to
the front rows nearest the speakers plat
form. The delegations will be seated in
alphabetical order. beginning at the OBJ
long on the left. Alabama will occupy the
first four rows. Arkansas will take up
the next two rows, and will be followed by
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware
and Georgia. with illinois in the last seven
rows OF the oblong.
Idaho and Indiana will share the first
three rows in the front square next to the
left oblong. Then will come the Iowa, Kan
sas, kentucky, Louisiana. Maine and Mary
land delegations Massachusetts thirty
delegates will occupy the first two rows of
the square directly back of the above men
toned section. and to the rear of them
Will be seated the Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri and Montana delegations, with
Nevada and Nebraska bringing UP the
rear.
New Hampshire's Location.
New Hampshire will take up eight of the
fourteen seats in the front of the third
square. which is across the main aisle
from the first square. New Jersey will
occupy the other six seats and all of the
second row. Then will come New York's
big delegation of seventy-two, followed by
North Dakota and North Carolina Ohio's
forty-six will take up the last two rows
of this block, and the first and part of the
second of the square to the rear Oregon
will fill out the remainder of the second
row. Pennsylvania s sixty-four represen-
tdli'eS theH VIII lolfOW, anu Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota and Ten
nessee will fill out the square in the order
named.
Texas will have the front seats in the
oblons on the right. and the remainder of
this section will be taken up as follows:
Utah, Vermont Virginia. Washington West
Virginia, Wisconsin. Wyoming Alaska,
Arizona, District of Columbia, Indian Ter
ritory, New Mexico and Oklahoma
OF the large delegations, Illinois will be
the farthest from the speakers plat
FORM but the seats are not at all unde-
sirable. New Yorks location is a very good
one, while Massachusetts ard Ohio will
be exactly in the center of the area al
lotted to the delegates. The alternates
seats are laid out on the same plan as the
places of the delegates, and they will also
be seated in alphabetical order.
Colorado Delegation En- Route.
CHICAGO, June 16-Members of the
Colorado delegation to the Philadelphia
convention, and over 100 friends left here
for the east today in a special train over
the Pennsylvania lines. The delegation is
unpledged so far as the vice presidency Is
concerned, and none of the members would
express preference.