, 1900-06-18
CLANS ASSEMBLING
PHILADELPHIA is FULL OF DEL
EGATES TO THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
Senator Wolcott of Colorado Will Be
Temporary Chairman-Other Tenn
porary Officers Named by the Ma
tional Committee-The Vice Presi-
Dental Nomination Leading Topic.

Dental Nomination Leading Topic
Philadelphia, June 1.-THE feature
of the situation which confronts the
republican hosts at the close of the
week preceding the assembling of the
Econvention, is the absolute unanimous
disposition to carry out fully the wishes
of the president in everything relating
to the coming convention. As the
clans from every quarter of the coun-
try gather, the overwhelming senti-
ment is that, having served one good
term, Mckinley deserves another, and
that good faith and good politics de-
as nearly as can be ascertained, shall
be respected in the matter of the vice
presidency as well as the platform up
on which he is to go to the country.
The republican national committee
today made official announcement Of
the selection of temporary officers of
the national convention as follows:
Temporary chairman of the conven-
ton, Senator E. o. Wolcott, Colorado.
Temporary secretary, Charles W.
Johnson, Minnesota.
Assistant secretaries, John r. Nal
10y, Ohio; John R. Beam, New Jersey;
Lucien Gray, Illinois; Gradner p.
Stickney, Wisconsin; James F. Burke,
Pennsylvania; w. b. ~BOuchman, Ten
nessee; Warren Bigler, Indiana; John
Q. Royce, Kansas; F. S. Gaylord, Con-
necticut.
Reading clerk, Dennis Z. Alaward,
Michigan; E. l.. Lampson. Ohio, (read-
ing clerks house of representatives.
Clerk at presidents desk, Asher C.
Kinds, Minnesota.
Official reporter, w. r. B~lumeburg,
District of Columbia, official reporter
of the senate.
Tally clerks, ]. Herbert Potts, New
Jersey; George R. Butlin, Nebraska.
The national committee completed
its labors in connection with the con-
tests today by leaving the Delaware
factions suspended in mid-air.
The vice presidency is the upper
most topic in the minds of the leaders
as well as the rank and file. It's the
only bone of contention and hal con-
tertion would cease very quickly if
anybody were authorized to say ex-
actly what the president wants. II
there is any plenipotentiary of the
president here he has not presented his
credentials. The men who are popu-
larly supposed to be McKinley's spokes-
men are the most careful to disclaim
ticence in proclaiming a candidate
leads the rank and file to believe that
the president has declared hands
Off"
The result is that anybody and every
body who has a candidate feels at lib
erty to boom him to his hearts content
for the time being at least. Either
Bliss or Allison would be a first choice
of the majority of the leaders, but both
Of these men have turned deaf ears to
the supplication Of the managers. Sec
rotary Long of Massachusetts, they are
holding in reserve in Ease another not
so acceptable as he should become too
formidable.
The most difficult problem arises in
connection with the New York delega-
ton. Headed by the Big Four" Plat,
Roosevelt, Depew and Odell, the EN-
pire states elite delegation came to
town and set the gossips mad with
speculation. To New York, the logi-
clans argued, the nomination naturally
should go to secure a well-balanced
ticket geographically, and if New York
should present a candidate, solidly
backed, unless the candidates were ac-
ceptable, there might be trouble ahead
for the managers.
Lieutenant-Governor Timothy Wood
ruff, already on the ground with head
quarters opened and buttons engraved,
has never been considered seriously,
but the possibility that the New York
might get together on O'Dell
General Green or Bliss, If he could
be induced to change his mind at the
eleventh hour, makes the political
prophets pause. Governor Roosevelt
still firmly adheres to his determination
not to be a candidate, notwithstanding
his wonderful hold upon the magma
lions of all. Until New York finally
acts at the meeting Of its delegation OF
Monday, unless the situation should
crystalline meanwhile, prophecies are
valueless.