Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-22
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
All the Politicians Looking Forward With
interest 10 Developments.

interest 10 Developments.
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Every Democrat in and around
Washington of any prominence is
tring to get the time and to scrape
together the money for trip to ST.
Louis during Convention week. They
are anticipating lively old time,
because 30 little of that conventions
programme has been settled, and be-
cause there is so much promise of a
spirited tussle between the factions.
The Democratic leaders say that it
is their purpose to have just as or
derly convention as the Republi-
cans will have at Chicago. They
want to make an impression upon the
country by their orderly transaction
of important party business even
under adverse circumstances.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, who will
be one of the presiding officers of the
st. Louis convention, is very much
bent upon its being an orderly affair.
He wants nobody kicked out of the
hall, and no scenes which would lead
TO unfavorable comment or to bitter
feelings among the Democrats. Mr..
Bailey has been in Washington for
several days, and has Expressed his
views on that to more than one of
his callers. But it remains to be
seen whether the Democratic leaders
will be able to have their way in that
particular.
1T Judge Parker be nominated, as
seems entirely probable, the New
York crowd will have program for.
the convention pretty we'll outlined.
They have already been comforting
with the various leaders about run
ming mate. An authoritative word
here is that it will likely be Marehall
Field, the millionaire merchant of
Chicago. Judge Parker's friends
have recently made a second pro-
posal to him which Mr.. Field has
looked upon with favor. But John
Il. Mclean, of this city, and of
Ohio, is moving for the nomination,
and parleys during the past week
have been somewhat in his faver. 1t
is even said that the New York dele
CATION may be for him. Mr.. Mclean
was. the Democratic candidate for
Governor of Ohio, few years ago,
and was proposed as candidate for
the Vice Presidency with Bryan in
1900, but Mr.. Bryan did not want
him because of his conservative ten
dencies. Afterwards Mr.. Bryan
asked Mr.. Mclean, who is very
wealthy man, to contribute to the
campaign fund of 1900, but Mr.. Nc
Lean declined.
1t is claimed that Mr.. McLean's
nomination would help toward car
rying Indiana. He could be counted
on for large contribution and the
earnest support of his paper, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, which circulates
extensively through Indiana, and is
the most widely read Democratic
paper in the State.
Senator German, of Maryland, is
supposed to be writing the Demo
cratic platform, although whether he
has definite understanding with the
Parker people on the subject is not
known. 1t is regarded as certainty
that he will be chairman of the COM
mittee on resolutions at St. Louis,
for he will be a delegate at large
from Maryland. Ex-Attorney Gene
raj Poe, of Maryland, who is an ex-
pert in phrasing platforms, may be
clothing Mr.. Gorman's ideas about
what the platform should be, with
appropriate words and phrases. If
this has been done it does not follow
that the platform will exactly follow
any draft that Mr.. German may take
to st. Louis. The committee on
resolutions will likely have some
ideas to put into the resolution, but
the expectation here is that it will
be a conservative platform. The
fight over the platform may be the
most spirited in the convention, for
it will be adopted before the nomina,
ton of the candidates, and Mr..
Bryan is expected to take a stand in
behalf of the two platforms on which
he has been nominee for the Presi-
dency.