Show THE GOLD BUGS i WILL RUN IT I No Doubt as to What the St Louis Convention Will Do BUILDING IS NOW READY ARRANGEMENTS FOR HANDLING THE CROWDS COMPLETED Effects of the Late Storm Will Scarcely Be Noticeable By thc Time the Delegate of the G O PReach P-Reach St Louis McKinley Said to Be the Mam Reed Would Not Accept Ac-cept the Second Place There Arc Many Contests ST LOUIS June 7Vp to date there are fully five times as many outof town newspaper correspondents in St Louis who have come to the national convention a politicians A bakers dozen political news disseminators dis-seminators arrived last week and to days trains brought in a many more while all told less than half a dozen politicians ot national repute have put in an appearance I is not expected there will be much real activity In a political way until the arrival of M A Hanna Major McKln leys manager with his forces He is expected Tuesday as is also the Hon Thomas C Platt who is coming to look after the interests of Levi P Morton Mor-ton I is also said that exGovernor Gear of Iowa will put in an appearance appear-ance before the middle of the week with a corps of assistants to engage wih in the preliminary skirmish in behalf of Senator William B Allison The billposting brigade for the Hawkeye state candidate was here today and asa as-a result lithograph PORTRAITS OF SENATOR ALLISON have been hung in shop windows and posted upon the dead walls of the town The national committeemen will all be here before the close of the week With them will come scores of delegates dele-gates especially those having contests and a horde of camp followers in the I way of citizens who desire to serve the state or rther party in the capacity ca-pacity of assistant door keepers and other useful and necessary positions about the convention hall Then too the hotels will be the crowd in wi augmented aug-mented to a considerable extent by members of congress and other states men and patriots from the national capitol All arrangements for handling the convention have been completed All the hostelries and boarding houses have laid in their supply of food and extra rooms The street railway companies com-panies have by working forces of men night and day repaired the damage wrought by the tornado sufficiently to enable them to handle the crowds of people that are expected to come The convention hal has had ALL THE FINISHING TOUCHES and will be dedicated with pomp and ceremony this week In fact St Louis in spite of the fact that a fortnight ago a storm swept a hole a mile and a half wide through her center from the western limits to the river is ready to comfortably accommodate ac-commodate and handle the scores of thousands of visitors who i Is expected ex-pected will attend the convention None of the managers of the Republican presidential candidates have as yet arrived ar-rived McKinley has a number of lieutenants lieu-tenants here however who are busy preparing the way for the Ohio candidates can-didates manager Marcus A Hanna The latest arrival is exCongresman A C Thompson of Ohio who with General Gen-eral Grosvenor will argue the cases of the contested McKinley delegates before be-fore the national committee As yet but two national committeemen have arrived They are G W Hill of Tennessee Ten-nessee and J G Long of Florida Both are avowed McKinley men Judge avowe Thompson who is looked upon as the only McKinley spokesman yet in the field said he was certain there will be but one ballot for the naming of a presidential nominee He also said the Hon Thomas B Reed would not accept ac-cept the vice presidential nomination He was quite as positive of this as he was that McKinley would be nominated nominat-ed on the first ballot SOUND MONEY In regard to the platform he had this to say I will be a sound money platform I will be a platform that will be acceptable ac-ceptable to the Republicans sast and west However some of the delegates west I may go away dissatisfied at not haying hay-ing been able to word it just as they desired yet it will be a platform they can support In making this statement Judge Thompson said he did not wish to be understood a attempting to dictate sentiment to the delegates or to the party as a whole He was merely speaking from the knowledge he had of the platforms adopted at the various var-ious state conventions When asked as to who he thought would be named for the second place on the ticket he said he had heard no one talked of b the McKinley men I Regarding the contests he said he had no idea hv many would be brought before the national committee I commit-tee A week ago there were sixtysev pn contests involving the rights of 156 delegates from the states of Alabama I California Delaware Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Texas and Arizona I Ariz-ona Many of these contests he believed be-lieved WOULD BE AMICABLY SETTLED or abandoned before the meeting of the national committee Another of the McKinley force in reference to the platform said i would make a square issue with the 16 to 1 Democrats I would read so asto admit of no double I standard interpretation I would be for a gold G W Hill of the national committee said the delegates from Tennessee were squarely for a single gold standard stand-ard and for McKinley The Tennessee delegation will present pre-sent the name of H Clay Evans for the vice presidency he said and will do all in its power to secure a victory vic-tory for him |