Show NEW YORK d K ENTER CENTER OF c POLITICAL a SITUATION j Vice Vicc Presidential Gossip Gos ip Hinges On the tile Empire State Where Conditions Are Mixed Contests Are Decided and Other Giber Preparations Made for the Big Convention This is Week Philadelphia June 16 The feature of the situation which confronts the Re Republican Republican publican hosts at atthe the eoe of the preceding the assembling a of the con is s the absolute unanimous die dis disposition position to carry earry out fully the wishes of the president In everything relating to the coming convention As the clans from every quarter of the country gather rather the overwhelming sentiment Is that having served one ODe good term tenn Mc McKinley Kinley d another and that good faith and iid good politics demand that the wIsh wishes S of the candidate as nearly as asan can an be ascertained shall be respected in the matter of the vice presidency pre asWell as aswell well as of the platform upon which he heIs heIs heIs Is to go to the country The national committee completed its labors in connection with the contests today by leaving the Delaware factions suspended in midair President Keeps Hands Off OS The vice presidency pr Is the uppermost V topic In the of the leaders as well as the rank ink and file It is the only bone of contention and that contention would cease very quickly if anybody were svere ere authorized authorised to say exactly what the president pre wants If there is any plenipotentiary of the president here he lie has not presented presente his credentials The men who are popularly supposed to be spokesmen are the most careful to disclaim any a y power of attorney ey and their reticence in pro proclaiming proclaiming proclaiming claiming a candidate leads the rank and file to believe that the tle president has declared hands ofT The result Is that anybody and everybody who bas lias a candidate feels at liberty to boom him to his hearts content for the time being at least Either Bliss Bites or Allison Amson would be a first choice of the majority of the leaders but both of these men have turned deaf de f ears to the supplication supplication tion of the managers Secretary Long of Massachusetts etts they are holding in reserve in case another not so accept acceptable acceptable acceptable able as he should become me too formidable able eble New York Center Centor of Interest The most difficult problem pr arises in connection n with the New York delegation tion Headed by the BIll Four Fout Platt Roosevelt Depew and Odell Odeli the Em Egi Empire Ei pire tire ataris s elite delegation ene e to town and nd sit set th gossips go mad with speculation To New York theu th o Han a argued the nomination ly should go to secure a well balanced ticket geographically and if New York should present a candidate solidly backed barked unless the candidate were ac acceptable acceptable there might be trouble ahead f fr r the managers The somewhat strained relations between Platt and Hanna also al o served to turn attention to this state Lieutenant Governor Timothy Woodruff Wood Woodruff ruff already on In the ground with head headquarters headquarters headquarters quarters opened and button buttons engraved has never been considered con seriously but the possibility that the New York delegation might get together on Odell Odd or General Greene or Bliss if he could be bl h induced to t chance cha l his hi 1 mind at the th eleventh ele bOnt hour makes mak s the the political P pro prophets pr pause Governor Roosevelt Roo evelt still firmly ad adheres adheres I heres beres to his determination not to be a candidate notwithstanding his wondel ful hold upon the imaginations of all alt nUl New NewYork York finally acts at the meeting of this delegation on Monday unless the situation should crystallize meanwhile prophecies are valueless May ry be General Greene Tonight the situation in New York YorkI K I just this They want the vice presidency presidency presidency dency Senator Platt PIaU does not want Bliss because he believes his selection would be a victory for Hanna in III New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Bliss BUM and Hanna do not want Odell Odeli because It would be an absolute surrender to Platt Neither wants Woodruff Platt is not fully deter determined determined determined I mined about Odell and the delegation I may Daa finally get around to the presen presentation tation of General Francis V Greene Meanwhile the frIends of the other candidates have not been inactive The hardest hard t kind of work is being done don dons for Representative Dolliver the thc Iowa can candidate candidate candidate who arrived this afternoon The Iowa delegation is here and has ha decided decided ed to present Delivers name La LaFayette LaFayette LaFayette Fayette Young editor of the Des Deso 4 Mom o e Capital Ca has bas been heen selected to tomake tomake make the nominating speech Air Mr r Dol Dolliver liver is not talking He says saS that his position is lI such that it does not jus justify jusUf justify him in saying anything further than thlin that he is gratified at the cor cordiality with which his friends assure hinr of their support Mr lIr Burton who li lu lads ad the Ute Kansas Kangas 8 delegation says that the suggestion of Dolliver has hu been well ell received in that state stats Bliss Does Not Want It Bliss BlI i talk continues In spite of the there repeated re eted assertions a of Mr Bliss him himself himself self supplemented by the statement of M Mr Hanna lianna that he would no longer be considered a candidate Mr Bliss ar arrived arrived arrived rived today and said Kid that there was nothIng to add to what he has said before There has hu not been n much said about Senator Fairbanks today though there I Is 18 still a possibility po that he will be named The Pacific coast ut is determined to tomake tomake tomake make Itself lt e heard in the convention California and the mountain states are ie keeping the name of Irving Scott the builder of the Oregon before the peo pee people people pie while the Oregon Oreon and Washington men have not abated their interest Int re t in inthe Inthe inthe the candidacy of Bartlett Tripp Tomorrow with marching clubs and brass buds bands the westerners will invade the monotony of Quaker Sabbath th and at d make the welkin ring with vociferous actions in n true tf western tyle le And tomorrow for the first that Philadelphia will wID take on the appearance ap oe of ot a convention city Wolcott is for Scott Senator Se etor Wolcott of or Colorado arrived today and Immediately announced himself as as its favorable to the candidacy ca of Irving Scott of California for the th vice vlee presidency y Sott S ott candidacy would appeal to every w western estern man he said He is isa J Ja Isa a man of great force of character and andI I believe belee his nomination would add strength to the ticket Mr M Wolcott said that he h was not him If a candidate for tor a place pla e on the ticket tick tic kt and avd not be beIt It n t you think it about time to lauc h 11 the Elkins vice V presidential boom asked aked Senator Scott of ot West WestI t I Vir a fellow fallow member mamber of th thc tha national committee today Fr myself he said I consider the e quite ripe and I haves hav wIred vire our ration Cation to get an Elkins ban banner banner ner St s g it to their car and anti come ii Ir in with an Elkins shout I think they wildo wil will wildo do this and probably it will see th the boom well wen floated when they set get her here tomorrow And do you know the con could not do better than take taki my colleague in the senate e for this im important important important place I think he would mak mk a d str streng ng candidate and an vice president Smith Brings a Platform Tonight half a dozen banquets an nil are being held to distinguished visitors bu but buthe buthe the most Important gathering Is at the thi Union League club where Hanna and Secretary Root are dining Secretary Root and Postmaster Gen General General General eral Smith fresh from Washington ar aI arrived arrived rived late this afternoon The Th po pot t master general it is understood wa the bearer of the platform that meet meets the presidents ts approval WOLCOTT W IS NAMED Committee Announces Senator fo for Temporary Chairman Philadelphia Philadelphia June 16 The Republican Mean lican national rational committee today mad made official announcement of the selection of temporary officers of the national convention as follows Temporary Chairman of the Conven Comen Convention tion Senator E O 0 Wolcott Volcott Colorado Temporary Secretary Charles W V V Johnson Minnesota Assistant Secretaries John R B Mal Mai MalThy Thy loy Ohio John R Beam New Jersey Lucien L clen Gray Illinois Gardner P Stick Stickney StIckney ney ny Wisconsin James F Burke Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania W B R Tennessee Warren Bigler Bibler Indiana John Q Royce Kansas F S Gay Gaylord Galord lord U tient it Reading Clerks Dennis E Michigan E L Lampson Ohio read reading reading ing clerks house huso of Clerk at Presidents Desk Asher C Kinds Minnesota Official Reporter W R It District Distri t af qC Columbia l official ial reporter of the senate Tally Clerks Cl J Herbert Potts P New Ne Jer ey George Geor eR R Nebraska Nebrask n m de ig J tp te t notify ne tie t ts 5 officials o of theli r selection DECIDES STORE MORE CONTESTS National Nation l Committee N e arly Finishes This Work Philadelphia June 16 The Republican Republican lican lIean national na ional committee was in session from 11 U a m until almost 7 p m in today toda A variety of subjects were disposed of and when the thA committee adjourned all the contests over seats scats in the conven convention convention convention tion except those in the state of Ala Alabama Alabama bama barn a had been put behind it ItI The Alabama case has hIlS been revived I upon an agreement between the twe factions to divide the delegation by the elimination of contenting con tooting and I this work will be completed at a meet meeting meetIng I ing lug of the committee to be held next Monday In three districts of the state a settlement was reached today but there are still several other districts and the state at large to receive at attention attention tendon Other contests disposed of during durin the th day were those these covering the state of I ITe Texas Te s and ands several veral of the districts of that state as well as the th Norfolk Va I district and Committeeman Jim Hills old district in Mississippi In Hills district one delegate of each faction was seated while in the Virginia dis dia district district former Congressman Bowden car carried carried ried ned off tt the honors in opposition to John JohnS S Wise Wl e I Congressman Hawley Wins Congressman Congre Hawley won the fight for from Texas in op opposition opposition position to E B H R H Green Some of the district delegations TV were ere given to the Green faction but the Hawley peo people people pIe claim clIm that taking the delegation ion ionas as it stands standa they have a majority This probably means that Mr Hawley will wilt be chosen to represent Texas in the I national committee committees I The Delaware controversy between in n nth I the th Addicks and Dupont factions wits was w s temporarily shelved by the committee I Mr Duponts followers were found fo nd to tobe tobe tobe be unwilling to make malte such concessions as the committee would accept and the committee decided that there was no course open oven to it which would insure the state to the publican party at atthe atthe atthe the fall election except to exclude both factions from participation in the I proceedings p of the convention O Thedis The ws I no will have h v the thA effect nf of f throw ing r i ng g the e adjustment of f the case cas upon P n the national committee of credentials Hanna Kanna Gets Corruption Resolution Just Juat before 1 adjournment today the committee disposed of Mr Paynes res resolution resolution regarding the participation of federal officeholders in the selection of delegates by referring them all to Chairman Hanna It Is believed by Mr Payne that the effect of this dispo disposition disposition will wm be to hold it over the heads of ot the offenders in the future and that it would thus have a beneficial influence ence even een though it was not acted upon by the committee Mr of Rhode Island offered a resolution during the afternoon for a reduction of representation in con eon congress green gress of states where the th free exercise of the elective ele franchise Is prevented ted It was debated at some length was tabled because of the generally ex en expressed expressed I pressed opinion that the subject was one for the the action of the national convention con I and not for the committee It Itis Itis ItIs is understood that Mr will ask uk the committee on resolutions to con the of incorporating the resolution in the convention platform A resolution looking to the reduction of the representation r of states In to Republican conventions was Vas also presented but it wIs withdrawn after the adverse action taken on the proposition GUESTS ABE ARE RECEIVED Incoming Delegations Are Met by Committees Phi ad June 16 As tie the th visit visiting ing leg c at the tho various rail railroad railroad railroad road stations today they hey were met by Continued on Page 2 J EW ORK CENTER OF iii SITU Continued From Page 10 L 1 of all Republican Re u clubs chubs o ot i Philadelphia and vicinity and d escorted I to the Ute headquarters which had been selected in advance van e 4 I The feature of entertainment ent vr r I ranged for tor out of town organizations will be j pea en en house hause at every club in the city every day lay until the th conten con en tien ti n ends ds Everything has been be n arranged ar arranged a I ranged for the big bl bI parade on Monday night and an the mass meeting at the I Academy of ot Music Mu lc on Tuesday night I The army of ot newspaper J iV v r correspond correspondents eats will be cared eared for by b the news newspaper newspaper paper pa clubs The official convention souvenir was wasi issued i today The first delegation delec to ta arrive was that from Oregon headed by Governor I T l T Geer and Senator McBride They arrived shortly after noon The eight delegates were accompanied by fourteen fourteen four fourteen teen shouters They immediately imm I proceeded to their then headquarters rs at the Bingham house and later visited visit the national headquarters at the Walton I The Minnesota contingent of fifty eight eighteen of whom are delegates headed he ded by former Governor Hubbard came e In almost a ost immediately im Y after a no r the theOr I Oregon Or contingent Their Ther headquarters tern are at the Lafayette hotel |