Show republicans IANS OF NEBRASKA over a thousand delegates delegate in attendance at the state the vele uel gates at elected for mr me kinley omaha neb april ts is the state convention of et nebraska republicans to select four our delegates to tile the national con bention convened in omaha tonight w with ith 1057 delegates present notwithstanding the general concession that the body was unanimous for for mckinley for president and read to accept anything fathered by senator john M thurton thurston the session 14 nas as by no means harmonious william P AI mccreary cCreary was made temporary chairman and the temporary organization made permanent the first ripple of excitement was war provoked when ex go governor arnor Cro crounse one of Ne braskas pioneer republicans asked consent to introduce a resolution it was granted when the secretary commenced read ing tile the instrument the storm broke it was intended as a rebuke to senator thurston for his activity in the campaign throughout the state leading lea dinic to tile the selection of delegates it recited that the senator had left his seat in the senate and forgetting the dignity of his high office dabbled in ward politics that lie he aspired to be it a dictator and if hit his rip methods ghods were to be adopted the elcans cans of the country should cease to claim to represent the voice of the people it compared him with individuals in ancl ancient Lilt and modern history who have assumed the roles of dictators and concluded with an extended reci recitation tallo calculated to ridicule senator thurston Thu reton senator thurston was quick to reply declaring his political career was free from any dishonorable act and bald he was ready to abide by the judgment of the pe pie the resolutions were ere tabled without this was the only demonstration of the opposition the following fol loIng delegates were selected by acclimation and instructed to sup port mckinley J L webster peter jensen T P kennard and george II 11 Thurn mel A number of leading republicans republica tib ad dressed the convent on the resolutions congratulate the country upon the certain return of re publicans public ans to power the finin financial cial plank Is as follows awe we pledge ourselves in advance to the platform of the forthcoming republican national convention believing that it m will III declare against the frer free and unlimited coinage of silver and for a currency of gold silver and paper as sound as the government and as untarnished as its honor and for that american bys tern tein of protection and reciprocity of w hian wm win mckinley Is tile the best living ex exponent and under which our people attained tile the greatest greate bt national and andl vidual prosperity we assert that the republican party stands lands for atner ainer lean ican markets for american products the government supervision and control 0 of f transportation lines and rates the pro lection of the people from all unlawful combination and unjust exaction of aggregated gre gated capital and corporate power and a pension policy just gustand and generous one of the side lights of the convention which at one lime hine seemed likely to develop into interesting proportions was the attitude of the A 11 A toward mckinley H A 1 I of st louis member of the executive committee of the ad v labory board of the A P A arrived in the city thib morning direct from the cincinnati meeting of the boar dat it was decided to oppose the nomination 0 of f mckinley Neb nebraska rabka leaders of tile the headed for his room and boon a lively confer conference euce was in re nesb r b mr air I 1 lio said tile the object of his cibit was to deliver a message to the nebraska members of the order that the delegation to be selected by the state convention should not be instructed for mckenley Nic kinle but under the nothing more than an uninstructed dele gation gallon would be abbed from nebraska mr of st bt louis bloke positively theorda Theor dir dr through its chosen narese ila lives and leaders had de aided absolutely and without reserva tion that a fight to end was to be waged against mckinley it was to be waged aged on him as a candidate before the republican national convention and it it did not succeed there it was to be car ried to the polls no good A P A ac cording to the law as laid down now or at any time in the future wip support port lend aid or comfort to the mckinley bandl alcy ahe bl louls louis man inan was finally finall Y told that it was too late to change the 6 late since the arrangement had been corn com plated to send mckinley delegates to bt louis and the conference ended |