Show GOSSIP ABOUT minneapolis the th time for the great republican conclave at minneapolis is coming and the public are on tiptoe to know what it will do who will do it and who of the old republican war horses will be absentia absent is the heat that can be told now and the st louis glou Derwe democrat rat says this about them the time was when there were no nominating conventions senators and representatives got together and decided upon nominations the people accepted the candidates thus chosen and voted for them but during the long period that conventions have been in ader senators and representatives until now have been conspicuous for their numbers and influence as delegate delegat ep ight here an other new leaf has been turned in respect to its congressional contingent the minneapolis convention will be agreeably peculiar when the chairman looks down upon the sea of faces he will recognize but few who belong in either senate or house it used to be the practice in presidential conventions to have a keen eyed clerk from congress stand beside the chairman and give him the names as delegates claimed recognition the washington I 1 agton clerk can be dispensed with at minneapolis allot the senators and representatives who will bo be in this convention the chairman can count on his bis finfera if he has the normal number of digits this is well too it savors oil of bossism and one man power to see the senators anu and representatives leave washington and run their party convention it looks as if they were the party the conventions were originated to express the will of the party arty they always done so acme some of them have been dominated b by r a few men in washington just as much as an the preliminaries ot of we the early presidential campaigns were but at minneapolis there will be a gathering of the party for the party and by the party colorado sends as three of her delegates at large her two senators teller and wolcott and her representative townsend Towo send but she is odd this time she wants free silver and desires to emphasize the course of her delegation in con gross grew senator shelby acu horn flom gow goes at the head bead of the illinois delegation senator fred T dubois the boyish new senator from the new state of idaho idabo is in ii a delegate so go to is senator authony iggins higgins Dele Delo wares first republican senator senator hiscock is one of new yorks big four senator joseph R hawley of connecticut to is a delegat eat large and senator M S quay of pennsylvania is a district delegate young john C houk the tennessee representative is a delegate and that about completes the congressional contingent for minneapolis it will not take a train to carry the statesmen from washington to the republican national convention this time business can go on in both branches of congress Con gresa simultaneously with the presidential nomination if it wants ants to many faces of senators and representatives senta tives heretofore well known to ID republican national covent conventions lons will be missed at minneapolis senator hoar or massachusetts will not be with his delegation for the first time in several la the stout voiced boutelle of maine does not go this time the pugnacious senator william F chandler Cb andler of now new ham hampshire will not be a delegate to comper complicate ex senator bairs philanthropic candidacy there to is no lack ot of material for the chairmanship of the convention the choice will probably pro babby be between J sloat bloat fassett who made such a gallant tight for governor in the now new york campaign last year and ex senator johnj ingalls ng alls who declined senator plumb plumbs a earnest appeal togo to go in with him and help redeem kansas from the alliance control mr installs ingalls would make the mst mist chairman but mr fassetta Fasset td ld selection is almost assured A in nearly every state delegation there is at least one distinguished republican of national fial fame ex se cretaro of the navy richard W thompson will be in his accustomed seat at the hea I 1 of the indian delegation mr thompson has one of the onest faces that will be seen in the convention his home to is in terre haute on the banks of the wabash when mr thompson was appointed secretary ecret ary of the navy mrs thompson exclaimed why richard cant even swim I with uncle alck thomson will sit a representative of one of the greatest manufacturing enterprises in the country N T de pauw the most notable newspaper men among the delegates will be M H de young proprietor of the san francisco chronicle and C B hart proprietor and edit editor or of the wheeling wheel er r which was a power in politics as aa long ago as when the ball was set a rolling 11 on the national road for old tippecanoe and tyler too there were two big fours in the convention of 1888 new york sent f onland one and ohio furnished another it was nip and tuck asto which was the biggest four I new york repeats her big four q chauncey depew ex senator warner miller senator frank hiscock and ex senator thomas C platt will head the new yorkers again at minneapolis the ohio quartet of 1888 is broken ex governor foster is in secretary of the treasury ex congressman ben butterworth is rather out of politics 2 but governor william mckinley and ex gover nor J B foraker with running mates of less prominence will be at minneapolis ex a |