| Show ARTHUR BROWN interviewed the following extract is from an interview by a representative of the gorazd with arthur brown of this city nice time busy time nay my share of it got interviews with nearly all the delegate delegat bp saw all of the credential except five or six all favored us except cleveland of nevada and possibly idaho and montana shoup from the first favored the plan of seating both delegations the outcome was all owing to the the convention was mad with impatience to hear from the credential committee anti and only ten minutes were devoted to utah and it wab a very close vote we had the old organization aion already and all that allen alien could do was to whisper whimper their half vote for harrison I 1 had bad been put on the national commit too tee by the on unanimous assent anent from our sl si debut at the last moment goodwin CAMO came to us and said that it if I 1 was on he would make a fight they said I 1 should name any man except mcbride and myself and they would accept him I 1 named salisbury thought he was the best m man ap we hadi how did Goo foodwin dIri get ou the committee to await on harrison 11 cannon did that when goodwi i was out of the bedl ball we held out the olive branch all the time but I 1 thought it a mistake as an they swept accept it in the spirit it was offered 11 did the report that you favored blaine work against nouh you As long as I 1 was there I 1 I 1 was for blaine or harrison Harr isoo either say we went to the indiana bead headquarters quarters and they asked me ine if we were for harrison we said that we were for utah and they said they would help us and they did as did maine and michigan where I 1 have some special friends I 1 refused to take any agy part or parcel as to the candidates it was understood that frank cannon would vote for blaine and salisbury for harrison when it was seen that harrlson harrison could be nominated the two votes of the delegation were emt cast for him birri the only part that goodwin goodwill and allen alien bad in the convention was to whisper that they voted their half votes for harri son goo and the only possible thing it amounts to is 18 the impression it will leave at home why did you yield your right to a place on the national committee committe eVY because the contestants abandoned any claim they had to a separate organization and I 1 thought that being sure of a man as as myself was better than taking any risk however slight I 1 want to unite the party if I 1 can and if I 1 am in the way want to stop step down and out what were the general results of the convention VP they all talked goodnature good nature adly and the anti harrison people bore their de feat calmly they are the men who do their fighting before and in the convention and not after it to ia over well go into the campaign with a united front with a good show to win WID did you bear any expressions as to the democratic candidate 1 many of the republicans seemed to to think that if we nominated harrison that the democrats nominate cleveland and that if we named blaine they would there la in however a good strong feeling among the democrats for cleveland As an the reporter got up to leave mr brown with the most plastic elegance assured him that they had always offered the olive bracca to the people who hated and vilified them and as an they did down there they will do here bore all we ask of them is to ome come in and help build up the party they will do it sooner or later and the best of them will before fall most of them are hangers back on personal per J ional jealousy and hate |
