Show NEW YORKS SCRAPPER plait ana anti plan delegates personalities there was a wholesale washing of soiled linen at the meeting this afternoon of the new york delegation it began with a passage at arms between chairman lauterbach and anson G mccook and was followed by a senea dional attack by warnar miller on ex senator plait still more sensational were the utterances of thurlow weed aarnes and john bainee who epoco for mr platt and who pictured air miller as sneaking into the delegation with a knife in his sleeve and as being faithful in nothing and faithless in everything after this lively discharge of personalities the delegation settled down to business and named their representatives for alie several convention committees before adjourning a resolution was unanimously adopted livering Liv oring tho maintenance of the present cold standard and opposing arco silver except by international agreement mr 0 M depew rapped the meeting to order with a heavy walking stick in lieu of the customary ervel mr win A sutherland tho york member of the national committee won the thanks of the little caterio of newspaper men present by offering a resolution that they be permit teed to remain daring the session it was unanimously adopted the striking incidents which followed were precipitated by mr lauterbach who in a brief speech declared that while the contestants who were seated by the national committee on saturday last should be permitted to remain in the hall and vote it need not be construed aa an endorsement indorsement indor by the delegation of tho national committees action but on the contrary they should be regarded merely as temporary dele antes this brought ansong mccook to bis feet sir mccook was manifestly opposed to the patronizing tone in which mr lauterbach referred to the late contesting delegates he said he had fought this battle in the primaries and finally before the national committee mr sutherland himself made the motion that he and mr brookfield brook field were entitled to their seats if the delegates wished to shut him out of the convention be would bow to their will he did not come here as a supplicant for hla rights but as a republican who had voted for every president from lincoln down to the present time he did not come in a factional spirit turning to mr lauterbach he passionately exclaimed that he would accept nothing from that gentleman but courtesy he asked for nothing but what was right when mr mccook had finished mr depew restored good temper by a humorous allusion to the proceedings of this morning and in this connection he made a personal explanation he stated that he was in bis room preparing a speech which he purposed pur delivering to the merchants of st louis when mr lauter bach burst in with the announcement that he mr depew had been selected as the chairman of the meeting he supposed that there had been a conference of the delegates and that the matter bad been settled by them when he arrived at the hall he explained to mr miller that his time was limited and requested that the expedited as rapidly as possible he reviewed the incidents of the morning meeting and asserted that he was interested in advancing gov marions Mo rions claims for presidency this assertion was erected with a loud cheer from ahe platt men owing to the differences in the delegations however he said he would not be a candidate for the post of chairman then came the personalities the presiding officer recognized mr warner miller who explained the cir under which he had asked mr depew to permit the use of his name as a candidate for the chairmanship he went on to say that the question of personality was not involved in this matter it made no difference whether depew or any one else was selected there were other considerations mr platt whose name had ben proposed for the chairmanship having described one of the candidates for the presidency mckinley as unfit for the office he inquired dramatically if the new york delegates endorsed indorsed indor sed that statement it they did they could make that man their chairman he would not consent that the delegation from york should put any such stigma on mr mckinley and if it were let them go home and explain how they approved this infamous characterization he appealed to the delegates to say whether they endorsed indorsed indor sed jt how are these charges to be answered in the campaign he queried turning on his heel and with a wave of his hand including all those present no mache asserted could put him in such a position why is it he again asked that mr depew is to be put down and the man who has uttered those base charges substituted mr thurlow weed barnes replied tor mr fiatt he inquired sarcastically who was entitled to the greatest honor the man who came out squarely and made his fight or mr miller who sneaked into the delegation with his knife in ha sleeve at this point abo platt men arose and for a minute or more applauded the speaker dp eaker mr miller meanwhile sitting calmly in hia seat and surveying the scene with a contemptuous smile on hia face mr barnes closed his remarks with a declaration la that ho bad no apologies to make for supporting mr platt and that he personally did not fear to meet the issue mr depew at this point attempted to soothe the ruffled feelings of the delegates by announcing that the business before the meeting was the election of a chairman of the delegation general anson mccook thereupon nominated mr warner miller while mr platt was put in nomination by mr quigg but the exchange of personalities was not to be so easily closed state senator john rainea had something to say and he said it with a force and vigor and directness ot expression that caused the delegates 0 o break into cheers of approval again and again to mr miller and shaking his long cincer almost in the lattera face mr raines characterized the ex senator as the representative kicker of new york as a man who sought the place of a delegate at large to oppose governor morton he did not approve mr millers course mr miller might regard it as an exhibition of courage in hia raines opinion it was an exhibition of downright foolhardiness advancing a step toward mr miller and addressing add hia remarks to that gentleman he inquired when it was that mr platt had said that mckinley Me Kinley was unfit and incompetent for the office of president he challenged the correctness ot the statement and asserted while the platt men cheered him to the echo that mr miller had misrepresented their leader what mr platt did say was that a gentleman who aspired to tho presidency should announce his position on the money question in one part 0 the country he was quoted as holding certain views and in another part of tho country he WAS quoted aa holding opposite views what mr platt wanted was a correct definition of mckinleyl McKinley 8 financial principals he charged mr miller with being faithless in everything and faithful in nothing and was again loudly cheered when he declared in conclusion that whoever might be nominated whether it be mckinley or any other gentleman he would have the united support of all the loyal republicans of new york including he hoped mr warner miller of herkimer mr raines remarks so cleared the atmosphere and so satisfied mr platts friends that they were willing at this point to vote on the question of the delegation chairmanship mr miller apparently had nothing further to say and the clerk began to call the roll mr depew was loudly cheered when he arose a id announced his choice or mr platt and the batters lat friends expressed further manifestations ot approval when similar votes were cast by thomai J bradley who acme weeks ago announced that he would support mckinley for president and by de witt 0 middleton of the seventy votes cast mr platt received 53 and mr miller 17 and again the platt men gave fresh evidence of their approval by heartily cheering the announcement with a view to placing the meeting on record as favoring the gold standard the following resolution offered by mr quigg waa adopted resolved that we favor the maintenance of the present gold standard and are opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement for bimetallism with the leading con mercial nations of the world on motion of mr quigg frederick S gibbs was elected as tho new york member of the national committee edward lauterbach as the member of the committee on resolutions wm A sutherland on credentials john T mott as vice president in the convention L 0 proctor on permanent organization john rainea on the committee on rules mr quigg moved that the delegation use its influence to insure the insertion of a plank in the platform calling for good roads which mr depew regarded as an appropriate suggestion coming as it did from the champion bicyclist of the delegation adjourned Adjourn pd sine die |