Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — NO MORE BURCHARD. [ARTICLE]

NO MORE BURCHARD.

The National Committee Does Not Care to Hare “Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion” Repeated. Preparing for the Republican Conven-tion-Estimate of the First Ballot Chicago, June 15. 1888. The inauguration of the formalities preceding the call to order of the Republican National Convention took place, when the members of the National Committee assembled in their headquarters to settle all preliminaries. The Hon. B. F. Jones, Chairman of the committee, presided, with Gen. NV. L. Alexander of lowa acting as Sergeant-at-Arras, Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut Secretary, assisted by Carson Lake of New York. Twenty-eight States were represented by members or by proxy. Seated about the long table were the following gentlemen: Gen. Powell Clayton of Arkansas, F. F. Putney of Georgia, David T. Littler of Illinois, John C. New of Indiana, J. S. Clarkson of lowa, Cyrus Leland of Kansas, Walter Evans of Kentucky, J. M. Haynes of Maine, James A. Gary of Maryland, R. G. Horr and John P. Sanborn of Michigan, Robert G. Evans of Minnesota, John R. Lynch of Mississippi, Robert T. Van Horn of Missouri, Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey,* A. L. Conger of Ohio, Horace A. Jenckes of Rhode Island, NV. P. Brownlow of Tennessee, N. NV. Cuney of Texag, NV. Hooker of Vermont, Hurry C. Paylle of W isconsin, Clark Churchill of Arizona, Robert E. Fisk of Montana, John R. McBride of Utah, Thomas S. Miner of NVashingtou Territory, Joseph M. Carey of NVyoming Territory. The proceedings opened by Mr. Clarkson on behalf of the sub-committee of arrangements making a report concerning the plan of seating that had been adopted. Sanborn of Michigan, Hooker of Vermont, Lynch of Mississippi, Payne of NVisconsin, Littler of Illinois, New’ of Indiana, and Conger of Ohio took part in the discussion that the report gave rise to. The allotment of 200 more tickets to Chicago than the original 700 proposed was the nub of the debate. Ah a result the number of tickets for local distribution was decreased, being restricted from a total of 900 ta 860, including those to bo given th© Mayor for distinguished guests. It was nearly an hour before the matter of tickets was finally settled. Mr. Clarkson called attention to the matter of selecting a Chaplain. Several members of the committee at once interjected that a different Chaplain every morning was desirable. One committeeman mischievously moved that no Chaplain bo selected by the name of Burchard. Another gentleman moved that the Chaplain’s prayer every morning be submitted in manuscript before delivery to the Chair- ‘ man of the convention. .Chairman Jones thought the officers of the convention would have enough to do to attend to their own prayers. The matter of prayers and Chaplains was then promptly relegated to the Sub-Committee on Arrangements. Mrs. John A. Logan is in the city. She is booming Algor, and is firm in the conviction that he will get there. Murat Halstead is doing yeoman service for Sherman and predicting his election. The Gresham boom has perceptibly weakened within the past few days. The Harrison men are not doing much shouting, biit they are claiming the State . as solid for their man.

Gen. Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, tha veteran of many national conventions, says that he would give more for the chances of Allison and Alger than for any other candidate in the field, provided Blaine was out of the field to stay, and he thought he was. All of the big guns of the party are against Grepham. Filley, New, Clayton, Halstead, Foraker, and the leaders generally are smiling at his boom. The Allison men are not doing any loud shouting, but they are credited with doing a good deal of effective work in a quiet way. Alger, Allison, Gresham, Harrison, and Sherman are the chief factors in the contest, and the friends of each are on hand in force and bending every energy in the work of booming their respective favorites. The Dqtfi/ News this morning gives the following estimate of the first ballot: Interviews with numerous friends of the candidates—men who speak as having authority and not as the scribes—result in arranging the apparent strength of the men on the first ballot as follows: Sherman first, with over 300 votes; Alger second, Gresham third, Allison fourth, the field fifth, with possibilities in favor of several favorite sons. It is estimated, and said to bo a conservative estimate, that over five hundred of the delegates would prefer Blaine to any other if there were an opportunity to nominate him, and if the convention could be convinced that the Florence letter had not ruined his availability as a candidate. The Tribune of this morning prints the following special telegram from Washington: The Republican platform of 1888 has been practically written in Washington, and all that the Committee on Resolutions in Chicago will be required to do will ba to dovetail the planks together and trim down the edges so as to make a workmanlike job of the who'e. It is not yet known who will be the Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, but everything points to Representative McKinley of Ohio receiving that honor. The main features of the platform will be sv fifilows: Senator Hoar of Massachusetts has prepared a plank condemning in strong terms the President for not carrying out his civilservice promises as outlined in his letter accepting the nomination. Special prominence will be given to the pension plank, which is the joint work of Senator Ingalls and Representatives Grosvenor of Ohio and Henderson of lowa. In a general way it may be said that the platform will declare in favor of liberal pensions, that It will animadvert in the strongest terms on the President for his veto of the dependent pension bill and private pension bills, and that he will be called to account for his general usurpation of the veto power. The tariff plank is the joint work of Representatives McKinley, Reed of Maine, and Burrows of Michigan, the three leading members of the minority of the Ways and Means Committee. The plank will follow the lines laid down by the minority report on the Mills bill, which report was drawn by McKinley, aided by the other two gentlemen. It will come out flat-footed for protection to American industries. It is not likely that any suggestion will be mode as to the disposal of the surplus. Not much attention will be paid to finance, but the course of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury in not buying bonds with the surplus will be severely criticised. Senator Plumb of has written the plank relating to public riands, and the Senator will arraign the President for the way in which the late Land Commissioner Sparks administered the affairs of bis o**ice.