People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — WILL LAST TWO DAYS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL LAST TWO DAYS.

Illlnol* Stat* R*pabU«M Caaraattaa to Be a Lengthy On*. Springfield, 111., April 29.— 1 t has been practically decided that the Illinois republican state convention will last two days. The anti-McKinley men are in favor of this move, while the McKinley men declare they will fight it out if it takes all night. The men who are opposing instructions are placing a great deal of weight on the effect of the first roll call in the convention, where tho Cook county delegates will be placed on record. The

McKinley men still claim they have 150 Cook county delegates. The antiMcKinleyites insist that sixty delegates will be all that will go with the Ohio man’s friends. The showing, if made, they assert, will have a great deal of influence on the country delegates, who have been led to believe that the Cook county machine has lost its grip on the delegation it elected. After it has been shown that the delegation is not broken up, the anti-McKinley men want to adjourn the convention until Thursday, and let the country delegates sleep over the proposition. The anti-McKinley men are making the most of the concession made by the McKinley men in putting off the forcing of instructions until after the state ticket has been nominated. They claim it is an admission that the McKinley men knew they could not carry instructions out of the regular order oi business, and that the impression is now fairly afloat that they are not so sure of their ground as they have been claiming. All the leaders agree, however, that the fight is so close that predictions are dangerous. At the same time the antiMcKinley men are as confident of defeating instructions as the McKinley men are of securing them. The ticket finally nominated is likely to be as follows: For governor—John R. Tanner. For lieutenant-governor —W. A. Northcotte or T. S. Chapman. For state treasurer—Henry L. Hertz. For state auditor—Charles J. Kinnie. For secretary of state —George C. Rankin cfr Jaimes A. Rose. For attorney-general—E. C. Aken. A proposition to nominate William E. Mason for United States senator will be brought before the convention. Judge Gary of DuPage county will present the resolution.

JOHN R. TANNER.