Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1896 — miLEY TBE MM. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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dominated by Republican? for President. HOBART IS SECOND. Both Candidates Nominated on First Ballot. Nominations Are Mude Unanifnoua and Delegatea and Spectators Go Wild with Enthusiasm Platform Adopted Advocating the Single Gold Standard Free-Coinoge Delegatea hver Their Connection with Former Aasociatea—Detailed Description of Closing Beenes of the Convention. Morton eg <Jo»y 00% Allison <s. 86% Csemrou i VOTE FOB VICE PRESIDENT. Hobart 633% Evans Bulkeley 29 Walker 22 Lippett 8 Beed 3 Grant 2 Dspew 8 Thurston 2. Horton l VOTE ON GOLD PLANK. For 812% Against 110% The Republican national convention completed it* work Thursday night William McKinley, of Ohio, was nominated for President and Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersey, for Vice-President on a platform that declares for a protective tariff and the single gold standard. The total vote cast for McKinley was 801%. Reed received 84%, Quay 00%, Morton 58, Allison 85% and Cameron 1. No sooner had

the chairman announced the result than Senator Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts moved to make the nomination unanimous. Among the first to second this were Geu. Hastings of Pennsylvania and Thomas Platt of New York. Gen. Henderson of lowa followed. Amid a storm of howls, tooting of fish horns, waving of banners aud the playing of the baud the motion was put and carried. The pandemonium was so great that the chairman could not be beard. It was after 2 o’clock when the rollcall of States for nominations for President was begun. As the roll was called names were unanswered which had seldom been passed before in Republican conventions—lllinois and Indiana —and the monotony was broken only when Gen. Henderson rose at the call of lowa to announce that John N. Baldwin, of Council Bluffs, would speak for the Hawkeye State. He eloquently presented the name of William B. Allison. Senator Lodge followed, speaking the claims and qualifications of the sou of Maine; Depew presented the name of Morton, Gov. Hastings that of Quay and Foraker named McKinley. When Senator Foraker, as chairman of the Ohio delegation, arose and cast 40 votes for the Buckeye man, the ballot stood 407% for McKinley. Instantly the convention burst into a storm of enthusiasm. The roll call was continued, but it was only a matter of form. There was a moment of suspense until the vote had been announced, and then the vast assemblage burst into cheers and shouts of the wildest enthusiasm. Hats, papers, plumes, umbrellas, everything movable was wav-

,ed, aud the convention hall seemed more like an immense kcileiiloseope than a gathering 0 f S ane ineiA. The band started up “America,” and- every throat that was not stretched witp shouts of “McKinley” joined in the /hational hymn. The first uaiiot was completed at 5:40, and it was,* o'clock before the chan-man was able to gain order and to recognize Senator Lodge, who moved that the nomination of McKinley be made unanimous. This served to bring forth another uproarous outburst. After McKinley’s nomination had been made unanimous and the chair had so declared, the convention proceeded to name a candidate for Vice-President. The names of G. A. Hobart of New Jersey, 11. Clay Evans of Tennessee, Lippitt of Rhode Island, Walker of Virginia and Bulkeley of Connecticut were placed in nomination. The nomination of Hobart, like that of McKinley, was decided on the first ballot, and afterward made unanimous. The third day’s session of the Republican national convention was called to

order by Chairman Thnr*ton at 1030 o’clock Thursday forenoon. Five thousand people stood outside the convention hall clamoring for admission and quarreling with doorkeepers. Inside the hall there was s restless activity among the delegates and visitors and an eager desire to see the wheels move. Chairman Thurston without any preJminaries plunged into business by anuonneing that the first thing on the program was the report of the committee on resolutions. Senator-elect Joseph B. Foraker, of Ohio, crowded to the front, clifcibed the steps and presented the platform, while the audience and delegates followed the reading with intense interest. The preamble refers to four years of Democratic rule compared to thirty years of Republican rule as good grounds to appeal to the American people. The four years of unrestricted rule of the Democratic party is denounced as a calamity and a record of incapacity. The adverse balance of trade, the deficit in the treasury and the piling up of the public debt and menace to the redemption fund are declared. “We are Aot pledged to any particular schedule,” but the question of rates should be governed by conditions. The restoration of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of the merchant marine is favored. The money plank, which caused so much discussion and over which arose the contention, reads as follows: “We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained we believe the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver* and paper currency now in circulation must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolable the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether of coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nationsjof the earth.” A plank favoring liberal reciprocity is incorporated and the repeal of the reciprocity agreements is condemned. The plank on foreign affairs favprs the independence of Cuba and'control of Hawaii by ths United States and indorses the Monroe doctrine. There are

planks favoring the extension of c > v *l ser " vice reform, a declaration ag^* ns t the use of the public money for '.sectarian purposes, in favor of arbitration, for liberal pensions and the buyldins of the Nicaraguan canal by the! United States Government. \ At the conclusion of the reading Teller presented a silver substitute for the gold plank in the platform, and\made a strong speech in defense of the bimetallic views of the white metal men. AdhS{ he had spoken to the resolution Foraker* moved to lay it on the table. The gold sentation of 105%. Foraker then moved the previous question on the adoption of the platform, and the platform was adopted, a separate vote being taken on the financial plank, resulting: Yeas, 812%nays, 110%. As soon as the platform with the gold plank was adopted the silver men from' Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Utah, headed by their leaders, arose and marched out of the convention hall, renouncing the Republican party and its declaration of principles. WEDNESDAY MORNING. Convention Permanently OrgaalaecV with Thurston as Chairman. The gavel was wielded Wednesday morning by Temporary Chairmar* Fairbanks, who was obliged to hampaer vigorously when, at 11:40 o’clock. h*e attempted to quell the tumult into m’orking order. On the platform at his Rt t stood the portly form of Murk Hasina, and beside him. with a friendly b'uhd on his shoulder and pouring some icoufidences into Mr. Hanna’s ear, wpts Thomas Carter of Montana, the .-retiring chairman of the national copnmittee. For five minutes Mr. Fairbanks rested on his oars while the ushers, perspired in futile attempts to persuade-'' or compel compliance with the chairman's request. The convention was ipi comparative order upon the introduction of Dr. Wilbur U. Williams, pastor of the Union Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Louis, who made the prayer. As he lifted his head at the conclusion of the prayer the crowd sank back in their seats and the convention was again under way. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, rose to ask for the committee, on resolutions the privilege of sitting during the progress of the convention, reporting that the sub-committee had completed the platform, and that it was being considered by the full committee. Minor matters were brought to the attention of tue convention by Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, and by a colored delegate from Alabama. The chairman's call for the report of the committee on credentials met no response and that committee was passed. The report of the committee on permanent organization was received and adopted ’mid loud protestations from some of the dissenters. When the reading clerk, who intoned the committee's report to the house, announced the name of John M. Thurston of Nebraska to be permanent chairman there was an eruption of flags and cheers from the delegates. Senator Sewell, of New Jersey, and Congressman Sereno Paine, of New York, were designated to escort the permanent chairman to the platform. They marched down the main aisle, while the delegates jumped to their feet fluttering flags and handkerchiefs and cheering shrilly. Mr. Fairbanks met the trio as it ascended the steps, and grasped the Nebraska Senator by the band. Thurston

faced the arena with bit hands clasped behind him and began to speak. He said: Gentlemen of the Convention- The bappy memory of yoor kindness and confidence will abide In my grateful heart forever. My sole ambition la to meet yoor expectations and I pledge myself to exercise the Important powers of this high office with absolute Justice and Impartiality. I bespeak your cordial co-operation and support to the end that our proceedings may be orderly and dignified, ai before this have been all the deliberations of the supreme council of the Republican party. Eight years ago I had the distinguished honor to preside over the convention which nominated the last Republican President of the United States. To-day I have the further distinguished honor to preside over the convention which la to nominate the next President of the United States. This generation has had Its object lesson, and the doom of the Democratic party la already pronounced. The American people will return the Repub-

lican party to power because they know that its administration will mean: The supremacy of the Constitution of the United States: the maintenance of law and order; the protection of every American citizen In his right to live, to labor, and to vote; a vigorous foreign policy; the enforcement of the Menroe doctrine; the restoration of our merchant marine; safety under the stars and stripes on every sea, In every port; a revenue for all governmental expenditures and the gradual extinguishment of the national debt; a curreucy "as sound as the government and as untarnished as Its honor,” whose dollars, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall have equal purchasing and debt-paying power with the best dollars of the civilized world; a protective tariff which protects, coupled with reciprocity which reciprocates, thereby securing the best market for American products and opening American factories to the free coinage of American muscle; a pension policy Just and generous to our living heroes and to the widows and orphans of their dead comrades; the governmental supervision and control of transportation lines and rates; the protection of the people from all unlawful com-

binations and unjust exactions of aggregated capital and corporate power; an American welcome to every God-fearing, liberty-lov-ing, Constitution-respecting, law-abiding la-bor-seeking, decent man; the exclusion of all whose birth, whose condition whose practices would mlhace the permanency of free institutions, endanger the safety of American society or lessen the opportunities of American labor; the abolition of sectionalism—every star In the American flag shining for the honor nnd welfare and happiness of every commonwealth and of all the people; a deathless loyalty to all that is true and Americun, and a patriotism as eternal as the stars v. The punctuation of almost every sentence of the address was a period of yells, rouff<! e d off with a fringe of applause and stampiiNfc «nd the delegates rose aud waved th® r hats, flags and handkerchiefs with a prolonged cheer when Mr. Thurston finishtid. As the demonstration ceased a letter was read/Tf ronl J. Henry Fort, chairman of the co' mm ittee on credentials, announcing thnf-’the committee would be unable to report 'until afternoon. Thereupon Gov. of Ohio moved that the convention take a recess until 2 o’clock. The mo*' oll was carried with a roar, qnd at 1>:23 Chairman Thurston declared the (convention in recess. Proceedings in the Afternoon. The people returned to the hall after the recess, hoping that the candidates would be nominated during the day and knowing that at any rate the hostilities would begin. As soon as the convention came to order, Mr. Fort of New- Jersey moved to the fore with the report of the committee on credentials and the war was on. He reported that the Addicks people tvere unseated in Delaware and the Cuney people in Texas and os for the other contestants the committee on credentials had uccepted the report of me national committee. Congressman Hepburn of lowa as alongside to stand for the minority. No sooner had he completed reading the minority report, which recommended the seating of the Addicks and Cuney delegations in Delaware and Texas, and the recommittal of aU other contests, than Mr. h ort demanded the previous question on the adoption of the majority report. Mr. Hepburn moved to substitute the minority report. There was a general breaking up of benches and girding up of loins. The Pennsylvania delegation was in an uproar. Platt dodged along the line of the New York delegation jotting down figures on a slip of paper. The leaders from the Southern States wrestled with the negro delegates. In Missouri corner Major Warner and Ohnuncey I. Filley glared at each other. The galleries sent down a confused sound of eager voices, and then, as the chairman’s gavel fell, the hall became as quiet as if every man and woman of the 12,(XI) people had ceased breathing, and the roll call proceeded. When the roll call of states was completed there was a minute of anxiety while the clerks footed up the totals. When Chairman Thurston announced the result, 508% for ordering the previous question and 339% against it, the McKinleyites howled themselves hoarse. The report of the committee was declared adopted, and the ctftivention adjourned, with the crowd still cheering aud laughing, after a day of burning interest A car on the Second avenue traction line at Pittsburg jumped the track and the seventeen passengers aboard were all more or less hurt,. two of them seriously. The day of miracles has not passed. or all would heir' fcssn killed.

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M’KINLKY PEOPLE AT THE OHIO HEADQUARTERS.