Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — QUAKER CITY WINS. [ARTICLE]

QUAKER CITY WINS.

Philadelphia Chosen as Place of Holding Republican Convention. The Republican national convention will meet in Philadelphia on June 19, 1900. This was decided in the national committee meeting at Washington Friday afternoon. The final vote stood 25 for Philadelphia to 24 for Chicago, with Ohio and Colorado absent. Chicago had the votes of the Westeru States and four from New England. Philadelphia had the votes of the Southern States, the territories and two from New England. The arguments in favor of Philadelphia were sentiment, cold cash and Southern delegates. The President allowed it to be understood that he would not object to being renominated in the only city where, since the civil war, a Republican President was renominated and elected. Grant was renominated in Philadelphia in 1872. There were also the sentimental argument that Philadelphia was the cradle of liberty, the place where the constitution was written, and the city where the flag had its origin. More important than this sentimental argunient was the (Jfertified check for SIOO,OOO offered to the committee by Philadelphia.