Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 27, 1896, Page 7

WKINLEY, HOBART. _—— NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT, —_—— MeKinley Is Nominated for Presi- dent on the First Ballot, Receiv- ing 6011-2 Votes Out of 922—The Nomination Is Afterward Made Unauinrous—Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey Is Nominated for Vice President on the First Bal- lot—Senators Teller of Colorado, Pettigrew of South Dakota and a Number of Other Silver Men Leave the Convention. St. Louts, June 16—Auspiciousty ana se- fenely, beneath a sky across whose arched dome not a cloud floated, the chieftains of the Republican party, from the pinerles of Maine to the orange groves of California; from the everglades of Florida to the placid waters of Puget Sound, met in council to- day and in the presence of about 8,000 spectators, entered upon the task of select- ing candidates and enunciating policies for the campaign of 189. The first session of the Republican national convention was therefore formal. Chairman Carter, of the national committee, dropped the gavel at 12:20 o'clock and sixty minutes later an ad- journment was taken until 10 o'clock to- morrow. There was not a jar during the proceedings, there were no sensational in- cidents to arise, nor any demonstrations to thrill the vast concourse of people. The temporary chairman, C. W. Falr- banks of Indianapolis, delivered his ad- d strong, forcible statement, an ar- nt of the present administration a definement of the Issues; the com- mittee selections of the various delegations were announced—that was all. The galleries are adorned at intervals with the coats-of-arms of the various states, while in conspicuous places hang portraits of Grant, Lincoln and other heroes of the past. The galleries to-day were well filled but not crowded, it being estimated that about 8,000 persons were present. The campaign clubs which had marched to the hall to the clangor of martial music were present in uniform and a very large pro- portion of the spectators were ladies. The band in the gallery over the platform en- Iivened the brilliant gatbering with pop- ular airs at intervals. St. Louis, June 17.The Republican na- | tional convention cleared the deck for action to-lay. Two sessions were held, one of an hour in the morning and one of three hours in the afternoon. The permanent organiza- | tion was effected and the permanent | chairman, Senator John M. Thurston of | Nebraska, assumed the duties of presiding officer at the morning session, and the re- ports of the committees on credentials and rules were received and adopted at the af- ; ternoon session. The battle royal is over, | the platform and nomination of candidates will occur to-morrow. In striking contrast with the dull, feat- | ureless session of yesterday were the and those of Reed, Allison, Quay and Mor- ton, came, and it ted to the sat- isfaction of all that Mi has a clear majority of a hundred in the convention. The question was the adoption of the report of the committee on credentials, which cer- tified the action of the nal committee ‘on credentials in giving almost all the 158 contested seats to the McKinleyites and decided the Texas contest in favor of the Grant (McKinley) delegation and that in Delaware, in fdvor of the Higgins delega- tion. The majority report was met with a violent minority report, denouncing the committee on credentials for presuming to accept unchallenged the findings of the na- tional committee. The lines were not drawn absolutely, as quite a number of delegates who are pledged to McKinley woted with the op- position. They were defeated—545%4 to 549%. St. Louis, June 18—The Republican na- tional convention nailed their principles to the mast beads and placed in command of the ship which is to bear them on to for- tune or disaster in November, their popular idol, William McKinley of Ohio and Gar- rett A. Hobart of New Jersey. But there was mutiny abroad, and at the last moment before the lines were cast off, part of the crew who had shipped in many voyages refused to subscribe to the new shipping articles and walked down the gang plank. The convention was heid in session for ten hours to accomplish the work cut out for it, and several different times was tragic, dramatic and inspiring. Fully 10,000 peo- ple were in the vast audience to hiss or cheer by turns. The bolt of the silver men from the West was fully discounted, but It nevertheless furnished the most dramatic incident of the day. Led by Senator Tell- er, they had yesterday declared their in- tention cf refusirg to subscribe to the gold plank in the platform, but to-day after Senator Teller had made his final appeal to the convention not to take the step which would drive him and his colleagues out from the ranks of the party, which in the past had honored them and they had de- lighted to serve, and the convention had yoted--S18 1-2 to 1051-2—to stand by the gold declaration in the platform, they left the convention hall. McKinley Nominated, It was a foregone conclusion that Mc- Kinley would be nominated by the pentup enthusiasm of the friends of the Ohio candidate which found full vent. The speech of Baldwin of Council Bluffs, nom- inating Allison; of Senator Lodge nominat- ing Reed; of Hastings nominating Quay, and of Depew nominating Morton, were eloquent and masterly efforts, and were received with the greatest enthusiasm by their respective supporters; but the nomi- nation of McKinley, by Foraker, turned the convention into bedlam., Save for the wild tumult that followed Senator Wol- cott’s speech placing Blaine in nomination at Minneapolis, four years ago, the dem- onstration which occarred to-lay has had no parallel in Republican national conven- tions, at least in length. J. Madison Vance of Louisiana and N. H. Alexander of Alabama seconded Mc- Kinley's nomination and declared that the South would be for protection and sound money. At twenty-four minutes before, 5 the roll call was begun, No vote was cast by Colorado. The vote of Florida was chal- lenged by a colored man, who stood on a chair, but was unable to catch the chair- ank 0 Bat aacakiaBatiats tS at xxl absent. Total vote: Morton 58,Quay 61%, McKinley’s vote ex tions of his friends, as he received 661% McKinley %, Reed S414, 285%,Cameron 1 led the expecta- votes. The nomination was immediately made unanimous. Enthusiastic speeches were made by representatives of tle op- posing candidates, and there were the usual felicitations. Mark Hanna was obliged in response to calls to address the convention. After the decision of the Platt forces not to present the name of Morton, owing to the war waged against him by the War- ner Miller faction, the nomination of Ho- bart of New Jersey became a certainty. The McKinley influence was thrown for him, and although there was an attempt to consolidate the West and South on H. Clay Evans of Tennessee, the McKinley influence was too powerful. Besides, it was the general sense of the delegates that the logic of the situation required the nomina- tion of an Eastern man for vice president. The nominating speeches were brief. Bulkeley of Connecticut, Lippett of Rhode Island and Gen. Walker of Virginia were also placed In nomination. It only required one ballot to determine the contest. Hebart received 530% votes, 90 more than a ma- jority. Evans, his nearest competitor, re- ceived 280% There were scattering votes for Reed, Thurston, Grant, Depew, Morton and Brown. M’KINLEY’S RUNNING MATE. Hobart Is Nominated On the First Ballot. It was 6:15 when Senator Lodge made the motion that the convention proceed to the nomination of a vice president, and that speeches be limited to five minutes. There was so little interest in the second place, or so prevalent an appeal for dinner, that in five minutes the galleries had been de- serted by two-thirds of the seat-holders. Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut was rec- ognized to nominate Gov. Buckeley, but the convention had exhausted its enthusiasm 80 that the mention of the name of McKinley failed to draw a hand-clap. At the end of the five minutes the crowd called “time” enthusiastically, and the roll call proceeded until New Jersey was reached, when dele- gates began to cry “Hobart.” G. L. Ho- bart was nominated by Franklin Fort of Newark. He spoke as follows: “I rise to present to this convention the claims of New Jersey to the vice presi- dency. We come because we feel that we ean, for the first time in our history, bring to you a promise that our electoral vote will be cast for your nominees. If you comply with our request this promise will surely be redeemed. For forty years, through the blackness of darkness of a unl- BHSGekEh: ma8atit: ane & 2 4 16 5 6 8 5 1 23 7 12 5 23 woSiakalntatiisnarakensSarassseiaton 3 8 20 72. 1% 3 pa 8 ot . 3 Bt] 8 s os 24 11 12 6 8 . 2m Ps Washington . 8 8 . West Virginia... 12 12 .. i Wisconsin 2 8 2 Wroming 6 6 “ Arizona . 6 4 1 New Mexi Ss 6 Oklahoma 6 4 2 Ind. Territory... 6 6 Dist. Columbia. 2 2 - Alesia ....... 4 € « 8 1022 533% 280% “39 “8 coat ba M’KINLEY CONGRATULATED. Telegrams Pour In From All Sec. tions of the Country, Within a few moments of the announce- ment of the nomination, telegrams poured in, and within a half hour they were num- bered by hundreds, coming from all parts of America. One of the first to be received was from the Marquette club of Chicago, whose guest Gov. McKinley was last February and at whose banquet he made his last public political address. At that time the Marquette club prided itself that it had entertained Gen. Harrison just pre- vious to his nomination naming him as the coming nominee, and they wired him with. in a few moments after the result wi known: “The Marquette club of Chicago con- gratulates you upon your nomination for the high office of president of the United States. It is a matter of pride and grati- fication that in its earnest efforts in your behalf In the preconvention campaign it so nearly reflected the wishes of the great majority of our fellow citizens and the Republicans throughout the land, and we now pledge you our most active and earnest support In the campaign upon which we are just entering, to the end that the people’s choice may prevail and the principles of the grand old party, as set forth Im the platform on which you stand be established.—E. C. DeWitt, presi- dent, .and officers of the elub.”” Howard B. Moser, secretary of the Pot- ters’ Association of New Jersey, tendered heartiest congratulations for his associa- tion. Hon. Mark Hanna’s modest announce- ment was simply this: “Ohio’s vote nominated you. I congratu- late you. —M. A. Hanna.” One of the earliest dispatches to arrive was from Mr. Morton of New York, who wired from Rhineciliff, N. Y¥., as follows: “Hon, Willian McKinley, Canton, 0.: You may recall my remark, in 1879, ay Totals... WILLIAM MKINLEY AND GARRETT A, HOBART, THE PEPUBLICAN NOMINEES. brilliant, animated and enthulastic sessions of the convention to-day. The vast hall was packed to its utmost capacity with thousands of spectators, keyed to the high- est pitch of enthusiasm and responded with cheers and hand clapping to the electric touch of every word or suggestion. The hoarse roar of 12,000 voices, as it came thundering down to the pit from the black wall of people on all sles, accom- panied with waving of handkerchiefs, hand flags, made a tumult of noise and motion that made the pulse beat a faster tune The speech of the permanent chairman, Senator Thurston, whose warm, magnetic eloquence found ready sympathy in the vast concourse of Republicans, and with spirits thus aroused every anorey got cheers. As he recited the fact that he ha ifexesided over the convention of 1888 which ‘nominated the last victorious ticket of the party and predicted that he was now pre- siding over a convention which would nom- {mate the next president of the United States the enthusiasm broke all bounds. For several minutes the convention cheered and yelled and shouted. ‘At the morning session there was a brief contest over the question of proceeding with the election of permanent officers be- fore the report of the committee on ereden- tials had been acted upon. Senator Wel- Himgton and Congressman Mudd of Mary- land and Delegate Littlefield of Maine, vainly protested that it was irregular and that there was no convention until the credentials of the members had been pass- ed upon, but the protests were swept aside like chaff before the wind. The convention brimmed over with enthusiasm and was in no temper to be delayed. ‘At the afternoon session, the first test of; x strength between the McKinley followers | Sorta D Pr man’s ear. 8 for McKinley, but on the roll gaye two for Morton and 6 for McKinley. Georgia was challenged and the roil call resulted: Reed, 2; Quay, 2; McKinley, 22. Then Alabama was returned, because the chair- man had learned that its vote had been challenged. The result was: Morton, 1; Reed, 2; McKinley, 19. Idaho cast no vote. There was a monotonous repetition of Mc- Kinley, until tke grey-headed Henderson “I cast the solid vote of Iowa for “, B, Allison.” General Grosvenor, been jestingly termed the light- whi, ning calculator, followed the vote with a pad and pencil, while Mr. Hamna leoked over his shoulder. The detailed vote follows: No. McKin- Votes. 2 SE Boos REBSESRoRoako mal BSS: Heat Montana. Nebraska Re: gFy Florida had been announced ) versally triumphant Democracy, the Repub- licans of New Jersey have retained their organization and fought as valiantiy as If the outcome were to be assured victory. Only twice through all this long period has the sun shone in upon us. In 1804, for the first time since the Republican party came into existence, we sent to congress a solid delegation of elght Republicans and elected a Republican to the United States senate. We followed this in 1895 by electing a Re- publican governor by a majority of 28,000. And in this year of grace we expect to give the Republican electors a majority of not less than 20,000.” He then presented the name of Garrett A. Hobart, the New Yorkers joining with the New Jersey men in the nomination. J. Otis Humphrey of Illinois seconded Hobart’s nomination. W. K. Allen of Rhode Island nominated Gov. Charles W. Lippett. Delegates from the Southern states cheered when Tennessee was called, and W. M. Randolph presented the name of Henry Clay Evans. Evans was seconded by a colored delegate named Smith, of Kentucky, whose effort was loud- ly cheered. Wx-Congressman Robert M. Lafollette of Wisconsin also seconded Evans’ nomination, arousing enthusiasm by his prediction that the party would gain in the South, although it had lost in the West. The vote in detail follows: aid F:| 1448 br Re abe 2) 1 55 Sa ome we sat side by side in the house of repre- sentatives, that 1 expected some day to see you president of the United States. Please accept to-day my heartiest con- gratulations.”” The traveling men of Indiana, through their president, Carey McPhearson, wired trom Indianapolis: $ “The Commercial Travelers’ Republican club of this city congratulates you on your nomination and confidently predict your election. Tariff protecting American products, whether from the factory, mine or farm, and the currency unequalled by any other nation, should put us once more to the front.” Ex-Senator W. D. Washburn wired the heartiest congratulations. The Union Iron and Steel company of Youngstown wired: “We congratulate you on your nomination and hope next year we will be able to make cotton ties.” Harry G. Selfridge of Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, telegraphs as follows: ‘“Ac- cept congratulations upon magnificent vic- tory and upon dignified manner in which it has been won.” (teats Scan MAHER BESTS SLAVIN, New York, June 18.—Maher and Slavin were the attractions at Madison Square gar- den to-night In a four-round bout. The men went at it in a slap-bang fashion, and Maher showed that he was the cleverer boxer. He seemed to hit Slavin when and where he pleased. The big Australian was slow. The ‘police cautioned the fighters that they would arrest the man who scored a knock-out. In the third round Slavin wae almost put to sleep with a couple of swings, and in the fourth the bout was stopped by the referee, the Australian being too grog- gy for business. . PARATION GF PRINCIPLES OF TUE REPUBLICAN PARTY, The Financial Plank Deela: In Favor of the Present Geld Stand- ard and Against Free Silver, Ex- cept By Internationa] Agreement, Also for Protection and the Re- Enactment of Reciprecal Legisla- tion, St. Louis, June 1%—The platform as adopted is as follows: The Republicans of the United States, assembled by their representatives in na- ticha! convertion, appealing for the popu- lar and historical justification of their claims to the matchless achievements of thirty years of Republicen rule, earnestly ard ccnfidently addivss the:iselves to the awakened intelligence, experience and con- science of their countrymen in the following declaration of facts and principles: For the first time since the civil war, the American people have witnessed the calamitous consequences of full and un- restricted Democratic control of the gov- ernment. It has been a record of un- paralleled incapecity, dishonor and disaster. In administrative management it has ruth- lessly sacrificed indispeusable revenue, en- tailed an unceasing deficit, eked out ordi- nary current expenses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by $263,000,000 in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept & perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates, and reversed ail the measures and results of successful Re- publican rule. In the broad effe:ts of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted in- dustry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise and crippled American pros duction while stimulating foreign produc- tion for the American market. Every con- sderation of public safety and individual in- terest demands that the government shall be rescued from the hands of those who have shown themselves incapable to conduct it without disaster at home and dishonor abroad, and shall be restored to the party which for thirty years administered it with unequaled success and prosperity. And in this connection we heartily indorse the wis- dom, patriotism and the success of the ad- ministration of President Harrison We renew and emphasize our allegiance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of American industrial independence and the foundaton of American development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign products and encourages home industry; it puts the burden of rey- enue on foreign goods; it secures the Amer ican market for the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingman; it puts the factory by the side of the farm and makes the American farmer less dependent on general thrift, and founds the strength of all on the strength of each. In its reason- able application, it is just, fair and impar- tial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrim- ination and individual favoritism. We de nounce the present Democratic tariff as sec- tional, injurious to the public credit and destructive to business enterprise. We de- mand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products ag will not only fur- mish adequate revenve for the necessary expenses of the government, but still pro- tect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not pledged to any particular schedules. The question of rates {s a practical question, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production. The ruling and un- compromising principle is the -protection and deyelopment of American labor and indus¥ry. The country demands a right set- tlement and then it wants rest. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by the last Repub- lican administration was a@ national ca- lamity, and we demand their renewal on such terms as wil: equalize our trade with other nations, remove the restrictions which now obstruct the sale of American products in the ports of other coantries, and secure enlarged markets for the pro- ducts of our farms, forests and factories, Protection and recéprocity are the meas- ures of Republican policy and go hand in hand. Democratic rule has recklessly struck down both, and both must be re- established. Protection for what we pro- duce; free admission for the necessaries of life which we do not produce; reciprocal agreement of mutual interests which gain open markets for us in return for our open markets to others. Protection builds do- mestic industry and trade, and secures our own market for ourselves; reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an out- let for our surplus. We condemn the present administration for not keeping faith with the sugar pro- ducers of this eountry. The Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use, and for which they pay other countries more than $100,000,000 annually. To all our products—to those of the mine and: field, as well as those of the shop and the factory—to hemp, to wool, the producers of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the fin- {shed woolens of the mills—we promise the most ample protection. We favor restoring the early American policy of diseriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the for- eign carrying trade, so that American carrying ships, the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, saHing under the stars and stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans —may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably. opposed. to every measure calculated to debase our cur rency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coin- age of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge our- selves to promote, and until such agree- ment can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor measures de- signed to maintain inviolably the obliga- tions of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth. The veterans of the Union army deserve and should receive tair treatment and gen- erous recognition. Whenerer practicable, they should be given the preference in the matter of employment, and they are en- titled. to the enactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfill- ment of the pledges made to them in the dark days of the country’s peril. We de- mounce the practice In the pension bureau, so recklessly and unjustly carried on by the present administration, of reducing pensions arbitrarily, dropping names from the rolls, as deserving the severest con- demnation of the American people. Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, generous and dignified, and all our interests in, the Western hemisphere care- fully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian islands should be controlled by the United States and no foreign power should be per- mitted to interfere with them; the Nic- araguan canal should be built, owned and eperated by the United States; and by the of the Danish islands we shonid gecure a proper and much-needed naval station in the West Indies. ‘The massacres in Armenia have aroused the deep sympathy and just indignation of the American people and we believe that the United States should exercise all the Influence it can properly exert to bring these atrocities to an end In Turkey, American residents bave been exposed to the gravest dangers and American property destroyed. There and everywhere, Ameri- can citizens and American property must be absolutely protected at all hazards and at any cost. We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full extent and we reaffirm the right of the United States to give the doctrine ef- fect by responding to the appeals of any American state for friendly intervention in case of European encroachment. We huve not interfered and shall not interfere with the existing possessions of any Euro- bean power in this hemisphere, but those possessions must not, on any pretext, be extended. We hopefully look forward to the eventful withdrawal of the European pewers from ths hemisphere, and to the ultimate onion of all the English-speaking part of the continent by the free consent of its inhabitants. From the hour of achieving their own Independance, the people of the United States have regarded with sympathy the struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domina- tion. We watch with deep and abiding in- terest the heroic battle of the Cuban pa- triots against cruelty and oppression, and our best hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. The government of Spain, having lost control of Cuba and being unable to protect the pro- perty or lives of resident American citizens, or to comply with its treaty obligations, we believe that the government of the United States should actively use its influence to restore peace and give independence to the island. The peace and security of the republic and the maintenance of its rightful in- fluence among the nations of the earth, demand a naval power commensurate with its position and responsibility. We, there- fore, favor the continued enlargement of the navy and a complete system of harbor and sea coast defenses. For the protection of the quality of our American citizenship and the wages of our workingmen against the fatal competition of low-priced labor, we demand that the im- migration laws be thoroughly enforced and 80 extended as to exclude from entrance to the United States those who can neither read nor write. The civil service law was placed on the statute book by the Republican party, which has always sustained it, and we re- new our repeated declarations that It shall be thoroughly and honestly enforced and extended wherever practicable. We demand that every citizen of the United States shall be allowed to cast one free and unrestricted ballot, and that such ballot shall be counted and returned as cast. We proclaim our unqualified condemna- tion of the unctvilized and barbarous prac- tice, well known as lynching or killing hu- man beings, suspected or charged with crime, without process of law. We favor the creation of a national board of arbitration to settle and adjust differ- ences which mey arise between employers and 2mployed engaged in interstate com- merce. We believe In an immediate return to the free homestead policy of the Repub- lican party, and urge the passage by con- gress of the satisfactory free homestead measure which has already passed the house and is now pending in the senate. We favor the admission of the remain- ing territories at the ‘earliest practicable date, having due regard to the interests of the people of the territories and of the United States. All the federal officers ap- pointed for the territories should be elected from bona fide residents thereof, and the right of self-government should be accord- ed as far as practicable. We believe the citizens of Alaska should have representation Im the congress of the United States to the end that needful legis- lation may be intelligently enacted. We sympathize with all wise and legitl- mate efforts to lessen and prevent the evils of intemperance and promote morality. The Republican party is mindful of the rights and interests of women. Protection of American industries includes equal op- portunities, equal pay for equal work and protection to the home. We favor the ad- mission of women to wider spheres of use- fulness, and welcome thelr co-operation in resculng the country from Democratic and Populist mismanagement and misrule. Such ave the principles and policies of the Republican party. By these principles we will abide and these policies we will put into execution. We ask for them the eonsiderate judgment of the American people. Confident alike in the history of our great party and in the justice of our cause, we present our platform and our candidates in the full assurance that the election will bring victory to the Repub- lican party and prosperity to the people of the United States. A PLEASANT DUTY. Committees Are Appointed to Notify the Nominee St. Louls, June 18.—The following committees to notify the nominees have been notified: Alabama—President, ©. Alexander; vice president, R. Pettiford. Arkanses—Henry M. Cooper, John Hadis. California—Frank A. Mill Eli Denison. Connecticut—George Sykes, Edwin O. Keeler. Delaware—Henry G. Morse, Henry A. Dupont. Florida—Dennis Egan. Georgia—M. B. Morton, M. J. Doyle. Tllinois—Charles H. Deere, Isaac L, Edward. Indiana—Hiram Brownlee, Jesse Weick. Yowa—Calvin Manning, C. W. Junkia. Kansa: Nathaniel Barnes, Frank Vincent: : . John G, White. Maine—George P. Westeatt, Stanley, Cueman. Maryland—W. F. Airey, W. G. Ti Massachusetts—M. V. B, Jefferson, Willard J. Hale. Michigan—Thomas J. O’Brien, R. A. Alger. Minnesota—Monroe Nichols, A. D. Davidson. Mississippi—W. D. Frazee, J. S. Ousley. Missouri—J. B. Hawwaughawaut, B. F. Leonard, Nebraska—John T. Bressler. Jobn F. Bressler. New Hampshire—William D. Sawyer, James A. food. New Jersey—Ferd W. Roebeling, W. Barbour. New York—Frank Hiscock, Lispenard Stewart. North Carolina—Claude W. Benard, J. H. Ham non. North Dakota—C. M. Johnson. J. M. Devine. Ohio—M. A. Hanna, Gi Ketchum. haries Hilton, Charles W. Parrish. L, Flood, H. Denny. . H. Deeos, C. J. Pride. ‘alter B. Smead, H. T. Mem cham. ‘Tennessee—Ernest H. Caldwell, H. ©. Jarvis. Texas—J. W. Butler, J. O. Luby. Utah—L. R. Rodgers. J. A. Smith. Vermont—James W. Brock, Edward C. Smith, Virginia—J. S. Browning. R. T. Hubbard. Washington—Henry E. Wilson, James M. Gil West Virginia—W. L. Lynch, P. E. Houston. Wisconsin—M. E, Ring, Julius Roberer. SS NORTHWEST AND ST. LOUIS. Bolt of Towne, of Minnesota and Pettigrew, of South Dakota. Duluth, Special, June 18—L, C. Harris, law partner of Congressman Towne, re- ceived the following telegram from him dated at St. Louis this afternoon: “Teller and the rest have left the convention. I have joined them.” Yankton, S. D., Special, June 18.—The bolt of itor Pettigrew is no surprise here. His action was predicted long ago, even before ‘the Huron state convention, which turned him down. Republicans gen- erally are glad that he has finally taken this course, as they now know where to find him. Moorhead, Minn., Special, June 18.—The news of McKinley’s nomination was re- ceived with much satisfaction here, es- pecially among Republicans, and there is @ good demand for McKinley buttons. pina ms eb Wagan EAS it Nothing Serious. London, June 18.—In the house of com- mons to-day the secretary of state for the colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, confirmed the revort that Venezuelan troops had entered the territory in dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana and had in- terfered with a party of Britis surveyors who asked for support of the colonial authorities. The colcnial office does not wew the Venezuelan incident seriously. For Postoffice Robbery. sieve Race <2 arene | a