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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1898 McKINLEY AND HOBART. Protection’s Champion Named for the Presidency. ONE BALLOT ENDS THE CONTEST. Ohio Casts the Deciding Vote, and the Nominat | ion Is Made Unanimous. NEW JERSEY SUPPLIES THE RUNNING-MATE. Cannon Thunder, Bands Play, and Thousands Shout Themselves the Standard- Hoarse When Bearers Are Chosen. FOR PRESIDENT—WILLIAM McKINLEY OF OHIO. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT—GARRETT A. HOBART OF NEW JERSEY. PLATFORM—SOUND MONEY, PROTECTION AND RECIPROCITY. THE CALL's HEADQUARTERS, 1 Southern Hotel, | 8r. Louvis, Mo., June 18. At ten minutes to 6 o’clock to-night the booming of cannon in front of the Con- | vention Hall announced to the people of | 8t. Louis that William McKluley of Ohio | had been nominated for President of the United States by the National Republican Convention. Following this signal given by the cannon, the locomotive, mill and steamboat whistles on the Missisippi River joined in a shrill screaming. Brass bands immediately commenced their noisy parades through the principal streets. It was just growing dark, and enterprising and patriotic merchants tired off rockets and roman candles as the bands passed. Although McKinley’s nomination was expected by everybody, the anticipation of it did not detract in the least from the great enthusiasm of the crowd in the Convention Hall, in hotel lobbies and in the streets. ‘When the result of the first ballot was ennounced, the convention went ‘wild. Delegates, officers of the convention, re- porters and all, stood up and cheered lus- tily. Hats, fans, handkerchiefs and papers were thrown into the air. Umbrellas were raised and whirled. The immense portrait of McKinley that had adorned the south wall of the conven- tion hall was carried to the center of the Auditorium, and a great crowd of cheering delegates and spectators made a mad rush to the center of the building. The won- derful popularity of McKinley had never before been made so apparent. After the speech of Foraker, who placed McKinley in nomination, the delegates and spectators cheered lustily for more than ten minutes. The band would ocea- sionally strike up *Marching Through Georgia,” *‘Columbia the Gem of the Ocean,” “The Red, White and Blue” and “Yankee Doodle,” trying to quell the up- roar, but no sooner had the band finished one air than the immense congregation of nearly 14,000 people would take up the re- frainand sing with a volume that shook the rafters of the convention hall. The racket would then almost subside, but would again be precipitated by the Ohio men in the gallery, who manipulated a huge canvas crayon porirait of McKinley. Finally the great crowd, baving tired itself out, subsided and business was pro- ceeded with. The first two days of the convention were quiet enough. There was not much,_ noisy demonstration. PBut to-day's ses- sion was marked by scenes-which will live in the memory of all spectators. The whole city is talking to-night about the wonderful popularity of the Republican candidate for President. Bands followed by crowds are parading the downtown streets; rockets and roman candles il- luminate the sky in every direction. Sel- dom before has a Presidential candidate been nominated under such auspicious circumstances. All good Republicans are in line. The friends of Reed, Allison, Morton and Quay are as hearty in their enthusiasm for Major McKinley as if they had not es- poused the candidacy of their own favor- ites. L4 Each of the chief supporters of other candidates, namely Lodge, Baldwin, Hen- derson, Hastings and Depew, seconded the motion to make the nomination unani- mous. Every one of these seconds was received with deafening cheers, and it was with the uimost difficulty that the chair- man could make himself neard. At 10 o’clock this morning, the hour set for convening, the chairs of the great hall were not half filled, 2nd 1t was10:30 o’clock before the " convention arose for prayer, offered by a colored minister. The scene at this time was an inspiring one. Four- teen thousand people, men and women, stood up and with bowed heads listened to the fervent exhortation of the old colored man. An idea of the immense area of the con- vention ball will be conveyed to readers of Tue CArn when it is stated that specta- tors in the remote gallery corners could not hear the words of the loudest speakers. A CaLL correspondent went into a corner of the gallery and lookéd down upon the great congregation, a perfect sea of faces. Those on the platform could hardly be distinguished, while the faces of those in the opposite galigry could not be discerned atall. The voices of speakers on the plat- form sounded far off and even the music of the band came faintly enough to occu- pants of the corners of the galleries. Res- idents in the vicinity of the convention hall said that the cheering of 14,000 voices could be heard six blocks distant. Seldom in the history of National political conven- tions has there gathered such an immense and enthusiastic concourse of people. Thousands of fans waving in the great’ hall, the brilliant colors of flags, festoons and feminine apparel, made the scene an animated one. It was worth a thousand- mile trip just to see the immense sea of bhuman faces, all animated, all earnest and enthusiastic tor the Republican standard- bearer, and to hear them cheer. What pulse could beat slowly when 14,000 voices cheered for the great Ohioan, while the band played patriotic airs? Every man of them was glad to witness such a sublime spectacle, and every man was glad he was a lember of the great Republican party. Ex-Senator Ingalls of Kansas, who has attended many National conventions of his party, and who aat in the press reserve, said he had never witnessed a more thrill- ing or enthusiastic scene than after Foraker haa nominated MéKinley. ©C. C. CasrETON. S iy FIVE NAMES PRESENTED. Ea ch Nominating Speech Is Wiidly Applauded. CONVENTION HALL, 8T. LOUIS, Mo., June 18.—When the president directed the call of Btates for nominations for the Presidency, the first State to respond was Jowa, when R. M. Baldwin of Council Bluffs came to the platform and nom- inated Benator W. B. Allison of Iowa. BALDWIN NAMES ALLISON. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen: There is one, but only one of those whose names will be presented to this convention who ean claim that there has been placed for him in history’s golden urn an estimate of his character and worth made by him in whom Nature stamped her roysl seal; whom God exhibited as his greatest design of American manhood, genius, statesmanship and patriotism; who, now in heaven, wears a crown of deathless praise, and whose great soul is & portion of eternity itself—James G. Blaine. Blaine, writing to Garfield, sald: “Then comes Alllson. He 18 true, kind, reazonable, fair, honest and good. He is methodical, in- dustrious and intelligent, and would be a splendid man to sail along witk, smoothly and successfully.” Complying with the request of the Iowa dele- gation, I rise to propose to this convention the nomination of him to whom this heritage was bequeathed—William B. Allison, and to ask you to make it on the old and new testament of Republicanism. It takes a big man to repre- sent the State of Jowa in the Congress of the United States for thirty-five years, but Senator Allison is that man. With the most perfect knowledge of the details of all our political laws and theim histories, with that statesman- like judgment which distinguishes the essen- tial from the accidental, and the immutable from the transitory, “with every look a cordial smile, every gesture a caress,” yet with a spirit of such firm mold and pufpose that no bribe or feast or palace could awe or swerve, he has I0r thirty-five years, upon the floor of the House and Senate, been fighting tor the inter- ests of the people; carrying onward and up- ward the Nation’s legislative work; turning cranks out of place, unsphering the culminat- ing stars of Democracy; unmasking the hidden purposes of corrupt measures, until now he holds the place of ungrudged supremaey in the legislative halls of that most splendid of capi- tols. That which this country has lost is that which it now seeks, “proteciion.” To get it they worked hard, prayed fast, paid high, and now let them have it, Allison does not believe in & tariff for revenue only, but in a tariff for vrotection and revenue jointly. Hehasaiways insisted that the protective system is the mightiest instrument for the development of our nawural resources and the strongest agent to protect American wealth .and American labor. Protection built the laborer his Ameri. can home, and he will never again welcome therein Democratic sirens singing free trade songs written and composed by English bards; for, having chiseled the principles of protec- tion in his hearthstone, he will at the mext election defend them at his front gate, The great and important issue which is just now coming around the corner is the one of sound money, and we can no more dodge it than we can gravitation—and sound money means the courageous maintenance of our present gold standard until changed by in- ternational agreement. In this respect the situation is easily simple, butcertainly serious. A decision upon this important question must be made by this con- vention, and remember, gentlemen, a nation listens to cateh the click of its fate. For Sena- tor Allison you cannot build too strong a plat- form for sound money, and if you place him upon it he will see to it that the dry rotof 16 to1dces not steal through its timbers. The United States can no more make good money by simply placing its symbol of sovereignty or mark of authority on any kind of metal, re- gardless of its commercial value or relations to foreign countries, that it can extend its do- main by calling a furlong a mile. | Tuptey. He believes that the American dollar should have some grains of sense as well as more of silver; that there can be no stability to our currency or money if we keep adopting such shifting policies as that under them the same piece may be & copper cent in one hend ora dollar in another. He believes that unlimited coinage would soon lead to unlimited bank- No honest farmer would borrow from his neighbor a bushel of 50-cent wheat and insist upon paying him back with a bushel of 25-cent oats, and so this great Government cannot expect to keep its eredit at the highest pointifit borrows & dollar and insists upon paying back with 50-cent silver, any other construction of the word “coin” in any laws or contracts to the contrary notwithstanding. The platform of this convention must be for sound money, and in clear, ringing, unmis- takable terms. On sny other construction of it the party may get into power, but the coun- try would be in danger of falling into the batch of bankrupt governments and at the end of the party’s administration it would probably have no more of an estate than did Rabelais, whose will, when opened, read: “In the name of God, amen. I have nothing. I owe much. I give the rest to the poor.” Ata time when a nation wildly looks at an- other nation, standing with mute lips apart, Allison did not meet with clinched fist the proffered hand of international adjustment. However, he has stood unwsveringly by the Monroe doctrine and insisted that the United States should recoznize any people struggling for liberty and republican institutions, even if they are insurgents in Cuba. Iask you to nominate him. If you do, the people from the sand-enshrouded Mexican line to the life wire that separates us from an unborn daughter on the north will shout as in one glorious, glad anthem, “The old temple of Republicanism stilt stands. Flock to it for shelter.” If you do, every keynote of the cempaign will be kept at concert piteh. If you do, the White House will be used no longer as an ex- periment station. Nominate him and a thrill of joy will go from the West to the East, carry- ing on its trembling way the songs of our reapers, only to be lost in the roars of your furnaces. Nominate him, and when our corn grows old in autumn’s time, when our flocks are teeming and our granarics are full, every spindle will be turning day and night upon the Merrimac. The speech was an eloquent one and was loudly applauded at some points. LODGE NOMINATES REED. The next State to respond was Massa- chusetts, and Senator Lodge nom{n-ted Thomas B. Reed for the Presidency in the following speech : Four years ago we met as we meet now, representatives of the great Republican party. Prosverity was in the land. Capital was con- fident aud iabor employed. There was the good day’s wage ior the good day’s work, and the Spirit of American enterprise was stirring and bold. The treasury was. full, the publie revenues ample for the public need. We were at peace with all the world and had placed a prudent hand on the key of the Pacific. Four short years have come and gone. Look about you now. The treasury is empty. Our eoredit is impaired. OQurrevenuesare deficient. ‘We meet the public needs not with income* but by borrowing at high rates and pledging the future for the wauts of the present. Business is paralyzed. Confidence has gone. Enterprise has folded its eagle wings and mopes and blinks’ in the market place. Our mills are idle and our railroads crippled. Capital hides itself and labor idly walks the street. There is neither a good day’s weage nor a goods day’s work. We have met slights abroad and have serious differences with other nations. The key of the Pacific has slipped from nerveless hands. Foreign troops have been landed in this hemisphere. Our own boundaries have been threatened in Alaska. The Monroe doctrine has been de- fended, but is not yet vindicated. The people of a neighbor island, fignting for freedom, look toward us with imploring eyes, and look in vain, The Americen policy which would pro- tect our industries at home and our flag abroa has faded and withered away. - Look then upon that picture and then ou this. * * & Could you on thatfair mountain leave to feed and fatten on this moor? But four short years have come and gone, and they have brought this change. What has happened? I will tell you in a word. The Democratic party has been in power. That is the answer. Upon us falls the heavy burden of binding | up these wounds and bringing relief to ail this suffering. The Democrats deceived the people by promising them the inillennium and the miserable resuits of those lying prom- ises are all about us to-day. We have no promises to make. We pledge ourselves only to that which we believe we can perform. We will do our best. That is all. And, as in 1860 we saved the Union and abolished slavery, o now in 1896. we will dedl with this Demo- cratic legacy of biunders,*bankruptcy and wmisfortune. We are gathered here to choose the next President of the United States. That we will win in the election no man doubts. But let us not deceive ourselves with the pleasant fancy that the campaign is to be an easy one. It will be & hard battle; it cannot be other- wise when g0 much depends upon the result. Aguinst the Republican party, representing fixed American policies, strength, progress and order, will be arrayed not only that or- ganized faflure, the Democratic party, but all the wandering forces of political chaos and social disorder. 1t is not merely the Presidency which is set before us as the prize. The prosperity of the country, the protection of our industries, the soundnese of our currency and the National credit are all staked on the great issue to be. declded at the polls next November. Upon us Tests the duty of rescuing the country from the misery into which it has been plungea by three years of Democratic misrule. To drive the Democrats from power is the first step and the highest duty, but we shall triumph in vain, and in our turn shall meet heavy punishment at the hands of the people if we do not put our victory to right uses. Buch a crisis as this cannot be met and dealt with by shouts and enthusiasm., We mustface it as our fathers faced slavery and disunion— with & grim determination to wia the battle, nd, that done, to take up our responsibilities in the same spirit with which we won the fight. Now, as then, we can hope to succeed ouly by the most strenuous endeavor; and now, as then, everything depends upon thead- ministration we place in office. We want a President who will meet this situation as Lincoln met that of 1861—with the chiets of the Republicans about him and with party and people at his back. We want a President who on the 5th day of next March will summon Congress in extra session and, refusing to make appointments or to deal with patronage, will say that all else must wait until Congress sends to him a tarift which shall put money in the treasury and wages in the pockets of the American working- men. We want a President who will protect at all hazards the gold reserve of the treasury, who will see to it that no obligation of the Governe ment is presented which is not paid in what- ever coin the creditor chooses to demand, and who will never forget that the nation which pays with honor borrows with ease. We want & man who will gnard the safety and dignity of the Nation at home and abroad, and who will always and constantly be firm and strong in dealing with foreign nations, instead of suddenly varyinga long course of weakness and indifference with a conyulsive spasm of vigor and patriotism. Above all, we want a man who will lead his party and act with it and who will not by senseless quarrels between the White House and the Capitol reduce legislation and execu- tion alike to imbecility and failure. Buch is the man we want for our great office in these bitter times, when the forces of dis- order are loosed and the wreckers with their ialse lights gather at the shore to lure the ship of state upon the rocks. Such a man fit for such deeds I am now to present to you. He needs no praise from me, for he has proved his own title to leadership. From what he is and what he has done we know what he can do. For twenty years, in victory and defeat, at the head of great majorities and of small minorl- ties alike, he has led his party in Congress with & power which no man could dispute and with an ability which never failed. Ihave seen him with a maddened opposi- tion storming about him carry through that great reform which has made the House of Representatives the strong and efficient body it is to-day. Ihaveseen him during the past winter guide a great majority so that they have met every demand put upon them, and made no errors which could burden the Re- publican party in the campaign before us. Before the people and in the House he has ever been the bold and brilliant ¢hampion of the great Republican policies which, adopted, have made us prosperous; and, abandoned, Three weeks before that election he predicted : have left ruin at our doors. He is a thorough American by birth, by descent, by breeding; one who loves his country and has served 1t in youth and manhood, in war and in peace. His great ability, his originality of thought, his power in debate, his strong will, are known of all men and are part of the history of the last twenty years. His public career is 8s spotless a8 his private character is pure and unblemished. He is a trained statesman fit for the heaviest task the country can impose upon him. He commands the confidence of his party and his country. He is a leader of meu. We knowyit because we have seen him lead. To those who have followed him he never said “Go,” but always “Come.” He is entirely fearless. We know it, for we have seen his courage tested on a hundred flelds. He has been called to great places and to great trials and he has never failed nor flinched. Hels fit to stand at the head of the Republican column. He is worthy to be an American President. I have the honor—the very great honor—to present to you as a candidate for your nomina- tion the Speaker of the National House of Representatives, Thomas B. Reed of Maine. SECONDED BY LITTLEFIELD. Reed’s nomination was lonaly ap- plauded, many of the delegates riging and waving flags amid much cheering. The nomination was seconded by Charles E. Luttlefield of Rockland, Me. Mr. Lit- tlefield said: In the nominee of this convention will be the next President of the Republic. Thatthe Republican perty is victorious in the coming campaign, whoever its candidate may be, has lone since been settled by the manifold blun- ders—worse than crimes—that have been com- mited by the Democratic party. It has demon- strated its incapacity to direct the affairs of the Nation in full measure, heaped up, running over. It was intrusted with power by a forget- ful and forgiving people at & time of unex- ampled prosperity, with an overflowing Na- tional treasury, an unlimited public credit, all labor fully and profitably employea wheels turning, looms moving, furnaces glowing and machinery humming—the music that attends profitable, diversified industry. These were the inevitable results of the intelligent appli- cation of that elemental principle of our sys- tem of government, coeval with the birth agony of theRepublic—protection to Ameérican labor and industry. ‘The Democratic party, after having de- nounced the McKinley tariff as the “culminat- ing atrocity of a class legislation,””and set forth its declaration of alleged prineiples, asking for achange of administration and party in order that there might be a “change of system and & change of method.” We have a change in ad- ministration and party, & change of system and metnod, and a complete reversal of results. 1In 1896 we sea the perfect converse of the pic- ture presented in 1892. In that great achieve- ment of Democratic statesmanship the con- fessed misbegotten offspring of cowsardice, perfidy and dishonor, a tariff for deficiency only, “Professor” Wilson declared he had just begun to “shell the protected industries of the North. The opening gun of his campaign was suffi- cient to drive timid capital to inaccessible $pots, extinguish the fires, silence the looms, paralyze industry, turn honest labor into the street and plunge the couniry into a con- dition of business depression hitherto un- ““We shall win by 20,000 or nothing.” GARRETT A HOBART. Garrett A. Hobart, nominatec by the Republican party for the Vice-Presidency of the United States, was born at Long Branch, N. J., in 1844, He graduated from Rutger's College before he was 20 years of age, and studied law with Socrates Tuttle at Paterson, being admitted to the bar in 1866. In 1872 he was elected a member of the New Jersey House and was re-elected and was chosen Speaker. tor from Passaic County. He was re-elected to this position and served in the office from that time until the expiration of the year 1882, being President pro tem. of the body for the last two years of which he was & member, In 1884 he was nominated for United States Senator, but was not elected. T In 1884 he became a member of the Republican National Committee.” In business life he has been active and energetic. He is the president of two water companies, the Paterson Railroad Companies’ Consolidated lines, the Morris Coanty Railroad and the People’s Gas Company. He long ago won his spurs among the National leaders of the Republican party for his brains and political acumen. Griggs for Governor and carried his idea through with brilliant success. He declined an election in 1873, and in 1877 was elected Sena- It was he who originated the idea of running Even the most sangune of his friends laughed at him, but when the v ictory was won e was overwhelmed with congratulations, and his boom for the Vice-Presidency was launched. known to this gener: m of business men. It encouraged and cherished foreign and de- stroyed domestic industry. It has fostered no industry as it has “that of the Sheriff.” Then the sunshine of prosperity illuminated the whole land. Now our people grope, shiver and wait in the benumbing shadow of ad- versity and distress. Even Cleveland has dfe- coyered that we are confronted by a condition of business depression. Then & surplus over- flowed the treasury; now a dificit drains jig vaults. The stern logic of events has given the American people & logic lesson on the most stupendous scale. But one lesson is taugnt, Itisso plain that ‘‘he may run that readeth it.” Another change is decreed. It only waits the slow turning of the hand on the dgial- plate of time to be registered. For the next four years the Republican party will agamn take charge of the business of the country, Will it remain in power for decades, shaping in harmony with its high destiny the policy of the Republic? The action of thisconven- tion in selecting & nominee will determine. ‘We stand here a8 the representativesof this great party, charged with the responsibility of deciding whether the lease of power, which an indignant, exhausted, exasperated people stand ready to give us, shall be for years or decades. We are called upon to act for the welfare of the whole party, not to express per- sonal preferences. The occasion demands our greatest man, our foremost leader. He should Dot be the representative of any special policy or any single principle of the party. He must be the representative of all interests, all ments, ail sections. He must know no Nor and no South, no East ana no West. He m have a private life and a public record, of 1awful, flawless, untarnished by suspicion, un sullied by calumny, a life upon which the cal- ctum light of a campaign can cast no shadow. He must have opinions and the courage to declare them, and when he has only declared them to “stand,” like Luther, if need be, for- ever. He must have commanding ability, in- tegrity above suspicion. He must be unswers- ingly loyal to all the principles of the psrty. He must have & thorough knowledge of the science of practical government, an intelligent apprehension of the true destiny of the repub- lic, a sincere purpose, s manly independence, a freedom from obligations, entanglements and alliances. He must be unselfish in his devotion to the weliare of the whole party, inflexible in determination, indomitable in courage. He must have Americanism broad enough and rugged enough to maintain the dignity of the Republic and the rights of its citizens in every land and on every Sea; an Americenism that with a due regard to international duties can extend the hand of sympathy to our fellow- men wherever they are struggling for freedom; an Americanism that does not look upon the flag as a piece of mere textile fabric, but sees in it the emblem of & great and powerful peo- ple consecratéd to liberty and freedom by the expenditure of uncounted treasure and tne sacfifice of innumerable heroic and patriotic lives. 10omé to you from a State that has always followed in victory or defeat the standard of the party, thatever since the party was born of its aspirations for freedom has cast its vote for its candidates; that will cast its vote for the nominee of this convention, whoever he may be, and I bring to you & candidate who by his twenty years of battle for the party in the House of Representatives has demonstrated his possession of these qualifications in a pre- eminent degrée. He has rendered conspicu- ous and enduring service to the party and the Nation, service that was not within the power or ability of any other to render. He trampled under footimmemorial precedent in order that the party that hed beem entrusted by the country with the transaction of its business might discharge its duties and eee that the business of the country was done. The universal practice of the Republican nd Democratic parties had been such as to justify the statement of Mills in speaking of the Democracy, “that we propose to exercise control ot the House, just as much as if we wete still in the majority, because we know that.our minority is strong enough to mske us virtual rulers,” resulting in a government of the minority and not of the majority, a com- plete subversion of the fundamental principle of representative government. With this condition he was confronted at the assembling of the Fifty-first Congress. He found the House of Representatives a body of obstruction. He made Ita delibérstive, legis- 1ative, business body. He found 1t a hissing and a by-word. He made it the instrument of the people’s will, one of the glories of the Re- public. A determihed minority stood like a lion in its path to thwart and defeat, but it made it possible for the Republican party to fulfill its pledges to the people. But for his overmastering courage and in- flexible determination,the McKinley bill would have been nothing but & legisiative dream. ‘The most venomous, ranicorous and vitupera- tive abuse known to partisan hatred was poured upon him by a defeated, baffled, ex- asperated minority. He became the center of a whirlwind ot denunciation and calumnis- tion the country over. His political future was staked upon the issue. He never hesi- tated to count the cost. Conscious of the ree- titude and patriotism of his purpose, calm, serene, self-reliant, undismayed, indomitable, massive, heroie, the great Speaker towered aboveit all, an impregnable bulwark against which “the gates of hell ¢ould not prevail.” He lived to emerge unscathed from the ava- lanche of partisan detraction and villification, and see his position sustained by the greatest legal tribunal of the civilized world, and he had the proud satisfaction of witnessing the humiliation of his detractors and calumnia- tors when they were compelled to adopt his rules. As true as the needle t0 the pole has been his devotion to the prineiples of honest and sound finance. His regord for sound money is without a break. He believes in sound finance and in sound finance with a definition. He believes in a definition that defines. He is willing that his definition should be known of all men, and his definition is that until we can have bimetallism by interns- tional agreement the present gold standard should be maintained. He believes that any other principle means disaster and a loss of the confidence of the great business interests of the country. He knows that the Government mint is not an alambic that can transmute 50 cents’ worth of silver metal into a coin of the reaim of the value of $1. The Republican party was held up in the United States Senate and commanded to stand or deliver $1 in coin for 50 cents of value. They could bring the party to a standard, but under nis leadership they could not make it deliver. Intrusted by his party with an office second only in power to that of the Presidency, havine at his disposal the highest objects of Congres- sional ambition, the control of great interests, he has scorned to use his power for his own ag- grandizement. Dignified, unselfish, dispas- sionate, independent, untrammeled, sincere, concilious, unmindful of his personal advance- ment, he has discharged the auties of his high office. Amid theexigenciesof an intense can- vass for this great office, his devotion to the welfare of the whole party has been pure and steadfast, without *variableness, mneither shadow of turning.” His energies have been exerted to make it possible to elect the nomi- nee of this convention, not to secure for him- self the position of its standard-bearer. He is entangled by no aliiances, because bound by no combinations. He has no friends that he will be eompelled to reward. no enemies that it will be necessary to punish. He was never dominated or controlled by clique or cabal. He has never bowed and never will bow the knee to Basl. If nominated by this conven- tion he and no other will be President of the Republic. We therefore présent to you the great Speaker, the leader of the leaders, pre-eminent in fitness by his eminent public services and abilities, towering above his feilows like a son of Anak, the wisest, strongest, ablest, noblest of American statesmen, Hon. Thomas B. Reed. Reed, the lion-hearted! If nominated he will lead this Jand permanently back to the “paths of prosperity, of fame,” and we shall take with us “our ancient glory undimmed by ad- versity, our aucient honor unsullied by de- feat.” DEPEW NOMINATES MORTON. ‘When the State of New York was called, Mr. Sutherland of Rochester rose and said that the name of New York’s favorite son would be presented by another “favorite son of that State and of all the States, Chauncey M. Depew.” A round of cheers | greeted Mr. Depew as he made his way to