The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1896, Page 5

; . 4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1sv6. : foreign navies carrying guns, but from foreign fleets bringing goods. Thisis the year of the people. They have risen in their might. From ocean to ocean, from lake to gulf, they are united as never be- fore. We know their wishes and are here to register their will. They must not be cheated of their choice. They know the man best qualified and equipped to fight their battles and win their victories. His name is in every heart, on every tongue. His nomination is certain, his election sure. His candidacy will sweep the country as a prairie is swept by fire. This is the year of the people. In their name, by their authority,l secona the nomination of their great champion, William McKinley. Not asa favorite son of any State, out as a favorite son of the United States. Not es a concession to Ohio, but as an added honor to the Nation. When his country called to arms he took into his boyish hands & musket and fol- lowed the flag, brayely baring his breast to the hell ot battie that it might float serenely in the Union sky. Fora quarterof & century he has stood in the fierce light of public place, and his robes of office are as spotless as the driven snow. He has cherished no higher ambition than the honor of his country and the welfare of the plain people. Steadfastly, coursgeously, victoriously and with tongue of fire he has pleaded their cause. His labor, ability and perseverance have enriched the statutes of the United States with legislation in their behalf. All his contributions to the master- pieces of American oratory are the outpour- ings of a pure heart and a patriotic purpose. His God-given powers are consecrated to the sdvancement and renown of his own country and to the uplifting and ennobling of hisown countrymen. He has the courage of his con- victions and cannot be tempted to Woo success or avert deieat by any sacrifice of principle or concession to popular clamor. In the hour of Republican disaster, when other leaders were excusing and. apologizing, he stood steadfastly by that grand legislative act which bore his name, confidently sub- mitting his case to the judgment of events, and calmly waiting for that triumphant vindica- tion whose laurel this convention is impatient to place upon his brow Strengthened and seasoned by long Congres- sional service; broadened by the exercise of imvortant executive powers; master of the great economic questions of the age; eloquent, single-hearted and sincere, he stands to-day the most conspicuous and commanding char- acter of this generation; divinely ordained, as I believe, for a great mission—to lead this people out irom the shedow of adversity into the sunshine of & new, enduring prosverity. Omnipotence never sleeps, Every great cri- sis brings a leader. For every supreme hour providence finds amen. The necessities of '96 are almost ns great as those of '61. True, the enemies of the Nation have ceased to threaten with the sword, and the constitution of the United States no longer tolerates that shackles shall fret the limbs of men; but free trade and free coinage hold no less menace to American progress than did the armed hosts of treason and rebellion. If the voice of the people is indeed the voice of God, then William McKin- ley s the complement of Abraham Lincoin. Yes, and he will issue & new emancipation prociamation to the enslaved sons of toil, and they shall be lifted up into the full enjoyment of those privileges, sdvantages and opportuni- ties that belong of right to the American peo- ple. Under his administration we shall commana the respect of the nations of the earth; the American flag will never be hauled down; the rights of American citizenship will be en- forced; abundant revenues providea; foreign merchandise will rem: abroad, our gold be kept athome; American institutions will be cherished and upheld; all governmental obli- gations scrupulously kept, and on the escutch- eon of the Republic will be indelibly engraved | the American policy, “Protection, reciprocity and sound money.” My countrymen! let not your hearts be troubled; the darkest hour is just beiore the day, the morning of the twentieth century will dawn bright and clear. Liit up your hope- ful faces and receive the light; the Republican party is coming back to power and William McKinley will be President of the United States. In an inland manufacturing city, on election night, November, 1894, aiter the wires had confirmed the news of a sweeping Republican wvictory two workingmen had started to climb to the top of & great smokeless chimney. That chimney had been built by the invita- tion and upon the promise of Republican pro- tective legislation. In the factory over which it towered was employment for twice & thou- sand men. Its mighty roar had heraided the prosperity of & whole community. It had etood & cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night for a busy, industrious, happy people. Now bleak, blackened, voiceless and disman- tled, like & grim specter of evil, it frowned down upon the hapless city, where poverty, jdieness, stagnation and want attested the complete disaster of the free-trade experi- ment. Up, and up and up they climbed, watched by the breathless multitude below. Up, and up, and up, until at last they stood upon its summit; and there, in the glare of the electric lights, cheered by the gathered thoussnds, they unfuried and naiied an American flag. Down in the streets strong men wept—the happy tears of hope—and mothers, lifting up their babes, invoked the blessing of the flag; and then impassioned 1i ps burst forth 1n song— the hallelujah of exultant hosts, the mighty pean of a people’s joy. That song, the enthusi- astic millions sing it yet: Hurrah! hurrah! we bring the jubllee; Hurrab! burrah! the flag that makes us free. S0 we sing the chorus from the mountans to the sea; Hurrah for McKinley and protection. Over the city that free flag waved, caressed by the passing breeze, kissed by the silent sters. And there the first glad sunshine of the morning fell upon it, luminous and lustrous with the tidings of Republican success. On behalf of those stalwart workmen and all the vast army of American toilers; that their employment may be certain, their wages just, tneir dollars the best of the civilized world; on behalf of that dismantled chimney and the deserted factory at its base; that the mighty furnaces may once more flame, the mighty wheels revolve, the whistles scream, the an- vils ring, the spindles hum; on behalf of the thousand cottages roundabout and all the humble homes of this broad land; that com- fort and contentment msy again abide, the firesides glow, the women sing, the children laugh; yes, and on behalf of that American flag and ail it stands for and represents; for the honor of every stripe, for the glory of every star; that its power may fill the earth and its splendor span. the sky—i ask the nomina- tion of that loyal American, that Christian gentleman, soldier, siatesman, patriot, Wil liam McKinley. HASTINGS SPEAKS FOR QUAY. At the close of Mr. Thurston’s effective speech cries of *“Vote'’ were raised, inter- spersed with cries for *‘Quay.” In the midst of this Governor Hastings took the stand and placed in nomination the name of Matthew Stanley Quay. He said: Mr. Chairmap and Gentlemea of the Conven- tion: Pennsylvania comes to this convention giving you the cordial assurance that, whoever may be the National standard-bearer, he will re- ceive of all the States in the Union the largest majority from the Keystone State. There have been no faltering footsteps in Pennsyivania ‘when the tenets of Republicanism have been atstake. Our party’s principles have always been held as sacred as Independence Hall or the memory of her dead soldiers, Having within her borders mere American citizens relativély who own tbe homes in which they live; whose principel daily avocation is to sub- due and deveélop her great storehouses of native wealth; whose wage-earners, skillea and une skilled, receive, one year with another, the highest average American wage-rate—the Re- publicans of Pennsylvania, by their -chosen representatives, come to this convention and, with yon, demand, and their every interest de- mands, a eystem of National currency equal to the best in the world. They demand as well that the Government they Jove and for whose flag they bave fourht and still stand ready to defend shall pay its debts in money and not in promises. They in- sist that a dollar is not created by the fiat of the Government, but must have 100 cents of intrinsic er exchangeable value, measured by the world’s standard, and that any debase- ‘ment of the standard would be faial to busi- ness security and Nationel honor. They be. lieve in the old-fashioned custom of living within their income, and when the income is unequal to the necessary outgo they Insist upon increasing their revenue rather than increasing their debt. They believe that the primary object of government is to defend and promote the interests of the people who have ordained that Government for the advance- ment of their common welfare. They hold that the revenue policy and the protective poiicy go hand in hand, and they stand as the sturdy and unwavering champions of that American system of fair and open-handed pro- tection which, injuring none and helping all, has made this Nation great and prosperous. Pennsylvania comes to this convention and with great unanimity asks you to name a standard-bearer who will represent not only the prineiples and conditions but the bright- est hopes and aspirations of the Republican party; & man who has been a loyal supporter of itsevery great movement; a potent factor in its councils from the day of its birth and baptism cn Pennsylvanis soil to the present time; & man whose every vote and utterance has been upon the side of sound money, fair protection and a strong and patriotic Ameri- canism. Those whom I represent and who ask his nomination at your hands point to astates- men who has been in the forefront of every battle for his party; who has been its cham- plon, its wise counselor, its organizer and the successful leader of its forlorn hopes. He was with those patriots who rocked the cradle of Republicanism ; he was among the first to com- prehend the magnitude of the armed debate of 61 and t0 give himself to the Union cause. In 1878 he stemmed the tide of curreacy infla- tion and won & victory which, while less osten- tatious, was equal in importance to his suc- cessful rescue of the country from free trade and Grover Cleveland in ’88. The American citizen who believes that all laws and all policies should be for America’s best interest; the Americar soldier who ad- miies valor 8 much as he loves the flag of his reunited country; the American wage-earner who loves his home and family, and who will never consent to sink himself to the wage level of the foreign pauper; the American manu- facturer emerging from the tortures of a free- trade panic, and, anxious to relight the fires of industry where darkness and gilence still hold sway; they who loudly proclfm their recent but perfect conversion to the true gospel of Republicanism; who demand dollars asgood as gold as the wage for good work; who believe in commereial reciprocity with other nations, but who say *‘halt’’ to any further foreign en- croachment upon any part of America—these, all these, have found in him a steadfast friend and able supporter. He was the soldiers’ friend in war, and he has been their constant cham- pion in peace. The survivor of thoss who fought for freedom and won immortal fame recognize in him a comrade whose valor has been proved on hard-fought field and attested in the proudest trophy ever won by soldier— the decoration awarded him by the American Congress. Callea to lead a forlorn hope in the great campaign of 'S8 he wrought a task equal to the six labors of Hercules. He organized the patriotism and Republicanism of the country for victory. He throttled the Tammany tiger in his den and, forcing an honest vote and an honest count in the stronghold of the most powerful political organization in theland, rescued the country from the heresies of Dem- ocracy. Having thus made himself too power- ful and too dangerous to the enemy, the order went forth to assassinate him, but the poisoned arrows of slander and vituperation, thrown in bitter and relentless hatred, fell broken at his feet. He turned to the people among whom he lived and whose aervant he was, and his vindication st their hands was a unanimous re-election to the Senate of the United States. There, representing imperial Pennsylvania and ber interests, he stood like a ‘Tock, resist- ing the combined power of a free-trade Presi- dent and party, until the deformity known as the Wilson bill was altered and amended 50 as to save at least some of the business interests of his State and country from entire and utter ruin. We welcome the issue—American pro- tection, American credit and an Ameri- can policy. Let the people in' the eam- paign which this convention inaugurates de- termine whether they are stiil willing to live through another free-trade panic. Let the wage-earner and wage-payer contemplate the bitter experience which brought hungerto the home of one and financial ruin to the other. Let the American farmer compare farm proauct prices with free-trade promises. Let bhim who has saved a surplus and him who works for a livelihood determine, each for himself, if he craves to bs paid in Ameri- can dollars, disgraced and depreciated to half their alleged value. Let him who fought for his country’s flag; let the widow, the orphan and the loving parent who gave up that which was as precious as life, behold that flag, and all it stands for, pawned toa foreign and domestic joint syndicate to raise temporary loans for the purpose of postponing the final financial disaster and answer whether they want the shame and humiliation repeated. Let the sovereign voice be heard in the coming eélec- tion declaring that the only Government founded on the rock of freedom, blessed with every gift of nature and crowned with un- measured possibilities, shall not be dethroned, degraded, pauperized by & party and a policy at war with the very genius of our National existence. Nominate him who I now name, and this country will have a President whose mental endowments, broad-minded statesmanship, ripe experience, marvelous sagacity, unassum- ing modesty, knightly courage and true Americanism are unexcelled. Nominate him and he will elect himself. I name to you the soldier and the states- man, Pennsylvania’s choice—Matthew Stanley Quay. Governor Hastings was listened to with attention, and there was quite a formid- able demonstration of applause for Quay at the close of his speech. It was partici- pated in by only a small portion of the convention, however, and was maintained with difficulty, though with much noise and amid counter demonstrations almost as numerous. As it was dying away, the rhythmic cry of “Quay, Quay, M. S. Quay,” accompanied by stamping of feet set in. The hisses increased in voiume, and delegates began to pelt each other with rolled-up newspapers. COries of “Vote, vote,” were siarted in every section to beat down the similar shouts of “Quay.” The chair rapped in vain for some time, but at last quiet was restored and the call of States was resumed, and J. Madison Vance of Louisiana, a colored delegate from that State, was recognized to second McKinley. At the close of his brief re- marks, the chair announced that, the call of States being completed, the order called for balloting for the nominee for President of the United States. s gt ONE BALLOT DECIDES IT. Ohlo Casts the Vote Making Mc- Kinley the Nominee. CONVENTION HALL, 8T. LOUIS. Mo., June 18.—Amid s hush the call of States was begun, Alabama starting off with 1 for Morton and 19 for McKinley. Arkansas and California cast their solid votes for McKinley. Connecticut cast 6 votes for Reed and 7 for McKinley; Delaware a solid vote for McKinley ; Florida 8 for McKinley; Georgia, 2 for Reed, 2 for Quay and 2 for McKinley. One of the colored delegatés from Flori- da, amid angry protests, insisted on chal- lenging the vote, and Senator Thurston, who had resumed the chair, decided that the right of challenge should be given to every delegate. The delegation being polled it was found tbat Morton had 2 votes in Florida and McKinley only 6, instead of 8, as announced by the chair- man of the delegation. A challenge of Georgia foilowed, and resulted in confirm- ing the vote as previously announced. A colored delegate from Alabama here followed with a challenge of the vote of thut State, which resuited in showing that, instead of casting a solid vote for McKinley, the vote should bave shown 1 vote for Morton, 2 for Reed and McKinley 19. Illinois’ vote, announced as 46 for McKinley and 2 for Reed, was cnallenged and & poll resulted showing no change. | AN EPITOME OF REPUBLICANISM. Being an Extract From the Speech of Senmator Thurston Upon Assuming the Duties of Chairman of the St. Louis Convention. This generation has had its object lesson, and the doom of the Democratic party is already pronounced. The American people will return the Republican 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 Monroe doctrine ; the restoration of our merchant marine; safety under the stars and stripes on every sea, in every port; ‘a revenue adequate for all Governmental expenditures and the gradual extinguishment af the National debt ; a currency “‘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 dolfars of the civilized world; a protective tariff which protects, coupled with a reciprocity which reciprocates, thereby securing the best markets for American products and opening American factories to the free coinage of American muscle; 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 combinations and unjust exactions of aggre- gated capital and corporate power ; an American welcome to every God-fearing, liberty-loving, constitution- respecting, law-abiding, labor-seeking, decent man; the exclusion of all whose birth, whose blood, whose teach- ings, whose practices would menace the permanency cf free institutions, endanger the safety of American society or lessen the opportunities of American labor ; the abolition of sectionalism—every star in the Amer- ican flag shining for the honor and welfare and happiness of every commonwealth and of all the people; a deathless loyalty to all that is truly American and a patriotism eternal as the stars, Indiana cast its 30 votes for McKinley. Towa, amid & slight demonstration of ap- plause, cast its 26 votes for Allison and Kansas went solid for McKinley. Ken- tucky cast 26 for McKinley. Louisiana cast a curious vote—}4 vote Reed, 1 vote Quay, 3 vote blank and }4 for McKinlg_v. So the voting went on without futther in- cident until Massachusetts gave 1 vote for McKinley and the rest for Reed. Thée McKinley column steadily in- creased. When Mississippi’s 18 votes were cast for McKinley another of the colored delegates demanded a poll, which showed 1 vote for Quay and 17 for McKinley. Montana cast 1 vote for McKinley, 1 for Don Cameron of Pennsylvania, 1 blank and 1 absentee. The chair called the name of Mr. Hartman’s alternate and he voted blank. There was a decided sensation when the vote of New York was challenged by War- ner Miller. Ithad been snnounced as 54 for Morton and 17 for McKinley. Joseph B. Newins was absent in the First District and the name of his alternate was called. Mr. Gruber raised a laugh by saying: “He's just leaving the room to avoid vot- ing."? The next alternate was called and voted for McKinley. The delegation voted solidly for Morton till the half votes were reached, when the halves divided equally between McKinley and Morton. ‘When Ohio was reached the requisite number of votes were given to nominate McKinley, and the convention, recozniz- ing the fact without announcement, broke into cheers. Alaska wound up the roll by casting its newly conferred four votes for McKinley. The absent delegate from New York, Mr. Parkhurst, here appeared and by unanimous consent cast his vote for Mor- ton, making the total vote, Morton 55, McKintey 17. All of the States having been called the president stated before the announcement of the result that application had been made to him for recognition by the repre- sentatives of the defeated candidates to meke & certain motion. He believed it would be the fairest way to recognizé them in the order in which the names had been made. He then proceeded to state the resalt of the vote. When he announced that McKinley had received 66114 votes the scene of an hour ago was repeated. / Delegates and spectators arose. and cheered and waved flags and banners and the pampas plumes of California; the band struck up, “My Country, ’tis of Thee,” and cheers and huzzas rent the air. There was not a single one of the 15,000 or 16,000 people in the great hall who aid not do his or her best to sweil the sounds of jubilee, and to join in the grand popular demonstration in favor of the successful candidate. The women were as enthusi- astic as the men. Il seemed as though no one would be seated again and orderly proceedings would never more be at- tempted. One young man on the platform waved, on the point of the National banner, a laced cocked hat, such as the conqueror of Marengo is represented as wearing. This symbol of victory added, if possible, to the enthusiasm, and the noise was swelled by the booming of artillery out- side. At last the chairman got a chance to continue his announcement of the vote. Thomas B. Reed, he said, had received 8414 votes, Senator Quay 6114, Levi P. Morton 58, Senator Allison 35 and Dom Oameron 1. Following is the official de- tailed vote for President: = [E(E[E|5IElE 2 G| 8| & STATES. & H H gfi G : £ = = 16 18 & Soaa 88 Kentucky. Louisiana. New Jeriey New York " aruaaiiioBun e Indian Territory. Dist. Columbia. Alas] Totals.. . 66134 B8 llfl 8415|8514 1 Raseatut> 1o a obolcs, 454, ecessary (o a ol Total number delegates present, 906. Senator Lodge, rising in his delegation and standing upon his ohair, said: Mr. Chairman; The friends of Mr. Reed have followed him with the same Joyalty which he has always shown himseif to the country and to the principles of his party. Thatloyalty they now transfer to the soldier, the patriot, the American, whom you have named here to- day, and on behalf of my own State, and I be- lieve of all the other New England States that supported Mr. Reed, we pledge a great majority in our States and our assistance in other States, and all the help we can render for Wil liam MecKinley. [Cheers.] I move you, sir, that the nomination of William McKinley may ‘be made unanimous. [Cheers.] Mr. Hastings of Pennsylvania, who had nominated Senator Quay, seconded the motion to make McKinley’s nomina- tion unanimous. Pennsylvania, he said, with the loyalty which always distin- guished her, would become the champion of the champion of protection to American industry—William McKinley—and would welcome the 1ssue of American protection, American credit, American policy, and give to William McKinley the largest ma- jority she had ever given toa Republican candidate. : ‘Thomas C. Platt, on behalf of the State of New York, also seconded the moticn to make William McKiniey’s nomination unanimous and declared New York would give its usual (if not double its usual) ma- jority for the Republican candidate. Henderson of Iowa seconded the nomi- nation of McKinley. The convention, he said, had elected a National Committee to run the coming campaign, but it was not needed. The Republicans of the country would run the nextcampaign. [Cheers.] It was they who had made the nomination and not Mark Hanna or General Grosve- nor. [More cheers.] The States, he said, would give to Mr. McKinley a majority unprecedented in American history. By the authority of the distinguished S8enator from Iowa, Mr. Allison, and in obedience to the instructions of the delegation, he seconded the motion to make McKinley ths ananimous choice of the Republicans of the United States for President. [Ap- pl.lnué] Yielding to vociferous calls for a speech, Mr. Depew mountea his chair in the back part of the hall, where the rays of the evening sun shone on his countenance, which beamed with joy and good humor. He said: Iam now in the happy position of making a speech on the man who is going to be elected. [Laughter and applause.] It is a great thing for an amateur, when his first nomination has failed, to come in and second the man who has succeeded. New York is here, with no bitter feeling and no disappointment. [Laugh- ter.] We recognize that the waves have sub- merged us, but we have bobbed up serenely. It was & cannon from New York that sounded the first news of McKinley’s nomination. They said of Governor Morton’s father that he was & New England clergyman who brought up & family of ten children on $800 a year, and was, notwithstanding, gifted in prayer. [Laughter.] It does not make any difference How poor he may be, how out ot work, how ragged, how next-door-to-a-trampanybody may be in the United States to-might, he will be “gifted in prayer’ at the result of this conven- tion. [Cheers.] Thereis & principle desr to the American heart. Itis the principle which moves Ameri- can spindles, starts its industries and makes the wage-earners sought for, instead of seek- ing employment. That principle is embodied in McKinley. His personslity explains the nomination to-day, and his personaiity will carry with him to the Presidential chair the aspirations of the voters of America, of the families of America, of the homes of America— protection to American industry end America for Americans. [Cheers.] Cries of “Quay” and *“Mark Hanna' were raised. Mr, Hanna, from the body of the hall responded in a few words which were almost inaudible in the confusion, pledging himself to take his place in the ranks and work for the election of Mec- Kinley. The chair put the question: “Shall the nomination be made unanimous?’ and by & rising vote it was so ordered. The chair announced that William McKinley was the candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States. FOR SECOND PLACE. Several States Present Names of Favorite Sons. CONVENTION HALL, ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 18.—When the applause which greeted the announcement of McKin- ley’'s nomination had subsided Lodge moved to proceed to the election of Vice- President, and that the nominating speeches be limited to five minutes. Not- withstanding many expressions of dissent and cries {o adjourn this motion was de- clared carried, and at 6:30, the convention having been in continuous session eight and a half hours, the roll of States was called for nominations for Vice-President, BULKELEY’S NAME PRESENTED When Connecticut was reached Fessen- den took the stand and said: Two acts have aiready been performed by this t convention, which should receive the hearty aud the enthusiastic approval and ratification of every loyal Republican of the United Btates. The first is the nomination of the soldier, patriot and great statesman of Ohio, Governor McKinley, as our choice for the Presidency. The second is the adoption of & platform, which in unequivocal terms pledges the Republican party of this great nation to maintain an honest currency and the present standerd. We have also made a declaration in favor of American industry, always 5o ably ¢hampioned by the cendidate we have chosen. Now, the people of the State I represent were foremost in expressing their beltef in an hon- est doilar and a single standard, end that standatd gold. Connecticut is vitally inter ested in this question and though classed asa doubtfuFState, we believe we shall carry her in November for the candidates of the Repub- lican party. 1have the homor and pleasure of naming for the second place on our National ticket a Con- necticut man; a man who represents the sen- timents of the Republicans and protection- ists and sound-money men; a stanch and tried Republican; & man equally distinguished for his rare courage, his energy, his integrity and his ability. I nominate Hon. Morgan G. Bulke- ley of Connecticut for Vice-President of the United States. Mr. Fessenden sketched Mr. Bulkeley’s successful career, and said he was now at the head of one of the largest business en- terprises of the State, and had been thrice elected Mayor of the Democratic city of Hartford, and had given them a magnificent administration. FORT NAMES HOBART. Judge John Franklin Fort of New Jer- sey placed in nomination Hon. Garrett A. Hobart. He said: I rise to present to this convention the claims of New Jersey to the Vice-Presidency. We come because we feel that we can, 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 & universally triumphant Democ- racy, the Republicans of New Jersey have maintained their organization, and fought as valiantly as if the outcome were to be assured victory. Only twice through all this long period has the sun shone in upon us. Yet, through all these weary years, we have, like Goldsmith’s ““Captive,” felt that, Hope, l1ke the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. The fulfillment of this hope came in 1894. In that year, for the first time since the Re- publican party came into existence, we sent to Congress a solid delegation of eight Republi- cans, and elected a Republican to the United States Senate, We followed this in 1895 by electing & Republican 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. Icome to you to-day them in behalf of the new Neéw Jersey, a politically redeemed and regenerated State. Old times have passed away, and behold! all things have become new. Itismany long years since New Jersey bas secured recognition from the Natiom. ‘When Henry Clay stood for protection in 1844, New Jersey furnished Theodore Frelinghuy- sen as his associate. The issue then was the restoration of the tariff, and was more nearly like thatof to-day than at any other period which I can recall in the Nation’s political history. 1In 1856, when the freedom of man brought the Republican party into existence and the great “‘Pathfinder” was called to lead, New Jersey furnished for that unequal contest William L. Dayton as the Vice-Presidential can- didate. Since then, counting for nothing, we have asked for nothing. During this period Maine has had a candidate for President and a Vice- President; Massachusetts a Vice-President; New York four Vice-Presidents, one of whom became President for almost a full term; Indi- ana & President, a candidate for President and & Vice-President; Illinois & President twice and a Vice-Presidential candidate; Ohio two Presidents, and now a candidate for the thira time; Tennessee & Vice-President, who be- came President for almost & full term, We believe that the Vice-Presidency in 1896 should be given to New Jersey. We have rea- sons for our opinion. We have ten electoral votes; we have carried the State in the elec- tions of '93, '94 and "95. We hope and believe ‘we can keep the State in the Republican col- umn for all time, By your action to-day you can greatiy aid us. Do you believe you could place the Vice- Presidency in a State more justly entitled to recognition, or one which it wouid be of more public advantage 10 hola in the Republican ranks? If the party in any State is deserving of approval for the sacrifice of its members to maintain its organization, then the Repub- licans of New Jersey, in this the hour of their ascendancy, after long years of bitter defeat, feel that they cannot come to this convention in vain, We appeal to our brethren in the South, who know with us what it is to be overridden by fiaud in the ballot-box; to be counted out by corrupt election officers; to be dominated by an arrogant, unrelenting Democracy. We would have carried our State atevery election for the past ten years if the count had been an honest one. We succeeded in throttling the ballot-box stuffers and impris- oning the corrupt election officers, only to have the whole raft of them pardoned in a day, to work again their nefarious practices upon an honest people. But to-day, under ballot-reform laws, with an honest count, we know we can win. It hes been a long, terrible strife to the goal, but we have reached it unaided and unassisted from ‘without, and we come to-day, promising to the ticket here selected the vote of New Jersey, ‘whether you can give us the Vice-Presidential candidate or not. We make it mo test of our Republicanism that we have a candidate. ‘We have been too long used to fighting for principle for that; but we do say that you can, by granting our right, lighten our burden and make us a confident party, with victory in sight, even before the contest begins. ‘Will wecarry Colorado, Montana and Nevada this year, if the Democracy delare for silver at 16 t0 1?7 Let us hope we may. New Jersey has as many electoral votes as those three States together. Will you not make New Jersey sure to take their place in case of need? ‘We have in all these long years of Republi. canism been the *‘Lone Star” Democratic State in the North. Our forty years of wandering in the wilderness of Democracy are ended; our Egyptian darkness disappears. We are on the hilltop, looking into the promised land. Encourage us as we march over into the politi- cal Caanan of Republicanism, there to remain, by giving us a leader on the National ticket to g0 up with us. ‘We are proud of our public men. Their Re- publicanism and love of country has been welded in the furnace of political-adversity. That man is a Republican who adheres to the party in a State where there is no hope for the gratification of personal ambitions. There are no camp-followers in the minority party in any Statp. They are all true soldiers in the militant army doing valiant service, without rfllurd. gain or hope thereof from people only. A true representative of this class of Repub- to-day. He licans in New Jersey we offer you A i8 in the prime of life, & never-faltering lri;nd. with qualities of leadership unsurpassed, sterling honor, of broad mind, of 1tberal views, of wide public information, of great ‘business capacity, and, withal, 8 parlismentdrian who would grace the Presidency of the Benate of the United States. A mative of our State, the son of an humble farmer, reared to love of country in sight of the toric field of Monmoath, on which the blood of our ances- tors was shed that the Republic might exist. From a poor boy, unaided and alone, he has risen to high renown among us. In our State we have done for him all that the present conditions would permit. He has been Speaker of our Assembly and President of our Senate. He has been the choice for United States Seuator of the Republican minority in the Legislature, and had it been in our power to have placed him in the Senate of the United States he would long ere this have been there. His capabilities are such as would grace any position of honor in the Nation. Not for him- self, but for our State; not for his ambition, but to give to the Nation the highest type of public official, do we come to this convention by the command of our State and in the name of the Republican party of New Jersey—uncon- quered and unconquerable, undivided and in- divisible—with one united voice speaking for all that counts for good citizenship in our State, and nominate to you for the office of Vice-President ot this Republic Garret A. Ho- bart of New Jersey. Mr. Humphrey of Illinois briefly sec- onded the nomination oi Mr. Hobart in the name of Illinois. RHODE ISLAND’S CHOICE. The rollcall of States was resumed and New York made no nomination. When Rhode Island was called Mr. Allen of that State came to the stand and nominated for the Vice-Presidency Charles Warren Lippitt. He said that that little State had given a hero to the revolution in 1776, a Burnside to the Union 1n 1861, and that it now had in Congress the father of the Mc- Kinley protection act, meaning Senator Aldrich, RANDOLPH NOMINATES EVANS. ‘When the State of Tennessee was called Mr. Randolph, a delegate from that State, nominated for the Vice-Presidency H. Clay Evans of Tennessee. He said: Mr. President and Genitlemen of the Conven- tion: It has been more than thirty years since any citizen of the States organized as the Con- federate States was presented by either of the great National parties for the office of President or Vice-President. When the great armed conflict for the Nation’s life was entered upon, the Repub- lican party had just assumed control of the Government. It became the championof the union of the States and the preservation of the Government under the constitution. At the close of the contest the success of the National armies was regarded as the special triumph of the Republican party. The people of the States of the South bad been in revolt, and it was but natural that for a time after active hostilities had ceased the Republican party and those people should distrust each other. The one found the great majority of its voters in the States which had adhered to the Union, and tnerefore selected its candidates for President and Vice-President from those States. The Democratic party had been the domi- nant party in the States of the South for many generations, and the people regarded that party not only as their traditional represent- ative, but &s the peculiar exponent of their political views. A solid South in the Demo- cratic column of electoral votes was the neces- sary consequence, and for many years the Re- publican party has entered upon every National contest handicapped with 159 electoral votes absolutely certaln against its nmominees. To overcome this immense vote thus fixed against it required the carrying of each of certain doubtful States of the North, and the failure to carry .any one of those States, was demonstrated in the defeat of Mr. Blaine in the contest of 1884, meant the election of the Democratie nominees. ‘To change this condition of affairs requiresa change of the relations between the people of the Southern States and the Republican party. To accomplish such & change two things must concur—the people of the South or a majority of them must be satisfied that their interests are to be promoted by the success of the Re- publicen party, and that the Republican party is ready and willing to concede to them, when members of it, and acting with it, equal recog- nition with the people of the other States in the selection of officers and agents for the ad- ministration of government, and that change must be brought about by obtaining converts from the Democratic party. The experience of the last four years in the administration of the National Government upon Democratic principles and through Dem- ocratic officers and agents has furnished satis- factory proof on the first proposition, and a large majority of the intelligent people of the former solid South is now ready to admit that the principles announced in the platform just adopted, when honestly administered. through capable officers and agents, must result in the building up of a new South, not only in name but in industrial development and in all that goes to make up & happy and prosperous people. The proof of the other proposition, that the people of the Southern States, who are Repub- licans and who are honest, worthy and capa- ble, sre to be trusted as officers ard agents in the administration of the Government under like eircumstances equally with their brothers of other States, ana that no invidious discrimi- nation is to be made against them because of their locality or ancestry or past history or affilistions, remsins yet to be made. Now is the time for the great Republican party to make its first serious effort to build itself up and put itself in & position of impieg- nable strength among the people of the South. The Southern States are now its recruiting ground. The solid South is reliably slid for the Demoeratic party no longer. Kenlucky, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Missouri and North Carolina have given un- mistakable indications of drifting away, and with proper encoursgemen: and suitable recognition they may safely be piaced in the Republican column, not only when the result of the election in November is announced, but in future contests as they periodically oceur. Tennessze, the gateway of the South proper, the great battlefield of the Civil War, the State which voted by & large majority against seces- slon when the question was submitted to its people, the last State to join itself to the Con-, federate States and the first State to return its loyalty to the Union, now presents you one of its most distinguished citizens for the second place on your ticket. Itis true he is not a native born, buthe is more—he is & citizen by choice and he comes from a portion of the State where people have always been loyal to the Union and the con- stitution and who furnished more soldiers for the armies of the Union in proportioh to their population than uny other Territory in the United States. Our nominee was born in the great State of Pennsylvania. He was reared in the equally great State of Wisconsin. When the President in the beginning of the Nation's danger called the citizens to arms to preserve the Union and perpetuate the constitution, though a mere boy, he enlisted as a private soldier ahd after going through all the perils of the war at the end he was honorably discharged from service. He then became a citizen of the State of Ten- nessee, and has devoted his industry, energy and abinity in developing the resources of the State. He has won the friendship, confidence and respect of the people among whom he lives. They have put him in various official positions. He has been Mayor of his city; a member of Congress from his district, and First Assistant Postmaster-General in the last Re- pl;bllm administration. n every position he has disch: duties honestly and taithfully and m‘.’{,’f.fi,." factlon of the people. After he had thus established himself the Republicans of Ten- nessee nominated him for Governor, and the Deople at the November election of 1893 gave him a majority of 748 votes over his opponent asshown by the face of the returns meae by mZI ome:;. holding the election. ter the election a Dem enacted a law for the purpo‘:cer::‘ &f.‘:fi-‘fi‘:}“fi Itis not too much to say that the law was aesigned tu::ynn him of the office to which elected him; and the same men T the law, as ‘3',&'.;,?.’. 5 ssues made wers falsé and the ¢ :gon;h;:rblad. The deeislon ©hanged the face of the retarns. Enough votes were tagep from what he had received to give hisop. ponents 8 majority, and to change his election into.defeat. The grounds for the rejection of the votes were not that they had not been cast, nor that.the voters were not legal voters, nor that the judges of elections had not been fuliy satisfied of tneir right to vote before receiving their votes. All these facts were admitied, but the decision was put on the ground that, though the voters had paid their poll-tax and had receipts showing the fact for the time required by the 1aw, such receipts bad ot been produced before the officers holding the election, and those officers, for that reason had no right to receive their votes. In this way thousands of citizens were robbed of their votes, shd & man never elected Goy- ernor 18 now holding the office in Tennessee, The people of Tennessee feel that & great wrong has been done them, and they waut an opportunity of expressing their public con. demnation of the sct. They want an oppor- tunity of showing the confidence they have in the citizen who has thus been defrauded of the office to which they elected him. They believe he is worthy ot sny ofnce within the gift of the American people. Representing them here, President of the United States Evans. The nomination of Mr. Evans was sec- onded by Mr. Smith of Kentucky (a colored delegate), who declared that the Republican party was "lhn_ grandest or- ganization this side of eternity.” [Laugh- ter and cheers.] No Republican conven- tion for the past thirty years had failed to declare for the sanctity of the ballot, but it was necedsary to do something more than words. The convention had an opportunity to do for Southern Repub- licans that which it had done for North- ern industry, by giving to them a candi- date for the Vice-Presidency who shouid be to them renewed courage and hope. Elect Evans to the Vice-Presidency, he said, and there would bea new fence of Republican States in the Soutl. FOR WALKER OF VIRGINIA. Mr. I C. Walker (colored) of virginia put in nomination bis fellow-delegate, James A. Walker, He told the conven- tion that the financial plank in the plat- form was *‘strong medicine for the Soutin- ern Btates, but they proposed to take it like little men.” A delegate from West Virginia reported that that State was solid for sound money, solid for McKinley und solid for Hobart of New Jersey for Vice-President. The balloting for Vice-President then began. Lt HOBART’S EASY VICTORY. The New Jersey Man Chosen on the First Ballot. CONVENTION HALL, 8T. LOUIS, Mo., June 18.—The call had only proceeded as far as South Dakota when it became evi- dent that Hobart had been nominated on the first ballot and the delegates and the crowd in the galleries began to leave the building. The chair informed the conven- tion that it would be necassary to appoint two committees to wait upon the nomi- ness for President and Vice-President and notify them of their nomination and he requested each delegation to choose two of its members to act upon these committees, which he said would meet to-morrow morning at the Southern Hotel. Resolutions were then offered and agreed to appointing the chairman, Mr. Thurston, and the temporary chairman, Mr. Fairbanks, chairmen respectively of the two committees to notify. the nom- inees for President und Vice-President. Resolutions of thauks were also offered to the chairman, the temporary chairman and the officers of the convention, and suitable acknowledgments were made by Messrs, Thurston and Fairbanks. The result of the ballot for Vice-Presi- dent was then announced by the chair as follows: Hobart, 532)¢; Evans, 27714; Bulkeley, 89; Lippitt, 8; Walker, 24; Reed, 3; Thurston, 2; Frederick Grant, 2; Depew, 3; Morton, 1. Absent, 23. Chairman Thurston then formally de- clared Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey the nominee of the convention for Vice- President of the United States and thecon- vention adjourned sine die at 7:51. The detailed vote for Vice-President fol- lows: 1 name for Vice- Henry Clay “SUNAZ STATES. ASapxiog it INQOH el ol orion 1 e tow P R0 1 5 S 00 50 5 4 © 5 G e e DD 00! Fauli ES P BERO! @er Wt Oklahoma...| & Ind Territory| 6 Dist Colomba 2 Alaska,. ..., 4 o Totals....| 58514 |39/ 27734 ... T9 als—Lippitt 8, James A. Walker 24, Reed ‘Thurs on 2, Depew 3, Morton 1, Grant 2. Absent—Moutava 5. Nevada 3. Texas 7, Colo- rado 8; total absent 23. Necessary Lo choice 448, American legislation should conserve and defend American trade and the wages of Americam workmen.—BENJAMIN HARRI- SON. IRBY NOI A CANDIDATE, Ihe South Carolina Semator Will Not Risie Humiliation. LAURENS, 8. C, June 18.—8enator Irby announces that he has decided not to enter the coming contest as a candidate for the United States Senate. He is re- poifl:;l hlo :g!i,ng that, from advices re- ceivi m different portions of the State, he concludes that his motives nndeofliaili acts are misanderstood by the faction of which he was & charter member, and that the machinery of the party government l‘zn been organized to defeat and humili- 7 —— Special to the Call. BUDAPEST, Huxcary, June 19.—Andor Saxlehner, of the firm of Andreas Saxieh- ner of this city, proprietor and exporter of the celebrated Hunyaai Janos natural g:tum water, has bsen decorated by nicis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King St Hungary, with the Cross of the Iron Crown, order IIT, on the occasion of the Hu; Millennial Celebration now being held in Budapest.