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H V H N
HE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
COHYEHTIOH.
OF INDIANA,
FOR PRESIDENT.
LEVI P. MORTON
OF NEW YORK,
TOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
The Platform Adopted.
ADetailed Report of the Con
vention's Work.
FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Chicaoo, June 19. With its myriad
Of electric jets in archo3, in stats, in dia
monds, in spheres, in almost every con
ceivable design of art, with its olios,
bannerettes, bunting streamers of a
thousand hues, the immense interior of
the Convention hall presented a charm
ing spectacle when thu National Iicpuli
can Convention was called to order to
day. !
HIE DECORATIONS.
The ChriVmau's platform was a floral
bower. Nothing could be seen of the
front of th desk upon which eight
years ago descended the gavel that an
nounced the nomination of James A.
Garfield, uid four year later the success
of James 5. Blaine. It was one huge,
bank of f ses, Jacqueminots, Marechal
Neil, hyainths, violets and lilies, and it
shed its elicate perfume far and wido.
To tip right and left the American
flag was attorned in floral shields, while
on the tj of either end two huge and
. artistic" arranged bouquets were at
tached p arches of smilax, which in
turn coiocted with the American flags
which dtwiaed the pillars and com
bined make the stand an arcadian
bower. Directly beneath the chair were
picturof Cieaerala I ogan and Grant,
' tKT n immortellti while from
I firsbalcony portraits of all tho He-
V T -V-M A. ICD1UDULS. I1IIIU 1 HMI II llll I1TI
BenjanimHarrison
" J rtfxrt lookea down upon tho doler
, 6fes. j
CALLED TO OI1DKR.
t. Chairman Jones, of the Na-
'"((-'ominittee, culled the assembled
".-cr&utes to order, and then the ltev.
! Frank W. Gunsaulus, of the Plymouth
Congregational Church, made a short
prayer. .
Thon the call for the Convention was
read in a ringing tone by Secretary Fes-1
sendun, and the references to the tarilf, I
to the protection of American lal.or, to '
accumulation of the surplus, the demand j
for a free, honest ballot and a fair count, ,
and the question of the admission of tho
.Territories were ull loudly cheered, I
especially that relating to the tarilf.
, The read injur concluded, Chairman
Jones read an address, lie prophesied
! Success for the Republican party, and j
said that, thanks to President Cleve- j
. land and his Southern ullies, they had
; vuiwnu uu luutr uiuise anu ucciarcu
: themselves as the advocates of free
trade. Mr. Jones concluded ly pre
iaenting John M. Thurston, of .Nebraska,
jwho had been chosen by the National
Committee to act us Temporary Chair
iinaii. A delegate from Kau.-as objortcJ
j to Mr. Thurston, but was compelled to
: take his Beat amid hisses. Mr. Thurs
ton was greeted with applause, and
,made a long address, in the course of
which he made the following allusion to
Ulaiue, which was greeted with the
wildest kind of cheering:
That gallant leader, the chevalier of
American polities, the glory of Republican,
ism ami the nightmare of Democrats, our
' Henry of Navarre, is seeking in foreign travel
! the long-needed relaxation ami rust from the
wearisome burdens of public life and service.
' With the sublime magnanimity of hi
incomparable greatness, he has denied us the
iuhuite pleasure of supporting him ia this
convention. Desiring aliove uli things partv
harmony and success, he has stepissd from
the certain ladder of his own laudablo am
bition that some other uiau may climb
to power. As his true friends, we
cannot, dare not, commit the political
' crime of disobedience to his expressed will.
; We cannot plaoe him at the head of the
Mcket, but we make him eommander-in-ohief
the head of the forces iu the field, wliore
"ill be invincible.
1 though James O. Blaine mar not be
sident, vet he remains our uncrowned
du;g the baton of acknowledged
leadership, supreme In the allegiance of hi
devoted follower. Honored anil respected
by all honest and loyal men, the greatest
living American and the worthy obbject of
our undying love,
Mr.Thurston also paid a glowing tributo
to the memory of the lato Gonernl Logan.
He also spoke flatteringly of tho various
candidates for tho Presidential nomina
tion, and thought thnt from this splen
did galaxy of political store the Con
vention could not choose ami's. The
key note of this campaign, the speaker
said, would bo protection.
AN IIIHTOlttCAL OAVKL.
At 1 :23 Mr. Thurston finished amid
tremendous applause. The olliccrs of
temporary organization wore read, and
as they hecamo seated in their olticial
positions tho band stjuck up "Marching
Through Georgia, " and the audience
joined in the refrain. At l::iili v.,
Senator Hoar, of Michigan, took the
floor and presented a gavel made of tho
onk from tho trco under which the lie
publicau party was organ! cd July tth,
1834.
Chairman Thurston stated thnt tho
National Committco had recommended
that Dakota bo allowed ten votes during
tho preliminary proceedings of the Con
vention, and that Washington Territory
bo allowed six.
Kansas delegates olTcrod resolutions of
sympathy for General Sheridan. They
wore read and curried by a unanimous
rising vote.
A petition from cx-l'nion soldiers re
questing an admission to tho Convention
was read and referred to the National
Committee.
Geucral Fremont was presented to tho
Convention at 1 :5.i i m., and ho was
greeto I with great and prolonged ap
plause. Ho was introduced as an old
hero, patriot and statesman, and tho
Republican party's first candidate for
President Genoral Fremont mado a
short speech, and was followed in an
address by Fredorick Douglass, the
colored orator.
A CONTESTED DEI.KO ATION.
After a list of the committees of the
various States and Territories had been
read, Uio question of tho contested
Virginia delegation came up. Tho Chair
man of the National Committee docided
to temporarily seat tho dulegates-at-large
headed by William Mahone, and recom
mend that neither set of district dele
gates bo allowed to voto during tho
temporary organization. Hon. John
S. Wise opposed tho seloction of the
Mahone delegates, and ex-Senator
Mahono spoke iu favor of his delegation.
After an exciting debato between tho
two men, the chair docided furthor dis
cussion out of order, and at 8:;!0 v. m.
tho Convention adjourned till noon of
Wednesday.
SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Chicago, Juno 20. Temporary Chair
man Thurston called the Convention to
order for the second day's session at
13:!t:t. The opouing prayer was offered
by l!cv. Stephen A. Northrup, pastor of
the First Baptist Churchof Fort Wayne,
Iud.
When Coventor Foster, of Ohio,
stepped upon tho platform to present
the report of the Committee on rganiza
tion he was heartily cheered. He named
the following olliccrs:
TUB PERMANENT OFFICERS.
Chairman M. M. Kstee, of California.
Secretaries Clu riee W. Clishee, Michigan;
Michael liriffen, Wisconsin: William Huell,
Tennessee; Mr. ' ynch, Pennsylvania. -
Assistant (Secretaries Thomas J. Hrogan,
Tennessee: James Bislev, Minnesota; H. M.
Cooper, Arkansas; William Nelson, New
Jersey; A. W. Monroe, Maryland. J. K.
Wiley, Texas; C. M. Khiun, West Virginia;
John K. Minier. Louisana.
heading Clerks Henry Ballard, Vermont;
Colonel Clarkson 1-ake, New York; Captain
David Lenning, Ohio; Jaime H. Sioue,
Michigan; (ieorge M. Brinkerhotr, Illinois.
Official Stenographer Li uslav us P. Kng-
I i nil.
Sergeant at-Arms Charles Fitzsimmons,
Chicago.
Governor Foster, of Ohio, George C.
Sloan. New York, and M. D. Foley, of
Nevada, were appointed a committee to
conduct the permauent chairman to his
seat. A few works of thanks from Tem
porary Chairman Thurston, for the con
sideration extended to him, a word of
introduction for his successor, and the
pcrmaneut chairman stepped forward to
make his address. Mr. hsteesaid:
I'HAlHMKX tsTKL's HI'KKlMI.
Gentlemen of the Convention: I thank vou
In the name of the (States and Territories of
the l'aeiliu coat, as well us from my own
heart, tor the distinguished honor that vou
have seen tit to confer uhmi iiu 1 appr.ciate
to the fullest extant the grave rcspoutihilitics
which devolve ou me, an I Ix.in a Itepuhli
cun Convention. I shall as in ull things its
charilalile ju.lguwut and lis ciudid and
eamett supjHjri.
(ieutleuieii of the Convention, following so
illustrious a gentleman as your temporary
chairman, I shall not attempt to detain vou
by any leu.:t!tened s-h. 1 only want to
say to vou that we live so far from the centre
of the lUtpuliln over on the x'acitic shore
tliut 1 euiinot even guvis wbo your nominee
is going to be, (Laughter.) (if rourw you
ail know. 1 say further to you, gentlemen
of the I onveuUun, tiiat I am not ahie to say
exactly what your platform will be, but the
people of the country have echoed its senti
ment an I the rattle of the skirmish line was
heard only two weeks ago from Oregon.
Here tho speaker was interrupted by a
rouud of applause, and, at the sugges
tion of some euthusiastic individual iu
the gallery, three hearty cheers were
giveu for Oregon.
"Ood willing, next Novemlier you will
hear f i oiu Cleveland s Aiomt x all over
this great Itepuliiie. (Applausei. Friend
and gentlemen i.f the I ouventiou, again
thanking you for the high honor you Lave
conferred Uhii me, and Impressing you, 1
hope and pray, with the belief that our
duties are the gravest and most solemn in
character, and trusting, from the depth of
my soul, that every act may be done to pro
mote the best interest of our common coun
try and advamw the great Itepublicaa party,
I shall call for the nest order of bu.iuejs."
'.Applause).
, At the condition of Mr. Fatee's
' veeoh two gavels, one of gold and
1 lver, and the other made from a desk
toff
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT,
llcnjamiii Ilivi-rision, i Iiuliunu.
in Grant's Galena (III.) tannery, were
presented to the Chairman.
A protracted debato occurred over the
report of tie Committee on Hules. The
report was finally adopted, and at 3:10
the Convention took a recess until 8 v. it.
, THS KVKNINO KKHSION.
The Convention was again called to
order at 8:20. First in order was tho
reading of a telegram from the Kepub
lican Stato Committee of California,
thanking the Convention for tho honor
it had conferred upon the Pacillc Coast
in selecting one of it natives as perma
nent chairman.
A resolution of sympathy for the Ger
man pcoplo in their allliction in losing
Emperor Frederick was next adopted
by a rising vote, as were resolutions de
ploring tho deaths of Gcnoral Grant,
Senator Logan aud ex-President Arthur.
Whilo waiting for the Committeo on
Credentials to report General W. O.
Hradloy, of Kentucky, and Governor
Foraker, of Ohio, addressed tho Con
vention on the political questions of the
day.
Then Chairman Hepburn, of tho Com
mittee on Credentials, reported, saying
there had been ten contosts, all unimpor
taut except Virginia. The majority re-
Sort gave Wise fourteen of tho Virginia
elegates and Mahone eight. A minority
report favored the admission of more
Mahone delegates. After a long and
somewhat acrimonious debate tho major
ity report was adopted, and at 11 SIO the
Convention adjourned until 10 o'clock
the next morning.
THIRD DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Chicaoo, June 21. At 10:03 Chair
man Estce called the Convention to
order. The Hcv. Thomas Green, pastor
of the Episcopal Church, invoked the
divine blessing, after which tho roll was
called for members of the National
Committee.
Major William McKinlcy, Jr., of tho
Committee on Resolutions, was greoted
with a hurricane of cheering and flag
and handkerchief waving, as, with the
manuscript of the party platform in his
hand, ho stepped to the front of the
little bunting-walled box in which tho
Chairman sits, and read the long docu
ment. The full text of the platform ia
as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
The Republicans of tho United States as
sembled by their delegates ill National Con
vention pause on the threshold of their pro
ceedings to honor the memory of th dr first
great leader, the immortal champion of li I
erty and tho rights of the people Abraham
Lincoln and to cover also with wreaths of
iuierishable remembrance and gratitude the
heroic names of our later leadens who have
more recently been called away from oar
councils t unnt, Uurlield, Arthur, lxigan,
Conklin. May their memories lie faithfully
cherished! We tlso recall, with our greet
ings aud with prayer for Ills safe recovery,
tin name of one of our living heroes whose
memory will be treasured iu the history both
of Republicans and of the Republic the
name of that noble soldier and favorite child
of victory, fhtliji H. Sheriduu.
Iu the spirit of those great leaders, and of
our own devotion to huiiiun liberty, and with
that hostility to all tonus of duKtism and
oppression which is the fundamental idea of
the Republican party, we send fraternal eon'
gratulatiou to our fellow-Americans of Itra
sil upon their great act of emancipation,
which completed the abolitiou of slavery
throughout the ,1wo American continents.
We earnestly hojie that we may soon con
gratulate our fellow-uitiseus of Irish birth
upon the peaceful recovery of home rule for
liuland.
We rvaftlrm our unswerving devotion to
the national Constitution and to the indisso
luble union of the States; to the autoiamy
reerved to the Slates under the Constitution,
to the personal rights aud liberties of citizens
in ell tiie Mates and Territories in the Union,
and esMciaHy to the supreme and sovereign
right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor,
native or foreign born, white or bluck, to
cast one free ballot in public elections, and
to have tliat ballot duly counted. We hold
t he free aud bouest popular ballot, and the
just aud eo,ual representation of all the peo
ple to be the foundation of our Republican
(iovernmeut, and demand effective legisla
tion to secure the integrity and purity of
elections which are the fouutains of all publio
authority. We charge that the present Ad
miiii.tralion and the Democratic majority
in Congress, owe tbelr existenoe to the sup
pression of the ballot by a criminal nullifica
tion of the Constitution aud laws of the
I lilted Hiatus.
We are uncompromisingly in favor of the
Aweriosn system of protection; we protest
against its drntrui-tion as proposed by the
President and his arty. They serve the
interests of Kurow; we will support the in
terests of America. We accept the issue,
and confidently apsal to the people for their
judgment. The protective system must lie
munitioned. Its abandonment has always
been follows.) by general disaster to all In
terests except those of the Treasurer and the
Sherilf. We denounce the Mills bill as de
structive to the general business, the labor
and the farming interests of thecointry, and
we heartily endorse the consistent and
patriotio action of the Republican repre
sentatives iu Congress in opposing its pass
age. We condemn the proposition of the Demo
oratio party to place wool on the free list,
aud we inUt that the duties thereon shall
le adjusted and maintained so as to furnish
full and adeouate protection to that industry.
The Kepublii-an arty would effect all
needed reduction of the national revenue, by
repealing the tai.w upon tobacap, which are
an annoyance and burden to agriculture. and
the tax Hn spirits used in the arts and for
mechanical purposes, ami by such revision of
the tariff laws as will tend to check imports
of such articles as are produced by our peo
ple, the production of which gives employ,
meut to our labor, and release from Import
duties thoee articles of foreign produrtlon
(except luxuries! the like of which ennnot tie
produced at borne. If there shall still remain
a larger revenue than is requisite for the
wants of the (iovernmeut, we favor the en
tire reeal of int-rnal taxes, rather than the
surrenderor any part of our protective sys
tem at the joint Imhest of the whisky trusts
and the agents of foreign manufacturers.
We declare our hostility to the introduc
tion into this country of foreign contract
labor, and of Chinese lalsir, alien to our
civilization and our Constitution; and we
demand the rigid enforcement of the existing
laws against it, and favor su-h immediate
legislation as will exclude such labor from
our shores.
We declare our opiosltion to all "combina
tions of capital, organized in trusU or other
wise, to control arbitrarily the condition of
trade among ourcilfsens. and we recommend
to Congress and the State legislatures in their
respective jurisdictions such legislation aa
will prevent the execution of all schemes to
oppress the people by undue charges on their
supplies, or by unjust rate for the trans
portation of their products to market We
approve the legislation by Congress to pre
vent alike unjust burdens and unfair dis
crimination Iwtween the States.
We reattlrin the policy of aporopriating
the public lands of the United States to be
homesteads for American citixens and set
tlers, not aliens, which the Republican party
established in is V against the peieistunt op
position of the Democrats iu Congress, and
which haa brought our great Western do
main Into such magnitlccBt development
The restoration of unearned railroad land
grants to the public domain for the u: of
actual settlers, which was begun under the
Administration of l're-iident Arthur should
be continue I. We deny that the Democratic
party has ever restored one acre to the peo
ple, but declare that by the joint action of
Republicans and Democrats about oO,UW,iM
of acn-s of unearned lauds originally granted
for the construction of railroads have been
restored to the public domain, in pursuance
of the conditions inserted by the Republican
party in the original granta. We charge the
llemocratic Administration with failure to
execute the laws securing to settlers titles to
ineirnoDiesteads, aud with using appropria-
tious made for that purpose to liurrass in- i
1,u., utla uiitU c.;.. ....1 I
.- v..v "..v. ,o n,.., oie biiii prosecutions
under the false pretence of exposing frauds
and vindicating the law.
Tliopovernmont by Congress of the Terri
tories is ha.scd upon necessity only, to tho end
that they become States in the I nion; there
fore, whenever the conditions of population,
material resources, public intelligence and
morality are such as to insure a stable local
government therein, the people of such Ter
ritories should be permitted, as a right in
herent ill them, the right to form for them
selves constitutions aud State ( lover nments
and be admitted into the Union. Pending
the prejiaration for Statehood, all omcais
thereof should be selected from the Isma
fide residents aud citizens of the Terri
tory wherein they are to serve. South Da
kota should of right be immediately ad
mitted as a State in the Union, under the
1'oustitution fruined and adopted by her peo
ple, ami we heartily endorse the action of the
Republican Senate iu twice passing
bills for her admission. The refusal of the
Democratic House of Representatives, for
partisan purposes, to favorably consider these
bills.is a wilful violation of the sacred Amer
ican principle of local self-government and
menu the condemnation of all just men. The
pending bills iu the Senate for acts to enable
the people of Washington, North Dakota,
and Montana Territories to form constitu
tions and establish State UovernmenU.shoiild
bepawed without unnecessary delay. The Re
publican party pledges itself to do all in ita
power to facilitate the admission of the Ter
ritories of New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho,
aud Arizona to the eujovmeutof suit govern
ment as States.sueh of them as are now qual
iliod, as soon as possible, and the others as
soon as they may become so.
The political power of the Myrmon Church
In the Territories, as exercised liu the past, is
a menace to free institutions, a danger no
longer to be suffered. Therefore we ple lgs
the Republican party to appropriate legisla
tion assorting the sovereignty of the nation
In all Territories where the same is ques
tioned, and in furtherance of that end to
place upon the statute hooks legislation
stringent enough to divorce the political from
the ecclesiastical power, and thus stamp out
the attcudant wickedness of polygamy.
The Republican party is in favor of the
use of both gold anil silver as money, and
condemns the policy of the Democratic Ad
ministration in ita efforts to demonetize
silver.
We demand the reduction of letter postage
to one cent per ounce.
In a republic like ours, where the citizen Is
the sovereign and the odlcial the servant,
where no power Is exercised except by the
will of the people, it is niortant that the
sovereign the people should posses intel
ligence. The free school is the promoter of
that intelligence which Is to preserve us a
free nation; therefore the State or nation, or
both combined, should support free institu
tions of learning sulllcient to afford to every
child growing up in the land the opport
unity of a good common-school education.
We earnestly recommend that prompt ac
tion betaken by Congress in the enactment
of such legislation as will best secure the re
hobilitaton of our American merchant
marine, and we protest against the passage
by Congress of a Free ship bill, as calculated
to work injustice to labor by lessoning the
wages of those engaged in preparing ma
terials aa well as those directly employed in
our ship yards. We domaiul appropriations
for the early rebuilding of our navy: for
the construction of co ist. formications and
mcleru ordnance and other approved
mo iern menus of defence for the protection
of ourdcfmiceli-ss harbors and cities; for the
imyniunt of just pensions to our soldiers;
for necessary works of national importance
in the improvement of harbors and the chan
nels of internal, constwise and foreign com
merce: the encouragement of the shipping
interests of the Atlantic Uulf, and Pacillo
States, as well as for the pavmunt of the
maturing public debt. This po'licy will give
employment to our labor, activity to our va
rious industries, increase the security of our
country, promote trade, open new and direct
markets for our produce, and cheapen the
cost of transportation. We affirm this to be
far better for our country than the Demo
cratic policy or loaning the Government's
money without interest to '-pet banks."
The conduct or foreign affairs by the pres
ent Administration has been distinguished by
its inefficiency and its cowanliee. Having
withdrawn from the Senate all pending
treaties effected by Republican administra
tion for the removal or foreign burdens and
restrictions upon our commerce, and for its
extension into better markets, it has neither
effected nor proiswed any others in their
stead. Professing adherence to the Monro
doctrine, it has seen with idle complacency
the extension of foreign influence
In Central America and or ror
eign trade everywhere among our neigh
bors. It haa refused to charter, ta iction, or
encourage any American organization for
constructing the Nicaragua Canal, a work of
vital importance to the maintenance or the
Monroe doctrine, and or our national influ
ence in Central and South America, and
necessary for the development of trade with
our Pacific territory, with South America,
aud with the islands and further coasts of
the Pacific Ocean.
We arraign the present Democratic Ad
ministration for its weak and unpatriotio
treatment of the fisheries question, and its
pusillanimous surrender or the essential priv
ileges to which our fishing vessels are entitled
in Canadian ports under the Treaty or
the reciprocal maritime legislation of 1KW,
and the comity of nations, and which Cana
dian fishing vessels receive in the ports of the
United States. We condemn the policy of the
present Administration and tho Democratic
majority in Congress toward our fisheries as
unfriendly and conspicuously unpatriotic,
and as tending to destroy a valuable national
industry anil an indispensable resource of de
fence against a foreign enemy.
The name of American applies alike to all
citizens of the republic, and imposes upon all
alike the same obligation of obedience to the
laws. At the same time that citizenship is
and must be the panoply aus safeguard of
him who wears it and protect him whether
high or low, rich or poor, in all his civil
rights, it should and must afford him pro
tection at home and follow and protect him
abroad in whatever laud ha may be on a law
ful errand.
The men wbo abandoned the Republican
party in 1884 and continue to adhere to the
Democratic party have deserted not onlv the
cause of honest Government, of sound finance,
or freedom or purity or the ballot, but espa
cially have deserted the cause or reform in
the civil service. We will not rail to keep
our pledges because they have broken theirs or
oecausi tueir candidate has broken his. We
therefore repeat our declaration of 1XX4, to
wit: "The reform of the civil service
auspiciously begun under the Republican
Administration should bs completed by the
further extension of the reform system
already established bv law to all the grades
of the service to which it is applicable. The
spirit and purpose of the reform should be
olnerved in all executive appointments, and
all laws at variance with the object of exist
ing ieionu legislation snouiu ne re)eaieu. to
the end that the dancers to free institutions
which In: k in the power of officio Datronaire
may be wisely and effectively avoided."
The gratitude of the nation to the defenders
of the Union cannot be measured by laws.
Tho legislation of Congress should conform
to the pled 'e made bv a loval nooole. and lie
so enlarged and extended as to provide
against me possioiutv that any man who
honorably wore the Federal uniform shall
become an inmate of au almshouse or de
iiendent utKMi private charity. In the nres-
Kiice of an overflowing treasury it would
be a public scandal to do less for those
whose valorous service preserved the Gov
ernment We denounce the hostile spirit
shown by President Cleveland in his numer
ous veUs'S of measures for smsion relief, and
the action or the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives In refusing even a consideration
of general (s-n-ion legislation.
Insupiioi t of the principles herewith enun
ciated, we invited the co-operation of patri
otic men of all parties, an I e.s)wcilly of all
workingmeii, whose prosperity is seriously
threatened by the free-trade policy of the
present Administration, i
Cheer after heer was given at fre
quent intervals during the reading of
the platform, and when the names of
the dead leaders of the Republican party
were mentioned there was tremendous
and prolonged applause.
When Major McKinlcy enunciated the
principles of the party iu regard to pro
tection there was a perfect storm of
cheers, aud every member of the Con
vention rose in their seats, waved their
hats aud bandanas, and shouted them
selves hoarse. Then the great demon
stration broke out with rcuewed viyor
when the denunciation of the Mills bill
found expression in the platform.
After Mujor McKin'.ey had become,
seated Mr. Marine, of Maryland, moved
that tho plutfurtn be adopted by a rising
vote.
On behalf of his S:ate delegation Mr.
Horr, of Michigan, seconded the uio
tiou, and the previous question was put.
Tho report of the Committee was adopt
ed unanimously by a staudiug vote
amid the greate.t enthusiasm.
MARINO NOMINATIONS.
The next order of business was tho
presentation of names for tho Presi
dency. HAWLJCT NAMED.
When Connecticut was called Mr.
Warner, of tho Nutmeg State presented,
without further remarks, the namo of
Hon. Joseph E. Hawlcy.
GKEHIIAM NOMINATED.
Then Illinois was called, and the audi
ence cheered Leonard Swctt, who
stepped upon the platform and presented
the name of General Walter Q. Ureshatn.
In doing so, tho speaker said that Mr.:
Gresham had always been an unwavering
and indexible Republican, that he was
the friend of the workingman, that he
was more like Mr. Lincoln than any
other man, and that he would be elected
if nominated.
Delegates Davis, of Minnesota, Lynch,'
(colored) of Mississippi, McCall, of
Massachusetts, and Rector, of Texas,
seconded Grcshnm's nomination.
If A R Hi SON NOMINATED.
There was loud cheering when ox
Governor Porter, of Indiana, mounted
tho platform to place General Benjamin
Harrison in nomination. Governor,
Porter called in brief some of the wor
thy public achievements accomplished
by General Harrison's ancestors, and'
concluded his speech by saying: ,
And now to-day, in Indiana, among s
people estimating highly the character and
services of General Heniamin Harrison, and "
holding in affection the momory of " Old
Tippecanoe," the latch strings of the people'
are hospitably out to you, and their doors
are waiting to fly open at your touch to let in
the joyful air that shall bear upon its wings
the message that Benjamin Harrison, their
soldier statesman, has been nominated for
President of the United States.
When Governor Porter had concluded
his speech the convention took a recess
until three o'clock, on motion of Mr
Urogan, of Tennessee.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At 3:25 tho Convention was again
called to order. Delegate 'Ferrill, of,
Texas, began by seconding Harrison's
nomination, as "did Gallingor, of New1
Hampshire.
ALLISON NAMED. j
The call of States for Presidential
nominations then went on, and when
Iowa was reached Congressman Hepburn!
nominated William li. Allison, amid1
great cheering. Mr. Hepburn paid a
glowing tributo to the virtues and abili-
ties of Mr. Allison, and concluded by
saying this of the nominee: j
Vou would always find him true to coun
try and the principles of our party. Wise in
determining the better course, courageous
in pursuing it, honest in the administration
of public afiairs, calm, deliberate, conserva
tive, kind, honest, giving the country an ad
ministration that would meet the demands
and secure the benediction of a contented
people.
Mr. Bosworth of Rhode Island, took
the platform and seconded Allison'!
nomination, amid great cheering.
ALOKH, OF MICHIGAN. i
The call of States was continued, and
when Michigan was reached Delegate
Fraser nominated Russell A. Alger, of
whom the speaker said : t
This man can secure votes from the rioh
and the poor. When the sound of war 111 led
the land he came to his country's relief In
money and in the heroism of his presence.
No other man was more loved by the rank
and tile. His deeds were the familiar stories
of the camp fires. I present to you a busi
ness man to run a business man's campaign.
I present a business man who has not a su
psrior in all this country.
Alcror's nomination was received with
cheers, and was seconded by Delegates
joyes, of Massachusetts, hstcs, of South
Carolina, Fgan, of North Carolina, and
Eggers, of Arizona,
DEPEW, OK NEW YORK.
When New York was called Senator
Frank Hiscock ascended the platform,
and in an eloquent speech put in nomi
nation Chauncey M. Depew. Mr. Hia
cock closed his speech as follows:
As his life has been above renroach. an In
the management of the vast business in
terests under his control he has gained the
contliieuce and holds the res wet of all our
people, and they will rallv to bis standard
and make his election sure. As their candi
date, and as the choice of the Republicans of
New York, I present for nomination by this
Convention, as the Republican candidate for
President of the United States, Chauncey
M. lleissw.
When Senator Hiscock finished there
was great applause, and tho New York
delegation rote in their scats, and, wav
ing huts and flags in the air, cheered'
wildly. Mr. Hartley, of Minnesota,
seconded Depew's nomination.
BHKHUAN, OK OHIO.
It was 5:110 when Pennsylvania wa
called aud Gcueral Hastings stepped for
ward to name John Sherman, of Ohio.
Then an enthusiastic outburst, which
lasted twelve minutes, followed. Dur
ing his speech General Hastings men
tioned the name of lilaine, whoieupoa
the Convention burst out into pro
longed applause. The speaker con
cluded his speech by saying of Mr. Sher
mau :
Make him our standard bearer and every
principle for which the party has battled,
every triumph which it has achieved, will be
represented in our leader. Nominate him
and there will be no sophistry, no fallacy bo
plausible as to divert the intelligence and
common sense ot the people from the vital
issue. Nominate him and a sense or security,
of safety, and of confidence iu the future
will crystallize into triumph and victory. I
nominate the patriot, the statesman, the hon
est man Johu Sherman.
General Hastings concluded amid
great applause.
FOKAKKK AltOt SK8 WILD ENTHUSIASM.
Governor Foraker now left his delega
tion to second Sherman's nomination,
and at the same moment a huge floral
hhield with tho design of Slars and
Stripes and with the silken folds of the
nation's banner enveloping its aides was
borne to the stage. Upon it wat the in
scription in immortelles: "Ao Rebel
Flags Shall Be Surrendered While I Am
Governor." It was several minutes be-'
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