Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-26
MAKING UNANIMOUS.
The Speech of Fiery Foraker-Alger
Submits Gracefully.

CONVENTION HALL, CHICAGO, June 25.-
When Harrison's nomination was officially
announced Governor Foraker then took the
platform amid enthusiastic cheers aud said:
Gentlemen of the Convention: The dele
cation of Ohio came here all Sherman men;
they are now all Harrison men. Applause.
1t is easier for us to be so, when we remcm-
Der that General Harrison had the good sense
to be born in Ohio. Applause am
directed by the unanimous vote of the Ohio
delegation to move the convention on behalf
of the state of Ohio that the nomination of
General Benjamin j. Harrison be made
unanimous Applaule.
Horr of Michigan seconded Governor Fora
ker's motion.
Senator Farwell of Illinois, and Chauncey
M Depew also seconded Foraker's motions.
Depew said that this convention would ad-
journ in a different temper from any other
convention in a quarter of a century No
candidate before the convention expected to
succeed and no one was disappointed The
candidates would go away without heart
burnings, but as full of enthusiasm as they
were when they came here. New York was
the cosmopolitan state of the union. Men of
other states, whenever they got too big for
their own commonwealth went to New York.
and when New York found man too
large for his own commonwealth, and he
would not move, she adopted him. New
York had adopted benjamin Harrison and
voted for him soidly. Applause, In con-
clusion Depew predicted an old time victory
for republicanism, for republican principles
and for the salvation of the industrial inter
ests of the country Applause.
General Hastings of Pennsylvania said
that he was also authorized to second the
motion TO make the nomination unanimous
Davis of Minnesota, in few tiOwery re-
marks on behalf of Minnesota, also sec
onded the motion to make the nomination
unanimous.
The chairman then read a dispatch he had
received from Russell A. Alger, requesting
him to convey his sincere thanks TO the dele
gates who had so Loyalty supported him, and
declaring that no state of the union
would give the gallant gentleman who had
won the day heartler support than Michigan
and himself,
Colonel Henderson of Iowa was recognized
and spoke as follows:
"Gentlement of the Convention: am full
of sorrow, not because the man of my first
choice has not been nominated in this con
Yention, but because the assembled wisdom
here has nominated a man against whom the
democracy can not say one single word
Loud applause, My heart is full of pity for
the quill drivers in the democratic sauctums
made by these patriots which would
find warmer applause in the hearts OF the
American people. He stands before you a
citizen OF incOrruptible life and of gigantic
intellect, a man against whose character no
words of calumny dare be uttered, and my
first thought was, What can democracy say
against himp A soldier, a statesman, simple
minded as child, tender hearted as a
mother-that is the kind of standard bearer
TO reach the voters on the mountain tops and
in the valley, in New York and in the cabin
of the black man of the south loud applausei, q,
Iowa sends me 10 say that as we withdrew
our candidate so do we promptly respond to
the wise choice of this convention and Iowa
this fall, need not tell y0u,will stand where
she has always Stood holding the republican
banner in the vanguard OF freedom and of
truth. Loud applause.
After the convention had been addressed
by Wise and hlahonc, of Virginia, Proctor, of
Vermont, Lynch of Mississippi, Thurston, of
Nebraska Harris, Of North Carolina, VIII
liams, of Arkansas, and Bradley, of Ken
tucky all in the same strain, the chairman put
the motion Of Gov. Foraker which was