St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-24
He Has Won Favor by His
Loyalty to Oh-o's
Iceberg.
Hoosiers Are Indignant at the
Assassination OF Their
Favorite.
Elkins' Policy Is Delay, and
He Gives It Out
Cold.
Blaine's Plumes May Be Ex-
pectsd to Wave Triumph
antly Monday.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 23.-To-night did not
see in nomination Republican presi-
dental candidate. Ten thousand peo--
pie in the national convention did see
tire manifest action ever witnessed i'll
an American public assemblage. The
man who was equal to the moment is
William Mckinley, of Ohio. 1t was
almost at the instant when the conven-
tica opened. Scattering votes had been
cast for Mckinley the day previous.
The first roll-call began now with one
for him from Connecticut. A subdued
buzz went over the vast audience.
lies winner" came from all sides.
There was hush. Ten thousand pairs
Of eyes bent toward the Ohio delegates.
Among them, in the exact center of the
great, brilliant-thronge hall, rising
above the groups OF lOg-rollerS about,
could be seen the dark-eyed, pale, firm
face every person present had come to
know so well. Almost any other man
living would have been consciously or
unconSciously theatrical. Mr.. McKin-
ley simply stepped upon his chair, in his
own place, and quietly spoke to the del
egates. His voice has reached the gal
leries as few others have done. No
syllable was lost there. There was no
gesture, no elocution. He said briefly,
and Enthusiastically that any vote for him
WOULD BE A DISHONOR.
The delegates and the people were pre-
pared for strong, earnest protest, all
hot ho fDr
were not prepared for sincerity abso-
lutte. Applause was not lacking, but
disappointment was so keen, even
though slnothered in admiration. that
enthusiasm was for the moment impOs-
sible. The roll call proceeded painfully
in silence until Mississippi was reached.
mckinley two" The deeper. more
painful silence was broken only by the
unnecessarily loud calling of the roll
clerk. New Jersey. Mckinley four"
That settled it. At that moment, in the
inmost hearts of the great majority of
delegates and audience, the unanimous
choice of the convention it was felt
would be the brilliant protectiOnist con-
gressman and gallant soldier, Mckinley,
of Ohio. Again the ballot proceeded.
New York, amid intense excitement,
threw the balk of her vote for Harrison
as against a granger candidate or the
possible dark horse. 1t was the very
antithesis of the Mckinley scene.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, whose graceful
and supposedly magnanimous with
drawal as candidate had been causing
a great revulsion in his favor, was now
seenEto be, surely, as rumored, unable to
RESIST THE TEMPTATION
to thwart those by whom he had been
thWarted. There was some loud cheer
ing over the announcement of New
Yorksvote, but the friends of Harrison
were not elated. 1t began to be whis-
pered that New York would, when the
pinch came, be virtually solid for Blaine.
The battle was seen to lie, unless all
appearances were deceitful, between
Blaine and Mckinley. Each gained as
the balloting went on. Later, when the
convention assembled after recess,
ninety ty-nine-hundredths of the eager
thousands present believed that before
the sun went down one of the two men
would be named. Why an evidently
cut and dried adjournment until Mon
day intervened, the thousands could not
understand. They remained waiting
till the vast hall was left in darkness.
The fifth day closes with the situation
showing
BLAINE AGAINST THE FIELD.
There was narrow escape from a
Blaine stampede in the convention at
O'Clock this afternoon. Depew, who was
responsible for the Harrison combina-
tion which on yesterday gave such
promise, to-day admitted the failure of
| that movement, and declared himself
for Blaine. Instead of getting the nom
| nation this morning Harrison was
forced to the utmost of his strength and
compelled to fall back, confessedly
beaten. Harrison's friends are very in
| dignant at the manner in which he has
been treated, and claim mere pretenSe
| was made of giving him hearty support,
and that from the first it was not in.
| tended by Elkins and his colleagues tc
permit the Boosier's nomination. They