St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-26
However, Honest Labor Has
Something to Say About
That.
The Country Can Rest AS
suped Of Another Term
Of Democracy,
As There Can Be no Unesr-
tainty About the Re-
suit.
Thirteen Minnesotians Record
Themselves as Favoring
Imperialism.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO. June ga man named
Lucky started the voting to-day that
placed Benjamin Harrison in nomin-
alton as the Republican candidate for
the presidency of the United States.
The Lucky vote broke ShermanS Ohio
phalanX on the first ballot Of the day.
On the next ballot, to the surprise of
nine-tenths of the thousands of people
present in the convention. Chauncey NJ.
Depew cast the solid vote of New York
for Harrison. He had done the same on
the first ballot, but comparatively few
believed he would do it again when the
real pinch came. Creed Raymond had
preceded Depew by giving Harrison
virtually the whole vote of California.
This was quite generally regarded as
merely a part of the extraordinary
SEE-SAW TACTICS
of Blaine'S friends during the past
week or more. Little Importance was
attached to couple of cablegrams from
Mr.. Blaine read to the convention just
as the balloting was about to commence.
The general comment was that the mes
sages did not alter the situation par
ticle, and added nothing whatever to
Mr.. Blaine'S letters. The moment
Chauncey Depew at critical moment
threw New York to Harrison excite
ment ran high. The ballot, which had
been tagging, was now conducted at a
slashing rate. Clerks and delegates
were equally eager, state following
70 Il -rif
parent that Harrison had won. Chaun-
cey Depew's face at that moment was a
study. Disappointment and triumph
were strangely mingled. He had lost the
nomination for himself irrevocably, and
now realized it to the fullest; but he had
beaten the men who had beaten him.
and he was
TAKING SWEET ABSTRACTION
with the bitter dose. Gradually the
feeling of qualification overbore all 9TH
ers. and later when Mr.. Depew urged
that the nomination be made unani-
nous, he did it with all his old-time
grace and genial good feeling toward
everybody. The enthusiasm greeting
the nomination of Mr.. Harrison was not
extraordinary, owing largely. perhaps,
TO its uneXpectedness among the bulk of
the people in attendance. The nomina-
ton of Morton tonight was a foregone
conclusion, regarded certainty even
early in the afternoon, as soon as Har-
rison had been selected. A New Yorker
for second place, it was stated, was
wanted by Harrison, and no New Yorker
was put forward except Mr.. Morton.
An unusually lively scene wound up
the convention. A few of the delegates,
fearing that Blaine's old lieutenant. Mr..
BOutelle, who merely wanted a mild
temperance plank in the platform, was
LOADED WITH a BOMB.
The net result of vast amount of mis-
understanding and talk that ensued was
to show that there was only one man il
lie Republican national convention.
Mr. Wellington, of Maryland, who OBJ
jected to the party being committed
ever so indefinitely, to temperance leg
lSlation
1t is said tonight that one of the in
fuences that brought about Harrison's
nomination was good understanding
between him and his two senatorial col
leagues. Sherman and Allison. The
latter had promised Sherman the vote
Of Iowa if Harrison could not succeed
Harrison showing so much strength
even capturing a vote from Sherman's
own state, Allison withdrew in favor o.
the senator from Indiana, and that set
tied it. Elkins also had been at worl
for his relative by marriage, Harrison
as second choice, if the prejudice
aroused by the see-saw tactics proved
loo strong. The victors of the conven
lion, the politicians are saying, arr
Elkins and Dcpew, though the chic
aim of each apparently has been de