The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-06-27

more than one sense completely in the
dark, to help itself out as best it could.
No less a person than Col. Robert G.
Ingersoll was the speaker against Blaine
The speech in its delivery, and in its re-
ceptiOn by the audience, was nothing
short OF magnificent, while the great
orator confined himself to the theme of
the republican partys glory, but along
with the cheers there was signs of
dissent from some delegates, and
particularly the spectators, when he began
10 indicate plainly that there had been
change in his old choice for the presi-
dency. This became very plain when
Ingersoll advocated with emphasis ticket
composed of two soldiers. Then he went
further and mentioned for the leader
Walter @. Gresham. He got no further
A marvellous mixed shout for Blaine,
Sherman, Alger, Allison, Harrison, arose
in a giant discord that made each COM
pOnent unacceptable.
The Chairman-"The regular order of
business is the call of the roll OF states for
the selection of a candidate for president.
The secretary will proceed with the call"
Senator Hoar Of Massachusetts,
Chairman, let the rule be read"
The Chairman-"It has been suggested
by Senator Hoar of Massachusetts that the
rule be read. VIII the secretary read
rule Z"
The secretary read rule Z, rs follows
In making the nominations for president
and vice-preSident in no case shall the calling
Of the roll be dispensed with. When it APP
pears at the close OF any roll call that any
didate has received a majority of all the votes
10 which the convention is entitled, the chair
man shall announce the question to be, shall
the nomination of the candidate be made
unanimous" but if NJ candidate shall have re-
ceived such majority the chair shall direct the
vote 70 be taken again, which shall be repeated
until some candidate shall have received
majority Of the votes, and when any state has
announced its vote it shall so stand unless in
case of clerical error.
The Qualifications of the conven-
ton, in all cases where a state is divided
in its choice of candidate whenever the
FIRST announcement has been made of any
votes in the delegation for any particular
candidate no other candidate will be
named from that state until the secretary
has called back the name of the candidate
already presented, to know that his tally
will be right. The secretary will now pro-
reed with the call"
The secretary then called the roll OF
states.
During the calling of the roll the con-
ventlOn was at Ilrst disposed TO become
boisterous and to cheer the votes as they
were announced. There was a very en-
thusiastic outbreak when California voted
solidly for Blaine, but finally having found
that these demonstrations were DELAYING
the announcement of the result the con-
vention's curiosity overcame it's enthusi-
asm and the confusion was considerably
abated and the call proceeded in good
order. Polls were demanded for the
Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and
Virginia delegations. When Louisiana
was called, one of the colored delegates
demanded poll of the delegation and the
result was as follows: Alger 2, Allison 3,
Depew /, Gresham !, Sherman Q. After
the vote of Minnesota had been an
nounced Mr.. Steenerson Of the delegation
demanded that the state be polled. The
result was unchanged. When the vote Of
Tennessee was announced poll of the
state was again demanded. The request
was greeted with Kisses. When the poll
began one of the delegates said he arose
to question of privilege and said he was
here under positive instructions to vote
for Blaine. A delegate called attention
TO the fact that the Tennessee delegate
was not speaking on question of privi-
lege, and was violating the rules. The
chair sustained the point of order. The
poll was completed and resulted in one