Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-26


Rhode Island Harrison 3.
South Carolina-HarrisOn 4, Sherman 4,
Alger TO- Being pOlled, resulted: Alger 10,
Sherman 4, Harrison /.
Tennessee-HurrisOn l6, Alger Z. HOuk
demanded poll, which resulted; Harrison
20, Alger
Texaf-HaTrisOn %.
VermOnt-lIarrisOn :.
VIrGinia-Poll demanded. Resulted:
Harrison To- Sherman 9.
West DECENTRALIZATION II.
Wisconsin Harrison ~.
! decentralization >.
! Dakota Harrison 10.
District Of Columbia Harrison >.
Idaho Harrison >.
Montano-Harrisnn ..
New Mexico Harrison ,.
Utah-HarrisOn 2
Washington Territory 6.
Wyoming Harrison =.
The eighth and last ballot for President
was completed Mt :l3 and resulted: Har-
risOn 5i4, Alger lOO Sherman lis, Blaine
;, Mckinley 4, Gresham 80.
HARRISON DECLARED THE NOMINEE.
The assurances which were received
sOon after the withdrawal of AllisOn, that
his votes would @ TO Harrison, touk the
last hope from the friends of Sherman.
Senator Quay, finding that the game was
/ up, told his friends 10 fall IN line. and az
EOOn "a it became known that New York
would not, now tina. his nomination was
in sight, desert Harrison, there was no
/ lOuger any doubt OF the result aud the
calling OF the roll was mere fOrmality.
! Harrison was nominated after the Ten
nessee vote had been c !st, giving i}l votes
| Only single vote stood by sherman in
| Pennsylvania. and after that Sate's vote
the Harrison movement became land
slide
| The result was received with a burst Of
/ applause, and the great audience arose to
/ its feet and shouted until il hal tired
itself out One Of the cllicer's of the COZ
/ vention climbed TO the Chairman's desk
and waved banner barring the portrait
OF Harrison. The ladies in the galleries
waved tleiT hNndkerchiets and their para
soils. Hats We t. thIOwn up and a scene OF
/ emthuSipSm followed.
Gov Foraker then took the platform
amid enthusiastic cheers and said: Gen
tlcm2L of the convention: The delrga-
| tiOn from Ohiu came here all Shermua
men; they are now all Harrison men.
Applause 1t il easier for us to he 40,
when we remember that Gen. Harrison
had the good senss To he horn in Ohio
Laughter. am directed by the unani-
nous vote of the Ohio delegation to move
the convention on behalf of the State OF
Olio, that the nomination of Gen. Ben
Harrison be made Unanimous Applause
Mr.. HOrr, ol Michigan, seconded Gov.
FOraker's motion. He hoped that the
Convention would be unanimous but we
will stand by Harrison Just as firmly ar
we have stood by Algef. Some people do
not think that he knew everything, but |
think that / can see the hand OF Provi- F..
dence in this nomination. We hoped to /
place soldier at the head of the ticket. F.
1t has done it. Now let US 20 hon and |.
Tatily it,
Senator Farwell, on behalf of Illinois,
also. seconded the motion of Gov. Foraker .
Chauncey NJ D+pew, also seconded For .
Rker's motion. Hs said that 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 n
mau too large for his own commonwealth, .
and he would not move, she adopted him
New \ oTk had adopted Benz Harrison,
and voted for him soiidly. Applause .
In conclusion, Mr.. Depew predicted an
old.time victory for Rrpubhcanism, Tor .
Republican principles, and for the saliva
tiOn OF the industrial interests of the conn
try. Applause
Gen. Hastings, Of Pennsylvania, said
that he was also authorized TO second the
motion to make the nomination unani-
nous. He said he had 100 900 majority
for auy candidate. 1t has thai, and per
haps more, for Harrison.
Mr Henderson, of Iowa, also seconded
FOraker's move. Mr.. Davis, OF Minnesota,
in few flOwery remarks on behalf of
Minnesota, also seconded the motion. The
Chairman tleu reaa dispatch he had Te
Ceived from Russcl A. Alger, requesting
him to convey his sincere thanks TO the
delegates who had 70 Loyalty supported
him, and declaring that no State or man (
would give the gallant gentleman who had
won the fight heartier support than
the dispatch ended aud the Alger men in ,
the convention chsered loudly the old {
known refrain. Alter the convention had ,
been addressed by Wise and Malone, of {
Virginia, Proctor, OF Vermont, Lynch, of
Mississippi, ThurstOn, oi Nebraska, Harris, |
OfSouth Carolina, Williams, of Arkansas, {
and Bradley, of Kentucky, all in the same !
strain, the Chairman put the motion of d
Gov. Foraker, which WAC adopted with a J
shout, and the Chairman declared Senator |
Harrison the unanimous nominee of the
and OF the party for President.
Mr.. Thompson, of Indiana, thought that y
It WAS desirable for the convention 10 take f
2 recess, and lie therefore moved one until a
5 o'clock this evening. The Chairman r
stated that the motion was not seconded \
and directed the clerk to call the roll Of Il
States Tor the pTesentation of names OF >
nominees for the Vice Presidency. The A
,lerG proceeded to call the roll amid much n
confusion, OCcasiOncd by the frantic efforts :,
If the chairmen of various southern dele
cations to persuade the Chairman that :,
hey had seconded the motion. :,
Mr.. Hcuk, OF Tennessee finally suC seed- Il
II ~ getting recCs nitiOn nom the Chair il
nd renewed the motion that recess he ]
AIKEN until o'clock. The motion was il
econded by several States bat the con-
'entiOn by an overwhelming vote, declined n
o adjourn and went on with the regular p,
rider, the placing in nomination of candi.
lates for the Vice Presidential ncnina-
iS4. b
When Kentucky was called, Mr.. Denny, ii
# Kentuck, asCended the platform and de. p
Jared that the nomination of a Southern '
Republican for the Vice Presidency would ST
end thrill of confidence and hope D'
hconghOut the i.epublicaus of that section II
vho had SO long been the "hewers OF CT
wood and the drawers Of water" lie
LACED IN NOMINATION WI. o. BRADLEY, .,
or KENTUCKY, s.
nd the nomination was seconded by Wm. tG
iriffen, of Kansas, Mr.. Warner, of Ala P
,ama, and Mr.. Houk, of Tennessee. Mr.. tC
Iouk charged that the South was solid