Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-24
MINNEAPOLIS WINS.
The National Republican Convention
Will Meet There.
JUNE THE DAY FINED.
The Outcome OF an Exciting Contest by
Delegations From Several Cities- NJ uch
OrAtory = Expended without Avail-How
the Different Ballots st6od-- JubiIation Of
the Flour City People.

II took more than seven hours Of oratory aud
eight ballots to settle the question, but ct t1:50
O'Clock last night the republican national COM
mittee announced that Minneapolis had been
chosen as the place in which the great repub-
lican convention OF 1892 would be hold. June
Is TO be the opening day.
When the advocates of the competing cities
had concluded their more or less impassiousd
plcadings there was reasonable degree Of
camnsss in the demeanor Of the many inter-
ested men and women who occupied the Airing
tons best parlor. but A. soon IS it became
known that the committee was engaged in bal
loting a decided change became apparent. A
score more o! newspaper men crowded
as tightly as possible up to the door
which protected the committee, and de-
spite many disadvantages. waited for results
with good humored patience. Occasionally Il
member of the committee would come out
60 in, but the same man never came out twice;
one experience of that sort was enough Be-
yond the aggregation of reporters and journal
lists n no less eager multitude-enthusiastic
supporters Of the various cities which were sup
posed to De in the race An hour before and
every supporter of these interested towns was
certain that success was bound to come his
way. but when the result Of the first ballot was
being watched for even professional sport
could not have placed a silk-hat bet- All was
uncertainty and fear. A few of the leading
spirits imagined they had hopes, but if they
did they were vague and e1pressioniess.
ANNOUNCING TIE BALLOTS.
"Here he isr' Now, for the news!" Let
him get outr' "Give him air - Yell it loud"
shut up" "s'pose you let him do the talk
ingyr Him was Col swords, and the cutlery
Immediately followed his appearance at the
committee room door with sheet OF paper III
his hand As soon the crowd had been made
to understand that the ballot an informal
one the colonel announced that Omaha had 5
votes, Detroit !, Minneapolis IL. Cincinnati 4,
New York 9, St Louis ], San francisco 4,
Chattanooga 4. Pittsburg 2. Then the Min
neapolitans howied; likewise the st. Paul
ties. In rapid succession then followed the an
Inducements of succeeding ballots, made amid
moro con fusion and more tolacc smoke than the
ladies' parlOr at the Arlington ever experienced
before The feature of the first, second, third
and fourth business ballots was the steady
growth Of Cincinnati. and when the high water
mark of fifteen was reached there was excessive
jubilation among the OhiosLs present. A good
many of the trans Mississippi people were very
much afraid lest a New York Cincinnati COM
tinstion should upset the western plan, and
they kept on wondering why Omaha whose
biggest vote Except Oh the informal
BALLOT was five. did not throw its
strength for Minneapolis. When. on the fifth
ballot Minneapolis jumped to seventeen it was
evident that the end was near, and 10 one was
very much surprised at the flour city getting
twenty on the sixth, but the outsiders we're a
trifie astonished that the aid should have come
from San Francisco anu New York and not from
Omaha. There was long wait between the
sixth and seventh ballots ami everybody be-
came very anxious. Suddenly the door opened
and whisper reached somebody's ear, for
wild northwestern yell broke forth. 1t was
hushed almost instantly, principally through
the efforts of folks who were not from Mime
sofa, and Col. Swords announced that prior to
the taking Of the vote San Francisco had with
drawn from the strife.