Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-16

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AT the conclusion of the voting the clerks an
nouneed the result, and Chairman Mckinley
said; "Beniamin Harrison having received a
majority OF all the votes cast is the nominee Of
this convention. Shall that nomination be made
unanimous" II was made unanimous, and an
adjournment was taken until evening.
At the evening session Whitelaw Reid Of
New York was nominated for vice president by
reclamation.
A losg list Of names was announced as mem
bers Of the committees to notify the nominees
for president and vice president Of the United
States
The motion to adjourn was carried unani-
mously and the chairman announced that THE
convention now stands adjourned sine die"
BENJAMIN HARRISON.
Benjamin Harrison was born in Hamilton
county, O.. August 20, 1888 He was graduated
at the Oxford (O) university and studied
law for two years in Cincinnati In
1854 he went TO Indianapolis which city
he has since made his home. Mr. Har
rison was elected reporter of the SUI
preme court of Indiana in 1860, six years after
he had begun the practice of his profession,
Soon after this however, he joined the union
army in which he was commissioned q second
lieutenant He was one OF the 5000 volunteers
who answered President Lincolns call. After
q short service he organized Company OF the
Seventeen Indiana volunteer infantry and ap-
pointed colonel He was mustered out in
June, 1865 with the rank OF brigadier general.
Returning to civil lie he discharged the
duties Of court reporter for four years. In 1856
he was a candidate for governor on the repnb-
Hcan side, but was defeated He was appointed
on the Mississippi river commission In 1879
MIR Harrison was elected United States senator
for Indiana in 1880 as tho successor Of Joseph
f. Mcdonald and took his seat ON March 4, 1881.
His term OF service expired March 3, 1887. In
1888 he was nominated by the republicans for
the presidency and was elected over Grover
gE.s
Gratis.
wHITELAw REID.
Jacob Whitelaw Reid, republican nominee for
vice president, is editor IN chief and one OF the
born in Xenia o., in October, 1887. His parents
gave him good education. AL ID he entered
the Miami university at Oxford, Butler
county o, where no was graduated in
1856 He began the active duties of life as
principal OF the graded schools ia South
Charleston, Clark county, in the same state. but
he bought the Xenia News and did such good
work on that journal as 10 give IL a reputation
wide as the state. This led 10 his engagement
by the Times and Gazette OF Cincinnati and
the Herald OF Cleveland as their Column
bus correspondent. The war gave him
an opportunity Of distinguishing himself as IA
correspondent at the front. He served the Gin
cinnati Gazette in this capacity, and in 1862 be-
came stakeholder Of that journal, the publica.
ton Of which he subsequently assisted in the
pacity OF associate editor His connection with
editor in charge OF its Washington bureau
he yentnred upon the publication Of q
volume In the year 1863 IT was entitled
After the War-A Southern Tour, and re-
corded observations made IN company with
Chief Justice Chase on an extensive range OF
travel. Reid published another book in 1858,
"Ohio in the War" q work Of considerable
length and value. He became permanently
editor the stan Of the Tribune in 1870, and
when Horace Greeley was candidate for the
presidency assumed the position OF managing
editor, Mr. Reid Is wealthy man. He mar
ried the daughter OF d. o. Mills many times a
millionaire, and lives Ia fine style In an aristo-
cratic up town district in New York
President Harrison appointed Mr. Reid minister
to France, and he has proved a successful and
exceedingly popular diplomatic.
THEY HEAR THE NEWS.
WASHINGTON, June II. Russell Harrison was
the first person 70 announce the news Of the re-
nomination Of his father for during the entire
time that the ballot was going on he vas check
ing of the figures from a sheet Of estimates pre-
pared several days ago. When IL became Ger
tainty shortly after o'clock that the president
had won, with his paper in his hand Russell
Harrison led the way for party Of enthusiastic
cabinet ministers and representatives, Of the
press into the presidents office, just across the
hall from the telegraph room Of the white
house Looking up from his desk at the IL
trGders the president made no effort TO conceal
his qualification az such an invasion, if he
had already surmised what their mission was
Congra tula lions we're 10 order for few sec
onds and as soon as the tumult had subsidized
tue president rose from his chair and addressed
MS visitors In the following language.
u can only say with reference 70 this event
that has brought you here that the 6rst thought
that fills my mind is one Of gratitude and
thanks 70 the great multitude Of friends who
have 10 this way and divers other ways ex
pressed approval Of my conscientious, though
possibly now and then mistaken, attempts 10
serve the country upon republican lines
I claim no other credit than that Of
having attempted without sparing my
self 70 labor 70 discharge these public
duties conseientiously cannot expect my dem
ncratic srienhs 70 thinh ON right Nnes. md vet