St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-06-16
CONVENTION SCENES
Some Thrilling Passages in the Great
Assembly at Minneapolis on the Last
Day.
AN INCIDENT OF THE ROLL CALL
MCKINLEY CHALLENGE.

! AN INCIDENT OF THE ROLL CALL
McKINLEY'S CHALLENGE.
When the State of Ohio was
reached, occurred the most dramatic
incident ever seen in national con-
vention-that of presidential candi-
date challenging the liberality of the
vote cast for him by his own state
"OhlO gives two votes for Benja-
min Harrison and A votes for Nc
Kinley," said Ex-Governor Foraker,
and the pandemonium of enthusiasm
that greeted the announcement
showed that President Harrison had
lost ~ votes in the state of Ohio.
All enthusiasm must have an end,
however, and when the cheering dele
gates were hoarse and tired, the
peerless Mckinley, who had been sit
ting silent and with a visage as i'm
movable as the Sphinx, arose, and
in a clear voice which penetrated to
every corner of that vast hall said,
''Ichallenge the vote of the state of
Ohio. l am delegate from that
state"
There was a breathless pause, but
the fiery Foraker was on his feet,
and waving his hand deprecatingly
at the chairman said: But you
have been retired from this delega-
ton, Mr.. Chairman, by your election
to the craftsmanship OF this conven-
ton and your alternate has taken
your place, and we no longer know
you as a member of the Ohio delega-
ton
The generous action OF the ex-gov-
ernor towards the man who but re-
Gently had been identified with an
Ohio, evoked all the better impulses
of the vast audience, and the Harri-
son, as we'll as Blaine and Mckinley
delegates, found themselves cheering
the generosity of the chairman OF the
Ohio delegation.
The chair overrules the point of
order, said Mckinley to Foraker,
land asks the secretary of the con-
vention to call the roll
Another ovation fell to the lot of
the governor of Ohio-5his time from
the Harrison delegates-in admira-
ton of his loyal support Of the pres
ident
There was still a noise throughout
the hall as the secretary of the con-
vention calmly turned the leaves I'M
til the roll of the Ohio delegation
was reached and called the first name
of the list, that of William Mckinley,
Jr.
Il vote for Benjamin HARRISON"
said the great protectionist, and the
gratifying cheers that resounded
through the hall were Quoted only
when the object of all this enthusiasm
waved his gavel deprecatingly to re-
store order.
WHAT HARRIsON's NONfINAToRs SAID
Said Richard w. Thompson of In
diana: II propose to make nomi-
nation for the presidency which shall
strike chord of svmpa thy in every
true republican heart. l propose to
nominate for the presidency a man
who does not seek elevation by de-
traction of any great republican in
the republican party
Chauncey M. Depew, in seconding
Harrison's nomination, closed an
eloquent speech thus: by the grand
record of a wise popular administra-
ton, by the strength gained in fire.
quent contact with the people, in
wonderfully versatile and felicitous
speech, by the claims of new life in
public and in the simplicity ola typi-
cal American home, l nominate
Benjamin Harrison"
AN EXCITING MOMENT.
At the end Of Depew's speech the
most intense excitement prevailed.
A huge six by eight portrait of the
president was borne down to the
grand stand, and the Hon. Fred
Douglass led the mighty ovation by
mounting a chair and waving his
hat high into the air, while his white
hair flew to the breezes. The band
struck up lively air and the en-
thusiasm grew with every minute
A quick-witted Blaine man was the
first to check it. Grasping the huge
silken banner of the Chicago Blaine
club, bearing the portrait of the
great popular leader, he marched
up the centre aisle. The Blaine and
Harrison banners met midway, and
a counter demOnstra ton followed
Age and youth, the sedate and the
cheerful, the austere and the CAV, all
joined in the enthusiasm of the occa-
SlOH. TIC tIl-cOlOT plufneS OF Blame
were hoisted on every side, and as if
by magic a score of portraits of Har-
rison and Blaine were swung to the
breeze. In twenty minutes the rival
demonstrations had subsidized sufi-
GENTLY for the chair to announce
that ex-Sena tor Warner Miller of
New York was recognized.
The speech of the great Nicaragua
canal advocate, in seconding Blaine's
nominal ton, was brief, and his words
of harmony were well received. His
statement that he and his friends
had no words of detraction for
President Harrison, and that the
nominee of the convention would
receive the support of all republi-
cans. provoked hearty applause.