Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-11

Reed received two votes in Texas
and one each in New Hampshire and
Rhode Is!md. Lincoln received onc
vote in New Hampshire.
It was $50 o'clock last night when
Chairman Mckinley called the conven-
ton to order and ordered the call ofthe
roll OF States for candidates for Vice
President Of the United States.
When New York was reached Sena-
tor O'Connor presented the name Of
Whitelaw Reid for Vice-Presidcnt with
the approval of his State.
Gen. Horace Porter seconded the
nomination of Nj. Reid. The name
was received with cheers.
a motion was made that Mr.. Reid's
nomination be made by reclamation,
but q delegate from Tennessee said he
desired to make a nomination.
When Tennessee was reached Dele
gate J. J.. Settle nominated Thomas B..
Reed. of Maine, for Vicc-President. Ar
kansas seconded the nomination of
Reed, of Maine. 1t was received with
applause.
delegate Loutham, of Virginia, sec
onded the nomination of Mr.. Reed, OF
Maine.
The Maine delegation asked hat the
delegates refrain from voting for Mr..
Reed, as he was not a candidate and
would not accept.
Whitclaw Reid was therefore nomi-
mated by reclamation amid cheers.
Chris Magec, of Pittsburs. moved
that Governor Mckinley be chairman of
the committee to notify the President Of
his denomination. The motion was
carried,
The convention adjourned sine die at
10 o'clock.
THE PRESIDENT HEARS TIE NEWS.
A large group of cabinet officers, poll
%ticians, newspaper men, and others
stood about the telegraph operator in
the White House shortly after o'clock
Yesterday afternoon eagerly watching
for the result Of the balloting MS it was
flashed over the wire direct from the
convention hall in Minneapolis. The
President remained in his office across
the hall, receiving the dispatches as
they were sent over TO him. When
the final result was announced the
crowd in the operators room, forget
ting the proprieties of the occasion.
rushed across the hall, and, unmindful
of the protests of the door-keeper,
burst in upon the President with a
shout and announced the result. When
order had been somewhat restored the
President, taking a position at the side
of his desk, said:
"Well, gentlemen, 1 have had a good
deal of intercourse with newspaper
men. 1t has been mostly at arms
length, except on a few occasions OF
this kind, and yet some Of you know
that, while l an very avcrse to INFER
views, my door has always been cpen
to a friendly call from any of you, and
any information about public business
has been at your disposal.
II can only say with refercnce to
this event that has brought you here
that the first thought that fills my mind
is of gratitude and thanks to the
great multitude of friends who have in
this way and divers other ways ex-
pressed approval of my conscientious,
though possibly now and then mistaken,
attempts to serve the country upon re-
publican lines. I claim no other credit
than that of having attempted, without
sparing myself as to labor, to discharge
these public duties conscientiously. 1
cannot expect my democratic friends to
think I have been on right lines always;
and yet it has been very gratifying to
me to know that many things have Sc
cured the approval of my political OPP
ponents. l have been filed with the
thought that this country wa coming
to an epoch when the flag and those
things that it symbolizes will be upon a
still higher plane than now, and when
our influence among the powers of the
onrth will he nnlarnnd WidelN and YET.