The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-15

The Minneapolis convention renominated
| President Harrison on the first ballot at
about quarter-past four o'clock, Friday af
ternoon. The vote was;
Whole number of votes . . 904
| Necessary to choice 453
Benjamin Harrison 535
| James q. Blaine 1872
William Mckinley 1872
Robert e. Lincoln .. 1
| Thomas B. Reed ..
Whitelaw Reid, ex-minister to France and
editor of the New York Tribune, was unani-
mously nominated for vice.president. The
Blaine boom did not develop the strength
expected and it became more and more
evident that Blaine's name was being used
in an attempt to defeat the president at any
cost. Mckinley stood by the president
from first to last, and not the slightest en-
couragement did he give to the movement
in his own behalf. The Blaine men at first
fought for delay, expecting that as the sec
retary's resignation was better understood
he would secure more votes. The effect of
the resignation, however, was wholly diff
ferent. The Harrison men stood firmly to-
gether, and they had the sound Judgment
and good sense of the party with them
Their figures before the vote were even
lower than the actual vote A conference
of Harrison supporters was held Thursday
morning, and 40 men were on hand. AS
this was more than majority, it was quite
certain from that time on that the president
xuou11 ba ranntnipata1 nanaxpic
speech carried weight, and the Blaine men
knew they were beaten before the voting
began. Despite the intensity of the inter-
est, there is no evidence whatever of deep
seated ill-feeling. On the contrary, the sem
timent of all the speakers was that harmony
would prevail whoever was nominated.
The proceedings are given in detail below.
Wednesday.
1t was nearly noon, and the hall was
crowded to its utmost capacity, when tenn
porary Chairman Fassett called the conven-
ton to order. The leaders of both ele.
ments of the party were not prompt in
appearing in the hall, and their absence
indicated that nothing exciting was ex'
pected during the day. Bishop Henry II.
Whipple of the Protestant diocese OF
Minnesota offered prayer. Then L. f.
Walker of Nebraska, in behalf of the dele
CATION from that state, presented Chairman
, Fassett gavel made from a tree grown or
the first homestead in Nebraska. The com
mittee on credentials, through its chair.
man, General Cogswell of Massachusetts
asked for further time, and, after an in
quiry from eX -Senator Spooner of Wiscon
sin as to the prospects of a report, the
request was granted. The committee OF
= organization presented the name of Gov
I ernor William Mckinley of Ohio for per
manent chairman.
A great storm of cheering greeted thu
" Napoeon of protection ~ as he was es
> corted to the chair by Samuel Fessenden o
Connecticut, ex-senator Spooner of Wis
consin and General William Malone of Vir
ginia. Chairman Fassett thanked the con
= vention for honoring him, and then pre-
: scented the permanent chairman. Afte
more cheering Governor Mckinley began
his speech, which was brief and pointed
The following are a few of his more strik
ing sentences: Republican convention
mean something. They have always mean
something. Republican conventions sa,
q what they mean and mean what they say
o They declare principles and policies an,
purposes, and when intrusted with powe
o they fulfil and enforce them. The first ma
# tional convention of the republican part
~ was held thirty-siX years ago in the city o
- Philadelphia. The platform of that grea
% convention reads to-day more like inspira
e ton than the affirmation of political party
Y Every provision of that great ins1rumen
q made by the fathers of our party is in tn
n public statutes of our country to-day
a Every one of them has been embodied il
q public law, and that cannot be said of tn
81 platform of any other political organization
v in this or any other country of the world
q Whenever there is anything to be done i
\ this country, and by the country, the re
u publican party is called upon to do it.
II 1--WE stand for protective tariff becaus
d it represents the American home, tn
a American tireside, the American girl, tn
n American boy and the highest possibilitie
~ of American citizenship. We propose t
~ raise our money for public expenses by tax
ii ing the products of other nations rattle
n than by taxing the products of our own.
The democrats of the house passed thre
bills. Let me name them: First, free tir
e plate leaving sheet steel, from which it
-. made, fairfield. That is, the finished pre-
=, duct free and the raw material bearing
y duty. Second free wool to the manufa'
ol turer and fairfield cloth to the consumer
1T Third, free cotton ties TO the cotton state
r and fairfield hoop iron to all the rest of tn
# states. That is their idea of tariff reform
-. Gentlemen of the convention, how do 20
u like il? This contest that we enter upon
~ for the maintenance of protection and +,
a ciprocity. And | want to say here thf
i there is not a line in that tariff bill that
nc not American; there is not passage that
20 not patriotic: there is not a passage ths
t. does not represent true Americanism an
~ the highest possibilities of American cit
8. zenship." We are TO declare ourselvt
n. upon the great question of a free ballot an
fair count. No platform should ever
made which does not reiterate that grei
al constitutional guarantee"
Va The speech was wildly applauded by IL
~ delegates and spectators, and at its concl
re sion Frederick Douglass, who sat upon I'll
lie platform, was loudly called for. He woul
ia make no speech, however, merely bowr
4; in acknowledgment of the compliment. tt
u. names of members of the new nations
vi committee were reported to the conventiC
in by the various state delegations and, aft,
as little unimportant business had been a
or tended to, the convention adjourned unit
oa eleven o'clock Thursday morning.
TT, Thursday.
ly The morning session was brief. Pray
eel was offered by Chancellor Brush of II
10 University of South Dakota. General Cog
well, for the committee on credentials, I
81 ported that report would be ready at eig
q, o'clock in the evening. The conventiC
n then took recess until the hour named.
no AS it was reported that the Blaine man
:, gers would not formally present his nam
a. thus reducing the time TO be devoted