The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-19

IT
ttrely impossible, to eNaggerate the Disagree
able experiences Of the last four years. The
grand aggregate of the multtudinous bad re.
suits of a Democratic national administration
may be summed up as one stupenduus disaster.
IL has been a disaster however, not without at
least one redeeming feature; it has been fair
nobody has escaped it. II has fallen equally
alike upon all sections Of our country and MI
classes of our people, the Republican and the
Democrat the rich and the poor the big and
the low have suffered in common. ldleness and
its consequent poverty and distress have been
the rewards of labor distress and bankruptcy
have overtaSen business shrunl1en values, have
dissipated fortunes, deficient revenues haveim
poverished the government, brought about
bond issues, and bond syndicates have discour-
aged and scnndalizod the nation.
over against this fearful penalty is, however,
| to be set down one great compensatory result,
| it has destroyed the Democratic party The
! proud columns which swept the country in tri-
umph in 1892 are broken and noiseless in 1898.
| Their boasted principles when they came to
! the test of q practical application have proven
| nothing but fallacies, and their great leaders
have degenerated into warning chieftains of
| petty and irreconcilable factions. Their boast
! ed principles when put to the test of proper
application have proven delusive fallacies.
! Their approaching national convention is but
! an approaching national nightmare. No man
! pretends to be able TO predict any good result
| to come from it, and no man is seeking nomina.
! tion of that convention.
The party that could stand up under the
odium of human slavery, opposition to the war
| for the enfranchisement reconstruction and
specie resumption, at last finds itself over
matched and undone by itself II is wrthing
in the throes Of dissolution superinduced by
dose of its own medicine. No human agency
can prevent its absolute overthrow at the next
election, except only this convention. If we
make no mistake the Democratic party will go
out of power on the fourth of March, to remain
! out until God in his wisdom and mercy and
goodness shall see fit once more to chastise his
! people. So far we have not made any mistake
We have adopted n platform which meets tho
demands and expectations Of the American
people. 1t remains for us now as the last crown
| ing of our work here to complete our work by
| nominating good candidate.
The people want a good Republican. They
! want something more than wise patriotic
statesman they want a man who embodies in
himself not only all Of those essential qualitca-
tions but who, in addition, in the highest pos.
sible degree typifes in a monetary character,
in record in ambition, and in purpose, the ex.
act opposite of all that is signifcd and repre-
sented by the free trade, deficit making, bond
issuing, labor saving Democratic administra-
ton / stand here 20 present TO this convention
such man. His name is William Mckinley.
FORAKER NosIINATES M'KINLEY.
senator Foraker got no farther than the
name of the Ohio statesman. Even before
the last syllable had passed his lips, with
-one great swell the delegates and occu.
pants of the galleries sprang to their feet
and let out yell that would have driven
out of the pastures the far famed bull OF
Basham.
Inol ioiiowed Tho Battle Cry of Free
DOM" America" Dixie" and "Yanke,
: Doodle" the crowd all the tiroe yelling
! like demonSoDd Cha irrn a ,, Tbur-+or N-oi p,
ly endeavoring to preserve order After
few minutes of this sort of thing, by vir
tue of the law of exhaustion, the voices
sank toward silence, but they never reached
1t, for the band came in with "Hail Co
lumbia,' and with last effort the crowC
= Joined in and overwhelmed the music
But twenty-five minutes of anarchy tiret
out the most ardent McKinleyite and Mr.
! FORAKER was permitted to proceed
4 MKINLEY NOMINATED
At the conclusion of Mr.. Foraker
speech Chairman Pro TEN. Hepburn recog
nized Senator Thurston, who secOndet
Mc&inleys nomination.
Governor Hastings spoke for Pennsyl
vania naming as the candidate of tn
keystone state, Senator Matthew Stanle
Quay.
When the secretary read out the resul
of the ballot--661H for McKinley-h
could proceed no further for several min
utes, for there was a repetition of tn
scenes already depicted. Finally he wa
allowed to give the full result, as follows
Mckinley, 661%; Reed, S415; Morton, IS
Quay, 81 y; Allison, 3515.
On motion of Mr. Lodge, seconded b
Mr. Hastings, the nomination of McKinle
was made unanimous
With something more like order tn
convention proceeded to nominate car
didate for vice president. After the dC
cision of the Platt forces in New York nc
TO present the name of Governor Morton
II owing to the war waged against him b
the Warner Miller faction, the nominatio
|. of Garrett A. Hobart, of New Jersey b,
= came IA certainty. Mr.. Hanna and tn
!. Mckinley influence was thrown for hin
a and although there was an attempt t
1t consolidate the west and south on H. Cla
b. Evans, of Tennessee, the Mckinley influ
Sc ence was too potent. The nominatin
rs speeches We're brief Bulkeley of Connect
70 70 cut, Lippett of Rhode Island and Gener;
~ Walker of Virginia were also placed /
a nomination, and it only required one ba
le LOT to determine the contest. Hobart +,
se ceived 53015 votes, 20 more than majol
ie ity. Evans his ..aarest competitor, r,
ceived 2S0l5 There were scattering vote
n. for Reed, Thurston, Grant Depew, Mo-
w ton and Brown.
n THE CANDIDATE FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
re The nominee for vice president, Garret
N A Hobart, was born in Long Branch, \
:, j., in 1914, and graduated from Rutgel
N college when 20 years old. He was aC
mitted to the bar in 1885, and was chose
D. city counsel of Paterson in 1871. The 70
,e lowing year he was appointed counsel I
ar the board of chosen freeholders, and q
the end of his term declined II renomin,
a. tion
a. In 1872 he was elected assemblyman, an
If in his second term he was elected speake
"a of the assembly. In 1873 he declined
| denomination, and in 1877 Passaic count
p sent him TO the state senate. In 1879 h
~ was reelected, and closed his career as
i legislator in lSSl-S2 when he was the pres
II dent of the senate
le Mr., Hobart was the Republican caucI
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