Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1896-06-25

ination was made in most happy fashion,
and just as Mckinley himself might have
chosen to have it could it have been so
planned. 1t was the result of the incident
that the roll of States is called in alpha
betical order. When Ohio was reached,
Mckinley still lacked about forty votes
Of having the necessary number to give
him majority of the whole convention.
The forty-six votes cast by the delegation
from his own State carried him past the
winning post and gave additional interest
to the situation. twas fully appreciated,
not only by the Ohio men but by all
those who had been sincerely MtKinley's
friends throughout the preliminary can.
vass.
The ballot concluded there was hurry
to make the nomination unanimous, in
which the Massachusetts men led, and
were promptly joined by the Pe,ni.syl-
| vanians who had voted for Senator Quay.
1t was apparent that all feeling of oppose
,, ton was gone, now that the nomination
was made, and all is certain to be har-
| mony. Senator Quay came very near
making up for the detection in Pennsyl-
vania, which cost him six votes, by get
ting two votes from Georgia, one vote
from Mississippi and half vote from
Louisiana. By this support he was left
with only q votes short of the number
cast by the Pennsylvania delegation.
Vice-Presidency Settled.
The nomination for the Vice Presidency
was easily settled. The efforts of Platt,
Quay and the Reed leaders, assisted by
Foraker, of Ohio, did not reach the i'm
portance expected of them forty-eight
hours ago. 1t was Platt's expectation to
get something out of the convention by
the nomination of Governor Morton for
second place. Garrett A. Hobart, of New
Jersey, was nominated on a single ballot.
Morton's name was not presented to the
convention. There was no reason why
this useless indignity should be put upon
him. In truth there was no reason why
he should have been submitted to the
humiliation of having his name used
| here by his pretended friends as candi-
date for the minor place while they were
still pretending to support him for the
first position.
Mr.. Morton is indebted to the anti
Platt people in the New York delegation
for saving him. They would not support
him and their opposition alone prevented
! the use OF his name. So far had the mat
ter gone that it was given out here that
Morton would accept the Vice Presidency.
The whole scheme fell to pieces at an
early hour this morning, and before
breakfast everybody knew that Platt and
Quay and Foraker had given up the pur-
pose of getting Morton on the ticket, be-
cause they know perfectly well it was
not possible of success.
The canvass made last night, the re-
suit of which was given in these des-
patches, showed that Morton could not
get more than 800 votes under the best
possible circumstances. AS matter of
fact he would not have received as many
as that had his name been presented, as
the votes of Pennsylvania, all but five,
which were counted for Morton, would
most likely have been cast for Governor
Hastings on the first ballot and then
turned to the winner on the second, who
would have been Hobart. From the
moment the anti-McKinley combination
agreed upon Morton, and thereby practi-
cally forced the Mckinley people to turn
their attention to someone for second and
get their forces in line, there was never
any read doubt of Hobart's nomination.
Whether he would have been the natural
choice does not now matter. They were
met by refusals when they suggested
New England man, and New York and
Pennsylvania leadership had made a
selection from either of those States out
of the question.
The first choice of all would have been
Reed, but Reed would not have it, and
his friends here made it impossible to
take what would have been an admirable
choice in Congressman Dingley, of Maine,
by saying that it would be regarded as