The herald., 1896-06-19
BY SINISTER COINCIDENCE
The Great Napoleon Met Dire Defeat on
June Eighteenth
Ills Little Namesake's Future Is Presaged by
Party Defectlons
Hobart OF New Jersey Nominated for Second
PIace-coattaiis Of Departing Sill.
verltes Believed With
Tears Of Grief
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
ST. LOUIS, June 1S.-The Republican
national convention nailed their princi-
pies to the masthead today and placed
in command of the ship which is to bear
them on to fortune or to disaster In No
vember their popular idol, William Nc
Kinley Of Ohio, and Garrett A. Hobart
of New Jersey. But there was mutiny
aboard, and at the last moment before
the lines were cast off some members Of
the crew who had shipped in many
voyage refused to subscribe to the new
shipping articles and walked the gang
plank.
The convention was held in session for
ten hours to accomplish the work cut
out for 1t today. and the scenes at differ.
ent times were tragic, dramatic and in
spring. Fully $4,000 people were in the
vast auditorium to hiss or cheer by
turns. The bolt of the silver men from
the west was fully discounted, but it
nevertheless furnished the most dramat-
ic incident Of the day. Led by Senator
Teller they had yesterday declared
their intention of refusing to subscribe
to the gold plank in the platform. but
today after Senator Teller had made
take the step which would drive him and
his colleagues out of the ranks of the
party which in the past honored them
and they had delighted to serve. ard
the convention had voted S1S1s to 1O5h
to stand by the gold declaration in the
platform. no one who witnessed it
will forget to his dying day the picture
of Senator Frank Cannon Of Utah. fac
ing from the platform 10000 irate, hiss
ing. jeering people. as he read the vale
dictory'of the silver men. He stood erect
and defiant, his pale face set in grim
determination as those before him tried
to cry him down, until the very courage
displayed won for him the admiration
which compelled silence. When he had
finished the reading the crowds in the |
gallery burst out again with jeers and |
cries of disapproval, but in the most |
courtly fashion he turned and shook |
hands with Senator elect Foraker, the |
chairman of the committee on resolu-
tions, Permanent Chairman Thurston
and other friends on the platform Then,
locking arms with Senator Teller, the
two men left the stand and moved down
between the walls of yelling delegates
to where the standard of the Idaho dele
the handsome, stalwart Dubois and the
three men continued their march to the
main door, their followers falling In be-
hind them as they moved along.
1t was a small band, several of the
delegates from the states Of Utah and
Montana. notably Senators Carter and
Mantle of the latter state, preferring to
subscribe to the platform rather than to
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party. The delegates, only a few of
whom displayed any bitterness toward
what they believed to be the misguided
course of their colleagues, breathed a
sigh of relief when it was over. Never
before has there been a bolt from the
Republican party, although Wendell
Phillips and some of the more radical
Republicans held convention at
Cleveland, O., in 1864, and placed in the
field a ticket in opposition to Lincoln
and johnson. The radicals ON that oc-
casion, however, withdrew their ticket
and returned to the fold before the cleo
tion in November.
The silver men who bolted today i'm
mediately perfected plans to place Sem
ator Teller in nomination as an inde-
pendent silver candidate for president,
III Iue nope tldI LHe democrats at Chi |
cago, il controlled by the silver men,
would place his name at the head of
their ticket.
After the sensational incident the con-
vention turned with evident pleasure to
the work of selecting the standard bear
ers. 1t was a foregone conclusion that
Mckinley would be nominated, and the
pent-up enthusiasm of the friends OF
the Ohio candidate found full vent The
speeches Of Baldwin of Council Bluffs
ting Allison, of Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts nominating Reed, of
Hastings nominating Quay, and of De-
pew, nominating Morton, were manly
efforts, and were received with great
enthusiasm by their respective sup !
porters, but it was the nomination Of
Mckinley by Foraker which turned the !
convention into bedlam. Save for the 1
wild tumult that followed Senator VOL
cotts speech. placing Blaine in nomina- !
tion at Minneapolis four years ago, the |
demonstration that occurred today has
mad no parallel in a Republican national 6
convention, at least in length. |,
Ihe Minneapolis demonstration con-
tinued for twenty-seven minutes: that
today fell short of that record but thirty
seconds or course it lacked the zest I
that comes after a long, uncertain con-
test of giants and If in a measure me-
chanical 1t did not want for inspiration