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fairest way to recognize them in the
order in which the nominations had
been made. He then announced that
Mckinley had received 66l1-2 votes,
and the scene OF an hour before was
repeated. Delegates and spectators
arose, and cheers and hussars rent the
air. There was not a single one of the
| fifteen or sixteen thousand people in
the great halt who did not direct his or
her best to swell tho sounds ofjubilee
aud to join In the grand popular dem,
onstration in favor Of the successful
candidate. The women wore as en-.
thusiasti,, as the men, II seemed as If
no one would be seated again, and az
il orderly proceedings would never
more be attempted ,Ss az {, J
at last the president got a chance to
continue his announcement OF the vote.
Thomas B. Reed, he said, had received
81 12 votes; Senator Quay 6lH12;
Levi F. E Morton 58; Senator Allison
LBS 1 q, and Don Cameron /.
Senator Lodge, rising in his delega-
tion and standing in his chair, said /:
! "Mr. Chairman, the friends Of Mr..
Reed have followed him with the same
loyalty which he has always shown
himself to country and principle and
party. That loyalty, they now trans.
fer to the soldier, the patriot, tile
American, whom you have nominated
here today, and on behalf Of my own
State, and believe Of all the other
New England States that supported
Mr. Reed, We pledge great majority
in our own States and our assistance
in other States and all the help we can
render for Mckinley. (Cheers)
move, sir, that the nominallon of VIM.
Mckinley may be made unanimous. J"
| (Cheers.'o
The chair put the question: ''Shall
the nomination be made unanimousl -
and by q rising vote 1t was SO ordered,
and The chair announced that Mr..
VIM. Mckinley OF Ohio the candidate
of the Republican party for President
of the United States
When the applause which greeted
this announcement subsidized Mr..
Lodge moved to proceed to the elec.
ton of Vice President, and that the
| nominating speeches BIZ limited To Ave
minutes. Notwithstanding many ex-
pressiOns Of dissent and cries to ad.
journ, this motion was declared car
ried, and at 8:2O D. M, the conven-
tiOn having now been in continuous
session nearly eight hours and u half,
the roll was called for nomi nations for
Vice Prdsident.
Judge John franklin Fort Of New
Jersey placed in nomination Hon
Garrett A. Hobart.
Mr.. Humphrey Of Illinois briefly
seconded the nomination of Mr. 40
bart In the name of Illinois.
The balloting for Vice President
then began The call had only pro-
ceedcd as far as South Dakota when 1t
became evident that Hobart had been
nominated on the first ballot and the
delegates and the crowd in the gale.
ries began to leave the building.
The result Of the ballot for Vice
President was announced by the chair
as follows: Hobart $685. Evans 277a |;
Bulkeley 80; Lippett y; Walker "a !;
Reed 3; Thurston Q; Frederick Grant
2;7Depew 0 Morton i ubsent 90. .rhe
chair then formally declared Garrett
A. Hobart of New Jersey the nomi-
nees of the convention for Vice Presi.
dent, and the convention adjourned
sine die at 7;55 p. m.