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vote: Morton 55; Mckinley II.

| VOCo. mOfGOu % mChlu1CJ A'' -
All of the State having been call d,
the president stated before the an
nou ncement of the result that applica.
cation had been made on him for re-
cognition by the representatives of the
defeated candidates, to make certain
motion. He believed it would be the
fairest way to recognize them IN the
order in which the nominations had
been made. He then announced that
Mckinley had received 66l 1.2 votes,
and the scene of an hour before was
repeated. Delegates and spectators
arose, and cheers and hussars rent the
air. There was not single one OF the
fifteen or sixteen thousand people in
the great hall who did not direct his or
her best to swell the sounds OF jubilee
and to Join in the grand popular dem.
onstration in favor of the successful
candidate. The women were as en-.
thusiastic as the men. 1t seemed as II
no one would be seated again, and as
if orderly proceedings would never
more be attempted
At last the president got chance to
continue his announcement Of the vote:
Thomas B. Reed, he said, had received
"a IL votes; Senator Quay 81 l .;
Levi P. Morton So; Senator Allison
35 1 2, and Don Cameron /.
Senator Lodge, rising in his delega-
ton 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, the
American, whom you have nominated
here today, and on behalf of my own
State, and I 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.) l
move, sir, that the nomination of VIM.
Mckinley may be made unanimous. "
(Cheers.') -,
The chair put the question: Shall
the nomination be made unanimousS
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 be limited to five
minutes. Notwithstanding many ex-
pressions of dissent and cries to ad'
iourn, this motion was declared car
ried, and at $40 p. H., the conven-
ton having now been in continuous
session nearly eight hours and half,
the roll was called for no ninations for
Vice President
Judge John Franklin Fort Of New
Jersey placed in nomination Hon.
Garrett A. Hobart.
Mr.. Humphrey Of Illinois briefly
seconded the nominal on of Mr. Ho
bart in the name of illinois.
The balloling for Vice President
then began. The call had only pro-
ceeded 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 5331; Evans 2779
Bulkeley 80; Lippett q; Walker "a ;
Reed 8; Thurston Q; Frederick Grant
| 2; Depew 3; Morton l; absent %. The
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. IN.