The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-19
SILVER MEN BOLT
LED BY TELLER
The Boilers Submit Protest
Setting Forth Reasons
For Their Action.
AN INTENSELY DRAMATIC SCENE
The Speech Placing Mckinley in Nom
ination Was Made by Senator
Elect Foraker.


began its third and last day at 1880.
The report of the Resolution Com
rnittee was presented by Senator For
aker, pledging the party to protection
and the gold standard.
The vote on adoption of the platform
was yeas 8I8 -2; nays iO5 i-2.
North Carolina cast Ia l-2 votes for
silver and I-2 for gold.
The roll call, baloting for President,
began at 6:O2 p. m. Total vote: Nc
kiniey 66I I-2; Reed "a I-2; Morton
SO; Quay 81 l-2, Allison 80 I-2; Cam
eron /.
Virginia voted: Mckinley %, Nor
ton |. North Carolina. Mckinley 10 i-2;
Reed I-2. South Carolina, Mckinley
I8.
Hobart nominated for Vice-Presdent
on first ballot on PennsYlvania's vote.
The total vote Hobart 533 l-2; Evans
$50 I-2; Buckley 80; Walker "a; Lip
pett 8; r. 8. Reed 8; Fred. Grant 2;
Depew 8; Morton |, Thurston 2; Brown
2.
ST. Louis, june 1S.-The Republican
National convention nailed their prin-
cipIes to the masthead to-day and
placed in command of the ship which
is TO bear them on to fortune or dis
aster in November their popular idol,
VIM. Mckinley, of Ohio, and Garrett
A. Hobart, of New Jersey. But there
was mutiny aboard and the last mo-
ment before the lines were cast off
some of the members of the crew who
had shipped in many a voyage refused
to subscribe to the new shipping arti-
cles and walked down the gang-plank
The convention was held in session
for ten hours to-day to accomplish
the work cut out for it and several
different times was tragic, dramatic
and inspiring. Fully 10000 people
were in the vast audience to hiss OF
cheer by turns. The bolt of the silver
men from the West was fully dis
counted, but it nevertheless furnished
the most dramatic incident of the day
Never before has there been a bolt
from the Republican party, although
Wendell Phillips and some more radi-
cal Republicans held a convention al
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1864 and placed in
the field a ticket in opposition to Lin
coin and Johnson.
The third and last day Of the Nation
al Republican convention began
at half past ten when, in response to
the gavels rap, the delegates arose for
prayer. The officiating minister was
DR.. Scott, of Jacksonville, Fla, the
second colored pastor who has conduc-
ted the devotional prelude. Although
DR.. Scott's voice was a strong one, SO
great was the confusion of the enter
ing delegates and spectators, it could
be told only from the movement of the
minister's lips that he was praying.
Then the first opportunity for the
delegates to use their voices fresh af-
ter nights rest was afforded when
Chairman Thurston, without any pre-
Iiminaries, plunged into business by
announcing that the first thing on the
programme was the report of the com
mittee on resolutions.
Senator Foraker adjusted a pair of
spectacles upon his soldierly face and
furnished for moment the same
dumb show of a man talking which
the colored minister had given until
cries of ''louder" and "order" from the
galleries impelled him to a stronger
vocal effort.
FOR GOLD AND PROTECTION.
The audience and delegates followed
the reading with intense interest. The
reference to the administration of Benz
Harrison evoked the first demonstra-
tion, but louder still came the roar
when words of the platform pledged
the party again to the doctrine of pro-
lection in the interest of American Ia
bor and American industry. The ref
erence to the restoration of the policy
of reciprocity as the twin brother OF
protection also came in for round OF
applause. Protection to the sugar in
dustries aroused the Louisiana delega-
tion to cheers and the merchant
marine plank brought Maine, Mary
land and Massachusetts, delegation to
their feet with three cheers.
The first sentence of the platform
pledging the party to ''sound money
started a great uproar among the dele
gates on the floor, but the galleries