The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-01
M'KINLEY WINS THE DAY
CHEER AFTER GREER VENT UP 1T
 MENTION OF HIS NAME.

A Movement Was Made to Place Senator Cullom in the Van But it Did Not Carry cial Plank in the Platform-Governor
 Altgeld is Arraigned.
 Springfield, H., April S0.-Just as the
 convention was called to order to-day hurried call was sent out for an im-
 mediate meeting of the committee on
 resolutions.
 Nominations for secretary of state were first called for, Speeches were barred Five candidates were named John A. Reeves of Decatur, George C.
 Rankin of Monmouth, James A. Rose of Golconda. Isaac N. Pearson of Ma comb, and Homer J. Tice of GreenVieW. The first ballot resulted: Pearson %l,
 Rose 3O6, Rankin 27S, Reeves 2S1, Tice I 1S4
 second ballot was ordered and re- < suited: Rose 5S4, Pearson S51, Rankin 4 226, Reeves 1O9, Tice 65; no choice. X Reeves, Rankin and Tice were with drawn, and third ballot was ordered
 at 11:4O and resulted: Rose 769, Pear son 56S. Rose was accordingly nomi- mated
 The result of the final ballot for sec- retary of state was regarded as fore- shadowing the defeat of Mckinley in- e+,, to,, votes, it was said, were traded to the machine in return for votes for Rose. Thirty-two Cook county delegates who were regarded as safe for Mckinley voted with the opposition in the ball. lot.
 { J. J. Kinney of Rockford, James R., ! Mccullough of Campaign, Thomas B.. Nobles of Nashville and N. B. Thistle wood were named for state auditor. The first ballot for auditor resulted: Kinney 4S5, Mccullough 402, Nobles 2S2, Thistlewood 1S6 Nobles and Thistle wood were withdrawn and a second ballot was ordered.
 The second ballot stood: Mccullough 671, Kinney S64. McCullough's major ity [.
 The following were then put in nom- ination for state treasurer: Henry L.. Hertz of Chicago Dr. George A. zel- lars of Peoria, Charles A. Fetzer of Springfield and Mayor Albert F. Schoch of Ottawa.
 Hertz was nominated on the first ball. E lot. These were the figures: Hertz 829, \ Schoch 246, Cellars 235 Fetzer 25. At 2:45 nominations for attorney gen. eral were reached. In accordance with the agreement this was the last order of business prior to the battle of in structions, and the hall began to fill up with delegates and spectators, who had been seeking a breath of fresh air out of doors. Those names were James M. Trutt of Hillsboro, Daniel Paddock of Kankakee Edwin c. Akin of Joliet and H. H. Mcdowell of Pontiac. The first ballot for attorney general resulted: Akin APO, Mcdowell 362, Trlitt S4O. Paddock 213. No choice. The second ballot resulted: Akin 8S5, Mcdowell 365 Akin's nomination was made unanimous.
 As soon as the attorney generalship had been disposed of the decks were cleared. for the resolution on instruc- tions. Senator Fuller of Belvidere mounted a chair in the center of the Chicago delegation and submitted a resolution instructing the delegates at large to be selected to present to the national convention and the name of Shelby M. Cullom as the choice of Illi- nois for the presidency. The cheering with which this was greeted was con- | fined almost entirely to the left wing of the hall, the Chicago men getting upon chairs, waving hats and handkerchiefs and yelling frantically for "Cullom and victory When the resolution had been read by the clerk there was a cyclone of ''noes," hisses and groans. With considerable heat the chair ap- pealed for order, declaring that he would keep the convention all night unless he could secure sufficient order to enable each side to have a fair and honest hearing. This had it's effect and Senator Fuller forced his way through the crowd to the platform and began his speech in support of the res- olution. He said that in the past there had been found men in this state good enough, men republican enough to fill the presidential chair. It should go forth to the country that Illinois had one Ie.dL III Lut Sldtt NHoill IHe peU- pie delighted to honor, whom they had honored for thirty years and who was the choice of the republicans of Illinois for the highest office in the gift of the people. Renewed shouts of mo" greet ed this reference, and the speaker con- cluded somewhat abruptly.
 Delegate Bethea of Dixon then moved to substitute the name of Mckinley for that of Cullom The demonstration
 that greeted the mention of Mckinley
 was terrific Two thirds of the con- vention and the thousands in the gall
 lery rose en masse and cheered for three minutes and the tempest was re- peated when the chair repeated the amendment.
 Speaker Calhoun was recognized and eulogized Mckinley.
 Alderman Madden of Chicago moved an amendment to the Mckinley amend ment, providing that in the event of Mckinley failing to receive the nomi- nation the republicans of Illinois eX- press their unfaltering recognition of the broad statesmanship and matchless abilities of Hon. T. B. Reed of Maine and Hon. W. B. Allison of Iowa. A storm of disapproval greeted this eff fort of the Chicago machine leaders to complicate the situation. MT. Calhoun protested against it's consideration on parliamentary grounds, but the chair did not rule and eX-Attorney General