The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
mr.. QUAY'S MAN CHOSEN
w. A. STONE NOMINATED FOR Gov
ERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Opposition Defeated by Only Is Votes
-DenunciatOry Letter of with
drawaI from John Wanamaker.

T HARRISBURG, Pa, June 2.-The Repub-
Yican state convention met in this city to-
day and named the party ticket that is to
tbe submitted to the voters this fall, as fol-
flows:
I Governor-Col. VIM. A. Stone Allegheny.
Lieut.. Governor-Gen. j. P. s. Goblin, of
Lebanon.
Secretary Of Internal Affairs-Gen James
Nv. Latta, of Philadelphia.
Judge of the Superior Court-Wm. w.
PORTER, of Philadelphia.
Congressman at Large-Galusha A Grow
OF Susquehanna, and Samuel A. Davenport
of Erie.
The last five are denominations There
was scarcely any opposition to the pro-
gramme for the work of the convention as
outlined by Senator Quay and his lieuten-
ants. those opposed to the nomination of
Mr.. Stone for the head of the ticket con-
tentlng themselves with the concentration
of their vote on Charles w. Stone The vote
was uncomfortabIy close for the Quay adj
herents, Colonel Stone receiving only fif-
teen more votes than the number necessary
TO choice. The 163 votes cast for c. w.
Stone represented the combined strength of
that candidate and John Wanamaker. The
latter provided the only sensation of an
otherwise cut-and-dried convention by pre-
senting letter of withdrawal, in which he
denounced the methods of the dominant Re-
publican faction and urged his friends to
support Stone. Mr.. Wanamakers retire
ment from the fight came as a startling
surprise n his delegates, and it is under
stood he determined on that course only a
short time before his letter was read to the
convention. The withdrawal is Interpreted
to mean that Mr.. Wanamaker has placed
himself In a position to run as an independ-
ent candidate for Governor IL he so elects
He has repeatedly in his speeches served
nOtlC6 on the convention that If w. A
stone was nominated he would continue his
night g against the Quay organization;
tlonal platform of 1896, approves the course
of the President and Congress in the war
with Spain, demands vigorous prosecution
OF the war to successful conclusion,
pledges earnest support to the President in
Whatever measures he may deem necessary,
reJoiceS with the people of the Nation upon
the naVys brilliant record in the present
war, demands an increased naval force and
adequate coast defense, views with pride
Pennsylvania's prompt response to the
Presidents call for troops reaffirms adher-
ence to the doctrine of protection to Amer
lean industries, urges the imperative neces-
sity for the construction of the Nicaragua
canal, advocates the construction of a
waterway connecting the Ohio river with
the great lakes and the lakes with the sea-
board. reaff1rms the law restricting foreign
immigration, heartily Endorses the admins
tration of President Mckinley and COM
mends the wise, careful and efficient admin
istration of the present state government
The convention adjourned without giving
selves. The candidates and Chairman
Wheaton met after the convention and re-
elected John P. Elkin, of Indiana county
chairman of the state committee.
William A. Stone, of Allegheny, who was
to-day nominated for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, has been lifelong Republican. He
was born in Tioga county, Pennsylvania,
April u.s. 1916, and received his early educa-
ton at the State Normal School, Mansfield,
Pa. He served during the war as second
lieutenant of Company A, One-hundred-a
eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers
He studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1870. He has been district attorney of
States attorney for the Western district of
Pennsylvania. He was elected to the Fifty
second, F1fty-third and Fifty-fourth Con-
crosses and reelected to the Fifty-ffth. He
is a warm personal friend of Senator Quay