The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-16
GOES TO QUAKER CITY
Philadelphia Gets Next Republican
National Convention.
II WILL BE HELD JUNE 19
CHICAGO WAS THE ONLY Sc
RIoUs COMPETITOR.
Won By Marrow Margin Of One Vote
Proceedings of National Com
mittee Meeting Held In Wash
ington-Chairman Hanna Presid-
ed-Will Call On President Today.

Washington, Dec. 15.-The national
Republican convention will convene at
Philadelphia on Tuesday. June 10, next.
The place and date were decided upon
by the national Republican committee
today after a friendly contest for the
honor of entertaining the convention
between the city selected, Chicago, ST.
Louis and New York.
The meeting of the COMMITTEES was
held at the Arlington hotel and was
presided over by Senator Hanna, the
chairman of the committee Forty
three of the forty-five states and each
of the six territories were represented,
Senator Foraker, proxy for Charles l..
Kurtz, the national committeeman from
Ohio, and Senator Wolcott. proxy for
]. F. Saunders of Colorado, being the
only absentees. In addition to the COM
mittee were many of the big wigs Of
the Republican party in attendance.
The proceedings throughout were en-
thusiastic and harmonious, every
speech that was made emphasizing the
fact that President Mckinley will be
renominated and that the convention
will be, in effect, simply ratification
meeting. The claims of the rival cities
were presented by distinguished citizens
of each in open session.
Philadelphia Is Chosen.
The balloting occurred in the after
noon behind closed doors. Upon the
first ballot Philadelphia received Is
votes, Chicago 20, New York Z and st.
Louis g. On the second ballot the con-
test narrowed down to Philadelphia and
Chicago, the New York votes went to
Philadelphia and the st. Louis vote
was split between the City of Brotherly
7 he W off IA la
An amusing incident occurred in con-
nection with this ballot After it was
concluded and announced as Philadel-
phia % and Chicago %, Mr.. I. N. JAM
ieson, the national committeeman from
Illinois, suddenly discovered that in the
excitement he had forgotten to vote.
He demanded that the vote should be
recast, and this was accordingly done,
but it did not change the result, Chi
cago gaining only the vote of the COM
mitteeman from Illinois. Philadelphia
won by the narrow margin of one vote.
Immediately upon the announcement
the Quaker City boomers. who had
been waiting in the lobby, broke out in
ringing cheers. and the hotel was soon
given up to their jubilations. Later.
many of them went to the White House
and called upon the president. AS the
ballot was secret there is no record of
the city for which each committeeman
voted.
The Date Is Fixed.
1t was the desire of the leaders at the
meeting today that the convention
shonld be held June II. and that sdate
would have been selected had 1t not
been that it conflicted with the date of
the Rhode Island elections. June was
then selected. but the date was recon-
sidered and changed to the 18th in the
hope and belief that before that date
congress will have adjourned.
After the time and place had been
selected the committee considered
briefly a request from Delaware that
the committee take some action to
straighten out the factional fight in
that state to prevent two contesting del
egations from appearing from that
state. The committee decided that it
had no jurisdiction.
Arrange For Convention.
After the Delaware case had been
disposed of the chairman was author
lied to appoint a subcommittee of five
to make arrangements for the conven-
ton, also a committee of three to pre-
pare and distribute literature. Chair
man Hanna and Secretary Dick were
made ex-officio members of all sub
committees.
Messrs. Manley of Maine, Long of
Florida and Simon of Oregon were ap-
pointed subcommittee to consider the
election of delegates in the District of
Columbia.
Adjournment was taken until IL
o'clock tomorrow morning. when the
Payne resolution for changing the sys-
tenn of representation will be brought
up for consideration.
At o'clock tomorrow morning the
committee will call on the president to
pay their respects to him in a body.