The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-16
Received Twenty-Five Votes i'm the
National Committee to Twenty
Four Cast for Chicago.
WILL BE ONLY ONE CANDIDATE
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY ALMOST SURE
TO BE RENOMINATED,
And the Convention Will Be Merely
o Ratification Meeting-Payne's
RepresentatiOn plan Dropped.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The Republican
national convention will be held at Phil
adelphia on Tuesday, June 10, next. Ihe
place and date were decided upon by the
national Republican committee to-day al
ter a friendly contest for the honor OF en-
tertaining the convention between the city
selected, Chicago, st. Louis and New YORK.
The meeting of the committee was held at
Abe Arlington Hotel and was presided over
by Senator Hanna, the chairman OF the
committee. Forty-three of the forty-hve
States and each of the six Territories were
represented, Senator Foraker, proxy Tor
Charles l.. Kurtz the national committee
man from Ohio and Senator Wolcott,
proxy for j. F. Saunders, of Colorado, be-
ing the only absentees. In addition to the
committee were many of the big wigs OF
the Republican party in attendance. Inc
proceedings throughout were enthusiastic
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 ratifi-
cation meeting.
The claims of the rival cities were pre-
sented by distinguished citizens of each
State in open session.
Samuel Raymond, John S. Miller and
George w. Miller spoke for Chicago. The
latter in mentioning the cities which were
candidates for the convention, omitted st.
Louis To this Mr.. Kerens, national COM
mitteeman from Missouri, objected, and
said he wanted it understood that st. Louis
was strictly in it, Mr. Miller replied that
tod nrIic hN
but that the people of his city had long
ago considered ST. Louis as a suburb of
Chicago.
The claims of st. Louis were presented
by former Mayor Walbridge, of st. Louis,
Nathan Frank and Edward Dewey, the lat
ter Democrat.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew. Timothy L.
Woodruff and SIMON Ford advocated the
claims of New York.
Philadelphia was represented by s. p.
Shields, Henry Burke, Mayor Samuel Ash
bridge and General Henry Bingham.
THE BALLOTING.
The balloting occurred in the afternoon
behind closed doors. Upon the first ballot
Philadelphia received 13 votes, Chicago 20,
New York and ST. Louis 8. On the second
ballot the contest narrowed to Philadelphia
and Chicago. The New York votes went to
Philadelphia and the st. Louis vote was
split between the the City of Brotherly
Love and the Windy City of the lakes.
An amusing incident occurred in connec-
ton with this ballot. After it was con-
cluded and announced as Philadelphia %
and Chicago %, Mr. T. N. Jameson, the
national committeeman from Illinois, sud-
hot. ~, t1a voff tnar1t ha
had forgotten to vote. He demanded that
| the vote should be recast, and this was ac-
| cordingly DONE but it did not change the
| result, Chicago gaining only the vote of
the committeeman from Illinois Philadel-
phia won by the narrow margin of one vote.
| Immediately on the announcement the
| Quaker City boomers, who had been wait
| ing in the lobby. broke out into ringing
cheers and the hotel was soon given up TO
their jubiations. Later many of them
went to the White House and called on
| the President. AS the ballot was secret,
| there is no record of the city for which
each committeeman voted.
| 1t was the desire of the leaders at the
meeting to-day that the convention should
| be held June II, and that date would have
| been selected had it not been that it con-
| flicted with the date of the Rhode Island
| elections June was then selected, but
| the date was reconsidered 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 select
| ed the committee considered briefly a re-
| quest from Delaware that the committee
| take some action to straighten out the fac
fob in ha N ua
contesting delegations from appearing from
that State The committee decided that 1t
| had no jurisdiction.
After the Delaware case had been dis
posed of, the chairman was authorized to
| appoint a subcommittee of five to make ar
rangements for the convention, also a COM
mittee of three to prepare and distribute
literature. Chairman .Ianna and Secretary
Dick were made ex ofiicio members of all
subcommittee. Messrs. Manley of Maine
Long, of Florida, and Simon, of Oregon,
were appointed subcommittee to consider
the election of delegates in the District of
Columbia.
LELAND'S RESOLUTION.
Cyrus Leland, of Kansas. offered the fol-
lowing resolution, which went over under
| the rules:
| Whereas. The Constitution of the United
States provides that representatives shall
| be apportioned among the several States
according TO their respective number.
counting the whole number OF persons i'm
each State. excluding Indians not taxed.
But when the right 10 vote at any election
| for the choice of electors for President and
| Vice President OF the United States. repre-
sentatives in Congress the executive and
judicial officers of State or the members
/ of the Legislature thereof Is denied TO any
/ of the male inhabitants of such State be-
! ing twenty-one years of age and the citi-
zens of the United States, is in any way
I abridged, except for participation in rebel
lion or other crime, the basis OF representa-