The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-19
RANK AND FILE OF REPUBLICAN
PARTY INSIST UPON His
NOMINATION
Mr.. HAHNA now OPPOSES Hin
HINTS AT A TRICK OF THE EN-
EMIES OF THE ADMIN
ISTRATION
SAYS A FIGHT WILL BE MADE
All Sorts of Stories Are in CircuIa-
IatiOn, One Involving Sena-
tors Hanna and
PIatt.

PHILADELPHIA, June 1S.-Tomorrow,
on the forty-sixth anniversary of the day
on which John c. Fremont was nominated
by the first Republican convention hell
at Musical Fund hall, on Locust street, in
this city, the national Republican conven-
tion will assemble in the great Export
Exposition building, in West Philadel-
phia. Here, amid the swelling memories
of half century, and in the presence of
men VINO saw the blood-stained clouds
lie across the sunrise of the party, the
Republicans will meet in the high tide
of their glory, to name their national can
didates and enunciate the platform for
the coming campaign.
The cymbals of a cOnquering army never
Clashed with more vigor than they do
here tonight. Amid the thousands of war
riors here there is but one choice for
leader. His face is engraved upon ban
ners and buttons, 1t is framed in flowers
and in ivy on the walls, it adorns the win
dows of the shops and looks down upon
the swarming crowds from every conspic-
uous place. Mckinley again will lead the
gray-beards and the young men in the
November battle. Banners are dipped be-
fore his portrait, and the mention of his
name arouses enthusiasm. When Sen
ator Foraker concludes his peroration IN
the convention on Wednesday,, a storm
wild and tempestuous, will shake the
great hall.
ROOSEVELT THE HERO.
But that outburst of enthusiasm will be
only the forerunner of the pandemonium
that will reign If Roosevelt should be
named to stand beside him in the com
Ing battle. The stampede in his favor,
started yesterday, threw the town into
delirium 1t swept through the delega-
tions who had come here with favorite
sons to present, like a prairie fte. Like
an immense tidal wave, 1t bore 6bwn ev-
erythinS before it. The booms OF the 9th
er candidates collapsed like eggshels
when it struck them. The secret was not
hard to find Neither Platt nor Quay,
whose object was to humiliate Hanna,
could claim the victory They might con-
gratulate themselves that it was their
work But they welded no magicians s
wand. The secret lay deep down in the
hearts of the Republicans of the country.
Roosevelt's name, unlike that of other
candidates. instantly struck a responsive
chord in the popular breast. 1t captured
the heart of the convention. 1t mattered
nothing to the rank and file that Hanna,
and Allison, and Grosvenor, and Thurs
ton, and others felt chagrined and strain
ed every nerve to stamp out the fire. 1t
mattered not that even Roosevelt and his
friends poured water upon 1t. Their ef-
forts were as futile as hand grenades
against a conflagration The people would
alS They his mic
lures. they shouted his name. They con-
sidered him today as already nominated.
The town was Roosevelt mad.
REGARDED AS SURRENDER.
The governor himself was sincerely
anxious to avoid the nomination. Some
of the friends of other candidates, en-
bittered by the havoc his sudden ap
pearance created with the prospects of
their favorites, were harsh enough to
intimate that he had been flirting with
the situation from the first. But his
closest friends knew that honestly he
wanted none of it. He appealed to
them to stem the tide, and they did
what they could reinforced at every
point by Hanna and his lieutenants.
Gen. Greene, in his behalf even called
upon delegations and, in his name, ask
ed them not to support him. But the
temper of the convention was unde-
niable.
Human nature has its limits, at
o'clock this afternoon, after a day
of terrific pressure from both sides,
Roosevelt issued statement. Though it
thrust aside the crown in words, it is
regarded as a virtual surrender to the
will of the convention.
The inside history of the struggle
which preceded Roosevelt's announce
ment, the secret conferences of Hanna
and his friends, the joint conferences
with Roosevelt the persuasion, appeals,
entreaties and even threats that were
said to have been used, will make
chapter forever memorable in convention
annals
MR. HANNA SAYS FIGHT.
Every sort of story was afoat. 1t was
said that Hanna served notice Nthat
Roosevelt's candidacy, although it
would have been eminently acceptable
at first, put forward as it wes by the
enemies of the administration did not
meet now with approval and that the
fight would be carried to the last ditch.
Roosevelt was said to have been told
by his friends that to yield would be
to stand in his own light as a candidate
for president four years hence; that the
vice presidency was a political grave
yard, from which he could never be res
urrected. His place, they urged, was
at the head of the ticket in New York
again this fall. In the last proposition
Roosevelt. concurred.
On the other hand, it was said Plat
enissaries argued that to turn his back
on the manifest wish of the Republicans
of the country would be to forfeit his
right to the future support of the New
York organization. and the Republicans
of that state might look elsewhere for a
candidate for governor OF course, there
are those who are always uncharita-
bic enough to attribute sinister motives
to Plat. They intimated that he de-
sired to kill two birds with one stone
eliminate Roosevelt from New York pol
itics and huniliate Hanna for his un-