Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1900-06-28
TICKET Is NAMED.

M'kiNLEY AND ROOSEVELT NoMIN-
ATED AT PHILADELPHIA.
Ohioan and New Yorker Chosen Standard
Bearers of the Republican Party In the
Campaign For Presidency-worl1 of the
Convention Ends In Harmony.
For President ......... WILLIAM MCKINLEY
For Vice President. :. THEODORE RoosEy ELT
PHILADELPHIA, June 22.-President
Mckinley was unanimously renomi-
mated for president Of the United States
by the Republican national convention
at 1:4S p. m. yesterday and an hour and
ten minutes later Governor Roosevelt
of New York was unanimously selected
to stand beside him in the coming
battle.
The scenes attending the selection
were tumultuous. Such unanimous
demonstrations in honor of the nominee
of national convention have not been
equaled perhaps in the history of pol
itics in this country. It was love
feast, jubilee, a ratification meeting.
There We're no preliminaries. The
wrangle expected over the question of
reducing the representation in the south
was avertsd by the withdrawal of ex-
Senator Quay's proposition. The great
hall became quiet as Senator Lodge,
standing before $4,000 eager faces,
gavel in hand, announced that nomina-
tions for president of the United States
were in order.
Foraker Names Mckinley.
A flutter of handkerchiefs filled the
air and cheer went up from the dele
gates in the pit, as Senator Foraker of
Ohio, the ideal of militant Republican
ism, mounted the platform.
When he said the nomination had al
ready been made, that Wolcott and
Lodge and the platform had each in
turn named his candidate great cheer
went up. When he said his candidate
was the first choice of every man who
desired Republican success in Novem-
ber the roar was like the rush of a
heavy sea through rocky cavern.
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men with watches out were counting
the minutes. On the stage, Senator
Hanna, his handkerchief in one hand,
fan in the other, was squirting the
vast assemblage to new endeavers The
raging storm did not seem to satisfy
him. He seized plume and whirled it
about his head like a general leading
his men to the charge All at once a
delegate, bearing the standard of Ken
lucky, rushed forward to the stage.
The effect was magical. Standards of
the states were torn loose and yelling
delegates climbed on the platform to
rally around their leader. With guidons
pointed to a common center they made
q canopy over the head Of the Warwick
of the Republican party. Ohio inter
locked her staff with New York, Maine
6guratively kissed her hand to Cali.
fornia and Minnesota saluted Texas.
Then higher still climbed Hanna. He
mounted a table where he could look
out upon the cheering multitude. Be-
side him suddenly appeared a young
girl arrayed in the national colors. At
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music of the orchestra was drowned in
the awful din.
The demonstration all told lasted ex-
actly 10 minutes. In length of time it
does not compare with the prolonged
cheer which went up for Grant in 1880
or Blaine in 1888 or for Mckinley in
1896. 1t is also surpassed in length of
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conventions.
This protracted outburst was but the
forerunner of the pandemonium that
reigned moment later when Roose-
velt, the man of the hour, mounted the
platform to second the presidents S nomi-
nation.
Senator Thurston, the Denlosthenes
of the senate; John w. Yerkes, an or
ator of the Blue Grass state, and Gov
ernor Mount of Indiana also seconded
McKinley's nomination, but before the
latter concluded the convention was i'm
patient Tor vote, aud several times
tried to howl him down.
Demonstrations Over Nominations.
Then the roll of states was called and
uSASSdUAOA ulUCA uClCsodeiO1 1OSc III SOllu
blocks and cast their votes for McKin-
ley. When Chairman Lodge made the
announcement that the president had
been renominated for the term begin
ming March 4, 1901, there was the same
wild storm which had been raised by
Foraker and when it was over Roose-
velt's nomination for the vice presi-
dency evoked similar demonstrations
Lafe Young of Iowa, who was with
Roosevelt in Cuba, nominated him on
behalf of the state which had originally
come to Philadelphia for Dolliver. His
nomination was seconded by Delegate
Murray of Secretary Longs state, and
Delegate Ashton of Washington, which
came here for Bartlett Tripp. Chaun-
cey Depew wound up the oratory on
behalf of the state which declared for
Woodruff. Depews speech aroused
the most intense enthusiasm when he
pictured the dazzling dreams of the
country's future. During every pause
the band played but one air, the tune
which Colonel Roosevelt had heard in