Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-06-28

Mckinley was not nominated at the
session of the national Republican
convention yesterday. But to-day
will witness in all probability the un'
paraIleled spectacle of both h presl'
Dental and vice presidential n
dates being nominated by reclamation.
Senator Hanna threw up the sponge
yesterday. He found be u not
stem the tide of the popular fayorlte
without using the direct influence or
the administration at Washington,
and this he could not get. Possibly
with II he might have failed. But
witLCut It the task was hopeless. The
president would have no hand IN an
effort TO control the convention. lie
made known directly 10 Mr.. n
his wishes that the will of the con-
veLtion
should Not BE Thwnrted
and when that unequivocal word
came Mr.. Hanna reluctantly aban-
doned the fight. With his retirement
from the contest both nominations
could have been made before the con-
pantion adjourned yesterday. The
original programme was TO nominate
Mckinley yesterday and TO nominate
the candidate for vice president TO-
day. But The national Republican
committee had made a compact with
the local Philadelphia committee 10
keep the convention here for three
DAYS, and IL was feared If the nominal
ton for president was made yesterday
the convention might take the bit in
it's teeth and wind up the proceedings
before dark. Consequently the i'm
mense throngs which ~blackened the
vast amphitlleater were compelled TO
content themselves with
The Routine Incidents
connected with the permanent organ
izatiOn, an Grafton by Senator Lodge,
the permanent chairman. and TIE
scene which attended the unanimous
adoption of the platform. The ma
chinery of the convention moved so
smoothly that the session did not af-
ford them an opportunity to loosen
steam. There was not the slightest
jar. The wheels moved as noiseless-
ly as a Corllss engine. The hand OF
Hanna was at the throttle. He is an
experienced and accomplished engi.
neer. Not an eccentric slipped. Al
one point when the convention scraped
on a sand bar over a proposition adj
yanced by ex-senator Quay Of Penn
sylyania to cut down the representa-
ton of the Southern States in future
conventions 70 a basis of votes polled
for the Republican candidate,
The Lever Was Reversed
and the convention promptly backed
OF, thus avoiding the threatened shoal
by postponing a decision upon the sub
ject until to-day. The Southern dele
gates without regard TO color. race or
previous conditions, are very much in
censed at what they regarded as a
blow at their power In national con-
yentions, and the growl they emitted
indicated that they propose to fight in
their effort TO avert IL.
Again Gov. Roosevelt carried off the
honors. His entrance was the signal
for the most profound demonstration
OF the session. IL was as dramatic as
that of Tuesday and was practically h
repetition of his reception then. He
still wore his rough rider hat. Some
CT his austerity had departed. With
the withdrawal of
MIR. Hnnha's Opposition
the governor realized that he must
succumb 10 the inevitable. And he
appeared resigned 10 his fate. ONLY
once did he seem to reseIt the popular
ovation. That WAS when Senator
Wolcott, who Is among his popular
aGherents, caused the crowd to cheer
him by naming him on the committee
10 escort Henry Cabot Lodge. the per-
maEent chairman, to the platform.
lie made no effort to conceal the an
noyaEce he felt at being thus dragged
INTO View. Senator Lodge, Young
brilliant, already famous as scholar.
statesman and historian, made n dne
hgure as he delivered his address as
permanent chairman. His speech was
the scholarly, clear-cut effort expected
OF him. But it
Covered the Same General
ground Senator Wolcott went over
u though some Of the fine periods
eilcited applause, as a whole IL did not
stlrNup any great enthusiasm. Neither
ala the reading Of the platform, a raal
~ strong document. by Senator pair-
Drinks, anu Tor the very same reason.
Both In different forms were epitomes
OF the record of the present admins
tration. upon which the party will ask
the country TO return il to power /.
record eioquently placed before rhe
convention by Senator Wolc,tt rho
0 striking incident OF the day was
the appearance on the stage of fifteen
OF the survivors of the original con
vention held in Locust street In his
city In 1896. All the stirring mem.
ories or the exciting days when the
country was on the verge of the
Great Bloody Conflict
over slavery. welled up as those old
lovers OF liberty faced a new genera.
ton bearing in their hands the faded
tattered flag Of a generation thar has
passed into history. Senator HawIev
OF Connecticut was the only one az The
nfteen who still holds n prominen,
place upon the stage of the present
The cheer that Went M ut the sigbt' of
them shook the building. 1t rose even