Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-06-21
He MUST YIELD TO NATIONS CALL.
Senator Lodges SpeeCh---The Plat
form Adopted Nominations
to Be Made, Today.
IN The C0NVl NTl0N.

Philadelphia June 20-President Nc
kinlcy was not nominated at the ses-
sion Of the Republican national CON
vention. today. but tomorrow will wit
ness. in all probability. the unparalleled
I spectacle of both the Presidential ana
Vice Presidential candidates being
nominated by acclamation. Senator
Hanna threw up the sponge. today. He
found he could not stem the tide Of the
| popular favoritr without using the di-
rect influence of the administration at
/ Washington. And this he could not
get. Possibly even with it he might
I have failed. But without it the task
was hopeless. The President would
/ have no hand in an effort to control the
J convention. He made known 10 Mr.
Hanna his wish that the will of the
I convention should not be thWarted ana
/ when tine uuCquivucal word came Mr
Hanna reluctantly abandoned the fight
/ With his retirement from the contest
against the Empire state governor both
nominations could have been made be-
fore tine convention adjourned. today
/ The original program was to renomin-
ate Mckinley. today. ana to nominate
the candidate for Vice President. to-
morrow. But the national Republican
committee had made a compact with
the local Philadelphia committee to
keep the convention here for three days
ana it was feared that if the nominal
tiun fnr President was made. today. the
convention might take the lit in its
teeth and wind up the proceedings be
fore dark
"A III the inns N.
dents nomination at this session have
been perfected. Hundreds Of beautiful
red. white ana blue pimpas plumes at
tached to long stalfs had been taken
down into the delegates lit before the
convention met ana there slowed away
against the inevitable moment when
the climax should he reached. As they
We're carried into the nit by the ushers
while the convention was ASSEMBLING.
they recalled The magnificent scene at
st. Louis, four years ago, when similar
piumes set the convention mad with
delight during the famous Mckinley
demonstrations
hnoWing the temper Of tho delegates
and the crowds, Mr.. Hanna decided to
take no risks and consequently the i'm
mense crowds which blackened the
vast amphithcatre, today. were COM
PEELED to content themselves with the
routine incidents connected with the
permanent organization. an Grafton bv
Senator Lodge. the permanent chair
man. and the sceno which attended the
unanimous adoption of the platform.
They returned to the city to wait an
other "A hours for the nominations
which they have travelled. some hun
drcds, some thousands of miles To Wit
ness.
It was a great disappointment to
most Of them. The machinery Of the |
convention moved 50 smoothly that the |
session did not afford them an oppor |
tunity to let off steam. There was not |
the slightest jar. The wheels moved as |
noiselessly as a Corliss engine The |
hand Of Hanna was at the helm. He
is an experienced and an accomplished
engineer.
At one point when the convention
scraped on sand bar over a PROPOSE
tion advanced by Ex-senator Quay Of
Pennsylvania, to cut down the repre-
sentation from the Southern states in
future conventions to basis Of votes
polcd for the Republican candidate.
the lever was reversed and the conven-
lion promptly backed off. thus avoiding
the threatened shoal by postponing a
fccision upon the subject, until tomor
row
The Southern delegates without re-
gard to color. race or previous condi-
lion, are very much incenscd over what
they regard as a blow at their power
IN national conventions ana the growl
hey emitted, today indicates that they
propose to fight in their effort to
avert it.
Again, today, GOV. Roosevelt carried
IF the honors. His-entrance was again
he signal for the most pronounced
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