The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-06-22
MCKINLEY AND ROOSEVELT
UNANIMOUSLY CHOSEN.
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shore with delight. He thanked each Gei-
cEate for his support There was no pret-
estation or reluctance. no sign of the
earnest martyr spirit. The game had been
played carefully To the end. and there Was
no longer reason for hippodromnig. Mr..
Hanna smiled amiably on the pleasant
scene.
Audience StfII Cold.
There was a hush when Chairman Lodge
advanced TO the front of the stage and an
nounoed that nominations for President of
the United States were In order.
Tie reading clerk began TO call the roll
OF States.
Alabama he cried
Alabama yields to Ohio came the quick
answer
Senator Foraker asc.nded to the plat
FORM The audience applauded him. but
not very vigorously. Senator Foraker be-
gan his speech nominating Mr.. Mckinley.
but the audience remained cold Now ard
then there were signs CT approval. but there
was no hearty applause of any kind
There was something cynical in the situa-
ton. No ms n in Ohio despises Mr.. Hanna
or MI Mckinley more than Senator Fora
ker. He has made II plain that he sup
ports the Mckinley administration purely
as matter OF party regularity and against
his personal instincts and inclinations
y,
machine-lfke. commercial movement which
mas failed to arouse the enthusiasm of the
parry The Senator worked slowly and
ski!ifuf toward the last sentence of his
speech which ended with the name of Pres
ident Mckinley.
The great moment had co,ne-tbe rpomen.
1or which all national conventions wait:
one-half of the people in the hall arose. but
the applause WAS weak and uncertain The
result OF the nominal ting speech was a sur
prise.
There was no sudden shock in sound. no
nphfung, fierce roar. The delegates and
spectators waved their hands and their
handkerchiefs, and there was yelling. Sbrfll
cries were heard here and there The an
plause became general. but perfunctorys The
great army of reporters and corresp 1nd-
ents stood on their seats and talked about
the failure The California DELEGATION
waved pamlds plCmes of red white and
blue. The sound of cheering began to die
out.
Hanna Producing Enthusiasm.
Mr.. Hanna leaped from the seat and ran
from the center of the stage. waving his
handkerchief above his head. He stretched
his arms out and motioned for the audi
ence TO rise and cheer. He nodded mis-
head. He cheered.
The sound of applause grew louder, nut
the demonstration was still a ghastly fail
ure. Something was wrong. Part of the
audience laughed at the desperate effort
Of MIR. Hanna TO produce a convulsion.
/ Then some one ran upon the stage and
handed Mr.. Hanna pole surmounted by a
tri-color pam pas plume.
The master of the Republican party stood
alone on the edge of the stage and swung
the plume over his head in SLOW
circles bending his fat body. ex-
erting his lungs. Then. when he
grew tired waving the plume back and
forward to and from the audience he
beckoned the delegates to come upon The
platform. The red and black standards of
the States and Territories were picked from
the floor and carried up the aisles toward
the stage.
The band crashed. and the drums rolled.
The procession OF standards ascended the
platform. Mr.. Hanna jumped on a chair.
The standards were grouped over his head.
with the flag of Hawaii In the center. until
the boss of bosses was hidden from sight
behind the swaying. tangled poles and pla-
cards.
1t was a machine triumph. and It was
not indorsed by the 1900 American citizens
who crowded the hail. The officers of the
Republican party thus proclaimed Mr..
Hanna as the power behind the President.
but the sound which came from the throats
of the spectators was weak and intermit-
tent.
The nomination of Mr.. Mckinley to-day
was the greatest failure from the stand
within the memory of any man who wit
messed 1t. TIE crowd remained I'm its seats
and kept UP a machinelike, perfunctory
sort of applause for nearly twenty minutes.
A girl III a red jacket and sailor hat
crossed the stage with an American flag
In her hand. Climbing upon chair beside
Mr.. Hanna. SIZE waved the flag ever his head
Even that failed to produce an effect.
Then MIR. Hanna gave up the idea of a stu
pendous tUmult and the proceedings Of the
convention went on:
Even Roosevelt Failed.
Mr.. Hanna had a surprise in store for
the convention Governor Roosevelt was
called to the platform to second Mr.. Nc
Kinley's nomination. This time, surely the
rioting would begin. But no; the convention
applauded the Governor as he went to the
platform, and 1t kept on applauding him
for two or t1ree minutes, while he stood
facing 1t anc making peculiar stlff little
gestures of protest with his right hand.
II was not sthe tremendous upheaval that
was looked for 1t was little warmer,
perhaps a little more sincere. than the dem
onstration which followed the presentation
of Mr.. McKinley's name. but it was dis
tinctly disappointing.
The Governor made a true Rough Rider
speech. but the only time he really touched
the soul of the convention was when he said
of the Democrats:
Iney nave raved, they have fOamed at
the mouth in denunciation of trusts; and
now, in my own State. their foremost Lead
ers. including the man before whom others
bow with barred head and trembling knee.
have been discovered in a trust which real
ly Is of Infamous and perhaps of criminal
character-a trust in which these apostles
of Democracy. prophets OF the new dispen-
sation, have sought to wiring fortunes from
the dire need of their poorer brethren"
The Governor failed TO mention the fact
that the ice trust of New York was organ
lied by Republicans and owned by Repub-
licans. and that when this Republican trust
corrupted a group of Democrats, a paper
which Is the national spokesman of the
Democratic party smashed the trust prose-
cuted the Mayor. and SO thoroughly ex-
posed the betrayal of the undemocratic
policy by a handful of weak and unrepre-
sentative Democrats that the Democratic
masses have repudiated them. He failed to
mention the fact that Mr.. Bryan, the leader
of the Democratic party. publicly, and in
writing. indorsed the fight against the ice
trust.
Tiresome Speech-Making.
The Governor made a passionate appeal
te the Gold Democrats to aid Mckinley.
When he finished his speech Mr.. Hanna
shook hands with him and slapped him on
the shoulder approvingly.
Then followed seconding speeches by Sen
ator Thtrston Of Nebraska. Mr.. Yerkes,