Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-19

Ihursday-PIatt, Quay ard Hanna
Working With Might and Main to
Dominate the Convention in its
Choice of a Running Mate for Me-
kinIey.
PHILADELPHIA. June 1S.-Tomor-
row, on the forty-fourth anniversary OF
the day on which Gen. John C. FREE
mont was nominated by the first Re-
publican convention held at Musical
Fund Hall, on Locust street, in this
city, the National Republican conven-
ton will assemble in the great Export
Exposition building in West Philadel-
phia.
The cymbals of a conquering ARMY
never clashed with more vigor than
they do here tonight. Amid the thous-
ands of warriors there is but one
choice for leader. His face is engraved
upon banners and buttons, it is framed
in flowers and on every one of the
walls, it adorns the windows of the
shops and looks down upon the swarm
ing crowds from every conspicuous
place.
When Senator Foraker concludes his
peroration in the convention on We'd
nesday, a storm wild and tempestuous
Will shake the great nall. But that
outburst of enthusiasm will be only the
~forerunner of the pandemonium that
will reign if Roosevelt should be nam
ed to stand beside him in the coming
battle.
The stampede in his favor, started
yesterday, threw the town into delir-
ium. 1t swept through the delega-
tons, who had come here with favorite
sons to present, like a prairie fire.
Like an immense tidal wave it bore
down everything before it. The booms
of the other candidates collapsed like
eggshells when it struck them. The
secret was not hard to find. Not Plat
and Quay whose object was to hum
iliate Hanna, could claim the victory.
They might congratulate themselves
that it was their work, but they WELD
ed no magic wand. The secret lay
deep down in the hearts of the Re
publicans 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 Han
ma and Allison and Governor and
Thurston and others felt chagrined
and strained every nerve to stamp out
the fire. 1t mattered not that eve
Roosevelt and his friends poured water
upon it. Their efforts were as futile
as hand grenades against a confiagra-
ton. The people would hear of no one
else. They wore his pictures; they
chnItnd hie ny Thn,- onnoidarnI
him today as already nominated.
The Town Was RooseveIt-Mad.
The Governor himself was sincerely
anxious to avoid the nomination.
The inside history of the struggle
which preceded Roosevelt's announce
ment this afternoon. the secret con-
ferences of Hanna and his friends,
the joint conferences with Roosevelt,
the <~persuasions, appeals, entreaties
and V e threats that were said to have
been used, will make a chapter forever
memorable in convention annals.
Every sort of story was a1oat. 1t
was said that Hanna served notice that
Roosevelt's candidacy, although ii
would have been eminently acceptable
at first, put forth as it was by the enc
mics of the administration did not
meet now with approval and that the
fight would be carried to the last ditch.
Roosevelt vas said to have been told
by his friends that to yield would be
to stand in his own light as a candi-
date for President four years hence,
that the Vice Presidency was a politi-
cal graveyard from which he could
eve be resurrected. His place. they
urged, was at the head of the ticket
in New York again this fall. In the
last proposition Roosevelt %concuTred.
On the other hand it was said that
Plat emissaries 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 sup
port 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 Unchari7a- -snouE
to attribute sinister motives to Plat.
They intimated that he desired to kill
two birds with n stone: To eliminate
Roosevelt fom New York politics and
humiliate Hanna for his uncompli-
mentary criticism of Woodruff.
All day long Hanna's efforts have
been directed to the rebuilding of the
booms wrecked yesterday in the Roos-
eyelt tornado. All the favorite sons
have been encouraged to remain in the
race and not witout some success.
The nomination for vice president is
three days away. Much can be accom-
plished in that time by shrewd. hard
headed political leaders. The delegates
are all DESTROYS of carrying out the
Presidents wishes and If the intima-
ton once became conviction that Mr..
Mckinley himself would prefer an
other candidate, the popular choice
would be abandoned.
Tomorrow the session of the con-
vention probably will be brief. It will
be called to order by Chairman Hanna
and Senator Wolcott, the brilliant Col
orado orator. as temporary chairman,
will deliver his keynote address. A
call Of the roll and the announcement
of the standing committees with the
perfection of the permanent organiza-
ton will wind up the proceedings OF
the day.