The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-22
Pen Pictures of the Orators and Graphic De-
scriptions of Demonstrations.
Scenes That Bordered on the Sensational-Ha
Part in the Work Completed Yesterday-Roose-
velt Congratulated by Mckinley.

Special to New York Tribune and indianapolis
Journal
PHILADELPHIA. June 21.-without a
single sign of divided sentiment or over
ruled opinion the Republican national con-
venEion named to-day as it's candidates for
President and Vice President William Nc
Kfnley and Theodore Roosevelt. Each
nomination was unanimous and uncon-
test,d. Mr. Mckinley receiving $50 votes
and Mr.. Roosevelt s29-every vote but his
own. Unanimity so complete and unchal-
lenged is unique in the history of Repub-
licaa national conventions. Many party
candidates since Fremonts and Dayton's
time have indeed been chosen for the presi-
dency or the vice presidency by acclamation
or on single ballot. but no Republican
nat,>asf tifket has been framed before.
both names on which were the single ones
presented to the convention for each Office.
The nearest approach to to-day's spectacle
OF unified party sentiment is found perhaps
"a the convention of 1872. which met in this
city to renominate Grant and transfer the
vice presidency from Schuyler Colfax to
Henry Wilson. But in that case. though no
votes went to any presidential candidate
but Grant. Colfax withdrew from the fight
Tor the vice presidency only after losing
test vote in the convention.
Harmony, intense. ubiquitous. almost
rampant was the spirit which ruled the con-
vention just ended. TO the vast majority
OF delegates the one aim Of the gathering
was to launch President McKinley's can
vass for reelection as auspiciously and as
smoothly as possible. and that purpose
governed the conventions proceedings
even to the minutest detail. Some personal
friction resulted undoubtedly from the
maneuvers OF Messrs. Platt and Quay on
the one hand to force and of Senator
Hanna on the other to hinder choice for
the vice presidency which the general
sentiment Of the party had evidently at
heart. But this friction affected only the
rival leaders themselves and their imme-
date followings. each group bent on estab-
fishing or exploiting to the galleries its
potency In national councils
FRACTIONAL APPEALS IGNORED.
From first to last. easily three-fourths Of
the delegates looked on indifferently at this
by play. determined to ignore any factional
appeals or arguments which might be put
forward 10 obscure or complicate the task
on hand In a convention of this temper
the fnesse OF personal and factional poll
tics had no legitimate scope; and a some
what belated recognition of this fact on
Afr. Hanna's part paved the way at last
for that easy and natural unraveling of the
vice presidential tangle which the con-
vention so enthusiastically accepted to-day.
In the duel for control of the influences
at work to make a vice presidential nomi-
nation 1t cannot be said that the Ohio SEN
ator held his own against his more expert
enced antagonists The administration had
no cause to be rated as hostile to Mr..
Roosevelt's impressment as candidate.
Yet Mr.. Hanna allowed himself to be put
ir the false position of resisting the in
clination Of the delegates to nominate the
New York Governor. whether he wished to
be conscripted or not In the end. there
fore. he was forced to confess to serious
misjudgment Of the temper of the conven-
tion much more quickly read and inter-
preted BY Senator Quay. The Ohio senator
xas undoubtedly grieved and pfqued that
during his absence last Sunday AT Mr. Girls
CONS Haverford country house the Penn
syivania leader had started stampede to-
ward the New York Governor. and at
tempted on his return to stop IL without
rightly jadging IT'S hidden and cumulative
force. That Mr. Hanna's zeal to check the
Roosevelt movement was due to, wounded
personal pride rather than 10 political In
structions from Washington became evil
dent. When administration pressure in be-