The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-15
ID w. Harrison Selected as Mes
senger to Carry ~Indiana's Vote
TO Washington.
IN OTHER STATE CAPITALS
THE VOTE FOR M'kINLEY AND
ROOSEVELT CANVAssED.
A Majority of Is. Electoral Votes for
the Republican Candidates.
The Table.

"The electoral vote of indian has been
cast for William Mckinley as President
and Theodore Roosevelt as Vice President
of the United States
Such was the announcement made to the
House of Representatives in the State Cap
itol yesterday morning by Speaker Samuel
NJ. Artman, and it marked the termination
of one of the most interesting official GER
cmonies connected with the federal gov
ernment-the choosing of the Nations chief
magistrate and of its Vice President and
presiding officer of the Senate. The making
of this announcement by Speaker Artman
was an innovation. and. although very i'm
pressive. it was done in a purely unofficial
manner. phe Indiana portion of the
Electoral College might have met in any
other room in the Statehouse as well as
in the hall of the House of Representatives,
and the declaration of its vote might have
been made just as we'll by its own chair
man.
The fifteen electors chosen by the people
of Indiana at the national election last
oil at A 11O1h
yesterday morning, in compliance with the
requirement of the law. The business of
the college was very simple, and did not
occupy much more than ten minutes in its
transaction.
Organization was effected by the selec-
ton of Hugh H. Hanna, of this city, as
chairman, and William A. Hough, OF the
Sixth district, as secretary. The roll of
electors. was called by Charles e. Wilson,
secretary to the retiring and the newly
installed Governor. Mr. Wilson announced
that there were no absentees. Charles w.
Miller, of Goshen, and Quincy A. Myers, of
Logansport, were chosen to act as tellers,
and the ballot for President of the United
States was taken without delay. William
Mckinley received the fifteen votes of the
Indiana Electoral College.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Balloting for candidates for Vice Presi-
dent was next in order. AS in the case of
candidates for President, the name of only
one man was mentioned in connection with
the vice presidency, and that man. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, was credited with the en-
tire fifteen votes.
The last act of the college was the Sc
lection of Robert W. Harrison. of Lebanon,
the elector from the Ninth district, to
serve as special messenger In the transmits
sion of the certificate of Indiana's electoral
vote TO the President Of the Senate at
Washington. To provide against an emer-
gency William A. Hough was selected as
alternate messenger.
After the formal announcement Of the
vote in the House by Speaker Altman the
electors adjourned to the Governors par
lor, on the floor beneath, and finished up
their business by signing the certificates re-
CURED by law and placing them in envel-
opeS. In each envelope was deposited the
following m First. a certificate
of the vote for President and Vice Presi-
dent, to which was affixed the signatures
of the fifteen electors; second, a certificate
of each electors election, executed to him
by the Governor of Indiana; third, a GER
tifcate of the vote at the November cleo
ton, showing the electors official election
by the people, the latter certificate exc
cuted by the Governor also and addressed
to each elector. There were three copies
of each certificate. and when all of the doc
uments belonging TO a certain envelope
were grouped together they made a for
midable looking package. Some little diff
ficulty was encountered in finding envel-
opes large enough to contain such bulky
packages, but Adjutant General Gore sup
piled the electors with the largest-sized
envelopes used in his. department, and
these proved ample for the purpose. Three
| separate envelopes were prepared, each
containing exactly the same kind and num-
Der of papers as the others. One of the
| envelopes was handed at once to Hugh II.
Hanna, with instructions to deposit it in
the mail addressed TO Senator Frye, pres
| ident of the Senate at Washington. An
| other envelope was taken in charge by
Secretary Hough, to be delivered as soon
as possible into the custody of Judge John
II. Baker, of the United States District
Court for the district of Indiana. The
third was delivered into the keeping of r.
w. Harrison, the special messenger, who
said as he received it: 81 shall take this
| at once 10 Mr.. A. C. Daily's bank at Leb-
| anon and have IL placed in a safety deposit
vault until 1 get ready to make my trip to
Washington. 1t will be safe in the hands
of Americas c. Daily
Immediately after adjournment the cleo
tors went to the state auditors office and
received their warrants for mileage, which
was allowed at the rate fixed for members
of the State Legislature.
Some little discussion was had as to the
time the MESSENGER ought to set out for
| Washington TO deliver his precious envel-
| ope. Mr.. Harrison had not intended to
make the trip until two weeks from yes
terday, but when his attention was called
| to the provision of the law requiring the
| certificates to be in the hands of the pres
ident of the United States Senate on the
fourth Monday in January he decided to
leave for Washington one week from to-
day.
Robert w. Harrison. who was chosen yes
terday by his fourteen associates in the
| Indiana Electoral College to perform the
responsible duty of transmitting in person
the certificates OF the election of President
and Vice President of the United States to
the president of the Senate at Washington,
=