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Demand. riULADrxrillA, Juno 20. 8i.Btor Hanna lonlirht Issued thin tate-mi-lit "The udmlntMtrH ttn rm had no nili!ut for vice-president.' It r.aa nut l-'ti for or najiiliMt any candidate. It hii been deemed that the convention atii iitil nii'k th candidate and that in u freo 'bid tor ill. In thee rlrcumatanoM several eminent republican have been rMMviI ; all of ihrm dlftlng ' I will now ay on behalf of all thoae candidate and I except none that I have, within the lnt twrlv? hour, been itned t, give my advice. After cotiitttltlnii with a many of the delegate n osllU within the time at ray (llxpiiail, I have conduJel to accept the responsibility involved In thin request. In the pri-n.-nl situation, with the strong and -uni-Bt wntl-nviit of the 1-I Kmc from nil part of the cotir.try for Roosevelt, and since President McKln ley U to 1m re-nominated without a dl.nting vol-:. It la my Judgment that Oovcrnor I'.oimeult ahonld be nominated for vice-president w,,h lhe same tni;inlmity." Thla announc-inent ut Senator Han na was made aft.-r long consultation with many leader of t4 ii.trty. rfllLALiKLI'llIA, Jun 20. Piealdcnt MrKlnley waa not rf-nnilnated at the a'Dntou o( tho rrpublli-an national con vention today. Hut tomorrow will wit nep, In all probability, the unparal leled -en of both pivaldrntlul and vlce-preid n:lal candidate ra'tng nom inated ly nrclamatlon. Senator Hanna threw up tht iiKinge today. He found he could nt etem the tide toward the popular favorite without ulnf dlrot Influence of the AdmlnlHtritlon at Waxhlnglon, and thla he vould not get. Poaalbly, even with it, he might have fulled. Dut without It the laak waa hopeleaa. The prealdent would hftve no hand In on effort to control the convention. U ma le I nown directly to ll.innu hi wih that the will of the confpntliHi ahottld not be thwarted and hen that tu)eitilvocal word came, Hanna reluct antly abandoned the HkM. With tills retirement, nomination could have b"en made before the convention ad journed today. "The (-rlKliml program wa to re-nom inate MeKlnley today and to nom inate a, candllate for vlce-prealdent to morrow. I.ut the national republican committee had made a compact with the liieul Philadelphia committee to keep the convention here for.thr.e day, and It was feared that If the Momlna tlin for president was. made today the Convention mlKht take the oit In It teeth and wind up the buMlneu before dark. All preparation for the presi dent' rc-nomlnatlon at thla reaalon had been perfected. Hundred of red, white and blue plume attached to long (tuft had beoit taken down Into the delegates' pit before the convention met and there stored away for the In- vltable moment when ...the climax ahould bo reached. Concerning: the temper of the delegates and the crowda, Hanna decided to take no rlBks. And consequently, tho Immense throng which blackened the vat amphUhcaier today were compelled to content them selves with the routine Incidents con nected with permanent organization, the oration by Senator Lodge, perma nent chairman, and the scene which attended the unanimous adoption of the platform. Then they returned to the city to wait another twenty-four hour for the nomination which they had traveled some hundred, some thous ands of mlKa to witness. It was a great disappointment to mewt of them. The business of the convention moved so smoothly that Hie session did not afford them an opportunity to let off steam, There was not the slightest Jar. The hand of Hanna was at the helm. He was an experienced and accomplished manager. Not an eccentric slipped. At one point, when the convention scraped on n sand-bar over the propo sition advanced by ex-Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, to cut down the repre- Screens and Screen frames, fire and Draught Screens.... A NEK CONSIGNMENT JUST RECEIVED FOLDING BEDS MAiNTEL BHDS CHINA CLOSETS and LIBRARY CASES CHARLES HEILBORN & SON Bearers Today, and They Will Be and Roosevelt. la Which He EuorUlei Ibi Democratic Party bun been my poltloti throughout. It uIhIi.v! men with muny friend. aentatlon of the Southern atatea in , future conventions to ft basis of the polled vote for the republican candi date, the lever waa revewed and the convention promptly backed off, thu nvoidlng a shoal by poxtponlug the decision on the ubject until tomor row. The Southern delegates, without regard to color, race or previous condi tion, arc very much Incensed over what they regard as a blow at their power in the national convention and the growl they emitted today Indicated that they propose to tight In their effort to avert It. - Again today Governor Roosevelt car ried off the honor. Hi entrance waa the signal for the nuwt pronounced demonstration of the session. Roosevelt probably will be nominated for vlce-presld?!tt by acelaTiatlon. The plan I Hlmple und the result sought can easily be brought about. There will be no necessity for a roll-call tomor row. When the time arrive for nom inating the vice-president the roll of states will be calk-d. When the Iowa delegation I reached home delegate will arise and withdraw Dolliver and place Roosevelt in nomination. Massachu setts will follow, withdrawing Long, and seconding the nomination of the New York man. This Is the plan, and If it Is done therj will be no need of a ballot. The stampede which was begun on Sunday and which seemed to have re ceived a check on Munday, will have ended In the nomination of Roosevelt. I'art of thU schema has already been carried out. Part of the convention did not proceed to nominations today, because all parties In tnt-Mvst could not bo reached. Secretary Long's friends had not been able to communi cate with him, and they did not feel authorized to withdraw Mm until he could be Inform d of the situation nnd hi consent obtained. It is quite prob able that had it been possible to get Long's consent both nominations would have been made today. It was deemed desirable not to nom lnnte McKlnley until the convention was ready to nominate his running mate. Iu fact, it I known that' the plan for nominating Roosevelt by ac clamation Is tied up with the nomina tion of McKlnley, In order to gratify the wishes of some of the men who have been pushing Roosevelt's claims very.hurd; and those who are en gineering the latest arrangement had no objection. Something might occur to upset the present Drogram, in which event the nomination of all candllate will be made and the roll-call forced. But even In this contingency there is little doubt now of the nomination of Roosevelt. CHAIRMAN LODGE'S ADDRESS When Senator Lodge, the permanent chairman, mounted the platform to as ume the gavel, he wa wildly cheered Addreaxing th? convention. Chairman Lodg'j said: "One of the greatet hotur that can full to the lot of any American In pub He llfti I to bo called to preside over a republican riatluiial convention. How greut an hon r it la you know, but can n t realize, but I. t an exorcsa the axatl tude uhlch I feel toward you for having 'onri-rr;a U upon me. I can only nay to you, in the simplest phrase, that I iiimiik you from the bottom of my neuri. li' Kxur that I am, I am even poor m ;hank,i. and yet 1 thank vou. "We meet again to nominate the next president of the United Htate. Fou years have passed aince we nominated the nol lier and atateaman, who I now presl'lent, and who i toon to enter up on his second term. Blnce the Civil War no presidential term ha been so crowded with gr at event a that wuicn i now drawing to a clow. The have been four m-morable year. To republicans they show a record of promise kept, of wrk done, of un foreseen question met and answered, To the democrats they have ben generou In the exhibition of unfilled prediction. In the ruin of their hopes or calamity, and in futle opposition to the forces of the times and the a piratb'n of the American people. I wlh I could add that they had been eoually instructive to our opponents, but w hlle it 1 1rue that the democrat, llKe the Hourbon. learn nothing, it Is only too evident thul the familiar com parlson connot oe completed, for the forget a great deal which It would be ell for them to remember. In ist, we took the government and the country from the hands of Presl dent Cleveland. His party had aban doned him and were joined to their idols, of hlch he was no longer one, nwir.g the lust year of his term, he had presented to u the melancholy siM-i-iacie ol a president trying to gov ern iMinoui a party. The result was that hi policies were in ruin, legisla tlon was at a standstill, and public af fair were in a perilous and incoherent condition. Party responsibilities had vanished, and with them all possibili ty of Intelligent action demanded by toe country at home and abroad. I was an interesting, but by no m.ans singular, display of democratic unfit nts for the practical work of govern ment. 10 tne political student it was instructive; to the country it was ex tremely painful, to business disastrous, . We repla.vi this political chaos wltl a president In thorough accord with hi party, and the machinery of gov ernment began again to move smoothly and effectively. Thu we kept at once our promise or better and more efficient administration. In four month after the Inauguration of President McKlnley e nun passeo; a tann mil. i-or ten year the artiliclal agitation on behalf oi wnat waa humorously called tariff reform, and of what was really free trad, had- kept bujines in a foment and had brought a treasury deficit puraiyzed Industries, depression, panic and, finally, continuous bad times to a degree never before imagined. Would you know the result of our tariff legis lation, look about you. Would you mcasur Its success, recollect that It I no longer an Issue; .hat our oppon ents, fr.'e traders aa they are, do not dure to make It an Issue; that there Is not a state In the union today which could be carri-jd for free trade against proit-juon. .-sever was a policy more tuny justtned by it works, never was a proniis-i ma-ie oy any party more aosoiuteiy lullllled. "Dominant among the issues of four ears ago waa that of our monetary and financial system. The republican puny promises to uphold our credit, to protect our curren -y from revolution and to maintain the gold standard. We have don? go. We have dene more. We have beet better than our promises. Falling to secure, after honest effort, anv encouragement for International binietalism, we have passed a law strengthening the gold standard and planting It more firmly than ever In our niuuicl.il system, improving our ounaing laws, Duttressing our credit una reiunuinc tne public debt at two per cent Interest, the lowest rate In the world. It was a gTeat work, well done. "Tha only argument the democrat can advance in their own behalf on the money question, is that a republi can senate. In the event of democratic success, would not permit the repeal of a republican law. This is a precious argument wnen looked at with consid era-j ?yes. and quite worthy of the in tilleota which produced It. Apply it arcner.iitv. toon this theory, because we nave defeated the soldiers of Spain mm sunn ner snips, we can with safety uispense wun tne army and navy mcn im me wora. Tuke another example: There has been a fire In a great city; it has been cnecKeu and extinguished; therefore, let us abolish the lire department and cease to insure our homes. Distrust in our currency, the dread of change, the uea.ny tear or a debased standard w ere rasing four years ago. and business lay prusiraie oeiore mem. uepublican su premacy and Republican legislation have extinguished the tires of debt and fear, and business has risen triomnh- ant front the ashes. Therefore abolish your nre department, turn out the iiepuoilcans and put In power the In cendiaries who lighted the llames, and trust what remains of Republican con trol to avert fresh disaster The su premacy of the party that has saved the standard of sound money and guarded It by law is a necessary for Its security and for the existence of honest wages and of business confi dence now as it was in 1896. The moment the Republican party passes from power, and the party of free i li ver and the fiat paper comes In, staple currency and the gold standard, the standard of the civilized world, are in Imminent and deadly peril. Sound cur rency and a steady standard of value are today safe only in Republican hands. "liut there were still other questions In 1S1'6. We had already thwarted the efforts of the Cleveland Administration to throw the Hawaii Islands back to their dethroned Queen, and to give Kngland the foothold for her cables in the group. We then said that we would settle finally the Hawaiian question. We have done bo. The traditional American policy has been carried out. The flag of the union floats today over the cross roads of the Pacific. "We promised to deal with the Cuban question. Again comes the reply, we have dono so. The long agony of the island Is over, Cuba is free. But this great work brought with It events and Issues which no man had foreseen, for which no party creed had provided a policy. The crisis came, bringing war In Its train. The Republican President and the Republican party met the new trial in the old spirit. We fought the war with Hpaln. The result I history known of all men. Wo have the pronpective now of only a short two year, and yet how clear and bright th irreat fact stand out, like the moun tain peak against the sky, while the gathering darkness of a Just oblivion I creeping fast over the low ground where lie forgotten the trivial and un important thing, the criticism and the fault-finding which seemed so huge when we still ting-red among thein. "Here they are, these great factor: "A war of a hundred days, with many victories and no defeat, with no prisoner taken from us and no ad vance stayed, with a triumphant out come Btartling In it completenes and in It world-wide meaning. Was ever a war more Justly entered upon, more uccessfully fought, more fully won, more thorough in it results? Cuba is fr. ripaln ha been driven from the Western Hemisphere. It wa the work of the American people, but the Ke publican party was their Instrument. Have we not the right to say that here too. even a In the day of Lincoln, we have fought a good fight; we have kept the faith; we have finished the work. "War. however, la ever like the a word of Alexander, it cuts the knot. It 1 a great solvent and bring many re sult not to be foreseen. Th world force unchained in war perform In hour the work of year in quiet. Spain ued for pea.'.e. How wa that peace to be made? The answer to this gr.at question had to be given by the prsl dent of the Lnited states. We were victorious in Porto Rico, in the Phl.ip- plne. ".Should we give those islands back to Siain? Never, was the president' reply. ould any American wi-h that he had wished otherwise? Should we hand them over to some other power? Never, was again the answer. Would our pride and self respect a a nation have submitted to any - other reply Should we turn the Islands, where we had destroyed all existing sovereignty, loose upon the world to be a prey to domestic anarchy and the helpless spoil of some other nation? Again the Ineviiiible negative. Again the presi dent answered as the nation he repre sented would have him answer. He boldly took the islands, took them knowing well the burden and responsi bility, took them with a deep sense of duty to ourselves and others, guided by a Just foresight as to our future in the Kast, and with an entire faith in the ability of the American people to grapple with the new task. When fu ture conventions point to the deeds by which the Republican party ha made history, they will proclaim with special pride that under a republican admin istration the war of '9S was fought, and that the peace with Spain wa the work of William McKinley. 'So much for the past We are proud of It. but we do not expect to live upon It, for the Republican party is preemi nently a party of action and it march is ever forward. We are not so mad that we can be content to retreat, "or to mark time. The traditions of the early days of our party are sacred to us. and ara hostages given to the American people that we will not be unworthy of the great leader who have gone. The deeds of yesterday are in their turn a pledge and a proof of what we promise, we perform, and that the p;ople who put faith In our declar ations in 1S were not deceived and may place the same trust in us in W0. I;ut our pathway has never lain among dead issues, nor have we won our vic tories and made history by delving in' political graveyards. We are the party of today, with cheerful yesterday and confident tomorows. The living present is ours, the pres ent prosperity and activity in business, of good wages and quick payments of labor employed, and capital Invested; cf sunshine in the market place, and the stir of abounding life in the work shop and on the furm. It is with this that we have replaced the depression. the doubts, dull business, the low wages, the Idle labor, the frightened capital, the. dark clouds which over hung Industry and agriculture in 1S91 This is what we would preserve, so far as sound government and wise legisla tion can do. This is what we brought to the country four years ago. This is what we offer now. Again we promise that the protective system shall be maintained, and that our great Indus trial interests shall go on their way unshaken by the dire fear of tariff agitation and of changing duties. Again we declare that we will guard the National credit, uphold a sound currency based on gold, and keep the wages of the workingman and the en terprise of the man of business free from that most deadly of all evils a fluctuating standard of value. The de ficit which made this country in a time of profound peace a borrower of money to meet its current expenses, has been replaced by abundant revenues, being a surplus, due alike to prosperity and wise legislation, so ample that we can now safely promise a large reduction of taxation without Imperiling our credit or risking a resort to loans. We are prepared to take steps to revive and build up our merchant marine and thus put Into American pockets the money paid for carrying; American freights. Out of the abund ant resources, which our financial legislation has broueht us. we will build the Isthmian canal, and lay the cables which will help to turn the cur rent of eastern trade to the Golden Gate. We are on good terms with all nations, and mean to remain o, while we promise to insure our peace and safety by maintaining the Monroe iCiY.Z y ample coast le, w 3' andl Shanghai reports originating from Chi by building up a navy which no one! . ,.., iV , '. can challenge with impunity, "The new problems brought by the war we can fact with confidence in ourselves and a still deeper confidence m the American neoole. who will dial Justly and rightly with the islands which have come into their charge, ine outcry against our new posses sions is as empty as the cant about militarism and imperialism Is devoid or sense and meaning. Itegard for a moment those who are loudest in shrieking that the American people are atwut to enter upon a career of de pression, and that the Republic Is In danger. Have they been In the past the guards for freedom? Is safety for liberty now to be found most surely in the party which was the defender of domestic slavery? Is true freedom to be secured by the ascendancy of the party which beneath our very eves seeks to establish, through Infamous laws, the despotic rule of a small and unscrupulous band of usurper in Kentucky, who trampled there not up on the rights of the black men only, but of the whites, and which seeks to (Continued on Fourth Page.) GORY TALES OF RIOT AND DEATH Reports From China of Bombard ment of Taku Forts. MOREWARSHIPSATSHANGHAI Admiral Kempff Cable th. Navy Depart ment That He Took No Part la the Recent Aisault ei the Chinese Forts. LONDON. June 21.-The report of Admiral Seymour' arrival at Pekln and of the safety of the foreign lega tions, originating from Chln ;e ource and cabled to this city from Shang hai, are still unverified. However, the Italian consul at Shanghai ha wired to the Italian foreign minister, Mar ques Viscount Venosta, that the lega tion are sat". The rebellion is spreading Tar and wide. There is Impressl m in diploma. Ic circles here and on the continent that the allies have not grappled with the situation effectively and even CO.OoO foreign troops would be powerless to do much to control 1000,000 square miles. The latest tory sent out by Shanghai gossips is that Prince Tuan. president of Tsung LI Tamun, has burned the Imperial pala:e at Pekln and murdered the emperor, and that the Empress Dowager has committee suicide. The effect of the bombardment of the Taku forts, as described by the Shang hai correspendents, wa gory in the extreme, nothing less than "rivers of blood" and "mutilated corpses piled up Inside the forts." The Russians guarding Tien Tsln, ac-: cording to another report, fired artillery and rifles June 13, at a range of fifty yards, into dense crowd of attacking Bo?rs and killed 300. Japan, according to a dispa'ch to the Dally Mail from Tokoham., in tends to land an expedition at Foo Chow. WASHINGTON. June 20. Naval offi cers generally believe that Admiral Kerrpff was not in the fighting at Taku. L'p to the .receipt of a dispatch this afternoon they continued to hope. even in the face of foreign reports to the contrary, that the American na val forces had taken some part in re pelling the attack of the Chinese forts. Rut the admiral' statement that the rts were captured by "the other for eign forces." dismissed that hope. The prevailing Idea among naval of ficers Is that the reduction of these forts was absolutely necessary to the safe progress of any International ex pedition to Pekin and that Admiral Kempff should nave found It to be within his duty, in the protection of "all American 'nterests," to have borne his part of the burden. Much depends, however, upon the exact terms of his instructions, and. in fact, It Is not yet known definitely whether or not he ac tually recelvad all of his Instructions. Responsible officials, therefore, are making no criticisms of the admiral's conduct. The administration is said to be very much embarrassed because of the length of time which nec;ssar!ly will elapss before the United States mili tary reinforcements reach China. SHANGHAI, June 20. Telegram from Tien Tsin, dated June 13 and for warded by post, says that the foreign missionaries at Pao Ting Fu are safe, being guarded by the troops of Gen eral Nleh. Twenty-five Americans with a -ratling gun have arrived. In the' foreign settlement chapels have been burned and the mission stations of the American board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal church and of the London Missionary Society are practically In the bands of the Boxers. The local authorities are paralyzed. The United States gunboat Monoc acy, the Russian battleship Navarin, and the French cruiser Pascal have arrived. LONDON, June 20, 10:42 A. M. nese sources and credited by the local foreign officials, state that the legations at Pekln were safe Sunday, June 17. Admiral Seymour with a relieving col umn Is also reported to have reached Pekln. NEW YORK, June 20. A dispatch to the Times from Paris says: Several deputies, in Interviews, ad mitted that France's position In China is a delicate one. There is a general shrewd suspicion that France's ally, Russia, desires to profit from the pres ent condition of disorder and also de sires such a state to continue as long as possible. If France helps to end it she will be playing Great Britain's and opposing Russia's game. CHICAGO, June 20. A special to the Chronicle from Norfolk, Va., gays: . A company of marine from the Nor- (Continued on Fourth Page.) V
