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ROOSEVELT TO BE NOMINATED FOR
VICE-PRESIDENT DESPITE HIS PROTESTS
Convention to Choose Standard
AkKinley
PLATFORM COMMITS PARTY TO PEOPLE'S INTERESTS
Chilrtnai Ld Make RJn(lof Speech,
I Eaemlci el the Pvbllc Senator Minna Issues Statement, ia Which He
Explains the Withdrawal of Hit Oppoiltloi to Roosevelt's Can
didacy -Unable to Stem Tide la Face of
Convention'! 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-
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