_McKinley._ _Morton._ _Quay._ _Reed._ _Allison._
Maine 12 Maryland 15 1 Massachusetts 1 29 Michigan 28 Minnesota 18 Mississippi 17 1 Missouri 34 [1]Montana 1 Nebraska 16 Nevada 3 New Hampshire 8 New Jersey 19 1 New York 17 55 North Carolina 19½ 2½ North Dakota 6 Ohio 46 Oregon 8 Pennsylvania 6 58 Rhode Island 8 South Carolina 18 South Dakota 8 Tennessee 24 Texas 21 5 3 Utah 3 3 Vermont 8 Virginia 23 1 Washington 8 West Virginia 12 Wisconsin 24 Wyoming 6 Arizona 6 New Mexico 5 1 Oklahoma 4 1 1 Indian Territory 6 District of Columbia 1 1 Alaska 4 ———— ———— ———— ———— ———— Totals 661½ 58 61½ 84½ 35½
Necessary for choice, 454. Total number of delegates present, 906.
Blank, 4, and one vote for Cameron from Montana.
Senator Lodge, rising in his delegation, in a forceful speech moved to make the nomination of Mr. McKinley unanimous. Mr. Hastings, of Pennsylvania, who had nominated Quay, seconded the motion, as did Thomas C. Platt on behalf of New York, Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, and J. Madison Vance, of Louisiana. In answer to loud calls Mr. Depew mounted his chair in the back of the room, where the rays of the sun beamed on his countenance, which itself was beaming with good humor, and delivered a short and characteristically humorous speech.
The chair then put the question, “Shall the nomination be made unanimous?” and by a rising vote it was so ordered, and the chair announced that Mr. William McKinley of Ohio was the candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States.
This great step having been taken, Senator Lodge moved to proceed to the nomination of a candidate for Vice-President; and, although the Convention had been in continuous session for eight and a half hours, the motion was carried, and at twenty minutes past six the roll of the States was called for such nominations.
Mr. Fessenden nominated the Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley of Connecticut, while Judge Franklin Fort of New Jersey placed the Hon. Garret A. Hobart in nomination. Judge Fort concluded one of the most telling speeches with the following tribute to his nominee:
“His capabilities are such as would grace any position of honor in the Nation. Not for himself, but for our State; not for his ambition, but to give to the Nation the highest type of public official, do we come to this convention by the command of our State and in the name of the Republican party of New Jersey unconquered and unconquerable, undivided and indivisible—with one united voice speaking for all that counts for good citizenship in our State, and nominate to you for the office of Vice-President of this Republic, Garret A. Hobart of New Jersey.”