of the hall. It was intensified by the recollection of the electoral fraud and strengthened by the sentiment rife in the Convention for the renomination of the "old ticket," or at least a representative of it. Personal consideration for Mr. Hendricks and local pride in a Western nomination swelled the greeting which his name received, and for nearly half an hour the sight and sound that ensued were such as to baffle descriptive powers. The vast audience was moved to louder and deeper and more expressive demonstrations of its satisfaction, and the tumult reached its climax when the banner of Indiana was carried to the President's desk and Senator Voorhees' tall form and waving arms, looming up like the branching sycamore, were seen on the platform, and his rich, sonorous voice told of the transfer of Indiana's votes from McDonald to Hendricks. But the flood was broken against the breakwater of the rest of the Illinois delegation, who announced the bulk of their vote for Cleveland. The superior organization, cooler heads, and better discipline of his forces triumphed, and his nomination was soon accomplished. During this eventful time bulletin boards all over the country and at nearly every cross-roads in Indiana revealed the situation, and for a half hour the name of Hendricks was on every lip as the likely nominee for President. The sudden and totally unexpected demonstration of the popular esteem for him overtook him with such startling effect in the discharge of his duties as a delegate, that, after the motion was offered and put and carried, at his instance, to make Mr. Cleveland's nomination unanimous, he retired from the Convention, leaving Mr. English to act in his stead, and went to his hotel for rest. During the recess taken after the head of the ticket was named, the prominent members of the party held a hurried consultation as to the best name with which to supplement the choice of the Governor of New York. The fitness of Mr. Hendricks' selection was almost unanimously conceded, and to the suggestion that it would be distasteful to him and force the Convention to make another choice, the ready answer from those who knew him best, though without any authority to speak for him, was that he held his party duty too high to decline any service imposed upon him by its expressed will. When the Convention met and the roll of States was called, there were various nominations made until Pennsylvania was reached, and then ex-Senator W. A. Wallace arose and said: "I rise again in my place on the floor of this Convention, not to place in nomination a Pennsylvania man by birth, but, sir, to place in nomination for the second gift of the American people a man springing from old Pennsylvania's stock, from the western portion of the Commonwealth. In the star of the West he found the lineage that gives him to the West. This gentleman is conversant with public affairs; throughout his entire life he has known of government and its details. Not only a statesman, but a pure and upright citizen, the representative of the grossest wrong that was ever perpetrated upon the American people, I nominate to this Convention as its candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States Thomas A. Hendricks." The Immediately the scenes of the previous session were renewed with undiminished force. Indiana delegates, in the heat of their disappointment at the events of the earlier session, sought to dissuade and discourage the Convention by statements that Mr. Hendricks was not a candidate, and by intimations that he might not accept. But it was all in vain. The tide rose higher and higher. Governor Waller, of Connecticut; exSenator Wallace, Governor Hubbard, of Texas and one after another distinguished representatives of solid delegations spoke for Hendricks' nomination and with enthusiasm, but upon the deliberate call of the roll every vote in the Convention was reported for him. The scene that followed is thus described by an eye-witness: "When the vote of Indiana was announced for Hendricks, and it was apparent that his nomination was unanimous, the delegates and the audience rose to their feet. The whole house was a sea of undulating color, formed by waving handkerchiefs of every hue, hats, umbrellas, and everything else which could be seized upon by the excited assemblage. The band broke in with the strains of 'Hail to the Chief;' a number of the delegates seized the standards and bore them to the platform, where they were gathered into a cluster, about which were congregated two or three hundred delegates, who formed themselves into a procession and marched around the hall, while the band favored the crowd with The Star Spangled Banner.' Immediately upon the cessation of the music the people began again with a second chapter of uproar, when the band came in with Dixie,' followed with Auld Lang Syne,' thousands of voices chanting the words. Then the solemn notes of Old Hundred' came floating down from the gallery, and ten thousand voices joined in the grand old hymn. 'America' and 'Home, Sweet Home' were rendered by the band and voiced by the crowd, and the demonstration, after a continuance of something over twenty minutes, was at an end." Τ' CHAPTER XVI. AFTER THE NOMINATION. HE news reached Indianapolis promptly and revived the enthusiasm, which had been checked by the disappointment felt after Mr. Hendricks' failure to be nominated for President. About midnight a salute was fired, and early next morning Mr. Hendricks, returning to his home, was greeted on all sides with congratulations and was visited during the succeeding day by hundreds of his friends and fellowtownsmen. At a ratification meeting called on Saturday night, to which he was escorted by crowds of citizen Democrats, he spoke extemporaneously, expressing his grateful recognition of the kindness shown him by his party of the whole country and of the expression of good feeling on the part of his neighbors. He thus voiced the Democratic demand for an opening of the books in Washington: "I will tell you what we need-Democrats and Republicans will alike agree upon that-we need to have the books in the Government office opened for examination. [Cheers, and cries 'That is it.'] Do you think that men in this age never yield to temptation? [Laughter.] It is only two |