-bolted to him. The talk of Foraker's scheming
for himself is nonsense and malice. Foraker is a young man and
has a great future before him. He may go to the Senate and be
President later on. No, the Garfield miracle cannot be repeated
this year. It is impossible."

The convention met at Chicago on the 19th of June. The delegation
from Ohio was promptly in attendance, and was to all appearances
united, and determined to carry out the instructions and requests
of the state convention to support my nomination. There appeared
to be some needless delay in the report of the committee on
resolutions. Mr. McKinley, as chairman of the committee, reported
the resolutions and they were unanimously adopted by the convention
by a standing vote amid great enthusiasm.

I was nominated by General D. H. Hastings, of Pennsylvania, in a
speech of remarkable power and eloquence. When he closed, enthusiastic
and prolonged cheering and waving of flags greeted him from the
galleries, which was joined in my many delegations.

Governor Foraker seconded the nomination. His opening words were:
"Ohio is sometimes like New York. She occasionally comes to a
national Republican convention divided as to her choice for the
presidency, and sometimes she comes united. She has so come on
this occasion. Her forty-six delegates are here to speak as one
man." His speech throughout was received with great applause, and
it and that of General Hastings were regarded as the most eloquent
nominating addresses of the convention. They were followed by
speeches made by John M. Langston, of Virginia, and Mr. Anson, of
North Carolina. There certainly could be no fault found with either
the manner or the matter of these addresses.

There was a constant effort made to produce jealousy between the
members of the Ohio delegation, and perhaps it may be admitted that
the natural divisions in a body of forty-six members would give rise
to suspicion and misunderstanding, but I have no right to complain
of anything done by the members of the delegation during the
convention. There was a natural rivalry between Foraker and
McKinley, as they were both young, able and eloquent men. Rumors
prevailed at times that the Ohio delegation could be held solid no
longer, but if there was any ground for these rumors it did not
develop into a breach, as the delegation, from beginning to end,
cast the entire vote of Ohio for me on every ballot except the last
two or