whirring carriages, galloping horses, wheel men and women swift as the wind! There seemed to have been an organization, including all the men, women, and children, to demonstrate instantly the moment the momentous signal was given. As I hastened to the telegraph office there was a vast multitude precipating themselves in a gigantic, ungovernable procession upon Governor McKinley's house, and there, with wife and mother at the window with him, he acknowledged his gratitude to his neighbors first of all, and to his countrymen for their personal kindness, and his voice had the fine tone of resolution and sincerity that all who know him. know, and that they hear with joyful confidence that heaven has sent a man of such manliness to serve his country in her great office, and help her upward and forward to her incomparable destiny. THE VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ... THE... Hon. Garret Augustus Hobart A SKETCH OF HIS PUBLIC LIFE AND HIS BUSINESS AFFAIRS, HIS SERVICE IN the New Jersey Senate and TO THE CITY OF PATERSON, THE NOMINATING SPEECH At ST. LOUIS AND the Welcome HOME, WITH TELEGRAMS of CongratuLATION. Τ CHAPTER XX. SKETCH OF GARRET AUGUSTUS HOBART. HE nomination of the Hon. Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersey, by the St. Louis National Republican Convention for VicePresident was not a surprise or accident. His name was prominent from the first, and after the certainty that William McKinley would be the Presidential candidate, the tendency to call upon the leading Republican statesman of New Jersey to take the second place was marked. The conspicuity of Mr. Hobart in the public affairs and business interests of New Jersey has been for several years a matter of national distinction, and that he had a large share of the credit for the revolution that placed New Jersey safely as a Republican State is common fame. Given the divided condition of the New England States and of New York, in regard to personal preferences, and the solidity of New Jersey for Hobart, and the result that has been so pleasantly received was in sight and inevitable, though there were many candidates of high qualities. |