Senator Hanna appeared on the surface to have control of the Convention.

He was anxious that I should not be nominated as Vice-President.

Senator Platt was anxious that I should be nominated as Vice-President, in order to get me out of the New York Governorship.

Each took a position opposite to that of the other, but each at that time cordially sympathized with the other's feelings about me--it was the manifestations and not the feelings that differed.

My supporters in New York State did not wish me nominated for Vice-President because they wished me to continue as Governor; but in every other State all the people who admired me were bound that I should be nominated as Vice-President.