This brought Senator Platt to terms.

The effort to instruct the New York delegation for me was abandoned, and Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff was presented for nomination in my place.
I supposed that this closed the incident, and that no further effort would be made to nominate me for the Vice-Presidency.

On the contrary, the effect was directly the reverse.

The upset of the New York machine increased the feeling of the delegates from other States that it was necessary to draft me for the nomination.

By next day Senator Hanna himself concluded that this was a necessity, and acquiesced in the movement.