Nominations are then in
order. The roll of States is called, and the various delegations
place before the convention the favorite of their State. A State
often waives its privilege in behalf of some other State which has
a candidate to present. Again the clerk calls the roll of the
States, and each chairman of a delegation announces the votes from
his State. In the Republican convention a majority of the number of
delegates voting is sufficient to nominate; but no nomination is
possible in the Democratic convention except by a vote of
two-thirds of the delegates. Then follows the selection of a
candidate for Vice-President. In this choice the attempt is made to
secure some man who will add strength to the party, and who comes
from a different section of the country from that represented by
the candidate for the Presidency. He may, as in the cases of Tyler
and Johnson, represent a faction of the party that is not in entire
agreement with the majority.
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