Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1880-06-29

PRESIDENT, GEN. WINFIELD SCOTT
HANCOCK, OF PENNsYLvANIA-Fo
VICE PRESIDENT, HON. VIM. H. ENG.
LISH, OF INDIANA.
The National Democratic Convention
convened in Cincinnati, was called to
order on Tuesday, the end, at 12:45
p. m, by ex Senator Barnum, Chair
man of National Committee, and Judge
Hoadley, of Ohio, was chosen Tempo
rary Chairman.
The convention was permanently or
ganized by the election of Ex-Gov.
Stevenson, of Kentucky, as President
of the convention. Hon. John w.
Daniel of this State was one of the Vice
Presidents,
The Committee on Credentials report.
ed adversely to the Tammany delegates,
and their report was adopted by the
convention, thus excluding from seats
the men who lost New York to the
Democratic party last fall. The con-
testing delegates from Massachusetts
compromised their differences them
selves. There was only one other sci
of contesting delegates, viz from the
Goth district of Pennsylvania. The
committee reported in favor of the sit
ting delegates.
The letters of Horatio Seymour and
Samuel j. Tilden, of New York, de-
clining to be candidates, were accepted
as final and absolute, and they were not
put in nomination. Tilden's letter is
an able document and reflects credit
upon his intelligence and patriotism,
and added to the number of his friends.
On Wednesday evening, after the
the names of Judge Stephen J. Field,
of California; Hon. VIM. r. Morrison,
of Illinois; Hon. Thomas A. Hen
bricks, of Indiana; Hon. Thomas F.
Bayard, of Delaware; and Hon. Allen
G. Thurman,i of Ohio, had been put in
nomination for President, and supported
by eloquent speeches by those second
ing their nominations, the name of the
one who was destined to be successful
was brought before the convention as
follows
When Pennsylvania was called, the
chairman said they had no candidate to
present, but one of her delegates desired
to present name. Daniel Dougherty,
of Philadelphia, then took the plat
form. He said he nominated one whose
name would reconcile all factions, and
carry Pennsylvania, Indiana, Connecti-
cut, New Jersey, New York [applause1 /,
and Ohio. He proposed the name of a
soldier whose record was as stainless as
his sword
WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK.
The nomination was seconded by
Hon. John w. Daniel of this State in
an eloquent speech which concluded as
follows:
The nomination of General Hancock
means instantaneous and continuous g-
erosion. [Cheers.] 1t will sound to
America like general order from this
council of war, 1--WE move on the enc
my's works to-morroW." FCheers. ]
The signal gun sounds the advance; the
bugle rings out "boot and saddle" the
standards 60 to the front with the NOM
ination of Hancock, and you will hear
the head of the moving legions. APP
plause.1 noticed yesterday that the
first man whose presence in this con-
vention touched its heart and brought
forth instantaneous applause was the
sOldier-statesman of South Carolina
(Wade Hampton). Nominate Winfield
Scott Hancock, and let the last cheer of
this Gonyeatiop 60 up for the Union
soldier who has shown himself so gen.
erOus to us. Cheers In that canvass
you will hear the hurrah of the boys in
blue ringing with the wild, sweet music
of the Confederate cheer in one grand
national diapason. [Cheers.
The convention then proceeded to
take the first ballot, which resulted as
folloYs:-