St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-13
The End a Peaceful One, the Immediate
Cause of Collapse Being Cere-
bral Efusion.
Two Democratic Candidates for the
Presidency, Seymour and Hancock
Lie Yet Unburied,
And Third, Mcclellan, Crossed the
Dark River Near the Close OF
the Dead Year.
Ex.Gov. Seymour Dead.

this afternoon. Shortly afterwards he
rallied little, but soon reiapsed into total
Inconsistencies. During his illness he eX-
perenced little if any physical suffering
and to-day he was wholly without pain.
MIS-. Seymour, who is very Ill, sat with her
husband during the afternoon. Most Of the
time the ex-governor rested peacefully, and
his condition could only be distinguished
from natural sleep by the aShen pallOr OF his
cOuntenance and labored breathing. AT
800 he was sinking rapidly, his pulse
could scarcely be counted, and the respira-
ton was more and more difficult. He ex-
PRED without struggle and passed away
as if falling to sleep. The beginning or
Gov. Seymour's physical ailments dated
from a sunstroke which befell him in the
summer of 1876, while he was on the roads
of his town as pathmaster, an office which
he was wont to say he had asked for. The
immediate cause of his death was cerebral
effusiOn, the usual process OF death In Old
age. AS yet no arrangements have been
made for the funeral. In an int rview with
DR.. w. E. Ford.
THE EX-GovERNoR's PHYSICIAN,
this evening, he gave the following sketch
of his case: The health of Gov. Seymour
was pretty good last fall and at the opening
of the winter. but a short time before Jan.
/ Mrs. Seymour suffered from an illness
which alarmed and disturbed the governor.
and since that time he has not been as well.
New Years day he was at DIR. Fords resi-
dence, making two or three New ear
calls, and frightened considerably, de
then went 10 his farm in Deerfield, and for
a week following was not quite so well.
Finally he was persuaded to come to the
city and remain at his sisters, Mrs. COnkling.
Durino tI,ic 4itna no fol lied of having fin
ished up his work and told "reminiscences
of Gen. Marcy relative to the diifiulty of
making a graceful exit from the stage of
life. Of this he spoke several times, not
despOndently, but always pleasantly. A
week or ten days ago he had slight bilious
attack which made him somewhat sleepy,
but his illness was not at at all serious.
Last Sunday
HE BECAME RESTLESS
and that night he was able to obtain but
little sleep. Monday he had no appetite
and suffered from nausea. Monday night
he was again unable to secure much sleep.
Tuesday he went out for ride. He said
he was not particularly sick, but had feel
ing exhaustion which he had not eXper-
fenced before. Tuesday night he slept UNI
til toward morning, when he had an attack
ofnausea and distress, complaining of pain
v
developed that had serious look. None
of the symptoms of the disease with which
he suffered in 1876 had shown themselves.
Wednesday and yesterday he complained of
a feeling of great exhaustion, and said he
thought he ought to die, that he had lived
long enough and ought to have died when sick
before and he didn't know why his friends
did anything to bring him around again.
This was all said in a cheerful tone and
manner. His motions were somewhat dis
tuTbed by his weakness. but his intellect,
as in his former long illness in 1876, and
again in 1882, seemed undisturbed. To-
day was the third day that he had not par
taken of
tE= SUFFICIENT FOOD
but he had not wanted much during the
past twenty-four hours. He obtained more
sleep last night, but DR.. Ford says he did
not seem refreshed by it. Yesterday he
was able to raise and move himself in bed
to such an extent as to cause belief that
his vitality was not being exhausted very
rapidly. At times he was delirious, but
only temporarily so. and this was the effect
of his condition. The governor had been
deaf of late years. and this made cOmmuni-
cation with him quite difficult. Mrs.
Seymour is very low and will
not survive the governor very
long. Their lives have been beautifully
blended for many years in good works
among high and low, never forgetting the
poor and needy even when occupying the
most exalted positions in the state, and it
seems fit and proper that they shall lie
down together 10 rest. While Mrs. Sey-
mour's condition excited the greatest anxiety
in the governors mind, he was not informed
how near death she is. The little orphans
OF st. Johns church, who were most well
come guests at his country home semi
annually, offered constant prayer in his be-
half, and his death has produced sadness in
every home in Utica tonight.
TYPOGRAPHICAL.
Horatio Seymour was born in Pompey,
Onondaga county, n. Y, May 81, 1910. When
he was years of age his parents removed to
Utica He was educated at the academies of
Oxford and Geneva, n. Y, and Partrdge's
military school, Middletown, Conn.,, studied
law. and was admitted 10 the bar in 1882. The
death of his father devolved upon him the
settlement of large estate. and withdrew
him from the practice of his profession. From
1888 to 1889 he served on the military staff of
Gov. Marcy. In 1S41 he was elected to the
state assembly as q Democrat, was reelected
three times, and in lS45 was chosen speaker
In 1912, while in the assembly, he was elected
mayor of Utica for one year. In 1s48 he
supported Lewis CaSs for the presidency. In
1850 he was nominated by the Democrats for
governor, and was defeated by Washington
Hunt, the Wing candidate, by plurality of
262 votes; but in 1852 he was elected governor
10y plurality of 1850 votes over the same
competitor. A prohibitorY liquor bill passed
IL March, 1854, was vetoed by him on the
ground that it was unconstitutional He was
renominated in 1854. The prohibition oues-
ton entered largely into the canvass which
was further complicated by the Know-Noth-
ing issue and the anti-slavery agitation grow
ing out of the repeal of the Missouri COM
promise. There were four candidates for
governor. and Myron H. Clark, q Wing and
prohibitionist, was elected by plurality OF
300 votes over Gov. Seymour. In 1862 Mr..
Seymour was again elected governor over
Gen. James S. Wadsworth by majority of
10,752 votes. In August, 1864, he pre-
sided over the Democratic national
convention in Chicago, which nominated
Gen. Mcclellan for the presidency. He also
presided over the convention of 1868,
held in New York. The leading candidates
for the nomination were George H. Pendle-
ton, Andrew johnson. Thomas A
Hendricks and Gen. w, S. Hancock
Gov. Seymour had positively declined
to permit the use of his name as a candidate;
but on the twenty-second ballot the Ohio del
egGtion. 10 forestall a threatened movement
In favor of Salmon p. Chase, cast their
united vote for Horatio Seymour. When
wisconsin was reached in the call of states
Its delegation seconded his nomination, and
every state changed its vote to Seymour, who
was declared the unanimous choice of the
convention. Gen. Francis p Blair, Jr. was
nominated for vice president. At the cleo
ton Seymour and Blair received .. 7O3. 600
votes against 3,0l3.18 votes for Grant and
Colfax.
THE DEAD GENERAL.
A Large Procession I'd Greet the Re-