Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-01-28
JUNO eI the Date.

June Ell the Date.
The next Democratic National Con-
vention will be held at Chicago on June
81. The date was fixed at an executive
session of the Democratic National
Committee in Washington, and after
fourteen ballots the same committee
selected the place. Eight cities had
put In their claims as candidates for the
honor, and two cities not candidates
were voted for, one of the latter carry
ing off the prize.
When the committee went into execu-
tive session and began balloting, much
to the surprise of everybody Kansas City
led on the first ballot with IS votes. Mil
waukee and San Francisco had 10 apiece;
St. Paul got z; New York, 81. Cincinnati,
3; Indianapolis and Detroit, each; and
Chicago, although not candidate, re-
ceived 1. Kansas City lost one on the
second ballot and Milwaukee gained two
their votes standing respectively IL and
10. st. Pauls vote remained unchanged,
and so did San Francisco's. Cincinnati
dropped to only one, and Chicago gained
one. Indianapolis got three instead of two,
New York was reduced to four and Detroit
held her own with two On the third ballot
several complimentary votes went to
San Francisco. running that city's sup
port up to fifteen. Chicago gained an
other one, and Kansas City lost seven,
her vote being thus suddenly reduced to
five. Milwaukee dropped to eight. st.
Paul took third place with Cincinnati
and got three, indianapolis two and New
York and Detroit only one apiece. The
fourth ballot was about as badly scat
tered. st. Paul shot up to first place
with thirteen votes and Milwaukee, still
held second, though she polled only
eight Indianapolis got seven, Kansas
City six, Chicago and Detroit three each
San Francisco lost her complimentary
votes. dropping to only two. New York
got just one, as she did ON the previous
ballot.
On the fifth ballot Cincinnati took first
rank with eleven votes and Kansas City
and Milwaukee tied each other for sec
ond place with ten apiece st. Paul had
eight, loss of five, New York got four,
and Chicago merely retained her three.
indianapolis dropped back to her origi-
nal two, Detroit received just one and
San Francisco went out of the race. On
the sixth ballot Detroit was favored
with a complimentary vote, or rather the
committee continued its experiments in
tlg liB but SItcIlBLH Ol various Clues.
The Michigan candidate got nineteen
votes in place of the modest one it had
received on the previous ballot. Mil
waukee went back TO eight, but held
second place, and st. Paul also lost two,
taking third place with only six votes.
Kansas City got five, New York and In
dianapolis three apiece, and Chicago and
Cincinnati two each. the latter city los
ing nine
Another experiment was tried on the
seventh ballot, and Des Moines, which
had not been announced as candidate,
was given seventeen votes, leading all
the Others. Milwaukee got back one OF
the votes she had lost and polled nine,
and Kansas City gained two, getting
seven. Four went to st. Paul, three
each to Chicago and New York, two to
Cincinnati, and one apiece TO Indianap-
oils and Detroit. More experiments
were tried on the eighth ballot, and the
floating votes that had complimented Des
Moines with their support deserted the
Iowa city for indianapolis. The latter 8
vote was suddenly increased from one to
twenty-five. The Indiana shouters in
the lobby obtside nearly went wild over
the sudden prospects of success. Mil
waukee's vote was unchanged. Kansas
City and ST. Paul got five apiece, New
York and Chicago had three each, as be-
! fore, and Cincinnati and Detroit brought
up the rear with one apiece.
On the ninth ballot Milwaukee got a
boom. It's vote went up from nine TO
twenty, its highest previous vote having
been ten. New York took a squirt to ten.
Kansas City and st. Paul receiving six
apiece; Chicago got four and Indian
apolis, Cincinnati and Detroit one
apiece. On the tenth ballot Milwaukee
led again with eighteen votes and Chi
cago pushed up to second place, receiv-
ing thirteen votes. St Paul got eight
and Kansas City seven Cincinnati
dropped out of the fight and Indianapo-
lis, New York and Detroit received one
apiece. Indianapolis dropped out on
the eleventh ballot. st. Paul got only
six and Kansas City three; New York
and Detroit held their one apiece and the
fight was between Milwaukee and Chi
cago. The Cream City felt pretty sure
Of the prize when its vote was announced
as twenty-five, lacking only four OF
enough. But Chicago gained one more,
scoring fourteen.
The twelfth showed an increase of
three for Chicago, her vote reaching
seventeen, while Milwaukee still led
with twenty. st. Paul still clung to her
six, and Indianapolis, New York, and
Detroit to their one apiece. Kansas City
received three. The thirteenth ballot
was about the same, Milwaukee gaining
one and leading with twenty-one, while
Chicago crowded her close with seven
teen. Kansas City gained one from ST.
Paul, and New York dropped out Of the
race.
The contest was ended on the four
teenth ballot. Chicago's vote ran up to
twenty-seven, one more than was neces-
sary, and Milwaukee lost three, scoring
only eighteen. Kansas City got two and
st. Paul two. The fight was over, and
the city of Chicago had been awarded
the convention.