Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-06-24

Mitchell received 40 votes-2 from Ken
turky, ) from Nebraska, 4 from Ohio, from
Tennessee. 24 from Wisconsin. u from
Wyoming and / each from Alaska and the
District of Columbia.
Watterson, %; Cochran, >, and Boies /.
Then began the changes. Iowa first
came into the Stevenson camp. Mon
tana next, followed by Nebraska. Ohio
got into the line amid great cheers;
Missouri climbed over the wall. Geor-
gia was cloe behind, and Kentucky
came next. The flood of States out
side the Stevenson coops came TO coy
err with a rush of wings and fiutter of
feathers. 1t became only question of
time. and when the two-thirds vote for
Stevenson had been obtained, the NOM
nation was announced. The usual
resolutions of thanks 10 officers were
passed. and the national committee
notifications were made. General Pat
rick 4. Collins, of Massachusetts. then
took the platform. and moved that the
democratic national committee should
at the next national convention provide
accommodation only for the delegates.
alternates, the press, the national COM
mittee. and for no others. This was de-
handed in view of the gallery inter
ruptions that are possible and have
been demonstrated. The resolution
was before the house, when one OF the
electric arc lamps fell among the dele
gates. and stampede was imminent
for brief time. No harm. however,
was done. The Collins resolution. after
the confusion subsidized, was referred to
the executive committee of the new
national committee. with affirmative
recommendation. AT $40 the conven-
ton adjourned sine die.
Gen. Adlai E. Stevenson was born in
Christian county, KY, October %, 1888.
His parents removed from North Caro-
lima to Kentucky. one of his ancestors
being signer of the Mecklenburg de-
claration of independence. At twenty
years of age Mr.. Stevenson graduated
from Center College, kentucky, and
married Miss Lettie Green, daughter OF
the president of that institution.
Soon after graduating Mr.. Stevenson
removed to Illinois, where he studied
law with the late Hon. David Davis,
and was admitted to the bar at Bloom
incton at the age of twenty-five. He
,->ae rapidly in lis profession.
~ :" lie removed to Woodford
county ' Ky. He va ..as eana a,aa'Is,l i0p
presidential elector on the -
ticket in 1864 In 1865 he resumed the
practice of law in Bloomington; was
elected in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Con-
gress: was member of the board of
visitors to the West Point Military
Academy in 1874: was elected repre-
sentative in 1878 to the Forty-siXth
Congress. and in 1882 was elected to
the Forty-eighth Congress. July 3.
1885, he was appointed by President
Cleveland first assistant postmaster
general. He believed in the old demo-
cratic motto ''To the victors belong
the spoils," and he did not hesitate to
say so. While his chief wrote and
talked of the virtues of civil service re-
form, Stevenson was busy with his
guillotine. When he saw republican
head he cut it off, as matter of course.
Ali republicans who held office were IN
the wrong box in Stevenson's estima-
ton, and all democrats who wanted of
ficewere 10 be gratified so long as the
spoils would go round.
One of the last official acts of Mr..
Cleveland was to nominate Mr.. Steven
son for Justice of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia, but the repub-
lican Senate failed TO act upon his NOM
nation. Since his retirement from the
Postoffice Department, he has been en-
gagged in the practice of law at Bloom
ington, III. Mr.. Stevenson made many
warm friends while in Washington
among democrats and republicans.
Prince Bismarck visited the Munich
Beer Hall. in Vienna. toward midnight
Wednesday night, while the place was