Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-24

enthusiasm. The usual resolutions o.
thanks to officers were passed and tn,
national committee notifications wer.
made.
AN ELECTRIC ARC LAMP FALLS.
General Patrick F. Collins of Massa
chusetts then said the national committee
should at the next convention provide &C.
| commodation for delegates, alternates,
press, national committee and for nc
others. This was demanded in view of
the gallery Interruptions during this con-
vention. General Collins advocated his
resolution. The resolution was before the
house when one of the electric arc lamps
fell among the delegates and stampede
was imminent for brief time. No harm
was done, however. The Collins resolu-
ton after the confusion subsided was re-
ferred to the executive committee of the
new national committee with affirmative
recommendation.
ADJOURNED SINE DIE.
At SIT p. m. the convention adjourned
sine die.
TAMMANY NAMED THE MAN.
1t remained to Tammany hall to name
the democratic candidate for the vice pres
idency. When the day opened all was in
doubt as to the selection of a candidate.
Every delegate identified with the opposi-
ton to Grover Cleveland was found
to be arrayed in an even more vehement
in opposition to the candidacy of Gray.
1t became early manifest that whatever
agreement might have been entered into
by the Cleveland leaders to give Gray the
vice presidency in return for the support
of Indiana for Cleveland, there was going
to be determined opposition by the dele
gates generally to the contamination
of this program. At the confer
ence of the New York delegation
early in the day Hon. William d. Springer
of Illinois was present and announced Ili-
nois was to present General Stevenson for
this conference no one knows, but when
Mr.. Springer emerged he informed his Illi
nois friends that the seventy-two votes of
New York would be cast for Stevenson.
The nomination Of Stevenson has done
much TO allsy the rancor of this national
convention. Stevenson, as first assistant
postmaster general under Cleveland, made
q reputation for removing republican post
masters and appointing democrats.
GRAY DIDN'T WANT THE VICE PRESIDENCY.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 23.-Ex-Governor
Gray said, after he heard the news: 81
was not candidate for vice president and
did not desire the nomination. Alta meet
ing of my friends last Thursday 1 informed
them I did not want them to put me for
ward for the vice presidency"
SHORT SKETCH OF ADLAI E. STEVENSON.
Adlai e. Stevenson was born in Chris
tian county, Kentucky, October %, 1885;
removed 70 Bloomington, Ill. when sixteen
years of age; was educated at the Illinois
Wesleyan university and at Center college,
Kentucky; studied law at Bloomington
and was admitted to the bar at the age of
twenty-five; in 1859 removed to Woodford
county, Kentucky; held the Office of mas
ter in chancery from 1861 to 1865; was
ty-third judicial district in 1864, and held
the Office four years; was q candidate for
presidential elector on the Mcclellan ticket
in 1854; resumed the practice of Law in
Bloomington in 1868; in 1874 was elected
a representative from Illinois to the Forty
fourth congress; was member of the
board of visitors to the West Point mill
tary academy in 1877; in 1878 was elected
a representative to the Forty-ffth con-
gress; in 1882 was again elected repre-
sentative to the Forty-eight congress; on
July 3. 1888, was appointed by President
Cleveland first assistant postmaster gen.
eral.
PRESS COMMENTS.
BosToN, June 23.-Commenting upon
the vice presidential nomination the Her
aid Qnd. says: Measured merely from a
political point of view and quite without
regard to personal considerations it strikes
us that Mr.. Gray would have given more
strength to the ticket than Mr.. Stevenson
can do. Indiana is a state which the dem
ocrats have better chance of carrying
than can be predicted for them in Illinois,
and it is a state wnere local feeling is
pretty potent.