The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-06-25

InurSuAy.
The ballot for President was completed at
$50 o'clock in the morning, and the nomina.
ton was made unanimous on the motion of
delegate Upshur, of Maryland An adjourn
ment until 2 o clock in the afternoon was then
voted.
When the convention reassembled the nom
ination of candidate for Vice-President was
next in order. Gray of Indiana. Stevenson
of Illinois, Allen B. Morse Of Michigan, and
John j. Mitchell of Wisconsin, were named.
The Cleveland managers desired the nomi-
nation of Gray, but the opposition wanted
one of the plums and threw their strength TO
Stevenson. The vote was Stevenson 554,
Gray 254, Morse 67, Mitchell "a.
sketch of the Candidates.
Grover Cleveland is too we'll known to
need any extended sketch.s Everybody knows
that he was born in New Jersey, of Maryland
stock on his maternal side; that he was clerk
in store; an apprentice TO an attorneys
firm, during which time he studied law; that
he located in Buffalo, New York, where his
sturdy qualities became known; that he was
chosen sheriff of the city, then mayor, then
governor of New York, then President, his
rapid rise being the most marked in Ameri-
can politics. As President, his record is
above approach. and his administration was
as clean and able as any the country has been
blessed with. He inculcated the doctrine
that public Office is It public trust, and he
gave his party bold stand on the question of
taxation. He taught public officials that eff
cheney in their work was above their ability
to run primaries and conventions, and that
offensive partizanship was just cause for re-
moval from office.
Gen. Adlai L. Stevenson was born in Chris
tan county, KY, near the birthplace of Abra-
ham Lincoln, October %, 1885. His parents
removed from North Carolina to Kentucky,
one of his ancestors being signer of the
Mecklenburg declaration of independence.
At twenty years of age Mr.. Stevenson gradu.
ated from Centaur College, Kentucky, and
married Miss Lettie Green, daughter of the
president of that institution. Among his
classmates were Senator Blackburn, Senator
Davidson, of Florida, ex- Gov. McCreary, and
many other distinguished men. He also
attended the Illinois Wesleyan University.
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 Bloomington at the age of twenty-five.
He rose rapidly in his profession.
In 1859 he removed to Woodford county,
Ky. From 1861 to 1865 he held the office of
master in chancery. In 1864 he was elected
states attorney of the Twenty. third judicial
district, and held the Office four years. He
was a candidate for presidential elector on
the Mcclellan ticket in 1864. In 1868 he re-
sumed the practice of the law in Blooming
ton; was elected in 1874 to the Forty. fourth
Congress; was member of the board of visit.
ors to the West Point Military Academy in
1877; was elected a representative in 1878 to
the Forty.sixth Congress, and in 1882 was
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress. July
a, 1885, he was appointed by President
Cleveland first assistant postmaster general.
One of the last official acts of Mr.. Cleveland
was to nominate Mr.. Stevenson for justice of
the Supreme Court of the District of Colnm-
ba, but the Republican Senate failed TO act
upon his nomination. Since his retirement
from the Restoffice Department, he has been
engaged in the practice Of law at Blooming
ton, Ill. Mr.. Stevenson made many warm
friends while in Washington among Demo-
Gratis and Republicans.