The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-08-06
Democratic National Conventions.

1t had been called by the friends Of
Henry Clay as early as 1891, but it
did not meet until 1899, when Clay
was nominated for President with
John Sergeant for Vice President.
The Democrats have held twenty
National Conventions, including the
three held in 1860. The first six
were held in Baltimore, and with a
single exception in the month OF May.
They first met May IL, 1892, and
nominated Jackson for President and
Van Buren for Vice-P President. The
conventions OF 1896 and IS4o nomi-
mated Van Buren, for President and
Johnson for Vice President. In 1874
Polk was nominated for President
with Silas Wright for Vice President
but Wright declined and George NJ.
Dallas was nominated.
In IS48 the convention met at
Baltimore on the 22nd of May, and
nominated Cass for President with
Butler, of Kentucky, for Vice-Presi-
dent. A boiling Free Soil Democratic
convention was held at Buffalo soon
after the nomination of Cass, and
nominated Van Buren, for President
and Charles Francis Adams for Vice.
President In 1852, after bitter
struggle between the old Democratic
leaders, Pierce was nominated for
President and Senator King, of Ala
bama, for Vice-P President In 1886
the convention met in Cincinnati and
nominated Buchanan for President
with Breckinridge for Vice President.
In 1860 the Democrats held three
National Conventions, composed of
the same delegates. The first and
only full convention met at Charleston
on the 23rd of April, and continued
until the 3rd of May. A number of
the Southern delegates seeded after
the adoption of the platform, and the
convention adjourned to meet in Bal
timore on the 18th of June, where it
nominated Douglass for President and
Herschell V. Johnson for Vice-Presi-
dent. The Democrats who bolted at
Charleston met in Baltimore on the
22nd of June and nominated Breckin-
ridge for President with Lane, of Ore
gon, for Vice President
In 1864 the Democratic convention
was held in Chicago and nominated
Mcclellan for President with Pendle-
ton, of Ohio, for Vice. President. In
1868 the convention met in New
York on the 4th of July and nominal
ed Seymour for President with Frank
Blair, an old Republican, for Vice.
President In 1872 the convention
met in Baltimore on the 9th of July
and nominated Greeley for President
anG B. Gratz Brown for Vice -Presi-
dent, and adopted with the Liberal
Republican ticket the platform that
had been adopted at Cincinnati
For the first time IN the history of
the country a National Convention
was held west of the Mississippi when
the Democrats met in St. Louis on
the 27th OF June, 1876, and nominal
ed Tilden for President with Hen.
bricks for Vice President. On the
of June, 1850, the convention met at
Cincinnati and nominated Hancock
for President with English, of Indiana,
for Vice. President In 1884, the
convention met at Chicago and nomi-
mated Cleveland for President with
Hendricks for Vice President. In
1888 the convention met again at St,
Louis on the 5th of June and nomi-
mated Cleveland for President with
Thurman, of Ohio, for Vice President
and in 1892 the convention met in
Chicago on the FL of June and nomi-
mated Cleveland for President and
Stevenson for Vice President.
1t was deemed a great tribute to
the West when the Democratic Con
vention of 1856 went as far west as
Cincinnati. In 1860 the Republicans
went westward to Chicago, and it was
the location of the convention at
Chicago that nominated Lincoln over
Seward. Since then both parties
have held most of their conventions
at Chicago, and the Democrats have
twice crossed the Father of Waters to
ST. Louis, and the Republicans did
the same this year. When National
conventions were first instituted, Bal
timore was the most central city of
the Union, but since then the march
of empire has gone westward until
both Chicago and St. Louis are east