The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-12
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| vote on TINS great question, and thOSk
peopiA represent forty-seven lOf Ehe
great sovereign states. Therefore, ge
geographically speaking, IL should promp
us, as well as the question of ability
| 1t would not become me to say aughT
of any gentleman whose name has beer
brought before you in this convention
! But Il seems 10 me that as We come
TO make up the remaining portion o.
this ticket we should regard those
states beyond the Blue Ridge mountains
and in that connection 1 present a can
didate who represents every element
which is presented to you in your plat
form and in your distinguished candi-
| date for the presidency, Mr.. William ].
| Bryan. / take pleasure in presenting
for your careful consideration the name
of Arthur Sewail Of Maine. and. Mr..
| Chairman, IL may be well said of him,
| in connection with the great questions
involved in this matter and the inter
ests which ara before you, that he will
fulfill the pledges which have been made
by your platform You Will make no
| mistake in nominating him. Gap
piause.)
SIBLEY NAMED AT LAST.
]. D. showalter OF Missouri, told the
convention that It should go to the east
to select the Statesman most profound
and orator indeed" who carried the ban
ner Of the masses, and who in a Repub-
Ecan district had been sent TO congress
by an overwhelming majority. This
man was Joseph Sibley of Pennsylva-
/ MIA.
Another western man, c. S. Thomas.
Of Colorado, advised the convention 10
go to the east and select the solid con-
servative, sound business man, the sails
OF whose vessels whiten the seas of the
world, Sewall Of Maine
Mr.. Thomas said:
Mr.. Chairman and ladies' and gen
| long devotion 70 cause of Democracy
TO second the nomination alrea DIV made
The west has secured the first place
upon this ticket in the person of the
ibrHiant and. magnificent orator from
Nebraska. We should turn our eyes
now TO the east and look at the solid
autatnments of a business man for the
second choice on this ticket. We
should unite as far as possible the diver
sified interests and feelings of the Dem
ocracy of the United States by placing
upon the ticket as our second choice a
man whose business in terests. business
experience, business training and life
liver the faithain ain in inainaininoo
make him eminently fitted to fill out
as full and rounded whole, the work
which was auspiciously begun, and
has up TO this time been so we'll per
formed In the ranks of the Demo-
cratic party for political distinction we
recognize neither wealth nor poverty
Every man who expresses, and by his
conduct teStffes, his devotion to the
regardless of his condition or standing,
is entitled to a respectful consideration
at the hands of national convention.
A man has already been presented 10
the consideration Of this convention
who has all his life been devoted fol-
lower of Democratic faith. He obtained
the inspiration of his belief from JEFF
ferson and from Jackson, and, inspired
by the splendid diction and manswere,-
bic logic of a great son of Kentucky.
years ago became a disciple of She
great bimetaBlfc principle which yu
have crystaliZed into a cardinal prin-
ciple of Democratic faith 10y placing
it upon your platform. This gentle
man comes from one of the remote cor
ners Of the United States; there IF I
am correctly Informed, he was born;
there ne spent the best days Of his
young manhood and there, today. he is
enjoying in its full fruition the fruits.
the harvest, of a life we'll spent. and as
a citizen has long enjoyed the con-
fidence and esteem, not only Of his
Democratic brethren, but of all those
with whom he has come in contact.
His name is that of a solid, conservative
silver man, whose interests are extern
sive and extended, the sails of whose
VESTS whiten the seas of the world. I
desire to second the nomination of
Arthur Sewali Of Maine" (AppIause.)
Delegate John Scott Of Maine. stand
ing on chair. from the pit, seconded
sewall's nomination in a strong speech
which aroused considerable enthusiasm.
Maine. he said. was still in the Unon.
Name Democrats were scll Maine Dem
CORA rs, and next November he assured
the convention they would come out OF
the woods and vote the ticket. He asked
the convention to look to the sunfower
OF Nebraska and the pine cones of Maine
The convention then proceeded to bal
lot, as follows:
First ballot:-Harrity. q: Teller /:
Write. I: Part6son. 2: Williams Of Mas
sachusetts. rs; Mclean, III: Clarke. 80:
Sewall. 100: Sibiey, 1853; Ffthian, I: Dan
lei, Il; Bland, 60; Blackburn. 20; VIII
Jams Of Illinois, %; Boies, 20;- mot voting,
25S.
Second ballct-SibIey, 11s; SewaIl. 81:
Mclean. i5S: Bland. 294; Clarke, o.:
HaT-ity. q; Williams Of MASSACHUSETTS,
10; Williams Of Illinois, Is; PartisOn, I:
roual cast 675. Necessary to choice, $50.
not voting. 227.
Third balIot:-WvlEan of Naszachu-
setls. IS: Mclean. 30: Clarot> 2; Sewau
81; Sibley. so; Daniel, 6; HarrTry. I9;
Bland, 30; Pattison, 1. Necessary to
choice, 4i9. not voting, PSI
Fourth baIl0t:-McLean. 29s: SewaI.
261; Harrfty. II; Williams Of Massachu-
cts. 9; Clarke. 46: Pat51son, l; Daniel,
54:. nos voting. 80. Total $50.
CHANGING VOTES
The progress OF the fourth ballot was
watched with intense interest GeoC-
eia shifted her tWenty-ssx votes from
Bland 20 Mclean amid the enthuSsa sn
of the Ohioans. Every addition 10
AIcLssn's strength was greeted with
wild applause. Missouri cast her tEzir-
ty-6our votes for SewasL Chairman
Varied Of ths Maryland delegation
cast nine voses8fcr Mclean. Oregon
changed her eight votes from Bland -
Sswali. and South Carolina and south
Dakota followed her lad into The Maine
mans camp Vermont transferred
herBtarld vrRsz 70 Mclean Texas
end Vest Virginia threw their votes
soId 10 Daniel OF Virginia. az did w
ominE. New Mexico divided Der SIX
votes between Mclean and SeEan
The CONTEST had now narrowed down
- a race between Mclean and Sewau
and the deiecar.ons that had retired
fer CONSULTATION fiid in. Intense ex-
element prevailed Alabama cas-. he-
twenty-five votes for SewaiL
FTTFTIAN GETS not