The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-12
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION OFF AMY M0RTH GAR0lIMA DAILY

Fe3Q u telegram OdUeu MedQVllIe, Ed,s
which was as follows:
please do not permit my name to
be presented. I so instructed my
friends yesterday"
(Signed) JOSEPH SIBLEY."
Some of the leaders tried to check
the stampede to Bland on the next bal
lot. Senator Jones, Of Arkansas,
brought back Arkansas to Sewall.
Maine and California followed with
eighteen votes for the Maine Demo-
crat. The chairman of the delegation,
as he made the annOupncement said,
California thinks the time has come
when a New England man should be
placed on the ticket"
Indiana gave a big impetus to the
Mclean candidacy by casting the thir-
ty votes of the delegates for the journ-
alist. Iowa followed Immediately into
the Mclean camp with sixteen. Michi-
gan came into the Sewall column with
her twenty-eight votes, but Mississ-
ippi put in her eighteen for Mclean.
This time Missouri concluded to throw
off the coquetting and vote for her IA
vorite son. Richard p. Bland.
New York declines to vote" was
again announced, and inspired a stem
torian voice in the gallery to call:
Three cheers for New York" so
loudly that the voice of the reading
clerk was drowned. This maddened
one of the delegates so that he APP
pealed eXcitedly to the chairman to
take steps to keep this internal mob
quiet" declaring that the convention
had been troubled from the beginning
by the mob in an outrageous way.
Put him out" yelled one of the mob.
After the call, Michigan took the
back track upon her decision, and re-
turned her vote to Mclean.
The result of the third ballot was as
follows:
Bland, 255; Mclean, 21O; Sibley, so;
Sewall, 81; Williams, of Massachusetts,
Is; Harrity, 10; Clark, %; Pattison,
/ Daniel, 6. Total number voting CTS.
BLAND Is WITHDRAWN.
After the announcement of the third
ballot, Governor Stone stepped forward
again. He thanked the convention for
the honor it had shown his State. Then
he continued: II am in receipt of a
telegram from Mr.. Bland He says
substantially that he would deem it
unwise and impolitic to nominate both
candidates from west of the Missis-
sippi river. He directs me to say that
the nomination of Mr.. Bryan has his
warm and hearty approval and thinks
the nomination for Vice-President
should be made for one object alone
and that to strengthen the ticket.
Accordingly, he desires his name with
drawn
The Bland men cheered this an
nouneement, and the progress of the
fourth ballot was watched with in
tense interest.
Georgia shifted her 26 votes from
Bland to Mclean.
Every new announcement of addi-
tions to McLean's strength was greeted
with wild applause. Missouri cast her
thirty-four votes for Sewau Chair
man Warfield, of the Maryland dele
cation, cast nine votes for Mclean.
Oregon changed her eight votes from
Bland TO Sewall and South Carolina
and South Dakota followed her lead
into the Maine mans camp.
Vermont transferred her four Bland
votes to Mclean. Texas and West Vir-
ginia their votes solidly to Daniel, of
Virginia, as did Wyoming. New Mexico
divided her six votes between Mclean
and Sewall.
The contest had narrowed down to
a race between Mclean and Sewall
Intense excitement prevailed. Ala
bama cast her % votes for Sewall, but
when John Powers, of Illinois, an
nounced that Illinois cast AS votes for
Mclean, there was a scene of wild con-
fusion. Men surged about the Illinois
standard. Ex-Congressman Fithian
jumped on his chair, his face aaame
with passion.
''W cannot afford to nominate that
man" he shouted, son the platform
we have adopted. I challenge the vote
of the delegation" The convention
was in an uproar. Fithian continued
to cry out his protest. The chair
man raped and called for order. Tom
Herman, of Louisiana, mounted q chair
and attempted to call the gentleman
to order. At last order was restored
and the roll of the delegation was call
ed. 1t showed % for Mclean, 10 for
Sewall and 10 absent, but under the
unit rule, the 48 votes went to Mclean.
Tennessee gave her "a votes to SewalI
and Virginia went to Clark, of North
Carolina.
The result of the fourth ballot was:
Mclean, goo; Sewall, 261; Williams
of Massachusetts, 8; HarTity, IL; Clark.
46; Pattison, 1; Daniel. 54 Necessary
to choice, 453.
The fourth ballot having been an
Mr.. Ulrich Sloan, of the Ohio
delegation, who had placed Mclean in
nomination, read telegram from the
Ohio man which was as follows:
ANY vote cast for me is against my
expressed wish and without my au-
thority."
He added to the telegram the com
ment, 'that is for Mclean, not for the
Ohio delegation"
Shouts of Mclean" mingled with
''No, no." and ''Sewall,' interrupted
the reading of the dispatch, and were
continued for a time.
SEWALL NOMINATED.
When order was restored, the fifth
ballot was taken. The first change
came when the Georgia delegation
changed their vote from Mclean to
sewell. The chairman of the Indiana
delegation announced that since hear
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