The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-07-14
s. Kentucky withdrew Black

atelv Virginia followed her with the
| same number. both of them deserving
! Pland Three territories, Arizona, New
Mexico and Indian Territory, marched
i after them from the Bland standard to
Pryan. each one six strong. The en-
thusiasm was aroused again when Dig
.rpck" Hinrichsen called out the IS OF
Illinois for Bryan, the most important
desertion from Bland.
The nomination of Bryan seemed I'M
minent. There were cries "Oho can
do it." and John r. Mclean appeerfa
| in a chair holding a cane abort, Wnlle
under him the other leaders seemed 10
| be souabbling. ''Ohio WithdraWs the
namc,of Mclean said that gentleman,
land casts As votes for Bryan" HIS
voice failed to carry many feet, so the
! dramatic stroke was lost upon the gal
| lerieS There was a cOmm0tlOn after
| ward in the Texas ranks next door to
! Ohio BRYAN had 492 votes. Montana
with and Oklahoma with the same
number swelled it to 504, tWo-thirds OF
all the votes cast.
Gov. Stone of Missouri mounted TIE
platform and read a letter from Mr..
Bland, in which he stated that he did
not want the nolnination unless it was
the Judgment Of the delegates that he
was the strongest man, and urged put
ting the cause of silver above the man.
Gov Stone then cast the forty-six votes
| of Missouri for Bryan.
Confusion reigned throughout the
/! building, with delegates on their chairs
clamoring to change their votes, ana a
fierce hum of surprise and speculation
Then Delegate Won Wagenan Of Iowa
crowded to the platform. In Impress
hn col i'll that Gov Roles also
placed the cause above the man, and
he. too, cast the vote of his state for
BRYAN. Senator Jones changed the
vote of Arkansas, which was instruct
ed for Bland to the NebraSkan. Other
states tumbled into the foaming wake.
Montana and West Virginia changed
their votes, amid great enthusiasm
Senator Turpie of Indiana withdrew
the name of Matthews and moved that
the nomination be made unanimous.
Delegate McDermott of New Jersey
demanded call of the states. There
was no second to Mr.. McDermotts de
mand, however, and then Chairman
White declared the motion carried.
Another wild scene followed. Again
the gudons were torn from their sock
cts and paraded about. Boies and
Bland banners and flags of all descrip-
tons joined in the rally about the
standard of Nebraska. The standards
of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware
and New Jersey and all the New Eng
land states were left standing.
In the midst of the confusion, on Sen
ator Jones' notion at $50 O'Clock, the
convention adjourned until o'clock.
The evening session was called to
order at 500 by Chairman White. A
motion was made to adjourn until 10
o'clock tomorrow. A rOll-call was de
manded which resulted favOrably to
the motion, and the convention adj
jouIned at 9:30.
Saturday ended the most remarka-
BILE national convention since the Dem
ocratic party, in 1860, was rent
aSunder on the slavery issue. The con-
vention completed the work which
split the party in twain on the finan-
cial issue Arthur Sewall of Maine,
Bath shipbuilder, and an ardent free
coinage man, was named for the vice
presidency on a ticket headed by Will
lam j. Bryan, the eloquent young ora
tor froIh the prairies beyond the Mis-
souri,.
On the first ballot fifteen candidates
were voted for, Sibley receiving 1913,
the highest number of votes The 9th
er votes were divided as follows: Nc
Lean, ITO; SeWall, 100; Harrity, 21;
Judge Clarke of North Carolina, 80;
Daniel of Virginia, IL; Bland, 60;
Blackburn, 20: ex-Congressman Will
Jams of Massachusetts, 16; Boies, 10;
Pattison, /; White of California, 1;
Fithian of Illinois, and Senator Teller
of Colorado, l each. On the second
ballot there was an attempt to STAN
pede the convention to BlS nd, who on
this ballot received 294 votes; Nc
Lean moved up to 158, Sibley fell
back to 113 and Sewall dropped to
81. 1t looked as if the latter was
disastrously beaten. Senator Jones,
with his 16 Arkansas votes stood firm.
He rallied the followers of the Maine
man, and on the next ballot SewalI
secured ninety-seven votes. Meantime
there appeared to be a general move
ment in favor of Mclean. Some of
the Bland men deserted him and went
to Mclean, who led on tbe ballot with
30.
After the announcement of this vote
BANDS name was withdrawn by Gov.
Stone of Missouri, who read message
from the Missourian, positively declin-
ing to allow the use of his name for
the vice presidential nomination. The
Bland votes, on the next ballot went
to Sewall in large blocks, but Mclean
captured enough to give him seeming
ly lead of 2S4, against Z61 for Sew
all. During this roll call there was
trouble in the Ohio delegation. which
was polling IA anti-McLean votes.
locked up by the unit rule There was
also a big revolt against Gov AItgelds
domination in the Illinois delegation.
EN-CongreSSman Fithian made a fiery