The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-12
A PLUT0CRAT
PLACED ON THE TICKET WITH THE
RABID POPULIsT BRYAN.
The Old Game of "Catch EN- a-Comin'
and a-Gofn'" to BE Played by the
Democratic Party Again.
ARTHUR SEWALL NOMINATED
FOR THE VICE PRESIDENCY BY THE
CHICAGO CONVENTION.
His Selection Made ON the Fifth Ball
Lean Had Withdrawn.
SKETCH OF THE NOMINEE
MEMBER OF AN OLD MAINE FAMILY
OF WEALTHY SHIP BUILDERS.
Director in Nearly All Corporations
Doing Business I'm the County in
Which He Lives.
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ALSO PRESIDENT OF A BANK
Director in Nearly All CorpOratiO
Doing Business I'm the County in
Which He Lives.
ALSO PRESIDENT OF A BANK
AND INTERESTED IN SEVERAL I'M
PORTANT RAILWAY COMPANIES.
Ex-President of the Maine Central
and other Roads, and the Owner
of Numerous Merchant Ships.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.


CHICAGO, July u.-Bryan, of Nebraska,
and Sewall, Of Maine-a Populist and a
millionaire president of a national bank
a fitting conclusion to the madness that
has reigned here all this week. Mr.. Sewall
was nominated for Vice President by the
Democratic convention on the fifth ballot.
The progress of the vote was SO similar in
its variations and in its sudden collapse of
all other booms that no detailed count of IL
is needed. Suffice it to say that Mr.. Nc
Leans name was dropped in the race, and
against his better Judgment; and that Mr.
Bland was warned early this morning, four
hours before the first ballot was taken,
that the movement to give him the second
place the ticket was not mace in good
faith and was done only with view OF
'Indianaizing'' him. If one may coin an
awkward word to describe that course in
politics whereby a popular and dan
gerous rival is leu TO the slaugh-
ter by ballot in order to remove
him out of the way of craf.ier
politicians. Just as Governor Matthews, of
Indiana, was yesterday the victim of the
consprators who feared his possible ri
valry to Senator VOORHEES,, so Mr.. Bland
was Inundated to-day in order TO remove
Kim effectually from the possible nomina-
ton for the governorship of Missouri,
which Mr.. Stone wants for himself or for
some plant henchman. Mr.. Stone and
Senators Vest and Cockrell calmly sup
pressed Mr.. Bland's telegram declining to
run for the vice presidency until the free
silver apostle had been permitted to record
a dangerously large vote and then had
fallen off congpicuously that his defeat
could not be made more pronounced by
later ballots.
Mr.. Mclean could have been nom-
mated had he entered the fight with de-
termination, but he became disgusted with
the kind of fight that was made against
him. 1t was secretly whispered about that
ne had been ostraci4ed in Cincinnati that
he was a Republican on the tariff issue and
that he opposed the income tax For
convention whose declaration of principles
bordered on socialism closely as did
this Democratic convention of 1896.
IL seems a trihe inconsistent that
the fight for the presidency should
have settled down to battle
between three multi-millionaires. Messrs
Sibley Mclean and Sewall have all of them
caste interests and possessions and
each of them draws enormous incomes
from profitable investments.
WANTED AN ANGEL"
1t would be interesting to hear the state
ment which Mr.. Sewall will make TO the di-.
rectors and the patrons of the national
bank of which he is president regarding
his Interpretation of the platform on which
he will run, relating 10 the national bank
ing system. He owes his nomination, of
course, to the fact that he has many mill
lions and the presumption in the conven-
ton was that he would be very willing to
put up" for the campaign. Those persons
who know Mr.. Sewall in business way
smile at the suggestion that Mr.. Sewall will
be an uncomplaining angel for the
Bryan-Sewall variety combination when it
strikes run of expensive hard luck.
Just one of the nominating speeches calls
for line. Mr.. Fithian was ardent in his
Sibley speech. In those distant days. when
it still caused surprise to hear Mr.. Cleve-
land attacked in Democratic house by
Democratic members, Mr.. Fithian made
himself famous on account of his savage
denunciations of Mr.. Cleveland and Secre-
tary Carlisle. So to-day. he oid not hesi-
tate to remind the delegates OF Demo-
cratic convention that his candidate, Mr..
Sibley. was no novice at that sort of thing
himself He brought 1t in quite artfully
MIR. Sibley. il will be remembered won his
spurs by the one speech in which he char
acterized Mr.. Cleveland the floor of
the House of Representatives as coarse
compound OF belly, brass and buster. This
convention said Mr.. Fithian (and il must
be confessed that he was not illogicaD
could not afford TO condemn a candidate
who said this about their President when
on Thursday, it had. by a two-thirds vote
itself, declared that the same President was
a man without honesty. integrity or cour-
age, and, be it we'll noted, this convention
contained 1e3 men who. on the first ballot,
declared themselves for Mr.. Sibley.
The principal topic of interest now be-
| comes the discussion of the probable action
of the Populist convention, which meets at
| ST Louis in the latter part of this month.
The one argument of the little coterie of
| Senators who bolted the st. Louis Repub-
| lican OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Pettigrew, Man.
| tie and Cannon-in all their discussions
with Democratic delegates. whom they
vainly sought to persuade into nominating
Mr.. Teller, was the certainty that he
would. If nominated at Chicago. be certain
of Endorsement at St Louis by the Popu-