The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-17

and wouldn't release the Pennsvlvan
ia delegation from the obligation to pre-
sent him and join the boilers. All thu
candidates for the first place were after
| il and 1t looked Friday night AS il Nc.
Lean would win, and he was credited
with a Willingness to contribute half a
million dollars to the campaign :lbut Bry-
an objected to any such sale of honors
and besides the Ohio delegation was d.
vided iu an ugly way. Young Allen W
Thurman claimed an agreement that he
should be supported for the vice presi-
dency in case Mclean failed of first
place, and McLean's opposition to the
income tax and the opposition of the
labor organizations as well as Altgeld's
hatred counted heavily against him.
There was also strong push for Sibley.
the millionaire, populist and ex-con-
gresham of Pennsylvania. George
Fred Williams OF Massachusetts was
urged on the argument of the cessity
of disproving Tillman's admission of
sectionallsm, and Williams claims that
he could have had 1.-THE leaders told
him soft he could have had the sup
port of his state. of whose vote he got
only four. Texas voted TO support him.
The final result was Sewell of Maine.
for whom the states vote of IL was cast
las compliment" as stated at the time.
bst it turns out TO have been a fraud
and to have been cast against the wishes
and in the face of the written protest of
the gold delegates who were absent.
The nomination was curious develop
ment as the Maine convention turned on
the issue of deposing him from the ma
tlonal committee. as was done. and the
one thing he went to Chicago fora plank
in favor of favoritism to shipbuilder's
had been denied.
The first ballot scattered badly and
the second gave Bland POI, against 81
at first, Sibley had received l63 on the
first ballot and looked like a possible
winner. He weakened in the second
heat and Bland had the pole. But Tn
Gle Dick fell Off 40 votes on the third
ballot, and telegram was read by Gov
Stone in which Mr. Bland advised
against taking two candidates from west
of the Mississippi. Sibley too, was TAX
en- out by Amos Cummings. Mclean
came to the front and was laughed at
because of a speech in his favor by Fifth
ian of Illinois, who declared that "this
convention cannot afford to nominate
John II Mclean" Then came the del
uge that carried Sewall up to 1872 votes
within about a score of votes of the
nomination, and the pumping of more
than the needed strength followed.
There was no cheering at first for, the
delegates appeared 10 be astonished at
themselves. From 76 votes on the first |
ballot, l6 on the second and Is on the |
third Williams fell to nine, and this |
of his associates stood by him |
till the last gun was fired. Vermont, or
the four delegates that participated, did
not vote for Sewall. but stuck by Nc |
Lean.
Mr'Sewelllis the head of the'famous ship |
building firm of Bath. Me. which for 20 |
years has been the leading one in the
country and now owns the largest mer-
chantmen afloat. He was born at Bath |
Nov 81, 1885. started in the lumber trade |
on Prince Edwards Island at the age of |
l6. but few years later returned home
and entered into the firm. He is bank |
president was for many years the presi- |
lent of the Maine Central railroad and |
is man of large wealth and executive
He has been in favor of free
silver for years. His son Harold NJ Sew
all was consul at Samoa under Cleve-
and's first administration and recalled |
from there and has since been an ardent