The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-12
EITHER BLAND OR MCLEAN RE-
GARDED AS THE MORE PROB
ABLE WINNER
GREAT CONVENTION is AT AN END.
Most Remarkable Gathering Since
the Democratic Party Was
Rent in Twain in 1860.
CANDIDATES.

! Williams Mass Is 10 7o 9 9
Williams (Mlss) -. 13 D -. 80.
| pores. ........ 20 -. 80.
Lewis s......... -. -. IL -. ...
Pattison $3.50. 1 . / 1
! Votes were also cast for Fithian.
Blackburn Teller and White.
*The nomination was made unani-
nous before all voters desiring to do
so had changed their votes.
| CHICAGO, July 11.-To-day ended
| the most remarkable national conyen-
| ton since the Democratic party, in
| 1860, was rent asuder on the slavery
| issue. To-day the convention com
| pleted the work which split the party
In twain on the financial issue. Arthur
SeWall, Of Maine, Bath shipbuilder.
| an ardent free coinage man, was named
for vice-president on a ticket headed
by William J. Bryan, the eloquent
| young orator from the prairies beyond
the Missouri. Over 100 delegates to
| the convention, all of whom with the
exception of the gold delegation from
| Wisconsin, came from east of the AL
| leghenies, yesterday refused to partici-
| pate in the nomination of presidential
| cadidate on a free silver platform.
| Over $50 to-day declined to participate
| In nomination for vice-president.
! Many Of the delegates had left the city
| in disgust. Whether the seceders will
place third ticket in the field as the
minority did at Baltimore in 1860, is a
| matter for future development.
The silver Democrats who controlled
| the convention, absolutely and who
| alienated the East in order to erect
| the banner of silver, hope to secure
support from the Populists of the West
and South and the silver Republicans,
TO recompense them for the loss which
both the platform and the ticket must
inevitably entail in the East. They
nope to see all the hitherto discordant
elements of silver rally to the stand
ara which they have raised
The nomination of SewaI for vice.
president to-day was perhaps even
more of surprise than that of Brvan
ror president yesterday. Bryan had
set the convention afiame with his eIo-
Quence and his name was on eyerv lin
/ when the balloting began, but Sewalrs
name In connection with the ylce-pres-
1uency had hardly been mentioned
1ohn H. Mclean, the Cincinnati editor
was the most prominent candidate in
the neld, and had the nomination been
maze last night, he would probably
nave been nominated. But the leaders
uecloed 10 allow the balloting to po
over until to-day, so that opportunity
nlgnt be had to thoroughly canvass
the situation and to learn
MR.. BRYAN's WISHES
IN regard to his running mate. The
names OF SewalI, ex-Conerass,,ar,
oalveley, OF Indiana; Mclean. Siblev
u pennsylvania, Bland and Others ware
canVassed, and Senator Jones and soma
VI MS associates of the silver leaders
came to the conclusion that for geo,
sfdphlcal and other reasons. the Maine
man was the most available man FOR
lile pace on the ticket with Mr.. BRYAN
ne strongest argument in his favor
perhaps, was that his nomination
"oulo at once silence the cry that the
SilVer cause was sectional an irnnuta
tlon the Arkansas senator was quick to
repuKe when Senator TiIlman ayowed
lnat such was the case in the conven
uon on Thursday. Mr.. Mclean decided
not 70 be candidate and gave direc-
uons 10 his friends IN the Ohio delega
tlon not to present his name, but the
mclean sentiment was so strong that
It could not be suppressed Just as the
contest mad narrowed down to a race
between Sewall and Mclean, the lat
ter, through personal telegram, which
was read from the stage, withdrew his
name, ana there was a stampede for
SeWall. The latter was nominated, as
Bryan was yesterday, on the fifth bal
lot. w. r. Burk, of California, nolni-
mated Sewall. Or the first ballot fifteen
candidates were voted for Sewall Sib-
ley, of Pennsylvania, receiving 1853, the
highest number Of votes The other
votes were divided as follows: Mclean.
110; Sewall, 100; Harrity, 21; Judge
Clarke, of North Carolina, so; Daniel. of
Virginia, IL; Bland, 81; Blackburn, 20:
ex-Congressn1an Williams, Of Massa-
chusetts, 16; Boies, 10; Pattison, /;
White Of California, l.; Fithian, of IlIi-
nois, and Senator Teller, of Colorado,
l each.
On the second ballot there was an at
tempt to stampede the convention to
Bland, who, on this ballot received 294
votes, Mclean moved up to 158, Sibley
fell back to 113 and Sewall dropped to
81. 1t looked as IL the latter was disas-
trously beaten. But Senator Jones,
with his sixteen Arkansas votes, stood
firm. He rallied the followers of the
Maine man, and on the next ballot
Sewall secured 81 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 this ballot with
210. After the announcement Of this
vote,
BLAND WAS WITHDRAWN
by Gov. Stone, Of Missouri. who read a
message from. the Missourian positively
declining to allow the use Of his name
for the vice presidential nomination.
The Bland votes on the fourth ballot
went to Sewall in large blocks, but Nc
Lean captured enough to give him
seemingly safe lead Of 284, against
261 for Sewall During this roll call,
there had been trouble in the Ohio dele
cation which was polled and IA anti
Mclean votes found locked up by the
unit rule. There was also big revolt
against Gov. Altgeld's nomination in
the Illinois delegation. Ex-Congress-
do