The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-07-31

CHICAGO, July 11.-Today ended the
since the Democratic party in 1860 was
rent asunder on the slavery issue To-
day the convention completed the work
which rent the party in twain on the
financial issue. Arthur Sewall of Maine,
a Bath shipbuilder and an ardent free
coinage man, was named for Vice Pres
ident on ticket headed by William J.
Bryan, the eloquent young orator from
the prairies beyond the Missouri. Over
$50 delegates to the convention, all of
whom with the exception of the gold
delegation from Wisconsin and a por-
ton of the delegation from Minnesota,
came from east of the Alleghanies, re-
fused yesterday to participate in the
nomination of a Presidential candidate
on a free silver platform. Over 250 to-
day declined to participate in nomina-
ton for Vice President. Many of the
delegates had left the city in disgust.
Whether the seceders will place a third
at Baltimore in 1860, is a matter for
future development.
The silver Democrats, who control
led the convention absolutely, and who
alienated the East in order to erect the
banner of silver, hope to secure support
from the POpulists from the West and
South and the silver Republicans to
recompense them for the loss which the
platform and ticket must inevitably
entail in the East. They hope to see
all the hitherto discordant elements
of silver rally to the standard which
they have raised.
The nomination of Sewall for Vice
President was more of a surprise than
that of Bryan for President yesterday.
Bryan had set the convention af1ame
with his eloquence, and his name was
on every lip when the balIoting began,
but SewalIs name in connection with
the Vice Presidency had hardly been
mentioned John r. Mclean, the Gin |
clnnat1 editor, was the most prominent |
candidate in the field, and had the nom |
lnatlOn been made last night he would !
have probably been named But the |
leaders decided to allow the balloting |
to go over until today, so that oppor-
tun1ty might be had to thoroughly |
caucus the situation and learn Mr.. Bry-
an wishes in regard to his running |
mate. The names of Sewall, of ex-Con-
gressman Shively of Indiana. who has
recently been named for Governor of
the HoOsier State, Mclean, SibIey of
Pennsylvania, Bland and others. were
and Senator Jones and some
OF his associates of the silver leaders
came to the conclusion for geographical |
ana other reasons that the Maine man
was the most available man for the
place on the ticket with Mr.. BRYAN.
The strongest argument in his favor
perhaps was that his nomination would .
at once suffice to stop the crv that the |
silver cause was sectional, an imputa-
ton the Arkansas Senator was quick
to rebuke when Senator Tillman avow-l
ed that such was the case in the con-
ventiOn on Thursday Mr.. Mclean de-
clded not to be a candidate, and gave
directions to his friends in the Ohio
delegation not to present his name
but the Mclean sentiment was so (
'trong that 1t could not be suppressed.
Just as the contest had narrowed
1oWn TO race between SewaII and Nc
Lean, the latter, through a personal
which was read from the
stage, withdrew his name, and there
was stampede for SewaIl. The latter
was nominated, as Bryan was vester-
day, on the fifth ballot.
SeWaIis nomination was made unani-
nous before the conclusion of the roll
call, and scenes of jubliation and re-
Jolclng, in the course of which the State |
standards were paraded about tht Coli
scum IN the wake of the cOIors of Neb-
raska and Maine. 1t seems probable to-
night that the campaign Headquarters
Will be transferred from New York to
Chicago in order to bring them nearer
TO the heart of the coming fray. Sen
ator Jones of Arkansas. who has made
so conspicuous as a leader in
the battle for the supremacy of silver
in the party has heen chosen cha irrnan