Birmingham state herald., 1896-07-12

Chicago, July 11.@The democratic na- tionaF convention closed up it's ticket this afternoon and adjourned sine die soon after 3 o'clock. It selected as it's candidate for vice president the veteran ship owner and ship builder, Arthur Sewall, of Maine, for many years chair man of the democratic state committee of that state. This result was not reach ed without a struggle. The same num- Der of ballots were required to effect it as to make the nomina tion for president, viz: five.
 Sixteen candidates were placed in nom- ination, or were voted for without their consent on the first ballot All but four quietly dropped out of sight. They were Messrs. Bland, Sibley, Mclean and Sew all.
 After the first ballot movement was started, chiefly at the instigation of Gov ernor Altgeld of Illinois, to throw the nomination to MT. Bland-"Silver Dick Bland"-as his sponsor, Senator Vest, dubbed him.
 The Missouri delegation kept out of the movement at first, but reserved its vote in order to cast it for Bland at a later stage, if there was probability of hHCISpy IulIiLS tuC SSdACo III iiio AdsOis That did not happen on the second bal lot and Missouri voted for other candi- dates, but on the third ballot Missouri presented Blands name, explaining that it did so without authority from him, and awaited results.
 They were not encouraging. MT. Bland received about fifty votes more with his delegation supporting him than r, fl,o I@oJIN |, voted for other candidates. Upon this showing Governor Stone promptly with drew MT. Blands name.
 Mir. Sibley of Pennsylvania started in with a rush, receiving 163 votes on the first ballot, but lost nifty on the second, and was withdrawn by a telegram to Hon. Amos Cummings of New York be- fore the third ballot could be taken, though he still retained scattering sup porters.
 Mr. McLeans name was not formally placed in nomination, but was brought before the convention by the Ohio dele gation voting for him. Starting with III votes, he ran up to 296 on the fourth bal lot, and then the chairman of the Ohio delegation read a telegram from him stating that all votes cast for him were cast against his expressed wishes and without his authority. Although the chairman of the Ohio delegation qualified this declaration by saying 1t was the voice of MT. Mclean and not that of the delega ton, the convention listened to Mir. Mclean and he passed out.
 MT. Arthur Sewall of Maine, the suc- cessful candidate, though present in the city as member of the democratic na- tional committee and just before his nomina ton in the convention as a dele- gate, and has been for many years chair man of the democratic state committee of Maine, was personally known to but few members on the floor. He was placed in nomination by delegate from the dis tant state of California, who gave no personal details as to his candidate. The second of Mr. Sewall, MT. Thomas of Colorado, added little to the informa tion possessed by the convention except that he testified to MT. Sewalls business abil- ity as ship builder, railroad president and bank president. On the first ballot MT Sewall received 100 votes. On the second these dropped down to 37. They Jumped again to 97 on the third ballot After the withdrawal of Bland and Sib- ley he reached second place, on the fourth ballot standing 261 to McLean's 296, and was nominated unanimously on the fifth ballot
 There was nothing more for the con- vention to do than to pass the customary resolutions of thanks and adjourn.
 It did so in comparative silence