The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTIONS.
Facts About the Party's National
 Gatherings.

SNSA4S>~@No@s
 New York Sun. Y
 The Democratic party, whose National Committee gnet in Washington recently
 and for the third time named St. Louis as the place at which to hold the national
 convention, has been in existence II: years.
 The party's first six conventions were
 held at Baltimore. The first, in 1882, nom-
 mated Jackson and Van Buren; the sec. 4 ond, in May, 1885. nominated Van Buren and R. M. Johnson. Thirty-two States
 were represented by 600 delegates. This convention was in session three days. The third, May 5-6. 1s4o, renominated
 Van Buren. but made no nomination for Vice. President, leaving that office to be | filled by the Senate.
 The fourth. May 27-2s, 1s4i. nominated Polk and Dallas. In this convention Van Buren received 146 votes.
 A resolution was offered declaring him | the nominee, but a point of order was l made and sustained that this would re- quire a two-thirds vote. An appeal was | taken, but after a spirited debate it was withdrawn.
 Oh subsequent ballot, the ninth, a | stampede for Polk was made and he was nominated. He was the first dark horse of any national convention. | The fifth convention was held May a. 26. 1S4S, the nominees being Lewis Cass, the first Western candidate, and W. O.. Butler of Kentucky. The ticket was de- feated by Taylor and Fillmore, the Whig 1 candidates.
 The sixth convention was held June 1-4. 1852, and nominated Pierce and King.
 Pierce was nominated on a stampede dur ing the forty-ninth ballot. In 1856 the Democratic Party, for the first time in it's history, went West for | it's convention, meeting in Cincinnati June 2-6, James Buchanan and John c. Breckinridge were nominated. MT. Buchanan received the full vote of the convention on the seventeenth bal I lot. He had received votes in the three previous conventions. In this convention | Stephen A. Douglas was first supported
 for the nomination, receiving thirty-three votes.
 The eighth convention, the most mcm-
 orable in the history of the party. met Tn Charleston, S. C., on April g. 1860, and
 remained in session until May 3. Be-
 fore 1t adjourned the delegates from Ala
 bama, Florida, Mississippi and Texas and | a part of the delegations from South Carolina. Arkansas and Delaware with drew The entire delegation from Geor- gla withdrew the next day, May 1.
 On May ?, the remaining members of the convention balloted for a candidate without result, Douglas leading with 15l 1-2 votes.
 The convention adjourned on May to meet in Baltimore. June IS. When the convention reassembled sev- eral Southern delegations again withdrew Douglas was declared the nominee. Ben jamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama was nom- mated for Vice-President, but he declined and Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia was named.
 The seceders met in Charleston, s. C. and nominated Breckinridge and Lane. | Twenty-C@e States were represented, in l whole or in part, in this convention. Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut. New Jersey, South Carolina, Ohio, Michigan. Indiana. Illinois. Iowa and Wisconsin were unrepresented.
 Four years later. on August 29, lS64' the party went West. to Chicago, again to hold it's convention, and nominated Me Clellan and Pendleton. The permanent chairman of that convention was Horatio Seymour, who later became the nominee of his party for President.
 The Chicago Convention nominated Mc- CIellan on the first ballot. He received 9oa 1-2 votes. Thomas H. Seymour of Con necticut receiving 2S 1-2 votes
 The party four years later brought its convention East. It was held sn thls clty July 4 to il. The permanent chairman or that convention, Horatio Seymour, was tbe nominee for first place, in the twenty second ballot, and General F. r. blair was named for second pace.
 Others who received votes in that con vention for the first pace were Q. II Pendeton, Andrew Johnson, General Han cock. S. F.. Church. Asa Packer, Joel Par ker. I. F.. English, J. R. Doolittle and T. A. Hendricks. All are now dead.
 Mir. Seymour on the stampede received every vote in the convention, 31L The candidate for Vice-Presdent was unaini- mously nominated.
 In 1872 the party returned to Baltimore, July 9. and ratified the nominations of Greeley and Brown. who had been named in Cincinnati, May 1, by the liberal re- publicans.
 MT. Greeley died soon after the election, and the electoral vote which he would have received was divided among Hem dricks. B. Gratz Brown, Jenkins of Geor- gia and Judge David Davis of Illinois. Seventeen Southern votes. six from Ar kansas. three from Georgia and eight from Louisiana, were not cast in the electoral college.
 Four years later the Democracy. for the nrSt time Tn US history, crossed LIle Mississippi River and held it's convention in St. Louis. June 27 to % 1876. That was the first National convention of any party held west of the Mississippi
 The nominees of the St. Louis Con vention were Tilden and Hendricks. The result of that campaign was quite unlike that of any other campaign ever made in this country. As will be recalled by politica lstudents, an electoral commits sion decided the matter, but not until within two days of the inauguration of Hayes, the Republican candidate
 The commission met in January. 1871, and consisted of five United States sen ators. five representatives and five jus tices of the Supreme Court. The decree of the commission was, Hayes and Vince Ter 1S5; Tilden and Hendricks. 1S4
 The party went to Cincinnati with it's thirteenth convention. June e2-24, 1SSO, and nominated Hancock and English In that convention Bayard. H. E. Payne. Allen G. Thurman. Stephen J. Field, w. K. Morrison. T. A. Hendricks, S. J. Til den. Horatio Seymour and Samuel J. Randall received notes for the first place. Hancock received 7O5 votes in that con vention; Hendricks, 30, Bayard, 2, Tilden, one.
 The fourteenth convention was held in Chicago, July S-11. 1884. and nominated Cleveland and Hendricks The candi- dates who received votes for the first place on the first ballot were besides MT Cleveland, who got 392 votes. Bayard 17O Thurman SS Randall IS, Mcdonald 56