The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-05-03

N+at ~Ntt4 AtR0hlAiE q EtN"N rAbHAAE WIN
1l6 on the first ballot But he was passed
and repassed several times. At the TWEEN
ty-ninth dash he recovered some of his
wind, and at the thirty NTH he had 19i.
But at that moment Virginia entered her
black steed, in the person OF Franklin
Pierce. with s. votes. On the forty
eighth. Cass counted 70 and Pierce IS.
On the foTty-ninth a weil-planned STAN
pede was started. and Pierce received
2S6 votes, while the rest of the bunch
got the remaining six together The
Wing convention of this year. at Balti-
more, began by giving Fillmore 133 votes,
Scott 13l, and Webster %. For fifty bal
lots the votes were but little changed.
On the fifty-third trial the nomination
went to Scott
In 1856. the year OF the birth of the
present Republican party, the Demo-
cratic convention met at Cincinnati On
the first ballot Buchanan had 135 votes;
Pierce. the then President, 122 Buchanan
gained slowly In the succeeding balloting.
and Pierce steadily lost, until on the six
teenth he had none ard Buchanan had all
but the eighteen required to nominate
him The latter won these on the seven
tenth, and then the entire 296 were
passed to him as d compliment.
At the American (KnoW nothing) con-
vention, at Philadelphia. Fillmore was
nominated on the first ballot Then the
Wing convention, at Baltimore. ratified
this nomination. The Republican party
held its convention at Philadelphia and
on the first formal vote nominated John
c. Fremont
Then came the several conventions Of
1850. The Democrats had trouble with
theirs at Charleston. There We're nine
candidates, including Andrew Johnson
and Jefferson Davis. Stephen A. Doug
las thought he had the convention from
The start. He got the largest vote for
hfty-seven ballots, but still could net get
the required tWO-thirds The convention
split hopeless OF making a nomination.
Later it convened at Baltimore and nom
mated Douglas on the second ballot
The Republican convention at Chicago
took three ballots, giving William II.
Seward on the first 173, Lincoln 102, Simon
Cameron 80, and Chase 49, Seward OBJ
tanned $50 on the third and Lincoln 81
and got the nomination.
Mcclellan Is Nominated.
At the Democratic convention Of 1864
at Chicago one ballot was sufficient 10
give the nomination TO George b Nc
Clellan, father of the present mayor Of
New York. II was at this convention
that the name of George II. PendIeton
appeared-the first OF a lengthy list OF
men coming from the Hamilton County
bar, at Cincinnati, with Presidential dis
tinction TO their credit IN national con
ventlons. This list contains. besides The
name Of Pendlet0n. those OF Salmon p
Chase. William ). GrOesbeck. George
Hoadiy, Rutherford 3. Hayes. Joseph b.
Foraker Judson Harmon, OF Cleveland
Cabinet, a woUld-be at the coming Den
yer convention. and William II. Taft,
fast runner for the great race at Chi
cage, come June Is.
The regular Republican convention IN
Baltimore IN 1864 named Lincoln as its
candidate on the first ballot
A dark horse took the nomination from
the Democratic convention at New York
ia 1863 He was Horatio Seymour. and
be hadn't appeared at all in the initial
run. Pendleton lead until the eighth It
took twenty-five ballots for Seymour to
outrun the rest Of the bunch. including
Hancock. Hendricks. Chase, Johnson.
and six others.
The Republican convention at Chicago
had Just one man in mind. and gave the
nomination 20 Grant unanimously on the
first ballot.
There were TWO Democratic and TWO
Republican conventions in 1872. Horace
Greeley captured the nomination from the
Baltimore Democrats and from the Lib
eral Republicans az Clncinnati-the
former on the first ballot. the latter on
the sixth. Grant captured the prize from
the regular Republicans at Philadelphia
without the slightest opposition
In 1870 two ballots gave Tilden the Dem
ocratic nomination al st, Louis Blaine s
friends were confident he had the Repub-
lican nomination at the convention az
Cincinnati. He started out with more
than double the number given 10 Morton.
his closest rival. and more than six times
the number Hayes got. But Hayes went
forward with a squirt IN the fifth and
won in the seventh.
Again IA Dark Horse.
In the Republican convention of 1880 al
Chicago, another dark horse won. Car
field distanced Grant, Blaine. sherman.
and some others. On the first ballot his
name did not appear at ali, and on the
twentieth he had but one delegates vote
Grant was the favorite. beginning with
his famous 5O4 and holding at COS at the
end. Garfield won or the thirty-sixth
with 1893 votes. In the November election
ne carried but twenty of the forty-one
States. AT the Democratic convention Of
this year, at Cincinnati, Gen. Hancock
beat Bayard, Thurman. Hendricks. TIL
den, and others and won on the second.
In the Republican convention Of 1854.
at Chicago, Blaine had the start Of Ar
thur, Edmunds. Logan Sherman, and
others and won on the fourth ballot. In
the Democratic convention, at Chicago,
Cleveland won on the second ballot. de-
teating Thurman, Randall, Tilden, Hen
bricks, and several other great Demo-
Gratis.
sherman entered the race at the con-
vention Of the Republicans in 1855, at
far in the lead OF seventeen
rivals, including such men as Blaine,
Harrison, Alger, Depew, Allison, McKin-
ley Foraker. and Gen. Grants son
Sherman kept in the lead up 10 the sixth
ballot with Harrison and Alger steadily
nearing him. On the eighth. Harrison
came under the wire a great winner. The
Democrats, at their convention IN St.
A@~uiSI AeAu but SutSie lidu 10 present,
and nominated Cleveland again by ac-
clamation.
In 1892 the Democratic convention. at
and the Republican convention,
at Minneapolis. respectively. gave the
honor to Cleveland on the first ballot,
defeating German. Hill. Carlisle. Whit
ney' and others, and to President HaT-
TisOn on the first, defeating Blaine, Nc
kinley, Reed, and Lincoln.
In the Democratic convention OF 1896, at
Richard P. Bland started out
as the favorite, with thirteen others in
the race. Bryan passed him on the fourth
ballot and won on the fifth. In the Re-
publican convention, at St. Louis Nc
kinleN.s nNarMhaIninc. odds On Ahn arst