Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-07-06
DEMOCRATS; lJl {, "A; S; IN: DENVER, ! We !,
Bryan and johnson
the Leading Candi.
dates. x Conven.
tions of the Past.
"Old Hickory" and
"the Little Giant"
Tilden vs.. Hayes.

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Pennsylvania. Finally Pierce was
voted for on the thirty-fifth' ballot by
the Virginia delegation, which persist
ed in voting for the New Englander
until on the forty-ninth ballot nearly
Ill the other delegates swung over and
dominated him.. William Il. King of
Alabama was named on the second
ballot for vice president. ~
| In, 1856 the Democracy finally broke
away from Baltimore and met in Gin
,innati on June 2. During all of Presi.
dent Pierce's administration James
Buchanan had been absent from the
country as minister to England and
thus had escaped the fierce conflict on
the slavery problem and the incidental
anarchy in Kansas Buchanan. Doug
las and Cass were candidates before
the convention. Pierce sought a re-
Nomination and received a substantial
vote, but his attitude in having favored
the repeal of the Missouri compromise
rendered him weaker candidate than
Buchanan, whose absence had been
his political salvation. Buchanan re-
ceived the nomination. with John G.
Breckinridge Of Kentucky as the vice
presidential candidate. The platform
adopted at this convention approved
the course Of the Pierce administration
In repeating the Missouri compromise
and thus giving slavery chance to
intrench itself in the new territories
north Of the southern line of Missouri.
The convention Of 1860 met at
Charleston. S. c. April %. This was
| the f1ercest Democratic convention ever
held, slavery extension being the bone
Of contention. Stephen A. Douglas was
| by far the strongest presidential prob
ability. The convention voted fifty
seven ballots without casting the nec-
essary two-thirds vote for one man.
| Finally the convention adjourned to
meet in Baltimore June IS. Before
adjournment several southern states
withdrew, being opposed to the Doug
las platform. The seeding delegates
4 held a convention in Charleston, adopt
ed platform for which they had con-
tended in the regular convention, then
adjourned to meet in, Richmond the
first Monday in June. On this date
the seeding delegates met and again
adjourned to the 21st of June. Mean
while on the 18th the regulars" met
in Baltimore and nominated Douglas
for president and Benjamin Fitzpat-
rick of Alabama for vice president.
Fitzpatrick declined, and the national
committee named Herschel V. johnson
in his place. Some Of the regulars"
boltsd the Baltimore convention and
tnominated for president John G. Breck-
|inridge Of Kentucky and for vice pres
ident Joseph lime of Oregon. The
'seceders' sitting in Richmond accept
ed this ticket
J - AT Chirag GO in 1864 the Democratic
convention, which met Aug. 20, waa
national only as It related to the north
ern states The eleven southern states
then in the Confederacy, of course,
were not represented General George
Il. Mcclellan was named for the pres
| idency on the first ballot and George
! II. Pendleton of Ohio for the vice
presidency on the second ballot. The
platform pronounced the war a failure.
The only time the city of New York
ever entertained the national conven-
tion was in, 1865 when the body met
there on the Fourth of July and nom-
mated for president HoratiO Seymour,
governor of New York, and for vice
president Frank T., Blair.of Missouri
| In 1872 the Democracy as then con-
stituted returned to the first love of
the party, Baltimore, meeting in con-
first and second offices in the land two
Republicans, Horace, Greeley of New
York and B. Gratz Brown of Missouri.
This anomalous situation was brought
about by prior convention of Lib
eral Republicans" at Cincinnati. led by
Carl Schurz. which nominated Greeley
and Brown. The only hope Of defeat
ing President Grant for reelection was
in combination Of the Democrats and
the Liberal Republicans, who had de-
clared violently against the Grant ad-
ministration. The Baltimore conven-
tion simply swallowed the Cincinnati
convention product-ticket, platform
and all. Greeley and Brown were de-
feated overwhelmingly in November. 81.
St Louis was the Democratic conven-
tion city in 1876, June 1S being the
opening date. Samuel j. Tilden of New
York and Thomas A. Hendricks of
Indiana We're named for president and
vice president. Tilden. who was gov
ernor of New York, was master poll
tician and had planned his campaign
with marvellous ability. Governor Hen
bricks Of Indiana was his chief oppo-