The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-07

ton simply swallowed the Cincinnati
convention product-ticket. platform
and all. Greeley and Brown were de-
feated overwhelmingly in November.
Tilden and Hendricks.
ST. Louis was the Democratic con-
the opening date. Samuel j. Tilden
of New York and Thomas J. Hen
bricks of Indiana were named for
president and vice president Tilden,
who was governor of New York, was
master politician and had planned his
campaign with marvellous ability. Gov
ernor Hendricks of Indiana was his
chief opponent. Hendricks accepted
the second place on the ticket with
some reluctance. Tilden was elected
in November, according to the best
knowledge and belief of all Democrats
and many Republicans, but a special
commission created to decide electoral
| contests voted his opponent. Ruther-
| ford B. Hayes of Ohio, into the presf-
Dental chair. The electoral commits
sion was made up of eight Republic
cans and seven Democrats. The final
vote on the matters in contest was
eight Republicans for Hayes and seven
Democrats for Tilden.
The Cleveland Convention.
In 1880 the Democrats met June p
| in Cincinnati. Tflden declined a re-
| nomination. General Winfield S. Han
cock of Pennsylvania was named for
] president and William H. English OF
Indiana for vice president.
Grover Cleveland of New York.
| the first Democrat elected president
| since 1856 and thus far the only one,
was the presidential nominee of the
| three conventions of 1884 in Chicago,
| 1888 in st. Louis and 1892 in Chi
cago. His running maze in 1884 was
| Thomas A. Hendricks, in 1888 Allen
! G. Thurman of Ohio and in 1892 Adlai
E. Stevenson of Illinois.
When the convention of 1896 met in
| Chicago the leading candidate was
| Richard p. Bland of Missouri, but Will
| liam j. Bryan of Nebraska, then only
&c wears old, delivered in the conven-
ton his famous 'cross of gold" speech.
/ and in the ensuing whirlwind of en-
| thusiasm he was nominated for presi-
| dent. Arthur Sewall of Maine was
named for vice president. Bryan was
| renominated by reclamation at Kansas
City in 1900. with former Vice Presi-
/ dent Stevenson in second place.
| At the convention in ST. Louis in
| 1904, of which Congressman Champ
| Clark of Missouri was permanent chair
| man, Judge Alton B. Parker of New
| York was nominated for president, with
former Senator Henry G. Davis of West
| Virginia as running mate.
Nineteen Conventions Already Passed.
AT the nineteenth Democratic nation
| al conventions already held Is indi-
| viduals have been named for the presi-
| dency. OF these six have been elected.
| The successful candidates were Andrew
Jackson, Martin Van Buren,, James K.
/ Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan
| and Grover Cleveland. Van Buren, was
| elected once and defeated once. Cleve-
| land was elected twice and defeated
| once. Andrw Jackson was president
! two terms, but was the nominee of a
| national convention only once. Tilden
was elected at the election and defeat
| ed by the electoral commission. Bryan
| has been defeated twice and is now
| again the leading candidate for the
nomination. In 1904 he was not an as
pirant for the honor.
ROBERTUS LOVE.
| Copyright, 1908, by Robertus Love.)