Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-13

ballot gave Grant sOa. Blaine 2s4. shermon
90. Edmonds "a. Washburne 30, Window 10
and Garfield l. As chairman OF the New
York delegation. Il fell 70 Conkllng to
announce the vote Of his state. Having
failed to force the unit rule on the con
vention and thus give New York's seventy
votes to Grant, he studiedly stung the anti
Grant delegates by his formula: Two Of
the New York delegates, Mr.. Chairman, are
said to be for Mr.. Sherman. seventeen for
Mr.. Blaine; flfty-one are for Grant"
And they were for Grant as were all his
supporters from start to finish, going down
with him to the last ditch.
On the thirty-fifth ballot. taken Tuesday,
Grant reached his highest number OF votes
-313. The humber needed for a choice was
S7s. on the thirty-sixth ballot Garfield,
who had fifty votes on the thirty-fifth,
was given the votes OF the delegations
which had been voting for Sherman and
Blaine.
This record Of thirty-six ballots has yet
to be surpassed in a republican national
convention. on ten Of these thirty-six
ballots, Garfield received one vote; on
eight Of them he had two. o. the thirty
fourth ballot his small contingent had in
creased to seventeen. wiich was augmented
to fifty on the thirty-fifth. On the thirty
sixth, he was nominated by 500 votes.
Around the Victor.
Blaine in his book says: The banners
Of the states were caught up and massed
In a waving circle around the head Of the
predestinsd and now chosen candidate, who
sat pale and motionless in his seat with
the Ohio delegation. The scene Of enthu-
HiaqU1 and ffop 1opn aalarraA 49,. ft,.1
announcement, which gave Garfield 500
votes, Grant BOG, Blaine ~, washburne O.,
Sherman 8 The nomination was immedl-
ately made unanimous on motion Of Mr..
Conkling."
For vicepresident, Chester A. Arthur Of
New York, a friend of Conkling, was nomi-
mated on the first ballot. Others placed in
nomination for the office were Ellhu b..
Wnshburne Of Illinois, Msrshall Jewell OF
Connecticut, Horace Maynard of Tennes-
see Edmund J. Davis Of Texas, Blanche
K. Bruce Of Mississippi, Thomas Settle Of
Florida, and Stewart L. woodford of New
York. The platform adopted declared the
republican party to be in favor OF a pro-
tective tariff. of national aid to state edu-
cation, OF a thorough reform of the civil
service, and opposed to the support Of sec
tartan schools.
Democratic Leaders.
TIL democratic national convention mot
at Cincinnati, o., June %, and completed
its work June "a. So quickly was II organ
lied with George Headly OF Ohio as tenn
porary, and JON w. Stevenson of Ken
lucky as permanent, chairman, that bal
loting was begun on the second day. On
the second ballot General Winfield Scott
Hancock Of Pennsylvania was nominated
for president. Before the result OF the
second roll call was announced, states
which had voted for other candidates, the
strongest among them being Thomas F.
Bayard, senator from Delaware, changed
to Hancock, giving him 7OS votes, leaving
but two to Bayard, thirty to Thomas A.
Hendricks Of Indiana, one to Samuel j..
Tilden of New York and one to Horatio
Seymour Of New York.
Tn list of names presented to the con-
vention for the presidential nomination. IN
clrded Winfield s. Hancock of Pennsyl-
vania, Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware,
Henry B.. Payne Of Chic, Allen G. Thur
man Of Ohio, Stephen ]. Field Of Cali
fornia, William r. Morrison Of Illinois,
Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, Samu, IL
j. Tilden Of New York, Horatio Seymour
of New York and Samuel j, Randall Of
Pennsylvania. For vice president. William
H. English Of Indiana, member Of congress
during Buchanan's administration, was
nominated by reclamation. Richard M.
Bishop OF Ohio had been suggested as a
candidate for the nomination, but his name
was withdrawn. The platform, compact
and energetic, denounced Capitalization
and sumptuary laws, called for honest
money, consisting Of gold and silver and
paper convertible into coin on demand, a
tariff for revenue only, public lands for
actual settlers, civil service REFORM a free
ballot s~ubordination of the military to the
civil power, free ships and no discrimina-
ton in favor Of transportation lines. cor
porations and m~onopolies. 1t declared that
the democratic party was the friend nf
labor and asked that Chinese immigration