The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-06-21


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at the national Democratic convention
held in Baltimore in 1852. William D.
King of Alabama was nominated for
Vice President, but did not live to fill
the Office.
The convention which met at Cincin.
nati, on June 2, 1856, lasted four days
snd resulted in the nomination OF
Games Buchanan of Pennsylvania for
President and John C. Breckenridge OF
Kentucky for Vice President
The most fateful convention which
was ever held in the United States
was that which opened at Charleston
S. c., on April %, 1860, which lasted
ten days and took 81 unavailing ballots
and which split the party into a North
crn and Southern section, each OF
which had separate convention in an.
other place and put up ticket of its
own. One faction named Stephen A
Johnson of Georgia, while the other
nominated John c. Breckenridge OF
kentucky and Joseph Lane of Oregon
Both were defeated at the polls by
Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Ham
lin, Republicans.
The main purpose for holding the
Democratic national convention which
met in Chicago on August 80, 1864
was to prevent the party organization
from going wholly to pieces. The con
vention adopted platform which de-
clared the war a failure and nominated
Gen George B. Mcclellan of New Jer
sey for President and George H. Pen
d'eton of Ohio for Vice President. Only
three states ratified the convention {
action.
In the convention of 1868, the only
Seymour of New York was named for
President and F.. P. Blair of Missouri
for Vice President. This ticket was
easily beaten by the Republican ticket
OF Grant and Colfax.
The 1872 convention of the Demo
Gratis was held at baltimore. 1t accept
Ell Horace Greeley, the nominee of the
seeding element of the Republican
party, and named B. Gratz Brown OF
Missouri for Vice President, but the
regular Republicans in. that year re
peated their victory of 1868
In their convention of 1876, in St
Louis, the Democrats nominated their
! strongest and ablest man, Samuel J
Tilden of New York, with Thomas A
Hendricks of Indiana for Vice Presi
dent. They came within one vote in
the electoral college of electing theil
ticket.
Record Since 1876.
Since 1876 the national conventions
and nominees of the Democratic party
have been as follows:
1880, at Cincinnati, Gen. Winfield S
Hancock, of Pennsylvania for Presi
dent and William NJ English of Indi
ana for Vice President.
1884, at Chicago, Grover Cleveland
OF New York for President and Thorn
as A. Hendricks of Indiana for Vice
President.
1873, at Chicago, Grover Cleveland OF
New York for President and Allen G
Thurman of Ohio for Vice President
1892, at Chicago, Grover Cleveland
Of New York for President and Adlai
F.. Stevenson of Illinois for Vice Presi
dent.
1896, at Chicago, William J. Bryan OF
Nebraska for President and Arthur
Sewall of Maine for Vice President.
1900. at Kansas City, William j. Bry.
AN of Nebraska for President and AID
liz E. Stevenson of Illinois for Vice
President.
1904. at st. Louis, Alton B. Parker OF
New York for President and Henry G
Davis of West Virginia for Vice Presi
dent.
1908, at Denver, William j. Bryan OF
Nebraska for President and John w
Kern of Indiana for Vice President.