The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-30
DELEGATES ARE BROKE
AND PRICES ARE HIGH
Gone the Paraders; the Taxi
cab Joy-Riders Have Ceased
From Riding and the Root
erS Root No More.
BY HUGH S. MILLER.
BY international News Service.

Ey international News Service.
IN ALTIMORE, June 29.-Consider
* the Democrats, how they fight!
This is the best time in the
world to pause and reflect that
we are in the midst of the grandest
little convention these United States
have ever seen. History is being made
as it never WAS made before. This his
tory factory is running night and day.
To wait and contemplate it after it
is all over would be opportunity vast
ed. To prophesy the outcome at this
point would be sheer recklessness. But
reflection on what is now before us
and comparison with events Of years
gone by, are perfectly sane, proper and
interesting activities.
Break Ballot Record,
1t is especially recommended that
consideration be given the following:
The question at issue with the gen
tlemen who are voting, fighting, shout
is the selection Of the next president
Of the United States. He is to be
Democrat. Every delegate to the CON
vention admits it.
So what these men do-if they ever
do anything-will be historically I'M
portant. The name Of the man whom
they choose is bound to be mentioned
In posterity's history books. Cigars
will be named for him. He probably
will be remembered for quite a while.
When the delegates today began get
ting up in the twenties on their bal
lots, there was every indication that
they were after a record. They did
pretty WELL Early in the day they
knocked over every high mark estab-
lished by their fellow Democrats since
1868.
Recalls Waterloo. =
In that year Horatio Seymour was
on the twenty-seventh bal
lot. Mr., Seymour was defeated for the
by General Grant
The convention was held in New
York. If the present convention sat
ishes itself with beating the 1868 rec
ord, all will he fairly well. But if it
tries to outdo the exercises held right
here in Baltimore in 1860, there will
be both 10y and enthusiasm. In 1860
the Democrats held two conventions.
They started in Charleston, expecting a
pleasant visit and profitable exper-
fence. Under the gladstone southern !
sun they began voting on candidates. |
They yoted-and continued to vote
until they had voted ffty-seveu times. |
Then the impression got about that !
such was no wav and they split. 1t
was no tea party affair. 1t was the |
kind that means defeat for presidency. |
The two factions held conventions In |
Baltimore, one nominating Douglas and |
the other Breckenridge. II happened |
that Abraham Lincoln beat them both.
Tho next previous high mark estab.
lished by the Democrats was in Gin
cinnati in 1856. They took sixteen
ballots without result. On the seven
teenth Buchanan was nominated. He
was elected, too.
Fourteen years before in this same
city, the Democrats went up to the
forty-ninth ballot before they chose
their candidate. Franklin Pierce was
the man.
Deadlock in 1874.
Baltimore was the scene also of tho
only other deadlock of Importance,
when 1t took nine ballots to nominate
lanes X. Polk in 1874.
IT is never good idea TO think
q bout the things one doesn e want to
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