DEMOCRATIC.
The Democratic National Convention assembled at Chicago, June 21st, and its deliberations excited great interest because of the opposition of the New York delegation to the nomination of Cleveland. Under the leadership of Governor Hill, the New York Democracy, in the canvass of 1891, carried the State, electing Flower as Governor, and Hill as U. S. Senator, the latter only after a severe contest and depriving three Republican State Senators of their seats by contests settled before partisan courts. The New York opposition to Cleveland, with the active aid of Tammany, united upon Hill as a Presidential candidate. A “snap” or mid-winter State Convention was called to elect delegates to the National Convention, and 72 Hill men were chosen and instructed. This system of forestalling public sentiment angered the Cleveland Democrats, who signed a protest to the number of 200,000 and three months later elected a contesting delegation, with instructions for Cleveland. Mr. Croker, Tammany’s Chief, and State Chairman Murphy were the Hill leaders at Chicago, and they gave early and public notice, in very bitter language, that if nominated Cleveland could not carry New York. Ex-Secretary of the Navy Whitney was the Cleveland leader, and he readily mustered more than two-thirds of the Convention, and felt so assured of victory that he advised the withdrawal of the contest against Hill’s delegation. Singularly enough the minority desired the repeal of the unit rule, for they had ascertained, after a careful canvass, that Cleveland would lose enough votes to check and possibly prevent his nomination if all of the delegates were permitted to vote separately. The unit rule, however, was carefully re-enacted in the report of the Committee on Rules.
Governor Wm. L. Wilson, of West Virginia, was elected President. Governor Leon Abbett, of New Jersey, presented the name of Grover Cleveland; William C. DeWitt, of New York, that of Senator David B. Hill, and John M. Duncombe, of Iowa, that of Governor Boies. A ballot was reached at 4 o’clock on the morning of the 23d, the Cleveland leaders doing this to prevent combinations by the opposition.
| THE BALLOT IN DETAIL. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| States. | Cleveland. | Hill. | Boies. | Gorman. | Scattering. |
| Alabama | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Arkansas | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| California | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Colorado | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Connecticut | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Delaware | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Georgia | 17 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Idaho | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Illinois | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indiana | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Iowa | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kentucky | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Louisiana | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| Maine | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Maryland | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9½ | 0 |
| Massachusetts | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Michigan | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mississippi | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Missouri | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Montana | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Nebraska | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Nevada | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Jersey | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New York | 0 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 3⅓ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17⅔ |
| North Dakota | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ohio | 14 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 5 |
| Oregon | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 2 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Tennessee | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Texas | 23 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Vermont | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Washington | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| West Virginia | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Wisconsin | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Wyoming | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Territories | |||||
| Alaska | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arizona | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Dist. of Columbia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Mexico | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Utah | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Indian Territory | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 617⅓ | 115 | 103 | 36½ | 38⅔ |
Number of votes cast, 909½. Necessary to a choice, 607.
Of the scattering votes Campbell got two from Alabama.
Carlisle got 3 from Florida, 6 from Kentucky, 5 from Ohio. Total 14.
Stephenson got 16⅔ from North Carolina.
Pattison got 1 from West Virginia.
Russell got 1 from Massachusetts.