UNITED STATES. 



773 



platform was then adopted without a count. 

 The first ballot for candidate for President was 

 taken the same night, and resulted as follows : 



Grover Cleveland 892 



Thomas F. Bayard .- no 



Joseph McDonald 56 



Samuel J. Randall 73 



Allen G. Thurman 88 



John G. Carlisle 27 



George Hoadly 3 



Thomas A. Hendricks , . , . 1 



Samuel J. Tilden 1 



Eoswell P. Flower 4 



When the vote of New York was announced 

 as 72 for Cleveland, it was stated that in the 

 delegation it had stood 49 for Cleveland and 

 23 divided between Bayard, Slocum, and 

 Flower. On the fourth and last day of the 

 convention, the second ballot for candidate 

 for President resulted as follows : 



Grover Cleveland 688 



Thomas F. Bayard 81 J 



Thomas A. Hendricks 4f j 



Allen G. Thurrnan 4 



Samuel J. Randall 4 



Joseph McDonald 2 



The nomination of Cleveland was made 

 unanimous on motion of Mr. Hendricks, who 

 was subsequently nominated for Vice-Presi- 

 dent by acclamation after a roll-call had be- 

 gun, all other names being withdrawn. A 

 new National Committee was selected, of 

 which William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, 

 was afterward made chairman ; Senator Gor- 

 man, of Maryland, being chairman of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee. Headquarters were estab- 

 lished in the city of New York. 



Independent Conference. Shortly after the 

 Democratic Convention, another conference of 

 the Independents was called, to be held in 

 New York on the 22d of July. It was attended 

 by a large number of delegates from different 

 parts of the country, and presided over by 

 Charles R. Codman, of Massachusetts. An 

 address to the people was adopted, and com- 

 mittees appointed to carry on the work of the 

 movement, the object of which was to defeat 

 the Republican candidates. The address closed 

 as follows : 



No citizen can rightfully avoid the issue or refuse 

 to cast his vote. The ballot is a trust. Every voter 

 is a trustee for good government, bound to answer to 

 his private conscience for his public acts. This con- 

 ference, therefore, assuming that Republicans and 

 Independent voters who for any reason can not sus- 

 tain the Republican nomination desire to take the 

 course which, under the necessary conditions and 

 constitutional methods of a presidential election, will 

 most readily and surely secure the result at which 

 they aim, respectfully recommends to all such citizens 

 to support the electors who will vote for Grover Cleve- 

 land, in order most effectually to enforce their convic- 

 tion that nothing could more deeply stain the Ameri- 

 can name and prove more disastrous to the public 

 welfare than the deliberate indifference of the people 

 of the United States to increasing public corruption, 

 and to the want of official integrity in the highest 

 trusts of the Government. 



Throughout the canvass, by the dissemina- 

 tion of documents and by public meetings, the 

 Independents, under the direction of their 

 committee, labored for the election of the 



Democratic candidates. Their principal speak- 

 er was Mr. Carl Schurz, of New York, who 

 traveled through several of the Northern States, 

 making addresses on the issues and candidates 

 before the people. 



Anti- Monopoly, Greenback - Labor, and People's 

 Parties. A National Convention of the " Anti- 

 Monopoly " party was held in Chicago on the 

 14th of May, and nominated Gen. Benjamin F. 

 Butler, of Massachusetts, for President. The 

 National Greenback-Labor party held a con- 

 vention at Indianapolis on the 27th and 28th 

 of May, which was presided over by Gen. J. B. 

 Weaver, of Iowa. A dispatch was sent to Gen. 

 Butler, asking him if he would accept a nomi- 

 nation on a satisfactory platform. He replied : 



BOSTON, May 28. 

 To Gov. J. W. BEGOLE, Indianapolis : 



Thanks for your consideration, but why should I 

 be asked a question which under the circumstances 

 was never put to any other man ? Is not my record 

 as a Greenbacker for twenty years sufficient without 

 a formal pledge to you which would cause me to be 

 pointed at as a man who bids for the nomination ? 

 BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. 



Gen. Butler was nominated by a vote of 323 

 to 98, the latter being cast for Jesse Harper, of 

 Illinois. The platform set forth the principles 

 and purposes of the party, demanded the sub- 

 stitution of greenbacks for national-bank notes, 

 the destruction of "land, railroad, money, and 

 other gigantic corporate monopolies," the res- 

 toration to the public domain of lands grant- 

 ed to railroads, prohibition of alien ownership 

 of land, regulation of interstate commerce, a 

 government postal telegraph, a graduated in- 

 come-tax, abolition of convict-labor systems, 

 reduction of the hours of labor, the fostering 

 of education, the abolition of "child-labor," 

 prohibition of "importations of contracted 

 labor," and reduction of the terms of Sena- 

 tors. On the subject of the tariff it said : 



While we favor a wise revision of the tariff laws, 

 with a view to raising a revenue from luxuries rather 

 than necessaries, we insist that, as an economic ques- 

 tion, its importance is insignificant as compared with 

 financial issues, for, whereas we have suffered our 

 worst panics under low and also under high tariffs, 

 we have never suffered from a panic nor seen our 

 factories and workshops stopped while the volume of 

 money in circulation was adequate to the needs of 

 commerce. Give our farmers and manufacturers 

 money as cheap as you now give it to our bankers, 

 and they can pay high wages to labor and compete 

 with all the world. 



The nomination of a candidate for Vice- 

 President was left to the National Committee, 

 and Gen. Absalom M. West, of Mississippi, 

 was selected for that place on the 16th of 

 August. In reply to the formal notice of his 

 nomination, Gen. Butler replied in a letter 

 dated June 12th, in which be discussed the 

 currency question, but said nothing about ac- 

 cepting the candidacy. He was then taking 

 part with the Democrats of Massachusetts in 

 their preliminary canvass, and afterward went 

 to the Chicago Convention as one of their dele- 

 gates at large. There he opposed the platform 



