Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . rst ballot. The Democratic convention met in July,adopted a platform on the 10th of that month, and nominated forpresident Grover Cleveland, then governor of New York; for vice-president Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana. The nominations weremade July 12th, Cleveland on the second ballot, and Hendricks onthe first. The greenback-labor party convened at Indianapolis,adopted a platform May 28th, and on the same day nominatedBenjamin F. Butler of Mas
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . rst ballot. The Democratic convention met in July,adopted a platform on the 10th of that month, and nominated forpresident Grover Cleveland, then governor of New York; for vice-president Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana. The nominations weremade July 12th, Cleveland on the second ballot, and Hendricks onthe first. The greenback-labor party convened at Indianapolis,adopted a platform May 28th, and on the same day nominatedBenjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts for president, A. M. West ofMississippi for vice-president, both on the first ballot. The anti-monopoly convention also nominated General Butler for president attheir convention in Chicago May 14th. The Prohibition nationalconvention assembled in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 23d, and onthe 24th nominated its candidates, John P. St John of Kansas forpresident, William Daniel of Maryland for vice-president. The campaign was opened with the utmost enthusiasm on all sides,and was prosecuted with the utmogt vigor to the very day the polla. 3n>J~<L V-Cx^ ^h^ ^S) ^^nq^^\THE LOWER CANON, YELLOWSTONE VALLEY. 140 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. were opened, when there had never been felt, with one exception, somuch doubt as to the result. The only interest attached to the can-vass of the minor parties was in connection with the weakening ofone or the other of the two great parties by the loss of the votesof their adherents. The great contest was again between theKepublican and Democratic parties. The platforms of both par-ties had been framed with a view to the most pressing wantsof the people, and were strikingly similar. The only reaHssue otimportance between the parties, according to the pledges oftheir platforms, was the tariff question. With a very few ex-ceptions the Democratic leaders fought shy of this question, andthe result was a canvass depending almost enti
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