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Fragmented Democratic Convention Highlights Deep Slavery Debate
The slavery plank triggers an explosive dispute as Northern and Southern delegates clash and several dozen Southern delegates leave. Democrats deadlock on a presidential nominee and reconvene in another city to finish work, with battles echoing through the party's long history.
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Stephen Douglas
Congress
Dixiecrats
South Carolina
Strom Thurmond
Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
Charleston
S.C
Baltimore
Stephen Arnold Douglas
Cincinnati Enquirer
A. James Cox
Alfred E. Smith
Henry G. Davis
National Party
Martin van Buren
Treasury
Bank of the United States
Channing Emery Phillips
Washington, D.C
William Jennings Bryan
United States
Decatur
Ill
James Cox
Ohio
Warren Harding
Grover Cleveland