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Democratic National Convention Opens In Chicago 1884
The New York delegation debates unit rule and Cleveland's candidacy as the Chicago convention opens with Hubbard named temporary chair and Vilas elected permanent president. Bayard and Thurman emerge as leading nomination prospects amid fiery speeches urging reform and party unity.
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Cleveland
New York
Palmer House
Meveland
Flower
Tilden
Bayard
Thurman
Slocum
Messrs. Reilly
Grady
Fellows
Messrs
Kelly and
Manning
Saratoga
Barnum
National Committee
Greystone
William H. Barnum
Chicago
J. Tilpen
National Democratic Committee
D. C. Marquis
Northwestern Theol Seminary
Richard B. Hubbard
Texas
Hubbard
B. F. Jonas
Louisiana
George T. Barnes
Georgia
Abram S. Hewitt
Democratic Party
House of Representatives
Senate
Pees
Ty Tilden
Hendricks
Ministers of Justice
Republican Party
New Meom
Party of the Constitution
Union
Prince
Massachusetts
Smalley
Vermont
John R. Fellows
New York Democracy
Hisses
Judge Doolittle
Wisconsin
Powers
Michigan
Committee On Rules
Cochran
O. W. Powers
Carter Harrison
Illinois
Leeson
Jacobs
John Kelly
Colonel Fellows
Kelly
McLaren
D. D
Chaiman
Irish National League
Labor Statistic Bureau
Agai
F. Vilas
Dent
Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
Ww. Armstrong
Ohio
W. H. Persons
John A. Henderson
John A
Missouri
William Sparks
Ilinois
Smith M. Weed
Vilas
Mr. Vilas
National Democracy
Earth
Republic
Washington
Benjamin F. Butler
Rinkwater
Aplause
Party of the Republic
Snowden
Pennsylvania
Committee On
Delaware
George Gray
United States
Democrac
Thomas Francis Bayard
Ndiana
Naval Bureau of Medicine
Grant
Supreme Court of the Uni
West
McDonald
Ae Ae
Maine
Offornia