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Show ohitiiimi tiKirriuiiiii ti, lUMIMIOX. A i-uitTICAL philosopher who haa lieen diving lulo the musty recorJa of convention history baa discovered that Chicago holds the tain) for auccess That city had In all eo far In Ita history dine political national conventions and scored five successes. lu I8t)0 I Lincoln was nomlnaleo there, (Irani In IMS, ttirrlelJ In 18), Cleveland In 168J and Harrison In 1939. It should bei noted, however, thai two of the conventions mention I In the nine referred lo, were the Ureenbaskera of ISM and tho Antl monopolists of 1891, both of which had no riasonablo hope of eflecllng anything, and are only remembered now because Ihey held their convention at Chicago. Haltlmore was the convention city of other days. It haa a record of sixteen national cvenUofthla kind, but werati remember only four auccessra, namely Van lluren, In ISM, Polk, In 1811, Pierce, In ISM, and Lincoln In 1801. Cincinnati had all contentions an J only two triumph, Huchanati In IS5J an! Hayes lu ISTil. PhlU leli hla had four convrntlsna but only two victories, vic-tories, Taylor lu 1843 and Grant In 1872. The method of procejur dlfleri somewhat In lleitibllcan and Demo cratlo national conventions. In the former, aa a general rule, Individual member mike tho unit rule In voting, while la the latter the Htato delegation la the unit In voting. Hut In the Democratic organliatlona the two-thirds two-thirds rule generally prevails, so that If two-thirds of the New Vork delegation voted In caucus for Hill, the whole delegation would be caat for him llithe convention. In some cases a majority was deemed eudlclent to carry the unit rule. The succreerul candidate for Ibe nomination must also ot tain atuo-thlrda atuo-thlrda vote of all the membere composing compos-ing Ibe convention. |