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Article: These days, convention coverage is still important.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2000
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It took three ballots to surprise party chairman William H. Seward and make the Republicans the party of Lincoln in Chicago in 1860. After nearly sixty ballots failed to anoint Stephen Douglas their party's nominee that same year, Democrats stormed out of Charleston, S.C., and repaired to Baltimore, Md., where they were able at last to do the job in two tries.
Although both men were nationally known orators, neither attended nor addressed the convention that nominated him; it wasn't considered good form.
"Ahhhh," you may hear political traditionalists sighing wistfully, "lots of political intrigue and no speeches. Weren't them the days?"
But ...