New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-16

votes, lacking only three of q nomination,
when David X. Carter. chairman of the
Ohio delegation, and now Chief Justice OF
the Supreme Court of the District of COlum-
bia, changed four Ohio votes from Chase to
Lincoln, giving the latter the necessary
majority. Amid immense enthusiasm other
States followed, until the result was de-
clared to be 354 for Mr.. Lincoln and llOh
for Mr.. Seward. There was little excite
ment over the nomination OF Vice President
at this convention. As we see it now, the
uncertainty as to the principal nomination
had concentrated attention on it to the ex-
clusiOn of all else, and men who under
other circumstances would have entered
upon an active contest for the second place
kept comparatively quiet, in the hope that
by some lucky accident they might come
in as compromise nominees for the first,
which is again what we see to-day. On the
first ballot Hannibal Hamlin had 1874 votes,
which was large majority over any other
person voted for. A good many changes
were made. and the result was finally an
nounced: Hamlin, 367; Cassius NJ. Clay. g.;
John Hickman, 49,
The third National Republican Conven.
ton for the nomination of presidential can
didates met at Baltimore in June, 1864,
ident. 1t met in the midst of the civil war,
and when the ultimate result of the contest
seemed yet in doubt. There was no ques-
ton among the delegates as to who was to
be the nominee. Abraham Lincoln repre-
sented the friends of the war for the Union,
and the country had no doubt about fight
ing out the contest to the end. The national
convention renominated Lincoln on the first
ballot The Missouri delegation cast twenty
two votes for Grant. This was the only op-
position. There was, as always happens
nd cy,oh a Ivnlv COnfARf
for second place. Daniel s. Dickinson was
talked of for New York; Andrew johnson
was the most prominent candidate, and
though Hannibal Hamlin and Lowell H.
Rousseau, of Kentucky, were also named,
the contest speedily narrowed down to the
two first named men. We believe it is a
part Of the inner history of this contest
that the movement which secured the
necessary number of votes for the nomina-
ton of johnson was set afOOt by prOmi-
nent gentleman from Westchester, in this
State. Until he stepped forward in favor
of the Tennessee candidate, the New York
man was leading. The first ballot gave
johnson large majority. and subsequent
changes made the nomination unanimous.
In 1868 the fourth Republican National
Convention was held at Chicago, and as
everybody knows General Grant was un-
animOusly nominated for the Presidency.
The same contest LOT second place rs ua0
last convention had been occurred in this,
but more intense. Reuben E. FentOn was
earnestly DESTROYS of the nomination, but
there were a larger number of politicians
from his own State as earnestly bent on de.
feating him. The other prominent candidates
were Schuyler Colfax, Benjamin F. Wade
and Henry Wilson. Mr.. Wade led from the
beginning, but here again the Pennsylvania
delegation came in, as usual, to turn the
scale when the balance was wavering, tor
when Iowa changed its vote and came over
to Colfsx, which created an intense exotic
ment in the convention, Pennsylvania i'm
mediately jumped in and decided the day.
A stampede ensued, and Colfax was nomi
mated on the sixth ballot. Of this conven
ton Carl Schurz was temporary and Gen
eral Joseph R. Hawley permanent presi
dent.
OF the last National Convention, held 81
Philadelphia in June, 1872. there is little
occasion to speak at length, for it is still
fresh in the public mind. The single ques
ton the convention had to consider las in
the former one) was, who should be Vice
President, TO. the denomination Of Genera
Grant for the presidency was decided long
before the convention met. Tho candidates
fer the vice presidency were only two