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The Reformers In the Cincinnati Convention.

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ed for. to say nothing of the unfairness of a
contest in which the assailed party is de
barred from retaliation by the fact that his
assailant is woman. But it is not to be
denied that Gail makes it a little warm y
for Mr.. Eaton, in spots. As specimen, we
copy from her last article in the Tribune. her
comment on Mr.. Eaton's suggestion that it
was the Civil Service Reform element which
secured the nomination of President Hayes,
at Cincinnati. She says;
Looking at the seven ballotings which re-
suited in the nomination of Mr.. Hayes,
find that, on the first ballot, all the angels of
reform with the great sound of their trum-
pet, gathering together their elect from the
four winds, from the uttermost part of the
earth to the uttermost part of heaven, had
been able to muster only 81 out OF the $50
delegates composing the convention. to cast
their votes for Mr.. Ifyes. OF these 81 elect
and precious, II were from Mr.. Hayes own
State of Ohio, where, as We all know. there
is such Juror for reform as sweeps all be-
fore it, suppose an Ohio man who would
accept office on any other ground than fit
ness might make his fortune, even in our de-
preciated currency, by going around and
exhibiting himself at a nnepencs head
=. no 10 cent tickets received Outside of
Ohio, then, the command Of the people "
for Mr.. Hayes as Reformer was delivered |
to two delegates from Alabama, which is |
athirst for reform one from Illinois four |
from Michigan, Of whom the chief has since |
been appointed Governor of Dakota one |
from Missouri /; one from Nevada five from |
New JERSEY, which il all alive for competi
tive examination; one from Vermont
think it must have been that eminent Re
Reformer, Judge Poland. but | do not pre-
tend to know Miss Dodge is mistaken. The
vote was cast by Mr.. French, of Woodstock.
Ed. F. p and two from West Virginia. These
were the Leyitcs who came fresh from "the
people, bearing the ark OF Reform and all
the service thereof to be charge to Mr..
Hayes and their numbers prove beyond
question 1.-THE recognized strength of the
sentiment demanding it," On the second
ballot the tide was swollen to 6i, on the
third to e., on the fourth to 6S, OF the
fifth to l04, on the sixth to ll3. The next
ballot was to decide. and did decide, the
fortunes of the day, and up to that hour,
with all the pulling and hauling and promis-
ing and peddling that could be done by
Michael and his angels of reform with the
old political machine dragon, through six
ballots, "the command of the people" had
brought up scarcely a seventh part of the
convention for Mr.. Hayes. Suddenly, on
the last ballot, he leaped forward and re-
ceiyed 3S4 votes, and was nominated BY
majority of FIVE. This then was the moment
wnen all the forces of Reform in the conyen-
ton made their grand rally and coalesced on
sr. Hayes. Of these great forces OF Reform
that suddenly swept Mr.. Hayes to the front,
largest and strongest came the New York
delegation, casting their 81 votes for Mr..
HAYES, carving out the wishes, and, if the
newspapers are to be credited, acting under
the telegraphic requests of that spoiled
darling Of MIR. Curtis and the Civil Service
Reformers, Mr.. Senator Conkling, singing
as it were a new song
From the desert come to thee
On stallion shod with Ore,
And the inds left beh ind
In the speed o. my desire
for the divorce of patronage from politics.
Up dashed also that Sir Galahad Of Reform,
Mr. j. Donald Cameron then Secretary of War
BY the grace of Grant, now Senator of the
United States by command of the people"
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tory with bis clarion cry:
NV good blade swoops the ballots in,
/ make my calling sure
NY strength is as the strength o! ten,
Because my heart is pure
of political vile and guile, and gave to Mr..
Eaton's "higher elements in politics" what
the boys would call valuable lift in the
form Of twenty eight votes for Mr.. Hayes,
his own eager ballot included. Then came
up to the help Of the Lord against the
mighty the Indiana delegation, that had been
laboring with zeal and knowledge for their
great Senator, one CT the last of the grand
old War Governors, Mr.. Morton-on whom
be peace who, | suppose, had all his life
been like ST. Paul, not one whit behind the
very chiefest apostles of Reform-and thun-
dered out their resolve to let it be under
stood that they intended that those whose
duty it might be should make themselves
qualified" by throwing twenty-five votes for
Mr.. Hayes; and up, Ike Venus from the
Summer sea OF Reform, rose Senator Patter-
son, of South Carolina, all garlanded with
its "cool blossoms Of water ard foam, and
cast his sacred seven for Mr. Hayes and
across country, from the Mexicar-vexed Dor
ders Of Texas, rode Governor Davis, click
ety-split,' to throw down his thirteen votes
for righteousness - though it occurs
TO my memory that the Reform
organs succeeded more thoroughly
in assembling their love for Gov
ernor Davis during President Grants ad-
ministration than for any other Southern
Governor, with the possible exception Of
Governor Ames. Of Mississippi. But Cover
nor Ames, of Mississippi, was also not want
ing, but acting in asserted and presumed
concert with that other devotee of reform,
General Butler. of Massachusetts,, tore in
with his sixteen votes for Hayes and the
Higher Life. And down his Hill of Gold
leaped that champion, of reform, the silver
tongued Senator from Nevada, with his CO.
hort Of six Reformers from the Comstock
Lode, and they stayed not for brake, and
they stopped not for stone, they swan the
Ohio where ford there was none, and the
sheen of their spears was like stars on the
sea, as they gallopei into the Convention
and threw down their ballots and bullion on
the highest point OF the upward plane Of
their zigzag march to Heaven. 10 short, to
avert further detail, Mr.. Hayes received on
the seventh ballot 81 more votes than he
had on the sixth, and Of these 152 votes. or
about three-tifths of the whole, were fur
nished by that Band Of Brothers, seven sons
Of one mother, our gracious Lady Of Reform,
Senator Conkling, Senator Cameron, Senator
Morton, Senator John Patterson, Senator
Jones. Governor Davis, of Texas, and Cover
nor Ames, of Mississippi Who can doubt
that the spirit OF reform, "by command Of
the people," came flying all abroad and
breathed upon these mighty men of yalor
till, out of the wide, wild weller Of Posi-
bilities, President Hayes became Living
Soul2 GAIL HAMILTON.