The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-10
The Dol; I. oIse Wins,


and are laid up for repairs. James A.
Garfield carries Off the honors that
wero sought by Grant, Blaine and
Sherman, and Of which dozens Of Re
publican statesmen havc dreamed dur
ing the past week.
On Monday twenty-cight ballots
were held the first Of which has been
already given. The succeeding twcn-
ty-scvcn were almost exact rcpctitions.
On the fifteenth Grant reached 500
votes, and on the fourteenth Blaine re-
ccivcd 295. Sherman began at 93 and
on the twenty-cigh;h touched his high
est point, 93. Edmunds and Wash
burne kept among the thirtics, and
Winlom kept the ten votes Of Mime
sofa solid the whole time. On the
twenty eighth, when the convention
adjourned to Tuesday, Grant stood
3O7, Blaine 279, Sherman 92, Ed
munds 81, Washburnc 81, Window 10,
and Garfield 3. The ballotiny began
at about tho same figures Tuesday. On
the thirty-sixth ballot there was n
stampede Of I'LL the anti-Grant men to
Garfield, and at the close The result
was Garfield 3H, Grant 31l, Blaine
az, the first named having eighteen
votes to spare. The Grant forces died
in The last ditch, and the man whom
Conklimg introduced as having never
been defeated in peace or in war came
out of the scramble rufflcd and towscl-
cd and bctlra@glcd, with all his pres
tigc gone and his reputation badly
damaged. ComklinG, the arrogant,
foundcrcd in the miro beneath his
great chirttain, Logan was tlattcncd
out like board and Don Cameron
was buried on! Of sight.
While hailin@ The defeat Of Grant as
an event OF political importance, in
showing that the vitality Of the Re-
public is not dead and is not ready to
violate constitutional traditions. every
lover Of dcccncy must doubly rejoice
Mt the discontinue OF the great Scna-
tOrial triunyiratc and their paid
myrmidons. Conkling is The most
complete pcrsonitication Of prctcntious
blackguardism AID refined malignily
flat this country has ever seen. lie
would have dictated the policy Of the
country in the event of Grants cleo
ton, and would have been tcnIod
more dangerous to the peace and
stability Of tho Republic tl:an his pre-
tended master. Don Cameron is Il
political prig, of not much weight any
where, except III Pennsylvania, and
Logan isa vulgar blustercr. They
would not have done much harm one
way or another. Conkling WAS the
king-makcr and the moving spirit in
the third Term conspiracy. BY his
pcrtinacity he ruined Grant and him
self. The third term camp is resonant
with oa!hs at this writing. What the
leaders say is not told. What Freddy
Grant, who thought it would be :a
ID shame il they don't nominate
ra.' hes to say now is Of 40 interest to
the reading public.
While the Republicans. have not
',ominatcd their best man, they night
have done much worse. Edmunds
would have been intellectually and
lnorally the strongest candidate, and
perhaps the hardest to beat, and we
thank the Republicans for not putting"
him up. Garfield is Il man Of wrca,
intellect, but he lacks backbone, and
though it is s,il that at heart he is a
fair man and non-partisan, yet under
the party lash lie is stulwart Of the
stalwarts. The opinion we have gath
cred Of the man is that he would make
about such President as Hayes, and
the general tenor Of his adminis,ra-
ton would be the same. James a.
Garfield WAS born in Orange. Ohio, in
.Novcmbcr, 1881, and he is therefore
but forty-cight years of age. lie
graduated at Williams College, Massa-
chuSc''%, in 1886, and was Il preacher
or rHhortcr, aud president Ola litcra-
~ institution for several years, after
which he became Il lawyer. lie was
~''"'" h'Ni'tttob III \llilO III lSoO-OU, tulS-
cd regiment in 1861, became briga-
licr-Gcncral in 1862, vas made Chief
OF S;aiI Of the Army of The Cumbcr-
]and ana promoted Encouragement in
1863. lie has served i'm Congress
eighteen years, and was elected United
States Senator to succeed Thurman in
1881. lie served on the Electoral
Commission in 1877. For several
years he has been the Republican lead.
er in the House at Washington.
Gar field went TO Chicago as tho
leader of the Sherman forces, though
himself being mentioned as the dark
horse. lie seems TO have worked
faithfully for Sherman, but the load
was liu1e too l.r,,vy and it remained
Tor tim""lf to pluck The fruit.
lis nomination, we presume, in.
sllres Oiio 10 the Republicans, but
leaves the East rs dcDatable ground
The clouds have not yet cleared away
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