The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1880-06-11
The Republican Nominations.


The great struggle at Chicago ended last
Tuesday by the nomination of Hon. James A.
Garfield, of Ohio, for President, and Chester
A Arthur, of New York. for Vice President
The balloting commenced on Saturday, the
candidates being Blaine, Grant, Sherman,
Edmunds, Washburne and Window. The
first ballot was as follows Grant 304, Blaine
284, Sherman 3d. Edmunds "a, Window 10
and Washburne 80. Twenty eight ballots
were cast on Monday, with little variation,
Grant gaining several votes and Blaine losing
few. The Maryland delegation voted 7 for
Grant, z for Blaine and for Sherman, nearly
every time
On Tuesday the balloting was resumed,
and five ballots were taken, with about the
same result as on Monday. On the thirty
fourth ballot break for Garfield began, his
vote being II. The thirty-fifth ballot gave
him So As the thirty-sixth ballot commence
edit was plainly seen that Garfield was the
dark horse upon which the opposition to
Grant meant to unite. The result was Gar
field 300, Grant BOG, Blaine 40, Sherman 3
and Washburne g. The Grant faction, it
will be seen, persevered to the bitter end in
voting for him.
Arthur was nominated for Vice President
on the first ballot.
The overthrow of both the great leaders
and the nomination of man scarcely men,
toned as n candidate, is but repetition of
the history of nearly every national conven-
ton in which the delegates were nearly
equally divided between rival candidates.
In 1874, James X. Polk, a stranger to the
mass of the Democracy, was nominated over
Martin VanBuren, popular man. In 1S4S
Henry Clay, the idol of the Wing party, re-
ceived the most votes on the first ballot, but
General Taylor, the old Trough and Ready"
of the Mexican war; was nominated, and
elected. In 1859, General Cass, the favorite
of the Democrats, barely failed to be nomi-
mated and the honor fell upon Franklin
Pierce, an unknown man. A similar circum-
stance occurred at Chicago, in 1860, when
Abraham Lincoln, then an obscure Illinois
lawyer, was nominated over William IL
Seward, one of the most prominent and pop
ular leaders of the Abolition party.
THE CANDIDATES..
James Abram Garfield, the Republican
candidate for President, is in his 49th year.
He was born at Orange, Cuyahoga county,
Ohio, of New England stock. He worked at
carpentering and canal boating until his scv.
enteenth year, then entered college, gradu-
atcd and became principal of the Eclectic In.
stitutc, at Hiram, Ohio 1t was during his
charge of this academy that Mr.. Garfield fire.
quently preached in the pulpit of his demon.
nation, the Disciples or Christian Brother
hood. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar
and was elected to the Ohio Senate. He was
colonel of Ohio volunteers during the war,
and in 1868 was elected to Congress, and has
been there ever since, having recently been
elected to the United States Senate in place
of Senator Thurman.
His public record has not been free from
stain. In 1876 he was one of the visiting
statesmen" who went to Louisiana in the in
terest of Hayes, whom he helped to count in
as member of the electoral commission
While a member of Congress he received a
fee of $4,000 for services performed for De
Golyer d McClelland, who were awarded
enormous contracts under Boss Shepherds
rule in Washington. He was also implicated
in the Credit Mobilier scandal, having accept
ed ten shares of stock from Cakes Ames.-
Garfield also reported the salary grab bill in
the House, pushed ii through and then took
the money
Gen. Chester A. Arthur is New Yorker,
about fortyone years old. He is lawyer
by profession and one of the most expert ma
chine politicians of the country. He was ap-
pointed collector of the port of New York
by Grant, but was removed by Hayes, when
the latter attempted civil service reform
The ticket is not strong one 1t is not
calculated to arouse any great degree of en-
thusasm in the Republican ranks, in any
part of the country, and with prudent nomi-
nations and good platform at Cincinnati, it
can easily bebeaten by the Democrats.
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