New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-06-16
cur CANDIDATES.

names OF the men whom the Repub-
lican party has selected as its stand
ard. bearers for 1880. While Gar
fields nomination was not wholly
unexpected, neither the Grant,
Blaine or Sherman men gave up
hope until the final bollot was taken.
As the fight between the friends OF
the three leading candidates had be.
come very bitter the party is to be
congratulated upon the outcome Of
the convention, and we believe the
ticket will harmonise all factions.
Whatever wounds may have been
left by the nomination of the candi.
date for President, in virtue Of a
combination between the elements
opposed to General Grant, ought to
be healed by the nomination forVice
President of that stalwart and stead
fast Grant supporter Gen. Chester
A. Arthur. The following bio.
graphical sketches of the two candi-
dates may be Of interest to our read
Gen. James Abram Garfield, the
candidate for President, was born in
Orange, Cuyahoga county, Ohio,
Nov. 10, 1881. He graduated at
Williams college, Massachusetts,, in
1856. He was Campbellite preacher,
and president Of a college Of that de-
nomination in Ohio for several years,
after which he studied and practiced
law. He was a member of the Ohio
senate in 1859 to 1860. In the civil
war he entered the service in 1861 as
colonel Of the Forty. second Ohio
Volunteer regiment, and served in
southeastern Kentucky, where, in
January, 1862, in command of a bri-
gade, he forced Humphrey Marshall
to evacuate Kentucky, for which SER
vice he was promoted to be brigadeer
general af volunteers, Jan. II, 1862,
and served at Shiloh, Corinth etc. In
1868 Gen. Rosecrans appointed him
chief Of staff, with whom he continued
to serve until Decem Der 5th, 1868,
having in the mean time, September
Is, 1868, been promoted to be ma
jor general of volunteers for gallantry
at the battle ofChickamauga, when he
resigned to occupy his seat inthe 18Th
congress, to which he was elected,
and since which time he has been re.
elected to each succeeding congress,
serving as chairman of the committee
on military affairs, banking and ap-
preparations.
When James G.. Blaine went to
the senate, in 1877, the mantle of
Republican Leadership in the house
was by common consent placed upon
Garfield, and he has worn it ever
since. In January last General Gar.
field was elected to the senate to the
seat which will be vacated byAllenG.
Thurman on the fourth of March, 1881
He received the unanimous vote of
the republican caucus, an honor ne.
yer before given to any man of any
party in the state of Ohio. Since his
election he has been the recipient of
complimentary manifestations in
Washington and Ohio.
General Garfield is a powerfully
built man, five feet ten inches in
height, Of full tawny beard, brown
hair, blue eyes and handsome face.
Physically as we'll as mentally he is
an athlete. He owns his modest re-
sidence in Washington, and is just
now building a house at his Ohio
home.
Gen. Chester A. Arthur, the can
didate for Vice President, of New
York, was born October 18th,
1880, at Franklin, Penn. He is
about six feet, two inches in height,
rather portly, with slightly gray
hair, and he wears side whlskers and
mustache, both tinged with gray.
His eyes are dark brown. While
yet very young lad his par
ents moved to the state Of New
York, and he attended school at
Greenwich, on the Hudson, till he
was fourteen, ct which age he enter
ed Union College, and graduated
well up in his class at eighteen In
a few months he went to the city of
New York, and entered the office of
Hon. Ed. Culver, the member of
congress from the fifth district of
that State. At the age of twenty.
three he was delegate to the first
republican convention ever held in
the state, which met at Syracuse,
and he almost Immediately took a
position as a most earnest, active
worker in the republican cause.
In the beginning of the war he was
engaged in the practice of law, and
was on the way to a competency
when the war broke out. During
the war he was quartermaster and
inspector of the state of New York
and made an enviable record for
competency and energy. At the
close of the war he returned to his
practice, and was known as hard
worker, a diligent student and as a
citizen who always took a prominent
part in politics. He was selected by
the friends of Grant in 1871 as col.
lector Of the port of New York
which position he held till 1879,
when he was relieved by President
Hayes for, as was alleged, violatin g
the civil service rules, notwith :
standing the fact that an investigat .
ing committee reported that his Office
was "a model, and not the slightest
complaint was heard against it..
He is now engaged in the practice of
his profession. ~
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