Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-07
NAMING THE CANDIDATES.
HOW THEY WERE PRESENTED.

HOW THEY WERE PRESENTED.
Blaine'sNoninatton Botched- -Garaeld's Eu-
logy Of Sherman. COnklipS's Greatest
Effort for the cold Commander
of the Whisky Rings.
In the convention on Saturday evening
when the roll of states was called to name
presidential candidates, at the call for
Michigan James F. Joy, of Detroit, ad-
vanced to the reporters platform and nomi-
mated Blaine. He lacked elequence and
magnetism. His delivery was poor. He
seemed to have committed his speech to
memory and to have forgotten it. There
were ugly pauses in his encomium. "He
talks like a country clergyman at the grave
of rich parishioner," observed the Truly
Good Deacon Richard Smith Of Cincinnati.
He presented Mr.. Blaine's name as the
corrected himself, knocked out the H. and
put in the G.
His selection was one of the many
blunde.s of the Blaine leaders, as his
speech was dry, uninspiring and never
elected cheer, except twice when he
named Blaine. Long continued cheers
followed, and at one time repetition Of
the Friday night yelling blockade was ap-
pretended. Colonel Pixley, of California,
seconded the nomination i'll a very spread
eagle effort. He improved on Joy, but fell
far short of the expectations of the Blaine
people. Indeed, SO indifferently had Blaine
been advocated that Frye had to come
forward and asked to be heard by sus-
pension Of the rules. 1t was granted, of
course, and he gave the Blaine men taste
of what they wanted comparing Blaine
to the captain of tossing ship on dark
night.
But the mischief had been done, and
all Frye's marvellous ability could not
remove the impression created by Joy.
The cheering was renewed, but it lacked
life.
On the platform, back of Mr.. Hoar, sat
the crazy woman Mrs. Deemes, of New
York, who made herself particularly OBJ
noxious. She waved a flag and waved
her shawl, and acted as if in bedlam on a
rampage. Her husband tried to pull her
down, but she wouldn't be pulled. One
of the sergeants succeeded, however, and
then an idiotic youth catching the flag imi-
tated the feminine folly. He was much
more easily squelched. Meantime the
howlers kept it up, and pandelnonium as
sumed the place of order and deliberation,
in the face of which Mr.. Hoar became a
baby and his gavel useless rattle.
When Minnesota was reached, MIR. +. r.
Drake presented the name of VIM. Win
dom. He made a short eulogistic speech,
but no one seconded the nomination. The
roll call was continued. The New Hamp-
shire and New Jersey men were silent.
The audience were breathless. You could
have heard a pin drop.
Grant, Of Illinois.
New York was called. Then arose a
mighty cheer. Conkling also rose, and, in
addition to the Grant enthusiasm evoked,
the personal compliment to the man him.
self was intense and immense. Mr.. COnk-
ling jumped to the platform and then to a
reporters table where for a few minutes
he was kept like a statue Of Apollo and
the uprOar went on.
"When, said he, "we are asked from
what state he halls, our sole answer shall
be. He halls from AppOmattox.'
Then he went on with great delibera-
ton, showing that they needed not a can
didate who could carry Michigan, because
all Republican candidates can do that !;
nor one that would please the territories,
because the territories have no vote
but the one that can carry doubtful states,
South as we'll as North, especially New
York.
New York." said he, with sublime
gesture and a magniticently picturesque
pose, sis for Ulysses S. Grant"
Then came again the shout and an up
roar great and long. A flag, on which a
picture of Crane was fastened, was lowered
from the gallery and an old woman raised
her parachute.
! Meantime Conkling proved himself a
coDsummate actor. lie rested his thumbs
in his pockets, nodded to reporters, looked
for a moment at two pretty girls in the
gallery and then went on. He made a
point when he said that "Grant was never
defeated in peace or in war, " and that as
he had ''never forsaken the people," SO
they would ''never fOrsake him. He
paid glowing tribute to the most illustri-
Gus name on earth to his sympathy with
the lowest and poorest of Gods creatures !;
| to the fact that in spite of all the honor
paid him abroad he had come home more
an American than ever, and to his modes
ty under fire OF the attacks of the press at
| home.
"The name of Grant," said he, "will
glitter like star in the diadem of the
republic when those who had vilified him
have mouldered in forgotten graves
He referred to him as the very genius of
common sense, and illustrated the terms
he pronounced at the time of Lees surren-
der as an evidence of his appreciation of
the best kind of reconstruction. He hit
Blaine hard when he said:
"With him we shall have no defensive
campaign, nothing to explain away, no
apologies to make. The shafts and the
arrows have all been aimed at him and
they lie broken and harmless at his feet. :"
Several times the silly audience annoyed
him exceedingly by their ill-timed enthu-
| siasm, and he turned in disgust to the
appreciative faces of the correspondents.
"When Grant refused to see Denis Kear-
ney in California he meant that, though
communism might stalk abroad and con-
troll whole city, it would find no sympathy
in him." was another point made by the
speaker.
The speech was delivered in the senator S
we'll known gracious way, and though at
no time fiery or impassiOned, it was most
effective. His argument against the fall
lacy of third term opposition was heard
with respectful attention, the chief point
being that having done work we'll in the
field and in the presidency twice was a
strange argument against trying him again,
and that there was no other department in
life in which experience was regarded as a
reason for rejection except the presidency.
He hit Sherman, saying that
"Grant has no place therefore he has
no office to further his projects no official
patronage has been used to help him. He
has no observation-disclosures teleUra nj,