Little Falls transcript., 1880-06-11

Blaine, 2S4 275 257 42
Sherman, SO 107 lG1 8
Edmunds, "a IL IL
Washburne, 80 80 % 5
Window, 10
Garfield, II so 800
On motion Of Conkling the nomina-
tion was made unanimous. Window re-
ceived ten votes on each ballot the first
day, but smaller number on the second
day. Garfield did not receive more than
two votes on any ballot until the thirty
fourth was reached. The Window boom
was miserable failure. Immediately
after the close of the convention II. P.
Hall, Of the St. Paul Globe, who wit
messed the proceedings, telegraphed to
his paper as follows:
"The jamboroe is over and there is nothing
now to do but lie around about the ticket
Of course the Republicans swear it will be
elected. Every convention does that. There
is not however so much i'll feeling as one
would naturally suppose after such fight.
The leaders Of the Bla;n ne and Grant forces are
sore of course, particularly the former. Conk-
ling is happy in having defeated Blaine and
only unhappy because he could not carry a
solid New York convention. The Blaine
leaders are very down hearted, but the rank
and file take their drinks with their accus-
toned regularity, and swear they will support
the ticket. Stephen A. Douglas, the son of
his father, went into the Ohio headquarters
this afternoon and pledged himself to support
Gar field. Douglas was one of the Grant DEL
egates who was kicked out on the district rep
resentative theory. The first break in the
Minnesota delegation was made ty Morrison,
Whipple and Sabin voting for Blaine. Then
Sinclair and Kindred voted for Grant and
stuck by him to the close. The rest went to
Garfield His nomination was secure and it
made no difference what they did. They
stuck to Window until Blaine was dead and
then shrewdly went for Blaine. If they had
thrown their ten votes for Garfield this morn
ing they could have started a triumphant
boom. Wisconsin started it with only six
sofa Republicans to know that their instruc-
tions made Minnesota a laughing stock and
cipher in the convention"
The following from the Philadelphia
Times shows some of the difficulties that
Garfield met in his early life:
James Abraham Garfield was born on No.
vember 10, 1881, in the township Of Orange,
Cuyahoga county. Ohio, about fifteen miles
from Cleveland His father, Abraham Gar
field, came from New York, but, like hismoth-
er, was of New England stock. James was
the youngest of four children. The father died
in 1888, leaving the family dependent upon a
small farm and the exertions of the mother.
There was nothing about the elder Garfield to
distinguish him from the other plodding far
mers of the rather sterile township of Orange.
No one could discern any qualities in him
which, transmitted to the next generation,
might help to make statesman, unless it was
industry; but his wife, who is still living, at
an advanced age, was always fond of reading
when she could get leisure from her hard
household duties, and was thoroughly capa-
BILE woman, of strong will, stern principles and
more than average force of character. Of the
children no ono besides James has made the
slightest mark in the world. The older broth
er is farmer in Michigan, and the two Sis
ters are, we believe, farmers wives. James
had tough time of it as boy. He toiled
hard on the farm early and late in summer
and worked at the corpenter's bench in winter.
The best of it was that he liked work. There
was not a lazy hair on his head. He had an
absorbing ambition to get an education, and
the only road open to this end seemed that of
manual labor. Ready money was hard to get
in those days. The Ohio canal ran not far
from where he lived, and finding that the
boatmen got their pay in cash and earned
better wages than he could make at farming
or carpentry, he hired out driver on the tow
path and soon got up to the dignity of holding
the helm of a boat. Then he determined to
ship as sailor on the lakes, but an attack Of
fever and ague interfered with his plans.
He was i'll three months, and when he recov-
cred he decided to 60 to school called Geauga
academy, in an adjoining county. His moth
er had saved small sum ofmoney, which she
gave him, together with few cooking uten-
sils and stock of provisions. He hired q
small room and cooked his own food to make
his expenses as light as possible. He paid
his own way after that, never calling on his
mother for any more assistance. By working
at the carpenters bench mornings and even
ings and vacation times, and teaching country
schools during the winter, he managed to at
tend the academy during the spring and fall
terms and to save q little money towards 60
ing to college. He had excellent health, ro-
bust frame and . capital memory, and the at
tempt to combine mental and physical work,
which has broken down many farmer boys
ambitious to get an education, did not hurt
him. : !. ...,ss.;z ! 9. - S:s*
Afterwards he graduated at Williams
college, Massachusetts, by borrowing
part Of the money needed to pay his ex:
penses. He had previously united will,
the Campbellite church, and after gradu-
ating he procured a position at Hiram
college, and he occupied his time teach.
ing, lecturing and preaching. Hemar:
ried Miss Lucretia Rudolph, q farmers
daughter. His subseq quent military and
political career is, perhaps, already ID.
miliar to the most Of our readers.
a meteor was seen at Rochester, Mimi,
Zone: :day last week