The daily gazette., 1880-06-09

On the 2sd ballot the cunning "Ob-
received one more vote,
and scored two on its announcement,
which brought the following remarks
from the ablest and most brilliant cor
respondent present:
.Wise men say that Garfield is too
smart to take the nomination If he could
get 1t, as he couldn't keep the track three
weeks under the Credit Mobilier fre
alone. Smart or no smart his friends have
deliberately manufactured applause and
receptions for him. and he sits and smiles
when one for '6arfield" is announced
and fairly expands into a grin when he
gets an extra vote.'
Garfiel6's solitary friend gave his
vote to Conkliug on the 31st ballot
No doubt Garfield directed the flatter-
ing JUNCTION. 1t had its effect. Where
Garfield's name had appeared with
one vote there Conkling's shown but
Garfield's was absent only to appear
on the 32d and SD again with one
vote, on the saith Garfisld's friends
was joined by 16 from Wisconsin, and
on the S5th by 81 from Indiana. This
break showed that he was the Ozark
Horse" but his trusted friends vote
of one failed to secure aid from Conk-
ling whom the Convention had learned
to look upon as an assumed, or would
be dictator. Here Safe after State
followed in the wake Of Wisconsin as
our complete reports nave showed the
reader. Garfield, the "CIedit Mobi-
Her." on the Seth ballot received 800
votes, without his own vote, which
would have made it just 400, was NOM
mated, while the ex-Prssident still
holding the vote of his s06 third-term-
ers.
The nomination of Garfield saved
the Convention, most probably from
breaking up in a row. 1t is regarded
in many lights in different sections;
and cannot fail to be offensive to
Blaine's, Sherman's aud Grant S
friend everywhere. To Sherman's
prospects it is death blow. ohioians
are already thrust into every position,
and the disgust of the people at
Hayes preferences and the preferences
OF the Shsrmans has frequently found
vent in loud complaints. But, now,
again to have an Ohio man forced upon
the people whose notoriety in the De
Golyer paving contracts and as holder
and dealer in Credit Mobilier s ocks
has been so long standing is too much
At the adjourned session in the af
ernoon Gen. Chester A. Arthur, o.
the New York Custom House notori.
ETY. was nominated for Vice President,
on the first ballot. A correspondent
of an 1ndepe ndent contemporary thus
sums up the nominations as follows
"The ticket which the convention
has presented to the party for its rati
tication is pronounced on all sides a
weak one-one that will give the Dem.
ocratic party a walk-over if that organ.
iZation makes proper nomination at
Cincinnati. do not speak from the
standpoint of party bias, but take the
facts as they present themselves in the
| cases of Mr.. Garfield and Mr.. Arthur
The head of the ticket has a smircheC
record, whiri 4 must place him on tn
defensive from this moment until tn
date the polls close. The ticket pre-
sents The strange anomaly of Hayei
Republican at the head, with a New
York Stalwar. who has been repudia
ted by the President of the Unitgt
S ates and turned out of Office becaus
of those stalwart ideas holding by tn
tail. 1t is a queer union. The hea
was the result of accident, while tn
tail was the result of careful design.
The ex-President, Blaine, Edmund
and Sherman, with other seekers aftt
the Presidency have all been laid upo
the shelf. II is doubtful whether tn
names of either of them will ever agai
be presen ed before a National Cor
vention
THE CONNECTION OF GENERA
GARFIELD with the Credit Mobli
case, an account OF which we elsewh he
. give, could not be expected, OF cour
) to stand in the way of his selection b,
y convention which had devoted itself