The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1880-06-12
Pro Hac Vice.

Pro Hac Vice.
"'Tis pot calls kettle black,-and kettle pot
Believe what each says OF the other not
What each says OF himself"
A6sit invidia. In the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty, in the city of Chicago, state
of Illinois, Senator Conkling, John
A. Logan, j. Donald Cameron, Eu-
gene Hale, VIM. E. Chandler, James
F. Joy, Jerome B. Chaffee, Bob Inger-
soil, ''my delegates" and many other
eminent men and politicians assem-
bled, on the third day of June, the
same year, in convention for the pur-
pose of nominating a candidate for
president of the United States. The
plumed knight. Blaine, the silent sol
dier Grant, and the 'man from Ohio, y
John Sherman, were the most prom
inent men mentioned for that grea:
position, while in the dim and "dark
horse" distance, family outlined upon
the canvass. appeared such names as
those of Z. b. Washburne, Geo. F.
1 anu w liz IL w aS
| ruse contre ruse down there in that
same Chicago, and the contest waxed
! warm and waned cold as the great
names were mouthed from lip to lip
and muffed and batted and caught
| and fouled and the scores were count
ed one by one. The storm was great,
the tide ran high: popular opinion
buffitted the champions about, cut
there and upon the sands lie the skel-
etons of many gallant cabinet po-
| sition and many a two dollar post
office. A greater struggle never took
place upon the sea of republican poll
tics and the epuleted commanders di-
rected their forces to the manning of
the guns in true American style-shoot
low the water line is exposed. The
Vulnerable point was the unit rule and
as often as it was battened down or
the port closed over it by the follow
ers of Grant, telling broadside from
Blaine deck of guns blew the cover
ing away and left, glaring before the
whole line, that weak and tottering
form, until finally, with pennons
streaming from every mast head the
fiotilIa of Blaine bore down upon the
opposing fleet aud rammed the unit
rule into an irrecognizable mass.
Inter nos, this was victory or de-
feat. This barred another point of
ifucunslsrencles ana expuseu 10 the
| fire of both factions several weak
uesses in the shape of contested seats.
Over behind an island, in lake call
ed the committee on credentials, some
| barques of war were placed and the
struggle went on. This side affair
was quite pretty, and the volleys
ran up and down the lines briskly,
knocking down sail upon this craft,
penetrating all ironclad over there
and opening leaky hole here, until
the contest was settled to the SEEM
ing satisfaction of all. Then, with
cannon GoubIy shotted, blazing match
in hand and, by the way, ballots also,
the fun commenced-for the specta-
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ana oacA IN iee'in eircie aasheo
hitner anu 'hi'her 'ne ships oi STATE
the prlSs OF war anu all 'he i'.ie
boats carried upon tue loe' aashea
upon the reeis' cast upon the oeach'
slght knowieuge Oh 'ne history
OF the oeglnlng aha progress OF the
canvass is all tnat Is necessary TO tell
why we present to our readers to-day
the name OF the republican candidate