Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-06-11
The Dark Horse Wins.


publican candidate for President.
Mr.. Garfield was born in Orange,
Cayuga county, Ohio, November
10Th, 1881. He graduated at Will
liams College, Massachusetts, in
1856, and adopted the profession OF
the law. In 1859 and 1850 he was
a member of the Ohio Senate. In
1861 he enlisted in the army as a
Colonel of the AID Regiment of VOL
unteers and was appointed Brisa-
dier.G eneral in 1862, while operat-
ing in Kentucky. He subsequently
sewsd at Shiloh, Corinth, aud in
Alabama, and early in 1863 he was
appointed Chief of Staff to Gen.
Rosecrans, with whom he served up
to the battle of Chickamauga. In
1862 he was elected Representa-
tive from his native state to the 38th
Congress-, serving as o member OF
the Committee on Military Affairs.
Before taking his seat in Congress
he was appointed Major General of
Volunteers. He was elected to the
Both Congress and served on the
Committee of Ways and Means.
He was delegate to the "Loyalists"
Convention, which met in Philadel-
phia in 1866 and of the Soldiers
Convention held in Pittsburg the
same year. He has since been re-
peatedly elected to the popular
branch of the National Legislature,
and with other Republican statesmen
at one time became unenviably ia
nous for his connection with the
Credit Mobilier scheme. The last
Ohio Legislature elected him to the
q. S. Senate to succeed Thurman.
General Chester A. Arthur, the
Republican nominee for Vice Presi-
dent, is one Of the paper military
heroes of the great war. He be-
longed to that class of patriots who
achieved distinction in command of
the Home Guards. He was Quar-
termaster General in New York dur
ing the early years of the war, and
his name is now embalmed in the
memory of a grateful nation. Gen
eral Arthur was likewise Collector
of Customs of the port of New York,
under Grant, which fact, however,
nobody will claim, under the ring
rule which prevailed, as q very great
mark of distinction. He is satellite
of Conkling, which accounts for his
selection By the Convention.
Never before i'll the history of polit-
ical conventions has so much interest
centered ina nominating body. The
result of 1876 has awakened the Re-
publican party to sense of the 1e-
sponsibility involved in naming the
man. While professional politicians
knew that the best field for lucrative
political enterprise would be afforded
by the inauguration of Gen. Grant. the
rank and file realized that the contest
four years ago, which gave Tilden O
quarter of million majority of the
popular vote, was an admonition
which should not pass UNDECIDED.
Never was the cohesive power of
public plumber" better illustrated
than in the forlorn hope which kept
Grants 800 votes intact until all
other interests were sacrificed to &C
complish his defeat. Is it not a re-
markable indication of the instabili-
ty of earthly honors, when "the con-
quering hero" Of six months ago
must beg in vain for recognition by
MS own party, and when even the
speech which placed his name be-
fore the Convention was greeted
with Kisses? But an opportunity
has been lost which all patriots will
regret-the privilege of placing their
seal of condemnation upon the third
term heresy. 1t would have been
far better for the nation, for all
parties, to have susserved this great
object-even at the sacrifice of its
great military chieftain-than for
any other principle to triumph in
the contest Of November. There
seems to be but little doubt that
Mr.. Blaine was, by all odds, the
choice Of the great mass of Republi-
can voters, but that he at any time
stood chance of receiving an ex-
preston of that preference in the
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