New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-10
sEo11ELs TO THE CONVENTION


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SEOUELS TO TIE CONVENTION
ENAToR HoAR DECLARES THAT GENERAL GAK-
FIELD WAS THE MOST POPULAR MAN IN The
CoNvENTIoN--uow GARFIELD WON GOLDEN
Observation-Disclosures TELEGRAMs'
IBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUNF.l
CucAGO. June 9.-It seems entirely safe to say
that General Garfield would not have been nOml-
mated If he had not been delegate to the Conven-
ton Senator Hoar ic reported to have said several
days AGO that if the nomination for President Wa9
made in the same way that POpes are elected, that
is if the delegates werc shut up together anu com
PEELED to choose Of their number that one wouIu
be Garfield The personal impression made Dy
General Garfield had q great deal to do WIN DIS
nomination. He was so aggressive anu yet
30 conciatory; so able ana 30 Ae"lieS'
that he won personal liking on all sides among
those who had known him only by reputation. All
the time he was honestly striving to make votes Tor
Sherman by avoiding unnecessary disputes and an
fapouisms but in facing an issue boldly where 1t
needed TO be faced lie was making friends Tor NM
self His speech in presenting Secretary Shernans
name on Saturday night an illustration OF thls
Itwas the best speech for Sherman that could pos
sibly have been made. He needed IN his position as
q middle candidate to avoid giving offence to
friends of anyone. and this General Garfield sue
ceeded admirably IN anu yel dS was S''i" III
a dispatch to The TRIBUNE on Sunday, the effect Of
his speech to increase the gossip as to the pos
sbility of his becoming the nominee If the situa-
ton were different.
All through the Convention General Garfield
managed to say the right thing at the right time.
nisepigram upon the individual rule was one of
these he said it was EverlaStingly right" HIS
defence of the West Virginia delegates who would
not surrender their independence IN advance IS
another. Not another man on the floor had the
courage to get up and say what Garfield said. and
when he had said it lie had utterly broken down
the proposition to expe the three men. All these
things won GOLDEN opinions for him, and finally
centred public sentiment upon him as man to
beat the third term with.
No doubt there will be numerous claimants for
the honor of having nominated General Garfield.
inst as there were for the honor of having
first suggested General Grant. The Pennsylvania
delegation has already put in its claim through
General Beaver, and tonight the Philadelphia Club
marched to the depot 100 white hats strong, bear
ing a banner, "Pennsylvania's President-Gen-
eral Garfield" Ex-COngTessman Brandegee. OF
Connecticut, is entitled to a real share of the
credit. ought to add that have no idea that he
has been claiming it. The Wisconsin delegation
had made furry on the thrty-fourth ballot by
casting 1G votes for Garfield but his vote only IN
creased to so on the thirty-ffth ballot, and the
thrty-sixth ballot began without any indication OF
q general break. Blaine's votes In Alabama and
the solid vote of California stood firmly by him.
but when Mr.. Brandegee, who was determined
above all things that the third-term should be
beaten secured IL out of 12 votes of his delegation
for Garfield, and so cast them the stampede began.
This IS one of the interesting personal facts con-
nected with the nomination.
AN ABSURD STORY REBUTRD.
Some of the Grant men who are somewhat sore
over their defeat, in seeking for the causes OF 1t
have accused General Garfield and Governor Foster
of bad faith toward Secretary Sherman One
Grant editor freely asserted at the Grand Pacific
Hotel that Garfield and Foster had been plotting to
get the nomination for the former ever since they
came to Chicago and they. had sold Sherman out.
All such stories these may as well be set at rest
before they gain currency. Secretary Sherman has
had no truer friends or earnest aud effective
advocates of his nomination than General
Garfield and Governor Foster, and neither of
them has done anything since he came here
TO weaken Sherman or. left anything undone to
secure his nomination. These two men did more
TO beat Grant than any others except the Blaine
leaders, and they did it in the interest OF the Repub
lcan party, first, because it was everlasungly
right" to use an expression which Garfield himself
used in speech aud secondly, to promote Mr.. Sher-
mans nomination General Garfield has a clear
conscience on this score, and nobody knows better
than Secretary Sherman how loyal the candidate OF
the Convention was TO him.
NOMINATION DECLINED
The Hon. Levi p. Morton offered the Vice.
Presidential nomination by his associates from
New.York, but declined it and withdrew his name
from the New-YOrk delegation preferring active
duty as representative of his district in Congress
rather than to assume the abOrs aud responsible
tieeof a Presidential campaign with all the dignity
and honor of the Vice-Presldenual chair. Mr.. Nor
ton ia strong personal friend of both General Gar
field and General Arthur and will, of course, give
the ticket bis most cordial support.
Among the congratulatory kilograms received by
General Garfield was the following from Governor
Cornell
permit me TO express cordial congratulations, and
pledge you the Electoral vote OK New-1 OrK
W. D. Howells of Boston, teegraphed:
Hearty CONGRATULATIONS from this part OF Ohio
Ex-Governor c. C. Washburn, of Wisconsin,
telegraphcd
Well done. 60 say ALL
General Mcdowell, of San Francisco, sent the
following dispatch;
NV congratulations. Now before election visit this
coast where you will have wide house.