The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1880-06-12

heresy, and ms manifesting a decide
/ preference for a republican form q
!. government to Casarism and impt
!. rialism.
IL The shallow clap-trap and stage ei
!. fects resorted to by the manager
!. of the Grant and Blaine rings, to ex
cite enthusiasm over their respectiv,
candidates, were as transparent as ri
diculous. Very nearly matched il
numbers, and aggregating three-fourthl
of the convention, they went into thu
! fight with the tactics adopted by the
: Chinese in the English opium war
> namely that victory depended on which
faction could make the most noise.
+ Their followers were accordingly in
Z structed to make the slightest allusion
, to their man the signal for howl, and
for whole week there were daily and
nightly dnels between9the Grant and
Blaine factions, in which the only aim
on each side was to ont-howl the other.
Bob Ingersoll, who evidently believes
in FIXTURE state of rewards, however
heterodox he may be on the question
of future punishments, snatched a
lady's shawl, and jumping on 1.-THE plat
form waved it with one hand and a red
handkerchief with the other, yelling for
Blaine. A woman mounted the plat
form, and waved a flag with one hand
and parasol with the other, screecb-
ing like Fury for "her man." Conk-
ling, the dainty, perfumed, aristocratic
leader of the Grant forces, mounted
chair and led the cheering for Grant.
The standards of the states.were shak-
en- aloft, and rushed together around
common centres, and once the Grant
men who had howled themselves nearly |
out of breath, hesringea fresh howl,
took it up with their expiring energies,
only to find that they were helping a
Blaine howl which had been raised in
the confusion without their KIN owlcdge.
A howl was considered very feeble
one which could not be kept up I'M
ceasingly for at least fifteen minutes.
The convention was Grants Water
100. AT the start bis chieftains, Cam
sron, Conkling and Logan, saw that
out OF lbs votes they could not rely
on more than 800, and that the opposi-
lion to the third term was too formida- /
Die to be sneered at or bulldozed. They !
rave up the temporary organization of
ne convention to their opponents, apd !,
n SO doing gave up all. Hoay, of !,
was selected as tempo y
airy chairman, and Massachusetts, was P
'ronounced against the third term.
accordingly Hoar appointed com !;
1ittee on credentials, and another on +,
ules, which in cases of contesting b
eiegataons reported infayor of a great Ia
lany anti-Grant delegates, and abro
ated the INIT rule, thus giving the II
minorities in the New York. st
ennsylvania, and other other delega- j.
ons, which had been sent there in al
ructed to vote as annit, chance to =
ote as they pleased. The whole of
he first week was consumed in the =
'mpoEary and permanent organization
the convention--the temporary be-
g made also permanent chairman ~
40 late last Saturday the convention o.,
ljourned over till Monday without Ii
aying taken single ballot. ar
The balioting commenced last Mon ~
y, Auo IL was soon apparent that the y.
mers of Grants withdrawal if he q,
ere not nominated on the first ballot. Ian
after avery few ballots, were untrue, so
ID that Grant had staked his political n
rtunes on the convention, and meant ~ ~
stand the hazard of the die. 1t re- 81,
iired 378 votes to nominate. Grant ha
mmenced with 3O5, and never rose thu
500. Blaine came next with about TN
9, and Sherman with about 100, the A. e.,
mainder Of the 753 votes scattering 81,
Tuesday came, and with It the end the
1.-THE alst, aad and 38d ballot, Gar I'M
ID got one vote; on the Bath he cot II.
!; on the 35th, 81; on the seth state Z
'er state broke for him, and when
mixing saw he had 1854 votes he d;s
united chair aud moved that Gar prss
IDS nomination be made Unanimous noy
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