The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-06-25
VARIETY OF POLITICAL B0OMs.

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After the rocket the stick, after the
dance the fiddlers' bill, after the banquet
and the carouse the headache and the
regrets. After the excitement of the
Convention, the disappointment of the
defeated and the home returning to
dream of the efforts that were unavailing.
And after all of how little use are
booms TO promote the selection of a
Presidential candidate, of how little aid
in arousing enthusiasm and of creating
popularity are the wire-pulling and
the setting up of conventional of how
little service in the carrying Of State
delegations are the manipulations of as
tute politicians and the combinations of
interested political leaders.
For the performance at Chicago the
third-termers had arranged the popular
spectacle Of General Grants triumphal
march around the world. The friends of
General Sherman had trumpeted through
all the newspapers of the country the
story of his successful management of
the Government finances and of specie
resumption with its attendant reawaken-
ing of the National industries. The ad-
herents of Mr.. Blaine had manipulated
State and county conventions
in his interest until votes enough
to almost nominate him went up to Chi
cago sanguine that Blaine would not
fail to compel the Presidential nomina-
tion. For nearly forty times the con-
vention cast its ballots, but only to
finally nominate General Garfield, for
whom no conventions had been manipu-
lated, no delegations packed, no cannon
exploded, nor no trumpets blown.
And so at Cincinnati. Tilden with
his henchmen thousand strong, enthu-
siastic, determined, audacious, aggres-
sive, with a delegation composed of
seventy of the most distinguished
gentlemen of the great State of New
York, many of whom had made politics
almost lifelong trade, came here to
Cincinnati with personal friendship
for Mr.. Tilden almost as warm as Da-
vid's was for Jonathan, declaring that
he, and he only, should be the nominee.
From Indiana the Hendricks Club, 300
strong, came here with bands
of music and a VOW as un-
changeable as the law of the Medes and
Persians, that changes MOTTO nominate
Hendricks, and Fields, of California,
had also his trusted ieutenants who
told the story of the deserving accom-
plishments Of their chief, published the
history of his life and asked for him the
first place on the ticket. Thurman, too,
was pointed to by his Ohio friends as the
noblest Roman of them all, and firmly
to the last, and Randall, and
Payne, and Morrison, and Mcdonald,
and Bayard, and English, all
were supported by friends as sin
cere as friends in this world ever are,
and yet when the critical moment came
the rush for General Hancock, who up
10 yesterday afternoon scarcely any one
supposed had more than a ghost of
chance to receive the nomination, be-
came torrent and like lake or river
that bursts its embankment, became
food that nothing mortal could with
stand. In half an hour after the bursting
of the sluices General Hancock, like
General Garfield at Chicago-and like
wise by the action of the sixteen dele
gates from Wisconsin-became the NOM
inee of great party for the Presidency.
Verify the man is daring who denies the
truth Of the syllogism of antiquity, "Vox
populi, vox Dei"-the voice Of the peo-
pie is the voice of God.