The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-08
TME NoMINATlON OF AnrmuR.
And How II was brought About In the
Chicago Convention.

Anu HOW u was ADOuS IN tuo
Chicago Convention.
Chicago Times Of wednesday.
The Republican National Convention Of
1880 spent several days in a bitter fight
over the question OF who should be nomi'
mated for the presidency. The ground
was fought over inch BY inch. The Con-
~vention was longer getting organized than
conventions usually are in transscting all
their business, and, when organized, II
took thirty.six ballots to determine what
1t deemed the vital issue. Having done
this 1t spent less than two hours, when
every delegate was impatient to catch The
first train for home, in nominating a Vice
President. There was no contest; many
Of the delegates were not present, though
their votes were cast by their Chairmen
there was but one ballot, and 1t resulted
in an immense majority. The President,
whom the Convention spent a week in
selecting, Is OF deaths door, alter holding
bis Office four months; the Vice President
whom the Convention agreed upon In q
couple OF hours and with no contest has
been for four days on the verge OF bscom.
ing President OF the United States for
three years and eight months. What q
disproportion between mans plans and
the EVENT.
Gen. Arthur was not nominated with.
ont opposition because every body wanted
him, but because nobody cared anything
abo1t the matter. Tho delegates had
spent a week In their struggle, and were
impatient to get away. The opponents OF
Gen. Grant we're go completely satisfied
with their hafdly.won victory that they
we're not only willing that the defeated
faction should have the second place on
the ticket, but they insisted upon their
taking II. Senator Conklibg, beaten for
the frat place, cared little what became Of
the second, and was reluctant 10 have bis
wing Of the party touch II; he was in favor
Of letting those who had won on the main
issue take all the stakes. But the victota
would not have II 70; they had all they
wanted, except harmony, ana they insisted
that the other side should take The Vics
Presidency as the price Of this.
At5:35 r. NJ, the convention fesssem.
bled, alter a Bhort recess. +. d. Wash.
burne, Marshall Jewell, Judge Settle, and
Horace Maynard were In turn nominated
Tor the second place on the ticket. Then
Stewart l.. Wo0dlord nominated General
Arthur. This was accepted as proof that
the Grant wing had decided to take tho
Vice Presidency, and give "hatmony,"
and II was therefore received with the
widest enthusiasm. Other candidates
were Withdrawn In his favor. The nom.
lnatlon was seconded by Governor Den.
hison, Of. Ohio. II was seconded sRoin
and again by eight other delegates. The
convention WAS frantic with delight, not
because Of Arthur, but because the Grant
men had accepted the sop thrown to them,
Amid all this uproar there WA
but one voice raised In the interest Of
calm tense. The convention that had
spent q week defeating the political
machine, and had adopted a civil.
service reform plank as q part Of its plat.
form, was on the point Of nominating for
the Presidency a man who was
known only 90 an adroit and not loo scru.
pulous machine politician, and who had
been removed from the New York Collec.
torship by President Hayes Tor the I'M.
blushlDg manner In which he had pfoeli.
tuted his Office and sacrificed the public
interest 10 the uses Of q political machine
employed exclusively In the interest Of
one iaction OF the party and that the one
the Convention had defeated. Yet there
was but one voice In the whole conven
ton that was raised In protest. That was
the voice Of A. W. Campbell, Of West
Virginia, and he was not respectfully lie.
tened to. The following extract from his