The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-04
seycn Ncpubllcsu un,cnlions.

This hiatory oil tho neven Republican
Conventions Is very iateteotiuk. Tho first
one was held In Philadelphia In 1856, on
the 18th Of June. Col. Henry s. Lane, Of
Indiana, presided. onIytweniy..wo sta.ea
were represented. Col. John O. Fremont
wm nominated for President and William
L. Dayton for Vico President
The convention Of 1850 was 0 memora.
BILE one, being on the eve oil the civil war.
Among the candidates before tho conven.
ton were tho following: Massachusetts,
put forth n. T, Banks and Henry Wilson;
Ohio, s. ?. Chase and ben Wade; Ken
lucky, G. n. Clay; Pennsylvania, Simon
Cameron; Missouri, Edward Dates; New
Jeraey, W. L. Dayton and William Pen
nington; California, J. O. Fremont; Maine,
W. T. Fesaenden; New Hampshire, John
=. Hale; Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, and
New York, William Ii. Seward. Lincoln
was nominated On tho third ballot. Will
lam Ii. Seward had tho "boom," and the
night before the ballotirg commenced bis
friends were sHnguino oil his nomination,
Awrter describing the scenes Of that night
gays: r...
Tho New YorkcrB, at the headquarters d,
the Richmond House, were very jubllanl thai
night and, Champagne Is reported TO have
been MS frte an wafer. The friends OF ABA.
ham were ut WORK, aud daring the nigh! cue.
ceeded In Organizing u guCctssiul combine
ton. The e1AtsnrB OF this Combination wa
not suspected by The EewaIt msn until after
the convention lad feaLSsmbled the third
and last day. They eut.Ieu the convention
that mosaiuS, preceded By tNe!r baud, con
tident that tlty Ttis Ma!chirg to victory.
Tbs combustion, however, soou beclm ms sp.
parent, and bsiore the IEss ballot had pro.
cceded far The sGWa!d men were panic s.fIck'
en-. The criAls came upon the last ballot.
The third Republican convention was
held June 7, 1864, at Baltimore. Lincoln
Was renomipaet on the frat ballot. The
great Republican contest In that year WIN,
over tho Vice Presidency, Mr.. HsmliI
having given plGce 10 Andrew johnson.
There was another convention in 1864
which was held juno u; Cleveland, where
tho ticket Of Fremont and Cochrane was
nominated. This convention originated In
the dissatisfaction OF Il few Republicans
with the administration Of Lincoln.
On May 70. 1865. the fourth Republican
convention met at Chicago. General Grant
was nominated on the il,st ballot. Gen.
eral Grant was ,s.nominased ut Philadel.
phia, May s, 1872. He received tho vote
Of every member Of the convention.
The sixth Republican convention met q,
Cincinnati. The candidates. before THU
convention we've Marshall Jewell, Of Con.
necticut; Oliver T. Morton, Of Indians;
Benjamin Il. Br!s:ow, OF keEtucky; James
G. Blaine, oil Maine; R1scoo Con1ling O.
New York; Rutherford d. Hayes, Of Ohio
John +. uartranlt, OF Pennsylvania. Haye.
was nominated on the seventh ballot. .
The seventh convention OF the Repub.
lican party, at Chicago, June ., 1850, wa.
tho longest in the history Of conventions
1t was In session from Wednesday, JUNE
., till Wednesday, June 0, and began Ill
thirty.eir bAl!os Tor the Presidential nom,
nation on Monday, the filth day. On lht
first day the temporary organization and
the appointment Of committees constituted
tho practical result. Thursday Witnessed
the permanent organization and long de,
bate about the 1ulGs. Friday was chi, Us
occupied with contested election cases and
reports OF committees. When Saturday
evening came tho business had proceeded
IS far ss the nominating speeches.