St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-07
Ispecial Telegram to the GIobe. !


CHICAGO, June 6.-I am happy to be
written down false prophet, The man who
can't carry New York has been selected as
the Republican standard bearer in the com
ing campaign. did not believe the Arthur
forces would be so politically foolish as not
to be prepared to combine on a third man,
and hence, while knew as every one did
that Blaine would lead at the outset, I did
not think he would climb to the top. This
was a mistake. It was a contest of the office
holders and the old fellows on the one hand
and ''the boys'' on the other, and ''the
boys'' got away with them. 1 am glad Of it
for several reasons. The man they have Sc
lected is the weakest in the doubtful states
of the prominent candidates named, and be-
sides 1 like to see ''the boys" vim.
You see I used to be boy
myself in younger days and a sort of natural
sympathy goes out from my heart of hearts;
chats poetry when I go back half a century
in my minds eye, and recall the old cam
paigns. So here's to the boys and the July
nominee, who will lick them out of their
boots and make them wish that they had
never been born, or else make them sigh to
be born again.
But to go back a little, a tired, headachy,
crowd, so to speak, arose this eventful black
Friday, and early in the day began vending
their way to the exposition building where
the final scenes of the great convention,
were to be enacted. There were the usual
obdurate doorkeepers, the numerous police
men ordered on duty by Carter Harrison,
(after he got the warnings from the temper
ance memorials) and the thousands who had
no credentials to gain admittance, as
well as the thousands who had. The i'm
mense hall was packed to repletion. The
aisles and corners were packed everywhere.
The reporters tables were jammed, out
siders crowding in so that reportorial work
was anything but convenient, but the news
paper men could overlook this as it was nat
ural the public should want to see the ''grand
old party'' in its final throes.
It was 20 a. m. when the chair raped
the convention to order and called upon the
Rev. DR.. Scudder to pray. The prayer was
merely a formality. Nobody listened to it
but the short hand reporters and they felt as
though they ought to have extra price for be-
ing obliged to loaf about when ballot was
pending.
THE FIRST ROUND.
At II :35 the reading clerk called "Alaba.
ma" on the first ballot. The supreme mo-
ment for the Republican party, as my croch
ETY. friend, Geo. VIM. Curtis, would remark
had arrived. Alabama was recorded seven
teen for Arthur and one for Blaine-as ev
aI ha
ton responded for Arkansas, eight for Blaine
four for Arthur and two for Edmunds. ''I chal
lenge the correctness of the vote,' shouted
an ace of spades delegate from Arkansas
s'The delegation will be polled," said tn,
chairman. The name of each delegate wa
then called but the result was not changed
Florida was also challenged and similarl,
polled, but without changing the result
Iowa's twenty-six for Blaine was received
with thunders of applause. Maine's twelv'
for Blaine brought another demonstration
1t was evident that the Blaine forces wer
prepared to yell him through if enthusiasm
could do it.
Long before the official count was an
nounced the newspaper men telegraphed tn
result and it was probably known in st. Pau
before the authorized figures were given
When the vote was read-Blaine 33415, Ar
thur 27S-the Blaine men were wild witt
joy, and, as remember it, made no attemp
to disguise their feelings. The fact tina
Blaine had held up to his figures so well an,
that Arthur dropped below 800 was regarde,
as almost decisive from the start.
THE SECOND ROUND.
stBallotp' "Ballotr' was the shout wbe,
the prolonged applause of the Blaine dele
gates and spectators had sufficiently subsid
ed to make any word ineligible 9Th,
roll will be called for the second ballot,' an
nounced the chairman, and again the read
ing secretary shouted ''Alabamaa''
AS the roll call proceeded on th
second ballot the votes of numerou
states were challenged, partl
ty to put the individual members on recor
and partly to kill time. It was evident th.
somebody was afraid, and it wasn't the Blain
men, New York and Pennsylvania wer
challenged and as one had seventy-two an
the other sixty delegates long time was cor
sumed in making the detailed record.
Arkansas showed the first Blaine gain o