St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-08

of Georgia was reached, that state,
through its eloquent representative
Col. Bacon, in speech of power and
conviction, put Gen. Black in nomlna-
tlon for the vice presidential office. His
own state of Illinois seconded the
motion, when Gen. Black arose to his
feet and declared: Il enter this con-
vention the friend of Mr.. Mcdonald. /
placed my hand in his, and so long as
Mr.. McDonald's name is before the con
ventiOn, l will not suffer my name to
stand,' 1t was the act of a soldier. 1t
was the act of man of conscience. of
principle, and who of us can doubt but
that if he h I'd been selected as the choice
of this convention, he would have added
honor, and luster and glory to the head
of the ticket. But my fellow citizens,
when we reached the ground, as the
friends of Gen. Black, we felt that we
should put him in possession of the sit
uation, and so we wired hiE3 that BAN
dana not bigger than mans hand was
seen arriving on the Pacific slope, and
as it travelled eastward it seemed to
cover the heaven as with cloud, that
to be that Mr.. Thurman, of Ohio, should
be named, when he promptly sent to his
friends in the city the following dis
patch: i believe that Gen. Blacks
friends should talk
PLAINLY TO THESE PEOPLE.
There should be no concealment or
subterfUge." This telegram was sent
to us to be used by his friends without
further consultation with him, trusting
his future so far as the canvass was
concerned to those who had manifested
willingness to stand by him as his
friends in this convention.
D@A& Il 20
ventiOn the following letter from Gen.
Black:
Il have been advised by you and
other near and dear friends of the situ-
alton of affairs in the national DEM
ocratic convention at whose hands in
my behalf you were about to ask the
honor of nomination to an exalted Of
fee.
HOPED FOR THE HONOR
as one of the noble condolences of my
political associates, worthy of their eX-
alted desire and honest, patriotic am
bition; but have longer hoped for the
success of constitutional principles, and
desired that they should not be subju
gated by personal claims to the welfare
of the party of the constitution. That
party seems clearly to have decided in
advance of the expression of your as
sembly, in favor of Allan G. Thurman
for vice president. bow to its high
beheSt, while my heart is filled with
gratitude, to you, my friends, whose
favor had promised me support. ask
you to withhold my name from the con-
slderatiOn of the convention to the end
that there may be exhibited the fullest
harmony of resolve and action. Your
obliged fellow citizen,
JOHN G. BLACK"
''There is only one reason" Mr.. Pat
terson continued, ''why the friends of
Gen. Black do not bow in willing sub
mission before the red bandanas held
aloft upon the signal poles of the differ
ent states. We fear, and justly and sim
cerely fear, that if Mr.. Thurman, who is
all that his most earnest and enthusias-
tic friends can claim for him, who has
hOnOred the state of Ohio through half
century and whose name is indissolubly
linked with the history of American
progress and American politics; we
justly fear that if Providence, in it's in
Scrutabie ways, should remove one who
has already filled out the allotted years
OF man. the senate of the United States
would be
CURSED BY ANOTHER INGALLS,.
And so, gentlemen of the convention.
emitting the speech of nomination that
l had intended to make as his friend
representing an honest conviction and
also an honest admiration for all of his
opponents in this convention, and hav-
ing dealt fairly and frankly by you in
putting in your possession every COM
municaton that we have from the man
of our choice. we leave his name with
you to be dealt with as your common
sense and Democratic judgment will tell
Won.