St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-08
COLORADO'S CHOICE
WAS Gen. Black, but He Valiantly
Withdrew.

ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE call for the
state of Colorado was responded to by
Hon. T. NJ. Patterson, who said:
''When Colorado's delegation left it's
home for this city l was chosen to
present the name of its choice for the
vice presidential Office. 1t was pleas
ing mission to me, for Gen. Black and
had been educated in the same schools.
and when the war for the preservation
of the Union commenced we enlisted in
the same company from Indiana. That
was then the home of both of us. When
the war concluded he and | often meas
ured legal swords in the same court
rooms and before the same juries. We
felt that there could be no mistake in
presenting to the delegates of the Dem
ocratlc party the name of man who
embraced in his own personal life the
history of a gallant soldier, a patriotic
statesman and an executive officer with
out superior within the limits of the
country. We felt that when the
HUMAN WOLVES AND HYENAs
spawned since the war would charge that
the Democracy was unfriendly to the
soldier, we could turn to him and say to
the people: In his administration of
the pension department of this govern
ment you have living denial of the SLAM
der you have uttered We felt that
when the fact would be called to the at
tention of the men of the South that
when the flag that had been raised on
Sumter was lowered at Appomattox,h his
return to civil life in the state of his
adoption, which was at that time over
whelmingly Republican, held aloft both
of his arms that had been shattered
upon Southern battle fields, and pro-
claimed that this was a union of free
and equal states, and, with the elo-
quence of his tongue and the earnest
ness of his nature, urged the people of
the Western states to stamp out the
feeling of prescription that our Repub-
lican enemies sought to kindle within
the breast of the American people.
When recall the fact, what to me is
the most important act of his public life,
that it was through his
PRoNPTNESS AND INTREPIDITY
in the Chicago convention four years
ago that Mr.. Cleveland was made our
candidate, | am all the more willing to
raise my voice in his behalf. Those of
us who were there we'll remember when
the second ballot for the presidential
office was being taken the first mention
of the name of Hendricks swept the hall
as if by a cyclone, and for twenty-seven
minutes it seemed as if the 500 delegates
in stampede, and when the senator
from Indiana mounted the platform and
announced that by the unanimous vote
of the Indiana delegation the name of
Senator Mcdonald would be withdrawn
and the name of Thomas A. Hendricks
would be substituted, Illinois was called.
McDonald's name having been with
drawn, Gen. Black, IN the voice of the
general, almost as if he was stopping a
stampede and retreat upon the
field of battle, declared that the four
teen votes of the state of Illinois that
had been cast for Mcdonald would be
cast for Mr.. Cleveland. Then, and not
until then, was the semi-lunacy of the
convention arrested, aud the delegates
were brought back to their senses. One
more effort of that convention illus
trateS the
CHARACTER OF TIE MAN.
When the states were called for their
choice for vice president, Indiana,
through their Democratic governor, put
IN nomination for the presidential Office
Joseph Z. Mcdonald. When the state