The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-04-23

When the balloting began, 304 votes out
Of the 756 in the convention stood for
Grant, and when at length, after the
third day CT balloting, stampede was
made away from Blaine and Sherman and
the other field candidates, TO the I'M
looked-for and unpresented man, Gar
field, and suddenly piled 39S votes upon
the one vote an obstinate Pennsylvania
delegate had insisted on casting for him
in the distractIng moments when the
convention realized that Garfield was to
carry off the honors-the Grant men
stood firm as a rock and 306 votes rallied
about the Galena banner.
And now, after thirteen years have
passed over, and seventy of their number
have gone and many more are in their
last days, this stOld Guard, - enrolled in
an organization formed at Washington in
January last, propose to commemorate
the loyalty and exploits of the 1905 by
an annual reunion on the 9th day of
April the birthday of General Grant
This year the international naval review
in New York bay will absorb such public
attention on that date that the Old Guard
celebration Will be held two days earlier,
and viii take place on the evening OF the
25th at dinner at the Bellevue hotel in
Philadelphia. The president of the Old
Guard organization is George S. Bout
well of Massachusetts. who was secretary
y =
James r. Davies of New York, who was
secretary of the New York delegation in
the 1880 convention; and the treasurer,
Andrew j. Kaufman OF Pennsylvania.
Colonel Thomas j. Powers of Pennsyl
vania, appointed by Mr.. Harrison to the
post of naval officer of the port OF Phila
delphia, is the prime mover in the re-
union movement.
The convention was held in the old
ov,1cftior, h,Yi1diur IN Nfiphiuou oro0np
the southern half being sectioned off. 1t
comprised building within building,
and had seating capacity of more than
10000. Seven hundred and fifty-six men
were to be the actors in the drama there
and all the Others spectators.
The convention was to be called to
order at noon on Tuesday, June 2. A
week in advance of that date the delegates
and their clans began to pour into the
CITY and fl ND the hotels. The Grant
standard foated at the Palmer house and
ut the Office in the lobby spanked the il
Illuminated legend from Grants words in
war DAYS: stLet Us Have Peace.'' The
lobby and halls and parlors thronged
with surging and loud talking crowd OF
politicians. The Grant men were less
noisy than the others. They believed they
would show great strength ct the opening
az the convention and were confident Of
ultimate success. But the supporters OF
the other candidates were vocifeFous and
OF these the Blaine men were the Ioudest.
The supporters of Edmunds of Vermont.
Window OF Minnesota, and Washburne Of
Illinois, made up the three smaller camps
OF delegates. Ednlunds seemed To be in
the fight more on account of his friends
than on his own account. In heart Ed
nunds was probably loyal to Giant. Win
dom had been looked upon as a friend of
Grant but had been lured away through
~ o.,
the seeming possibility of his becoming
the candidate in the struggle between
Grant and Blaine. For Window the
Grant men felt something like contempt;
but for Washburne, the secretary OF state
in Grants first term, the man whom
Grant had made, the man who had turned
and cut the Illinois delegation, not TO
carry the whole of which was for Grant a
great reproach and even weakness-for
this man the Grant supporters shared
Grants own feeling OF bitter scorn.
VASE burne was branded a traitor.
Garfield, who had come as the spokes-
man for John Sherman, had taken up his
quarters at the Grand Pacific, and showed
great activity. But for whom he was
chiefly Working-Sherman or himself
would have been a perplexing question.
He had come TO Chicago with his nomina-
ton speech for Sherman in his pocket,
but had found so many men there ready
to hail him as their second choice in case
of q deadlock between the Grant Blaine
Sherman forces that he began to think
that perhaps somebody else should pre-
sent Sherman's name. But nobody else
was forthcoming, and SO Garfield pushed
ahead with the work he had undertaken.
Wherever he showed himself, however. he
observed with increasing excitement that
he attracted attention. Nevertheless, the
Ohio delegation declared itself for John
Sherman, and none other.
But it was around the Blaine banner
where believing enthusiasm was to be
foand. What they there lacked in con-
fidence they made up in noisy protesta-
ton. Blaine, Blaine, Blaine. was to be
heard everywhere-in the streets or push
ing through the crowd at hotel Iobbies.
-Four years ago he had seemed the most