River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-02-02
KENSEBEC JOURNAL OFFICE WHERE
BLAINE WAS FIRST APPHEyTICED.

completely and absolutely exonerauug me
from this charge, and you have suppressed IT, ="
Or this scene Gen. Garfield once said that II ex-
ceeded any thing he had ever seen in congress
As - Candidate for President.
June II was the time Of the republican ma
tional Convention. The prcvions Sunday he
had / cen Frustrated by the heat and fears were
entertained for his life Ia the convention.
however. his friends stood firm. On the first
ballot he received 10 votes out OF the total %
754. The remainder were divided yetweeH sen
atcr Morton Secretary Bristow. Senator Conk-
ling. Gov Eayes and others On the seventh
ballot his vote rose to S5i. lacking only p 1f
nomination. combination upon Hayes, Eow
ever. defeated him.
In the Senate.
Mr. Blaine entered the senate some months
later Again in 1880 his friends OF four years
before stood by him in the national convention
The first vote stood: Grant 3O4 Blaine, -;
Sherman, SO; Edmunds. 81; Washburne, 30:
WINDOW 10, and Garfield. l. On the final bal
lot. however, the Blaine forces United on Gar
field, who was nominated. After bis election
Mr. Blaine was made secretary OF state He
was in the cabinet ten months. After Garheld's
death Mr.. Blaine retired from the cabinet
Once More "a Private Citizen.
On his retirement he was for the first time il
twenty-three years out OF public station. lie
took up his wel-known historical work
Twenty Years OF Congress-, ard issued the
first volume in January, 1851 In this year ne
was again before the republican convention for
the nomination to the presidency On the fourth
ballot he received 81 OF the sl3 votes and was
nominated. President Arthur was his CHIEF
competitor. This campaign was peculiarly
bitter one The result hinged upon New York,
which went democratic and elected Grover
Cleveland. He returned at once to his history
and completed the second volume in 1856
\ Nomination Refused.
Later he Travelled extensively in Europe his
health being much broken At the time OF tnt
republican convention in 1888 he refused TO ae-
oept the nomination, cabling from Scotland 10
the Chicago gathering to that effect Several
months earlier he lad written letter refusing
TO be considered a ca ndidaie-
As secretary of state.
He worked for the success of Mr.. Harrison II
the succeeding campaign and at the beginning
of the present national administrator he en-
tered the presidents cabinet as secretary oil
state His distinguished career in that position
is wen remembered The Pan-American con
gress the reciprocity treaties and other strik-
ing incidents rendered his work remarkable.
Beaten by Harrison.
Owing 70 personal difference with the presf
dent he resigned his position in the cabinet
few days before the meeting Of the national
convention OF his party. Though short time
before he had declined in set terms TO BE- a can.
didate before the convention he permitted his
friends TO use his name. On the first ballot
however President Harrison was renominated
Though in bad health Mr. Blame wrote letter
and made speech for his party during TIE
car.p ign lately closed
e. Postmaster General Campbell Dead
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2s -Ex-J udge
James Campbell, formerly postmaster