The evening times., 1895-11-09


State delegations were pledged to him to
give him good iead-almost the necessary
majority or votes-on tile first ballot.
His managers had right 10 reckon on
enough of the doubtful votes to carry the
day. I was in their headquarters the
night before and they were jubilaDt. We
counted the thing all over. and, by George.
IL looked as certain as a mathematical
equation.
well, the manager OF the Lincoln boom,
N. b. Judd, was neigbbOr and friend OF
mine. and had been keeping pace with
that also. The next morning / wanted to
See whether he had given up hope SO
watched at my window until he came out
o! his house, and then Joined him and We
walked down together. 1 opened Up by
saying that the news in the papers looked
rather bad for Lincoln; the Seward men
seemed very confident. He answered:
We'll il this convention were anywhere
but here we would have no cha nee. But
tell you these delegates want to choose
ticket that Will win, nd lots OF the fellows
on the fence will vote for the man who
seems strongest with the people. The
whole party wants popular candidate.
and we are going TO convince them that
Abraham Lincoln is their man.
.wehave fixed up Z he finest spontaneous
demonstrat you ever heard Of When
Lincoin's name is mentioned a banner forty
feet long will be unfurled from the gallery,
and at that signal q hundred and twenty
men whom we have placed all over the han
willwave little flags and start the cheering.
..At the same insta mt n flag will Be run
up out side. and our men through the crowd
Will shout that Lincoln has been nominated
and start the cheering there.
".Yun will hear such a roar OF unpremed-
itated applause rs never shook the earth
before. and / shall be astonished If the
weaker brethren do not go down before 1t.
You see the Seward men can never get
the enthu siasm out of a Chicago crowd
that we can, and 1 don't think they've
reckuned on our tactics
"I went into the convention. and Judd's
programme was carried out To the letter
Stewards name was presented flrst-in
an eloquent and scholarly speech got up
in Eyarts' best stylc-and the people re-
c.ivad IL with a proper expression of deco
rous joy.
..Rut, although Judd was not much or
sneaker when he uttered the name of A pra-
ham Lincoln decorum was forSotten-tne
house and the street were Wild
..The flags. the cheers-you never nearu
such a tumun, nd you can have no idei of
tho magnetic effect OF il all. Lots or deie
cates on that floor heard in that tumuit
ten millions uf voters commanding theih
IN xute for Lincoln. And they obeyeu' on
the spur of the moment, without stopping
to think.
"But many of them had tn do a good deal
of thinking when they went back 10 their
constituents. The nomination or Lincoln
over Seward's head fell with a dun tnud
down East, although the Cooper institute
Sneech and the debates with Douglas hau
made him a Presidential possibility even
there. v,.
..The first effect in Stewards 8 State was
much like the disappointment with WHICH
New York received Chicag0s capture OF
The worlds Fair. Both Lincoln and the
Columbian Exposition turned out afterward
triumphapt successes, so that the whoie
country joined in the cheering nnt that
fact does not alter the distrust and gloom
with which the East iutrusted TO the
west the mana cement of great war anu
a grea festival a.. ,,oao-.
came in the day of trial. and the state
which gave Lincoln and Grant To the cnun-
try has the right to claim first honors- rer
hans the day of i"y which Is coming
tho ,,av when all the arts shall spring up
as thick as clover in 4 sunny meadow, ana
aII the trumpets of fame snail unite u
s,or;fv ps-it may be aisn In the West tnat
the great men will grow"-Chicag"- i'ip's