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CONVENTION OF 1880.
When Roscoe Conkling Spoke for a
Third Term for General
Grant.

The convention of 1880 embodied decid-
edly dramatic features. Frank Pixley of
California assured the delegates that if
they would nominate Blaine the Califor-
MIA delegation would go home with ban
ners flying. Our western sea-" POLITICALLY
said Mr.. Pixley, "shall sound its roaring
anthems across the continent to your
eastern ocean; our pine-clad Sierras shall
nod their tassels in graceful courtesy to
the bending plumes OF NJ aine."
Il saw once storm at sea" quoth Mr..
Frye OF Maine. "In the nighttime a
stanch old ship was fighting its fury !
Darkness everywherel The wind shrek
ing and howling through the rigging; the
lightning flashing, the thunder rolling
danger threatening all around. / saw at
the helm her pilot, in all the tempest,
calm; in all the turmoil, quiet; in all the
danger, courageous: in all the threaten
ings, peaceful; in all the uncertainty,
hopeful. Firm, steadfast, commanding, 1
saw him bring the tempest-tossed ship into
harbor into peaceful waters, into safety
That pilot was hero"
Blaine, 'the Plumed knight" had not
reached the goal yet and this did not give
him the nomination.
Cool, polished, imperturbable, rose
Roscoe Conkling when New York was
reached on the rollcall of States.
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CONVENTION OF 1884.
The Victory of the Plumed Knight at
Chicago = Speech of George
William Curtis.

Few readers can have forgotten the
speech made by Colonel Ingersoll in 1876
when he presented the name of James G..
Blaine to National Republican Conven-
tion in connection with the Presidency.
"Leader of the leaders" and "the Plumed
knight" were among the epithets applied
to Blaine by Ingersoll.
The convention which selected him
finally as the National champion was held
in Chicago June 3, 1884. Blaine had been
wholly out Of public life since his retire.
ment from the Cabinet, short time after
the death of President Garfield. This had
prevented him from appearing in his old,
conspicuous position as party leader.
On the first ballot Blaine had 33419 votes
The third candidate in point OF initial
strength was Senator Edmunds of Yer
mont who commanded SO votes at the
start, his delegates being principally from
Massachusetts,, Vermont and New York.
General Logan was the candidate OF Ill1-
nois and had enough outside votes to give
him a total of 631% on the first ballot.
Senator Hawkes. OF Connecticut, Senator
Sherman of Ohio. Robert 7. Lincoln and
General W. T. Sherman were also voted
for. The only one of the list who held no
official position at the time of holding this
convention was Blaine. His rivals en-
braced one President, four United States
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after an interval of years, trust him again.f
My countrymenl my countrymenl what stul-
tification does not such a fallacy involve?
The American people exclude Jefferson Davis
from public trusts. Why? Because he was
the arch-traitor and would-be destroyer. And
now the same people is asked to ostracize Grant
and not trust himl Why? why? 1 repeat. Be
cause he was the arch preserver of his country
and because, not only in war, but twice as
civil magistrate, he gave his highest, noblest
efforts to the Republic. Is this an electioneer-
ing juggle? Is this hypoorisy's masquerade :?
There is no field OF human activity, re-
sponsibility reason in which rational be-
ings object to an agent because he has
been weighed in the balance and not found
wanting. Gentlemen we have only to listen
above the din and look beyond the dust OF an
hour to behold the Republican party advanc-
ing, with its ensigns resplendent with illus
trious achievement, marching to certain and
lasting victory, with its greatest marshal at
its head.
This was also vain, for the nomination
was destined to go to other than "the
greatest marshal" Much of the dramatic
interest naturally centered on Grant and
his loyal s'3O6'' and upon the ''Plumed
Knight" of Maine, but this was remark
able convention in that it awarded its hon
ors to'a delegate who sat on the floor of the
house to advocate the claims of another,
and who, when fame called him, sat pai-
lid and reluctant, while around him waved
the banners of the convention, and the air
resounded to the din made by the lusty
throats OF all his fellow-delegates.
Seated IN this memorable convention
were Senator Conkllng. General Logan, J.
Donald Cameron, Preston B. Plumb,
William Pitt Kellogg and Blanche K.
Bruce, United States Senators; Benjamin
Harrison, Eugene Hale, William P. Frye.
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senators, a Cabinet Minister and retired

Senators, Cabinet Minister and retired
general.
Early in the convention a resolution
similar TO one that had been introduced
by Senator Conkling in the convention of
1880 was urged on the opponents of Blaine.
This set forth that every delegate who
took part IN the convention "was bound In
honor to support the candidate OF the con-
vention.'' George William Curtis led the
protest against this and said: "a Repub-
licau and free man l came to this con-
venticn, and by the grace OF God a
Republican and a free man will CO."
The resolution was withdrawn.
For the first time in National Conven-
ton coIored man was proposed for tenn
porary chairman-Senator Lynch OF Mis-
sissippi, whose nom ination was seconded
by George William Curtis and Theodore
RooseveIt-and he was elected as such Of
ficer over Powell Clayton of Arkansas,
who was recommended for temporary
chairman by the National Committee.
Thus, before a ballot had been reached
Blaine had met with two slight reverses.
However, Blaine's star was clearly ii the
ascendant. To defeat his nomination all
his opponents needed to unite upon
AAA'HuA' L ne arthur men pledueu Win
curtis, Lodge and Roosevelt, who did
ther best against Blaine, to turn from
Edmunds to Arthur. 'Clinging to Ed
| munds you will surely nomina ate Blaine"
tney said. They tried to bring out Robert
/: Lincoln, but all in vain At each ballot
Blame gained, while Arthur lost.
Hawey gained two votes on the fourth
ballot. Lincoln jumped from four to
eight on the third. but sank to two on the
fourth. There was ''noted curious ten
dency in the knees of some of the Ed
munds men, particularly those from
Massachusetts, to knock together audibly
| whenever the name of Blaine was men
toned in their hearing" and they, little
by little, deserted their favorite. Under
the management of Powell Clayton,
Arkansas started bolt of Southern dele
gates away from Arthur. Assured that he
himself could not win, Logan turned over
to Blaine his Illinois delegation. Upon
the fourth ballot 1.-THE Plumed Knight
was nominated. AS soon as President
Arthur was notified of the result he tele-
graphed his congratulations to Mr.. Blaine.
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Upon the succeeding Monday the con-
vention proceeded to balloting Twenty
seven ballots were taken. The Grant dele
gates, the ''solid 3O6, wore badges bear
ing the name of their candidate, and from
first to last they never forsook him. They
could have controlled the nomination If
they had seen fit to drop their. candidate
and take up a new man, but they stuck to
Grant with absolute fidelity. Garfield's $
name first appeared on the second ballot,
when he had two votes. These two votes
appeared in most of the subsequent ballot
ing. At the end of one day of hard work
the candidates continued TO occupy
about the same relative positions
as at the beginning. The Blaine and Sher-
man men appeared to be equally devoted
to their leaders. The result of the first
ballot is given in detail as follows: Grant
304 Blaine 2S4, Sherman SO, Edmunds "a.
Wash burn 3d. Window 10. The Grant
vote was as follows: Alabama 13, Arkansas
y, Colorado 6, Florida 8, Georgia 6, Illinois
"a, Indiana l, Kansas A. Kentucky 20,
Louisiana s, Maryland 7, Massachusetts
8, Michigan 1, Mississippi 6, Mis-
souri, %, New York 81, North
Carollna D, RennsylVanla oz, Duu1h
Carolina 13, Tennessee 16, Texas IL.
Virginia 1S. West Virginia 1, Wisconsin 1,
Dakota !, District of Columbia /, Utah /.
Wyoming L. The only delegates voting
solidlY for Grant were those of Arkansas,
Colorado, Florida and Kentucky. The
New York delegation gave Ii votes to
Blaine and to Sherman. Pennsylvania
voted Grant 80, Blaine %, Sherman B..
Illinois voted Grant "a, Blaine 10, Wash
burn s. Conkling demanded and secured
the rollcall when New York was reached.
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that every member of 1t is bound in honor TO
support its nominee, whoever that man may
be, and that no man shall hold seat here who
is not ready to so agree.
Three delegates voted no. The call of
the roll OF States had been demanded by
Conkling on this resolution, ''that we may
know who it is in a Republican conven-
ton that votes no on such pledge" The
three dissenting votes all came from West
Virginia. The most prominent of those
who voted mo- was Mr.. Campbell, editor
of the Wheeling Intelligencer.
The final overthrow of the unit rule was
reached when the convention urged that
the rules be SO amended so that 1.-The Ma
tional Committee shall prescribe the
method or methods for the election of dele
gates to the convention of 1884, provided
that nothing in the method or rules go
prescribed shall be construed to prevent
the several districts in the United States
from selecting their own delegates to the
National Convention" The rules as re-
ported were also adopted. The platform
having been reported and adopted by the
convention the work of nominating the
candidates was finally reached. Some ex-
tracts from the speech of Senator Conkling
have been given. Mr.. Toy of Michigan
nominated Blaine, the seconding speech
being made by Mr.. Pixley of California.
John Sherman was nominated by General
Garfield. Senator Edmunds was named
by Frederick Billings Of Vermont. Elihu
B. Washburn was presented by Mr.. Cas-
saday of Wisconsin, and William Window
by Mr.. Drake of Minnesota
These speeches were made Saturday
evening. They provoked so much demon
stration that threat was made to clear
the gallery of the noisy snectators
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William J. Sewall, Omar d. Conger,
Dwight M. Sabin and Philetus Sawyer, all
soon to enter the Senate. General Gar
field, Governor Foster and Ex-Governor
Dennison were in the Ohio delegation.
There were also on the roll five of General
Grants Cabinet Ministers, namely: Bout
we'll of Massachusetts, Creswell of Mary
land, Williams OF Oregon, Edwards Pierre
pont of New York and Cameron OF
Pennsylvania. There were others OF dis
tinction, the list of delegates including
chester A. Arthur, Governor Martin OF
Kansas General Beaver and Colonel quay
OF Pennsylvania William Walter Phelps OF
New Jersey, William E. Chandler of New
Hampshire, Emory A. Storrs OF Illinois,
Governor Yarmouth of Louisiana, Gov
ernor Henderson and J. S. Clarkson OF
Iowa and President Seelye of Amherst
College and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massa-
chusetts-all prominent in the councils OF
the Republican party.
The convention first came to order at
noon, June 2, in the Exhi bition Hall In
Chicago, the proceedings being opened by
j. Donald Cameron, chairman OF the Re-
publican National Committee, and after
this formality prayer was offered by the
Rev. Dr. Kittredge of Chicago. George f.
Hoar of Massachusetts, was the temporary
and also the permanent chairman. In his
opening speech Mr.. Hoar did not broach
the idea of the "unit rule, upon which
the strength of the Grant third-term
movement depended. Little was accom-
plished on the first day, the only
significant event being the filing OF Gre
dentials as delegates by representatives OF
ten Congressional districts of Illinois, who
were named by district conventions and
who were not bound by the unit rule. The
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Daniel S. Dickinson and George w. Nc
Crary, the last named being from Ohio.
After the platform had been adopted
Mr.. Delano of Ohio moved to proceed to
the nomination of the Presidential candi-
date. Simon Cameron moved to renom-'
mate Lincoln and Hamlin by acclamation,
but upon a suggestion made by Henry T.
RAYMOND it was decided to proceed by
the call of States after the preliminary
speeches. The speech in which Abraham
Lincoln was nominated was a model of
brevity. 1t was made by B. G. Cook,
chairman of the illinois delegation, and
was as follows:
The State of Illinois again presents to the
loyal people of this Nation for President of
the United States Abraham LiEcoln-God bless
himl
Every State gave its undivided vote for
Lincoln with the exception of Missouri,
which cast its vote, under instruction, for
Grant. The result of the ballot was 484
for Lincoln and % for Grant. Missouri
having changed its vote the nomination
of Lincoln was unanimous. This an
nouncement was met with cheers, which
were repeated many times through q
period of minutes. The following para
graph from the Nicolay-Hay history OF
Abraham Lincoln puts dramatic finish
to the account of that con vention:
Mr.. Lincoln, walking over to the War Depart
ment in the afternoon, as usual, for military
news, received the dispatch announcing the
nomination of Andrew Johnson before he was
informed of his own. The telegram contain
ing the news of his own nomination had gone
To the White House q few minutes before.
The convention was opened by Senator
Morgan of New York and Willis M Denni-
son of Ohio was made the chairman.
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rst victory OF the anti third term move
ment was scored by the election of Mr..
Conger as chairman of the committee on
credentials, Mr.. Conger receiving 80 votes
to Ii for Mr.. Tracy of New York. General
Garfield was elected chairman of the COM
mittee on rules. The first test of the Grant
strength was afforded by vote on mo-
ton that the committee on rules be IN
structed to report. for which General
Sharpe of New York moved as substitute
that the committee on credentials be
ordered to report. The substitute was
lost-31S ayes to 406 noes. This was con-
sdered measurably fair test of the rela-
tive strength of the Grant and the anti
Grant forces.
The unit rule broke down first in the
case OF Alabama. The full vote of that
State was announced for the substitute
motion just mentioned. A delegate pro-
tested that he desired to vote against the
substitute, and the chairman oftb convep-
ton ordered that the vote be so recorded.
On the second day of the convention
there was some sharp fencing on the point
whether the committee on rules should be
instructed to report prior to the report of
the committee on credentials. General
Garfield, who was tacitly acknowledged
to be the anti-Grant leader, made state
ment that, acting under instructions of
his committee, he would not report until
the committee on credentials had come in.
General Sharpe of New York wished to
get at the rules first, but this tactical move
came to naught.
Soon after the opening of the third day
Senator Conkling offered the following
resolution:
RESOLVED AS the sense of this convention
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And when asked what State he halls from
Our sole reply shall be
He halls from AppomattoX
And its famous apple tree.

And when asked what State he halls from
Our sole reply shall be
He halls from Appomattox
And its famous apple tree.
Thus began the leader of the famous
1906" as he prepared to speak in favor of
the denomination of General Grant.
Never defeated, in peace or war, his name
is the most illus trious borne by living man.
His services attest his greatness, and the
country-nay, the world-knows them by
heart. His fame was earned not alone by
things written and said, but by the arduous
greatness OF things done; and perils and
emergencies will search in vain in the future,
as they have searched in vain in the past, for
any one upon whom the Nation leans with
such confidence and trust" burst of ap-
plause greeted the orator at these words.
Never having had policy to enforce against
the will of the people he never betrayed q
cause or a friend, and the people will lneyer
desert or betray him. Standing the high
est eminence of human distinction modest
simple, firm and selfpoised, having filed all
lands with his renown. he has seen not only
the high-born and the titled but the poor and
lowly in the uttermost ends of the earth rise
and uncover before him. He has studied the
needs and the defects of many systems of gov
ernment and he has returned better Ameri-
can than ever, with a wealth of knowledge
and experience added to the hard common
sense which shone so conspicuously In all the
fierce light that beat upon him during sixteen
years-the most trying, the most portentous,
the most perilous in the Nations history.
This extract gives an idea of the elo-
quence OF that speech by the New York
Senator who led the ''3O6'' and the aspira-
tons for third term for General Grant.
But Senator Conkling played rarely on
the feelings of his auditors when be ut
tered the following words:
Having tried Grant twice and found him
faithful, we are told that we must not, even
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The balloting was resumed Tuesday morn
ing. On the twenty-ninth ballot Massachu-
setts transferred the majority of its votes
TO sherman. On the thirtieth ballot Sher-
man advanced to 120 and Window fell to 4.
The next three ballots were substantially
The same. On the thlrty-fourth ballot
Wisconsin cast 16 votes for General Car
field. The result was thus foreshadowed.
Then came the climax of the convention.
Indiana. on the thirty-fifth ballot. follow
ing Wisconsin, cast 81 votes for Garfield
and scattering votes carried his aggregate
to so.
When the thirtv-sixth ballot opened
Blaine and Sherman delegates changed to
Garfield. Around his head were waved
the banners of the States, which had been
seized by the delegates. There was time
of the widest excitement. On this ballot
General Grants '.306'' voted solidly. The
result of the ballot was: Garfield 399,
Grant 3O6, Blaine AZ, Washburn 5, Sher-
man 8.
Up rose Conkling, the leader of the 3o6,
and in a husky voice, said: "James A.
Garfield of Ohio having received a MS
iority of all the votes cast | rise to move
that he be unanimously presented as the
nominee of this convention. l was in the
act to say that trust the zeal, the fervor
and now the unanimity seen in this great
assemblage will be transplanted to the
field of the final conflict; and that all of
us who have borne the banner against
each other will be found with equal zeal
carrying the banner; with equal zeal
carrying the lance of the Republican party
into the ranks of the enemy"
Chester A. Arthur was nominated for
Vice President on the first ballot.
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The doctrine of nationality, planted deep a.,
the hearts Of the american people, is our o,.Iy
sheet-archOr Of safety for the future. =
The idea that we are Nation, that sCe are
one people, undivided and indivisi5te, should
be plank IN the platform of every
party. II should be printed on the banner of
every party. 1t should be taught an every
school, academy and college. II should be the
political north star By sChich every political
manager should steer has bGrk.-OLIHER P.
NORTON.