The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-04

uolled the remnant of the Wing party
vote which had not gone over to the
Democratic party led by Douglas and
Breckenridge.
The Republican convention, which
met at Chicago. nominated Lincoln and
Hamilton. and an abolition convention
met at Cleveland and nominated FIRE.
mont but its influence in the campaign
was hardly felt. Mr.. Lincoln received
1870 electoral votes, Breckenridge 76,
Douglas 10, and Bell 80.
In 1856 there we're several conven-
tons. offshoots from the two great
parties, but they amounted TO but lit
tie in the canvass, the contest being
between buchanan and Fremont The
election of Buchanan in 1856, and Lin
coin in 1860, was followed by the war of
secession, and in 1864 Lincoln was re-
nominated. The opposition to his re-
election by the radical element in the
Republican party was led by Ben Wade
in the Senate, and by Henry Winter
Davis in the House of Representatives
Wendell Phillips and Rev. Mr.. Cheever,
of New York, were among those VINO
made an attempt to forestall the action
Of the Baltimore convention by calling
n convention at Cleveland May 81, 1864,
which nominated John. G. Fremont and
John Cochrane. This ticket did not live
long enough to enter the canvass, as IT
was withdrawn in September.
The next revolution in the Repub-
lfcan party was in opposition to the
denomination Of Grant, in 1872. IL was
led by Charles Summer, Lyman Turn
bull Murat Halstead, Horace Greeley,
Carl Schurz and other eminent mem
bers of the party. The organization
took the name of Liberal Republl-
cans" and nominated Horace Greeley
and n. Gratz Brown. This action was
endorsed by the Democrats, and the re-
suit was an Overwhelming defeat. In
1884 there was a detection from the
nomination of Blaine, led by George
William Curtis, but they did not offer
another ticket, but contented them
selves with opposition with Harper
Weekly as their organ. The detection
from the nomination of Cleveland in
1854 resulted in ticket led by Gen.
Benjamin +. Butler, on a Greenback
platform, which was defeated, though
it was supported in the most able and
enthusiastic manner by the New York
Sun.
The Prohibition party has been one
of the most tenacious of the minor
parties. In 1872 it nominated James
Black, of Pennsylvania, but polled only
5,6OS votes. In 1876 it nominated Gen.
Green Clay Smith, who received about
10000. and in 1880, with Neal Dow as
the standard bearer, it had about the
same number of votes. In 1888 this
party aroused considerable enthusiasm
and its electors with Gen. Clinton 3.
Fisk as the nominee, received $4,000
votes, the boom" having begun in
1884, when John p. st. John received
upward of 10000 votes.
The Greenback party also had its
day of hope. In 1876 Peter Cooper and
Sam Carey We're the nominees, and
polled $4,000 votes. In 1880, with
Weaver as it's nominee. it reached the
flood tide of it's prosperity, and polled
no less than 307, 740 votes, but in 1884
it fell back to 1880.
In the campaign of 1883 there were
two labor tickets and a ticket of the
American Protective Association in
the field The Union Labor ticket,
headed by Streeter, received 144,60S
votes,and the United Labor gave its can
didate but 3,079 votes. Candidate Cur
citation, received 1891 votes.
The Farmers Alliance displayed
more strength than any of the other
offshoOts from the old parties. They
succeeded in electing three United
States Senators and several members of
the House. and since their union with
the Populists have been making sue
cesses and failure in various States,
gaining as a whole, probably, and now
atiiliating naturally, with that
wing of the Democratic party that
is supporting the Chicago platform.
While, therefore, ii is true that, as
in the case of the Republican party,
a third party movement has grown in
to a colossal and acknowledgements
the history of the third parties is that
they have been principally successful
only in isolated localities, and impor-
tant only as adjuncts of one or the
other of the leading organizations
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