The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-27
CHICAGO CONVENTIONS
sEoUELs TO PRESIDENTIAL
 TICKETS NAMED THERE.
Tragedies of Republican Candidates Nominated in the Windy City. Democratic Candidates Named There Won Twice and Lost
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 Statistics.

New York Sun.
 It will be sixteen years on June %. 1904 since the last Republican convention in Chicago, that of 1888 The convention four years later, 1892, met in Minneapolis; in 1898, in St. Louis; in 1900 in Philadel- phia
 Of the Republican candidates nominated in Chicago, Lincoln and Garfield were as- sassinated. Blaine died a disappointed if not heartbroken man. Arthur, who succeeded Garfield, lived to realize the full meaning of political ingratitude. Harri- son, although renominated at Minnea- polls. was defeated.
 Thus the last Presidential candidate nominated by the Republicans in Chica- go and elected, was the second Chicago nominee of the same party to turn over his party to the Democracy. The Republican convention which met in Chicago in 1880 had one of the most stub born contests ever held in the country. The candidates before the convention. Grant, sherman, Windom, Blaine and Garfield, are dead. windom's death was dramatic, as New Workers will remem- Der Sherman's friends believe to this day that he was a bitterly disappointed man from the time of this defeat The defeat of Grant in that convention was the occasion of a bitter feud in the Republican party and incidentlly led to the defeat of the party in 1884. The, Democratic party, on the other hand. has found Chicago to be a winning post twice, fin 1884 and 1892. but the same party's candidate nominated there in 1896 was defeated, and his nomination and de- feat led to split in the party.
 If the Democratic party should solace itself by the reflection that Chicago has. on the whole, contributed to the distress of the Republican party. the latter can very truthfullly retort that the Demo- cratic party received a blow in the same city which has kept it-to borrow a word from the prize ring-"groggy" nearly ever since.
 Of the Republican candidates nomi- mated in Chicago, four were known at men-Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and Harri- son. Each was lected. but the party's Eastern candidate was defeated. The nominee of the Democratic party at two conventions in Chicago was an East ern man, Cleveland, but when the party in the same city took up a Western can didate he was defeated.
 The men most prominent in the con- vention that named Garfield and Arthur who are still living are Senator Hoar, who was the presiding officer of the conven-
 
 pew Others who were delegates to that convention and who are still living had not attained the reputation which they now enjoy.
 Another interesting political fact in connection with the parties that have elected their candidates Is that up to the time of the election of MT. Mckinley each had been in power exactly the same num- Der of times. In accepting this fact it must be remembered that the term Re publican" covers the two terms of Wash ington and that of John Adams; and the terms of William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Taylor and Fillmore were Whig adminis- tratlons. When Mir. Roosevelt shall have | finished the term to which he succeeded, the Republican party will be in the lead by one administration.
 No Democratic Vice-President save one, has ever gone to the Presidency, and that one was elected. All of the Vice. Presidents who succeeded to the Presi- dency were Republicans. counting from | Lincoln.
 Harking back to Chicago conventions, the political student may be interested in recalling that of the Democratic candi- | dates nominated there two were lawyers | and one was a soldier; of the Republi- cans nominated there four were lawyers and one was a soldier