The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-12
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ago. liau rendered Inc convention a boat
ride on the lake. The temptation TO en-
Joy the excursion proved stronger than
the desire to ballot. and this postponed
sthe voting until Friday Thursday night
Lane and saw all the State delegations
and told thet delegates that with Lincoln
as the candidate we could carry Ind.ann
and Pennsylvania In October by hand
some majorities, but tina II Seward was
nominated our defeat was almost certain.
These interviews produced a marked er-
feet, and as one OF the results OF our
lahors t was agreed among the Pennsyl-
vania delegates that after giving COM
pllrnentary vote for Simon Cameron on
the first ballot their entire support upon
subsequent ballots should 80 to Lin
coin.
Seward led on the first ballot. but on
the second, as had been previously ar
ranged the Pennsylvania delegates
changed from Cameron to Lincoln, which
caused an immediate and fatal break IN
the lines OF the Seward men. Before
the ballot closed the Vermont and New
Jersey delegates, among whom we had
done effective work the night before.
deserted Seward for Lincoln. and the
announcement OF the vote showed Seward
leading. Changes to Lincoln followed
each other In rapid succession during the
progress OF the third ballot. and before
it was ended he had e31 IL votes. 23s be-
ing required TO nominate. Then four or
the Ohio delegates changed to Linciin,
assuring his nomination., and before the
ballot closed 354 out of 446 delegates had
declared In his favor. The Seward Lead
ers, who had been confident Of his nomi-
nation until the last, were amazed ana
dumfounded Mt the result, but William
M. Ivarts promptly moved that Llncoln's
nomination should be made unanimous
and with the enthusiasm that usually
hattends an event of the kind the motion
was carried. Lincoln carried Pennsyl-
yana by a decisive majority, and his
tnonination proved, as had all along
slelleved that II. would, the very strong
est that could have been made
Thomson Made Lincoln's Run
ming Mate.
There was, during the opening months
| of 1864, q determined and moro or less
noisy opposition to the denomination OF
Lincoln, This came from two sources
the radical abolitionists. who chafcd at
what they called the Presidents half
hearted policy In regard to slavery, and
another element, which, while supporting
the Union, believed that slavery should
be let alone: but 1t shrank into ins.gnih-
! cance as time went on, and when tho Re-
publican convention met at Baltimore, on
i June q Lincoln was renominated OH the
4 first ballot. However, this confirmation
, OF tho peoples choice was but an Incl
(, dent. The conventions most important
work. as the sequel proved. was the nomi-
nation of Andrew Johnson for Vice Pres
| idcnt, Hannibal Hamlln, who then held
! that Office, had been nominated In 1860,
because he was representative Repub-
| l.rnn fresh from the Democratic party,
| while Lincoln, the head of tho ticket was
+, an old-tirne Whg. Though man OF
(. ability and high character, Hamlil grad-
+, ually Glrifted into the embrace OF the OPP
/, position to his chief. and for some time
i prior to the Baltimore convention Lin-