The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-19

brief words: THE gathering shades of
evening made it necessary to adjourn"
words full of pathos to those who
knew the man. his r'ievous diSappoIrt-
ment and all the circumstances in the
case. The natural thing would have
been to hold an evening session, but,
alas for Blaine, there was no gas in
the hail. There had been some acct
dent, it was explained, but it was free
ly charged afterward that the gas was
purposely cut off by some one in SYM
pathy with the anti-Blaine combina-
ton. la v
At all events, no evening session was
held yet, nevertheless, the crisis was
wrought out that night. The friends
of all other candidates got together in
little conferences, and determined to
combine on the most available candi-
date. 1t was found that Conkling
could not unite the delegates, nor could
BrisJow; nor could Mo on be lade
the standard bearer, while it was
learned that really the Pennsylvania
delegation did not desire to give Hart
ranft more than a complimentary vote.
Hayes, then, who had defeated Thur
man brilliantly for Governor the year
before, was the only available man,
and while it was not planned to NOM
mate him on the first ballot, it was
definitely agreed that ne was to be the
ultimate choice.
Hayes Nomination.
The next mornings session was a
trying one. On the first ballot Blaine
had 2S5 votes: Morton, 1874; Bristow,
113; Conkling. SO: Hayes, 81; Hart
ranft, So, and Jewell of Connecticut, IL
Blaines friends took heart of grace,
and believed they would yet win out.
And so they might had not Blaine
been lying in bed at Washington, dis
abled from a sunstroke and so unable
to direct his forces. On the next ballot
Blaine and Hayes made gains, and
after that, till the fifth, there was little
change. Then Michigan raised Hayes
vote to 104. Just before the seventh
the New York delegation retired for
consultation and agreed to support
Hayes. while Pennsylvania split it's
votes between Hayes and Blaine. This
gave Hayes 3S4 votes. Blaine 351, and
Bristow II. The disappointment was
intense, not only in the convention hall.
where pandemonium reigned when the
vote was announced, hut throughout
the country as well.
The Garfield Convention.
The longest drawn-out convention
suspense since 1860 came i'm 1880.
when Garfield was made the Repub-
convention in which the Grant wing
of the party tried to put up the hero
of Appomattox for the third time.
Grants chief opponent was Blaine.
Conkling had charge of the Grant
forces. and Garfield generated the
forces of Blaine. Almost from the
beginning the convention seemed to
understand that the battle was to be
fought out by these two men.
The convention begean on June 2.
and for a while moved along very
slowly. Both sides were wary and
bent every energy 70 the task of
seeing that no missteps were made
on the third day Conking introduced
resolution calling for the observ-
ance OF the unit rule. Had this been
adopted the chairman Of each state
delegation would have cast the entire
vote Of the delegation for one can
didhte. This, u was instantly seen.
would make the nomination Of Grant
q certainty. Garfield fought II tooth
and nail defeating Il by "a good ma =
iority. Then conkling introduced
smother resolution binding every dele