Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-11-30
BIG POLITICAL
Difference
IS seen
ii1e1t Meeting o. fvpubi il
National Committee Reminds
of Conditions Fifty Years
Ago al First Gathering.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. Nov. %
When the republican national commit
tee meets in this city one week from
yesterday II will be to decide upon
the time and place for holding the
fourteenth annual convention of that
party. Times and conditions have
changed wonderfully since the repub-
Iicans held their first national con-
vention in Philadelphia a little over a
half century ago.
The delegates were not chosen then
on the basis of representation which
now prevails. Fer instance, in the
convention of 1856 New York had SO
delegates, Pennsylvania 81. Ohio SO.
In the convention next year New
Pennsylvania 6S, and Ohio 46.
In the first national convention of
the republican party all of the dis
tinctiyely northern states were repre-
scented, and, in addition, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky. In
the party's fourteenth convention,
which will be held next June, every
state and territory of the union will
be represented.
In 1856 the popular vote for the
republican candidate for president,
John c. Fremont of California, was
1,341.264. In 1904 Mr. Roosevelt re-
ceived 7,62S,4S6. The state OF New
York has more voters now or all par
ties than the entire republican vote OF
fifty years ago.
The first national convention OF the
republican party declared in its plat
form that "the maintenance or the
principles promulgated in the Decla-
ration of independence and embodied
in the federal constitution Is essential
TO the preservation of our republican
institutions" It rebuked the demo
cratic party for the latter's attitude
toward Cuba, and asserted that "the
higwayman's plea that might makes
right embodied in the Ostend circu-
lar would bring shame and dishonor
upon any government or people that
gave it their sanction" Since these
declarations were made the United
States, under republican administra-
tons. has acquired the Philippines
and Porto Rico-and the Declaration
of independence and the denunciation
of ''the highwayman's plea" no long
er figure in republican platforms.
In the first national republican con
vention of the republican party there
were two candidates for the presiden-
tial nominatiou-John c. Fremont of
California and John Mclean of Ohio.
Mclean was the preference of the
old-time wings who had identified
themselves with the republican party.
He was tainted with "know-nothing-
isms," however. and that was the
prime cause Of his defeat.
When the party held its second con-
vention, in Chicago. in 1860, the nom
nation of William H. Seward of New
York seemed a foTegone conclusion,
but the honor was bestowed upon
Abraham Lincoln, who was renomi-
mated in 1864 by the Baltimore con-
vention. General U. s. Grant was
nominated, practically without a dis.
senting voice, at the Chicago conven.
| ton of 1858, and renominated unani-
mously at the Philadelphia conyen-
ton in 1872. In the convention of
! 1876, at Cincinnati, James G. Blaine
| led all other candidate ror the nomi.
| nation for six ballots, but was de-
feated on the seventh by Rutherford
| B. Hayes. On the first ballot Mr..
/ Blaine had 2S5 votes, which were in
creased to 351 on the seventh Gen.
eral Hayes had only 81 votes on the
first ballot and 113 on the sixth. On
the seventh ballot he received 1874
votes, or six more than were neces-
sary to a choice. 1t was Blaine
| against the field and the field was
stronger than Names magnetic
i