The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-14
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he convention.
ON the first ballot Seward, nominal
ed by the stately William NJ. Evarts,
of New York, had 1874 votes. Lin
coin was nominated by Norman B.
Judd. of Chicago, and was given 102
votes. Lincoln's strength was in
creased by wholesale defections from
the other candidates after the first
ballot, and on the second vote the IL
1inois candidate. who was sitting in
his law office in Springfield to hear
the returns by wire, received 1S1 to
Stewards 1S41a.
On the third ballot Lincoln received
231k and Seward 1870, and 233 were
necessary for a choice. Then David
X. Carter mounted chair and
changed four of Ohio's votes to Lin
coin and pandemonium reigned. Mr..
Judd marched down the main aisle,
carrying portrait of Lincoln, and
Judge David Davis bore a moscow
cred rail with the legend. Split by
Lincoln" A stampede ensued, and
there were 364 votes for Lincoln when
1t ended. Mr.. Evarts moved that it
be made unanimous.
The next Republican convention
held in Chicago was that OF 1868, and
Carl Schurzz was chairman. 1t was
held in the Crosby opera house, on the
north side of Washington street, be-
tween State and Dearborn, a theater
noted as one of the finest of it's day.
Ulysses S. Grant. hero of Appomattox,
received all the $50 votes, and the
convention adjourned singing THE
Battle Cry of Freedom"
Great Times in 1880.
The spectacular convention of 1880,
over which Senator Hoar presiled, was
held in the then new Exposition
Building opposite Monroe street, on
the lake front. Roscoe Conkling, ST.
mon Cameron and John A. Logan were
determined to name Grant for third
term. James G. Blaines supporters
also were insistent, and the party
came near disruption.
Conkling, nominating Grant for the
third time, began:
"And when asked what state he halls
from
Our sole reply shall be:
He halls from Appomattox
And its famous apple tree"
After Conkling's arguments for a
third term had been heard and de-
hated upon fiercely by the assembled
delegates, James A. Garfield, of Ohio.
who had come to present the name Of
John Sherman, made the speech which
made him famous. Garfield spoke for
the calm, deliberate judgment which
would need be exercised in the No
vember days of election, as contrasted
with the decisions made in the heat OF
June convention.
"And now, gentlemen of the conven-
tion," he said, what do we want?"
A voice from the galleries returned:
1--WE want Garfield"
Bear with me for moment" was
Garfield's rejoinder. Hear me for my
cause, and for a moment be silent
that you may hear
Then he pleaded that there must be
unity in the party ranks if success
was to rest with the Republicans in
the election. Every Grant and every
anti-Grant Republican, he argued, and
every Blaine and every anti-Blaine
man was needed to make success GER
tain.
When balloting began next day, Gar
field received one vote, cast by a Penn
sylvania delegate. On the ninth bal
lot he received two, a Maryland man
voting for him. On the thirtyfourth
ballot Garfield received II votes. On
the thirty-fifth he received so, Then
the convention stampeded to the
young man from Ohio, who had come
to nominate Sherman as the man upon
whom all the factions could unite. 1t
was a case of pleading Miles Stand
ish's cause and John Alden reaping
the benefit On the thirty sixth bal
lot Garfield received 500 votes and the
nomination.
In 1884 James G. Blaine, the plum
med knight" and John A. Logan, Hi
nois' popular son, were the nominees,
the convention again being held in the
Exposition Building. Chester A. Ar
thur, heir to Garfeld's chair, sought
the nomination, but lacked the quail
ties deemed requisite to hold the party
together.
Where Blaine Was Named.
The newly built Auditorium, in un-
completed state, housed the Republi-
cans in the convention of 1883. Blaine
was not candidate, but the five Cal,
ifornia delegates insisted upon stick
ing to him. throughout. John Sher'
mans friends stood by him nobly. and
at one stage he received 244 votes.
On the eighth ballot General Ben
jamin Harrison, of Indiana, grandson
Of President William Henry Harrison
of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too fame OF
1870 was nominated. receiving 544
votes. Sherman received 11S on this
final ballot. Russell A. Alger, 100; Wal
ter @. Gresham, SO: James G. Blaine
s, and William Mckinley. of Ohio, 5
Levi P. Morton was named as Harri
sons running mate.
Chicago was host for the Democrat
ic delegates first in 1864, when Gener
al George B. Mcclellan, Little Mac
was named, with George H. Pendleton
Of Ohio. as Vice President. McClel
lan.s friends insisted that he had beer
unfairly treated by President Lincoln
and wanted to show him their appre
citation. This convention was held III
the Crosby Opera House.
Grover Cleveland, Governor of New