The Washington herald., 1908-01-13
National Conventions.

I EoitoT lne Washington Herald.
The Republican National Committee
has designated Chicago as the place, and
June 16 next as the date, where and when
/ to hold the fourteenth national c0nven-
tion Of its party 10 declare its platform
and nominate a Presidential candidate,
and the Democratic National Committee,
for a like purpose, has selected Denver,
Colo, as the place and June Z the date
/ for the assembling of the chosen repre-
sentatiyes Of the party. In a little more
than six months from now the standard
bearers Of the two great political parties
viii have formally unfurled their ban
ners and the great quadrennial struggle
for supremacy will have begun.
That it Will be a vigorous and stub
bornly contested campaign seems in
evitable. No ERA of good feeling is in
sight, and it is not unlikely the contest
will develop an intensity of effort and
feeling without parallel in recent years.
Other conventions will assemble; other
platforms promulgate doctrines which
viii provide infallible remedies for all
public, private, or national errors or
irregularities. and other candidates will
proclaim their willingness to save the
State, but their presence in the stirring
conflict will hardly be noticed, and their
influence upon the final result quite i'm
perceptible. The struggle viii be between
the two great political parties of the
nation, and battle royal viii it be-
The national conventions of the Repub-
Hcan party since its organization in 1856
for the nomination Of Presidential can
didates have convened on the dates and
places and nominated candidates as fol-
lows:
June IT, 1855 Philadelphia, Fremont and Dayton.
May l6. 1S60-Chicago, lincoln and Hamlin.
June T. I654-Baltimore. Lincoln and johnson.
May 90 l665-Chicago. Grant ard Colfax.
June 3. l872-Phiadelphia, Grant and Wilson
June Il, lS76-Cincnnati, Hayes and Wheeler
June 2. ls5o-Chicag0 Garfield and Arthur
June 3. lsS4-Chcago, Blaine and Logan.
June l9 l6Ss-ChicaEo Harrison and Morton.
June T. 15G3-A Minneapolis Harrison and Reid
June l6 lsg5-St Louis Mckinley and Hobart
June l9. I9Oo-Phiadelphia. Mckinley and Ro0se-
welt.
June q, 1sOi-Chicago, Roosevelt and Fairbanks
OF the twenty-one candidates named,
President Roosevelt Vice President Fair
banks, and ex-Vice President Levi P.
Morton alone survive.
The Republican party has now attained
a greater age than any party organZa-
ton in the political history of the nation
except its ancient antagonist, the Demo-
cratic party, it having participated in
thirteen quadrennial contests and being
about to enter its fourteenth, covering a
period of more than fifty eventful years.
The Democratic party, however, right
fully claims seniority in the matter of
age as being the lineal descendent of the
organization founded by Thomas Jeffer-
son. In his day it was known as the
Republican or Democratic Republican
party. Since Andrew Jackson's time it
has been known as the Democratic party.
It's national conventions and candidates
(1S56-l90D during the life of the present
Republican party have been as follows:
June ?, ls5S-Cincinnati, Buchanan and Breekin.
ridge
April 3, ls60-Charleston,
June ls. 1850 baltimore, Douglas and Johnson
June II. lS5o-Richmond
June q, ls60-Baltimore. BreekinFidge and Lane.
(The convention which met at Charles
ton April g. 1860, after remaining in ses-
sion ten days and taking fifty-seven bal
lots without making a nomination, ad-