The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-26

President because he had been the friend of Abraham Lincoln and because he was an associate justice of the suprece court. Carl Schurz precipitated rebellion In the c. o. P and Sumner Trumbull, the Massachusetts Adamses, Horace Greeley, B. Gratz Brown, Stanley Matthews, George Hoadley and other leading repub- licans joined in the movement. It was expected in many quarters that DaVis would be indorsed by the liberal repub- lcans, who really preferred Adams or Trumbull but the Missouri set caused the nomination of Horace Greeley, and Davis Immediately withdrew as the candidate or the labor party. Four years later he cost the democratic party the presidency when he resigned from the supreme oench anu and "Aliundi Joe" Bradley was appointed ir his stead a member of the eight to seven electoral commission that put k. B. Hayes in the place the people had chosen Samuel j. Tilden to fill. DAVIS became United States senator and hoped 10 be the candidate of one or other party for President in 1880. but when the time came he was scarcely mentioned.
 The next member of the supreme court 10 get the presidential bee in his gown was Stephen J. Field. He, too, was republican who made tracks back 10 the oemocratic party as soon as the negro was freed As associate justice he had aEindged some of the southern recon struction measures unconstitutional, and he was as good a democrat in 1880 as any of them.
 That year the democrats because or the larceny of the presidency in lSn, De | 1ieved they could elect 'yaller dog, when the slightest instinct should nave l taught them that only the old ticket of ] COlIl1 succeed. Thurman was candidate, so was Hen- dricks. so was Hancock, so was t1eld' so was Randall so was Morrison. There | was a big Seymour boom that threatened to sweep everything. Proctor Knott was l In charge of Fields boom. which had no l strength outside the Pacific coast except among the lawyers. Standard Oil put up Henry B. Payne, but that was to de1eat Thurman.
 Hancock got the nomination. but the good luck of the c. O. P. and the evil eenius Of the American republic got busy. There had been a disastrous financial ranic in 1875. due to the greenback. Every body was in debt. By 1880 return 10 snacie nayments was had. Everybody was ont of debt-most of them by discharges i;i bankruptcy-and there was nothing to do but to go to work, which the couh- ire did Hancock lost votes by declaring
  clInched his defeat when he congratulated | tEe ereenbacker who was elected gov ernor of Maine in September, 1880. Then if was that the Union league. an annex of Wall street, clipped in with poooit | enough to buy Indiana and Ohlo Tn oe- tober, and enough left over to buy New York in November. and Garheld Was elected. carrying New York, which saNee
 him, by 1S,Coo
 l Iohn M Harlan was frequently men toned for the presidency, and he woulc have made great one, as would Silas
 Miller. also frequently mentioned Bu | the people have always been aVerse t'
 making presidents of judges of the su preme court and it is not likely tha'
 r1dch will come of the suggestion or MT Justice Hughes.
 In the republican convention 1t Will DC naft against the field, and the field
 some insurgent And on the democratic side of the hedge il appears to be Nli- | son mainly because the people do not llkt Harmon for some of the friends he has made.
 Perhaps it is well enough to explain that recently I wrote that Champ Clarf had made an imprudent speech on can | adian reciprocity. Everybody knows that even the gods are powerless in the 1 hands Of an intelligent compostor, wht would have it "impudent" speech. Or this line I could tale unfold of how
 the printer made me write chastity
 V here I wrote charity" that would make
 each particular hair of your head stant
 on end-bnt you would laugh all tn, l same.