Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-07-06

samuel Randall would be lected.
Speaker John G. Carlisle Of Kentucky
had n large following among Demo
en1ts Of the house. although his
southern home was recognized as a
probable bar 10 his success.
in 1879 she guessers we're all
wrong The general belief a belief
hat amounted to faith. was that the
Democrats would renomfnate Sam
mel J Tilden, whom they declared
had been lawfully elected ami fraud
elently counted out IN 1876. Nobody
had any serious idea that Tilden
would be turned down for General
Hancock. as he was. although he was
permitted the consolation Of appear
inc 20 decline the honor. Similarly.
nobody hal the femctest idea that
the Republicans would name James
A. Garfield.
The Republican contest appeared
to be between General Grant, who
wished a third term. and James G.
Blaine. The Ohiceholders talked about
renominating Hayes. but their talk
was not confident. Many wise ones
said that John Sherman would come
in between Grant and Blaine and
take the prize. That Garfield was
nominated was the result of his own
shrewd manipulation and the person
nj unpopularity Of Sherman among
leading Republicans Of his own state.
In 1875 the prophets were also
wild. The success of Tilden in prose-
cutting the corrupt Tweed ring in New
york made him a favorite but there
were many who said the Democrats
would choose Thomas A. Hendricks
of Indiana. william Allen OF Ohio
or Thomas A. Bayard of Delaware.
Tilden was named on the second bal
lot bv the necessary two-thirds. Few,
If any predictions were made tneh
Rutherford b Hayes would win the
Republican nomination. He had re-
ooined Ohio from the Democrats in
a gubernatorial fight. but he had III
tie national reputation. Blaine was
tbe favorite in all the advance bel
hing and the second choice of the
soothsavers was oliver p. Norton
the war governor of Indiana But
the field united against Blaine, and
HAYES won.
in 1871 the denomination Of Cen
eral Grant was generally conceded,
hut not the widest of the prophets
would have predicted that year Ia
for the national Democratic conVen-
tion would indorse a boiling RepuD-
rcan and fhat Republican Horace
creelevi Even the Republicans who
were onpose1 to Grant. and who IA
vored the nomination Of a Liberal
Rennblican on separate ticket did not
oontomnlate the choice of Greeley.
charles Francis Adams and LYMAN
Trumbull we're the favOrltes from
tho first Greeley WAS chosen on the
sixth ballot. was indorsed by .he
Democrats. and met an Overwhelming
defeat
The nomination Of General Grant
in 1868 was generally conceded be-
fore the convention met. but few
months earlier all was not so clear.
Andrew Johnson WAS on trial before
The senate imneachment proceedings.
Peniamin Wade Of Ohio was presi-
dent protemnore of the senate AM
had Johnson been convicted he would
hove encceaded to the presidency.
with the federal patronage to an
him. II was thought that he might de-
feat Grant who although a popular
military hero was much more OF
Democrat than a Republican. so far
as he had any political record at all.
The Democratic nominf zion was
not greatly considered President
Johnson wanted it. even asked for IT.
George TT. Pendleton of Ohio was the
leading asnirant before the people,
and General Hancock was much dis
cusse1 But perhaps the most talked
of Democratic possibility was Chief
Justice Chase. He had abandoned
hone OF the Republican nomination
and. desiring above all things to be
president he was willing to lead the
Opposition HoratiO Seymour OF New
York was the leader in the nlan to
nominate Mhase. Opposed to him was
Tilden Of the same state. How 1ild-
en- checkm q'ed Seymnur's schemes
and forced the nomination uDon Sew
mour himself. who was chairman Of
the convention. is one of the most in
teresiing episodes in American poll
teal life
Before the period of the civil war
the nominations were even more UNI
certain than they have been since.
In 1859 no man would have said that
Abraham Lincoln would be nominal
ed and elected president In $50.
And it is barely possible that nobody
knows today what will happen in the
national conventions and the presi-
Dental election in 1912.
London is surprised to find. that
notwithstanding the coronation.
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