Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1912-06-19
FIFTY SIX YEARS
FIFTEEN CONVENTIONS
The Chicago Republican Convention
This Week Will be the Fifteenth
in the History Of the Party.

Chicago, Ill, June 1S-The open
ing of the convention today forms
the fifteenth national convention
held by the republican party since
its birth in Pittsburg more than a
half a century ago.
The first convention was in Phil
adelphia in 1856, and Edward D.
Morgan called it to order on June
II. Robert Emmett Of New York
was temporary chairman and Henry
5. Lane of Pennsylvania permanent
chairman, with David Wilmot as
head of the committee on resolu-
tons. The platform declared against
the extension Of slavery into the
new states and territories, demanded
the admission of Kansas, and advo-
Gated the building of the Union Pa
cifc railroad. The candidates nomi-
mated were John G.. FremOnt-he
defeating John Mclean of Ohio on
first ballot-and William L. Dayton
of New York. The ticket was beat
EN- by the democratic ticket nomi-
mated at St. Louis and headed by
Buchanan.
The second, but in point of i'm
p~ortance, really the first convention
of the party was held in Chicago,
assembling June -, 1860. The
platform for the preservation Of the
Union, denounced the extension Of
slavery, and advocated tariff laws
which would encourage the devel-
opment Of the industrial interests Of
the country. abraham Lincoln was
nominated for president on the third
ballot and Hannibal Hamlin Of
Maine was nominated for vice pres
ident on the second ballot. This
ticket was successful in the fall,
easily beating the divided democracy.
The third republican convention
met in Baltimore on June T., 1864.
The platform declared for the car
Irying on of the war, advocated a con-
stitutional amendment forever pro-
hibiting slavery anywhere in the
Union, returned thanks to the fed
eral soldiers and sailors and in
dorsed the emancipation proclama-
ton. Abraham Lilcoln was re-
nominated on the first ballot, re-
ceiving all the votes except those Of
Missouri, which were cast for GEN
eral Grant. Andrew Jackson of
Tennessee was named for vice pres
ident. This ticket was successful at
the polls.
The record of republican conven-
tions and candidates held since the
close of the civil war is as follows:
Chicago, May 20, 1S6S-Ulysses
S. Grant of Illinois and Schuyler
lColfax of Indiana.
Philadelphia, June Z, 1872
Ulysses S. Grant of Illinois and
Henry Wilson Of Massachusetts.
Cincinnati, June IA, 1S76-Ruth-
erford B. Hayes of Ohio and William
A. Wheeler Of New York.
Chicago, June 2, 18SO-James A.
Garfield of Ohio and Chester A.
Arthur Of New York.
Chicago, June s, 1SS4-James G.
Blaine of Maine and John A. Logan
of Illinois.
Chicago. June 10, 1SSS-Benja-
min Harrison of Indiana and Levi
P. Morton of New York.
Minneapolis. June T., 1S92-Ben-
jamin Harrison of Indiana and
Whitelaw Reid of New York.
st. Louis, June z, 1S96-William
Mckinley Of Ohio and Garrett A.
Hobart of New Jersey.
Philadelphia, June 10, 1900
William Mckinley Of Ohio and Theo-
dore Roosevelt of New York.
Chicago, June 81, 19O4-Theo-
dore Roosevelt Of New oYrk and
Charles w. Fairbanks of Indiana.
Chicago. June 16, 190S-William
III. Taft Of Ohio and James S. Sher-
man of New York.
The convention of 1912 will be
the seventh that the republican par
try has held in Chicago. OF the re-
publican candidates nominated in
this city, Lincoln and Garfield were
assassinatel. Blaine died a disap-
pointed, If not heartbroken man.
Arthur, who succeeded Garfield.
lived to realize the full meaning Of
political gratitude. Harrison,
renominated at Minneapolis, was de-
feated. The defeat Of Grant in the
convention which met in Chicago in
1850 was the occasion OF a bitter
feud in the republican party, and
incidentally led to the defeat of the
party four years later. Mr.. Roose-
welt was nominated in Chicago in