El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-01

third consecutive term, but a third
term after a four years break. He
/ had made "Trip around the world and
/ wherever he went had been received
/ with that same acclaim and welcome
] that characterized the European visit
! of Theodore Roosevelt at the end of
/ his African hunt.
I The Republican party was divided
! sharply into the Grant and the anti
| Grant factions At one time there was
/ as much bitterness as there was last
| summer Just preceding the final tight
/ for the presidential nomination at the
/ Republican national convention. The
I bitterness of the anti-Grant sentiment
/ is illustrated by a tale that is told Of
I the preacher who was exporting ms
! hearers to be prepared for the fulfill
ment of Mother ShiptOn's prophecy
! that THE world to an end will come,
/ in eighteen hundred and eighty-one.'
While he was declaring that this prob
/ ably would happen, a member of his
| congregation exclaimed: Thank Cod!
/ The preacher wanted to know the rea-
son for his sudden burst Of thankful
/ ness and he replied; Anything to
I beat Grant, And that was the atti-
[ tude Of every anti-Grant Republican IN
I the country.
COnkIing Defeated Blaine.
On the other hand, with Roscoe
/ COnkling, the leader Of the Grant
forces, it was a case of using the
name of Grant to defeat Blaine. COnk-
ling had prevented Blaines nOmina-
ton in 1876, and now was equally de-
Z termined to circumvent it in 1880. One
cannot tell whether ne was more earn
est in his hatred Of Blaine or in his
affection for Grant, but certain it is
that he hated Blaine as much as the
I human heart may hate, and loved
Grant as much as one great man may
love another
His hatred of Blaine arose when
they were both members OF the house
90
crossed upon several occasions and the
imperiOus, Overbearing attitude OF
Z COnkling aggravated Blaine who, in
speech in which he called COnkling
? ''sfnged cat and a whining puppy
declared that his contempt IS so
! whiting, and his naughty disdain and
OVeTpOWering, turkey gObbler strut so
crushing to myself and TO all the
members Of the house, that I knew it
was an act Of the greatest temerlty
( for me to venture upon a controversy
with him" COnkling was great
hater and never spoke to Blaine after
I that although they served together in
congress. for is years COnkllng
I hatred cost Blaine two presidential
nominations and was the means of his
defeat when he finally was nominated.
Hayes Broke With Party.
l. Hayes was not a candidate for re-
election He had. incurred the enmity
of both sides. Coming into the white
! house with a clOuded title to the pres
ldency. he was handicapped from the
beginning He broke with his own
1 party, to a large degree, because he
recognized the Democratic state gov
ernments in Florida, South Carolina
and Louisiana His party associates
declared that in doing so he recOg-
nized the fairness of the Democratic
contention that Tilden was defrauded
out of the votes Of these states HOar
says that Hayes had only three or
four sincere supporters In the state
In M hi n
aspire to a denomination, although his
administration was one Of much credit
to himself
When the Republican convention
(. met, COnkling. fearing that if Grant
should be nominated there would be
a bolt, offered q resolution binding
every delegate to support the noml-
nees of the convention or Withdraw
beforehand. 1t passed 719 to 8, and
then he sought to drive the three out
of the convention just as Bryan sought
to drive Belmont Ryan and Murphy
out of the Baltimore convention last
summer. But COnl6ling did not press
his point, just as, and for the same
reason, that Bryan failed to press his
at Baltimore. Another resolution was
passed which put an end to the unit
rule, and that took 90 votes from the
Grant column at a single swOop.
The @ImmOrtaI 3O6.v
Soon after the balIOting began nine
Ohio delegates who were pledged to
Sherman, bOlted him and went 10
Blaine. Some of the party leaders as
serted afterWaTd that the bolt to
Blaine so angered the Sherman forces
that it prevented Blaine from being
nominated. The very morning of the
day the nomination was made, Gar
field, who was leading the Blaine
forces. declared he was afraid that
Grant would be nominated after all
and that it would destroy the Repub-
Hcan party.
Garfield's speech nominating Sher-
man, in which he declared that the
fine frenzy of the Grant adherents re-
minded him of the pillows and the
spray of a tempest-tOssed ocean, but
that all heights and depths arc
measured from a still smooth sea,
riYeted the eyes of the convention
upon him. When he finally was nom
mated such observers as senator HOar
and senator CullOm say he was over
come. sherman charged others with
double-dealing, but acquitted Garfield
The 306 who stood by Grant through
the days of ballOtinS became known as
the Immortal sos" and gold medals
were struck to commemorate their
stand. The Wisconsin delegation. by
one majority. decided to support Car
field over Window. Had they gone
to Window he might have won, for it
was WiscOnsin's switch that turned
the tide
Tammnny Defeated.
The Democratic convention nOmi
mated Gen. Winfield s. Hancock There
were cOntesting delegations from New
York, the Regulars and the Tammany
forces. The Tammanyites wanted to
cast 20 Of the votes of New York. but
the fact that John Kelly, the Tam
many chieftain, had declared he would
not support Tilden if he were re-
nominated. gave them little standing
in the convention. and by a vote of
more than two to one the Tammany
delegation was denied seats in the con-
ventiOn. Tilden wrote a letter saying
he did not want a denomination. but
left the impression that he might not
refuse it if it came. But Tammauy
said it would not support him and the
convention turned away from him to
Hancock. At the last minute Tam
many knitted Hancock and lost New
York to the Democrats and thereby
the presidency
Four Generals In Race.
The campaign had four federal gem
erals running for president that year.
Garfield had been a general, Hancock
was one, and so was Weaver. the
Greenback candidate. The Prohibit
tionists nominated Gen. Neal Dow as
their standard bearer. and the -candi-
dacy of Weaver brought more votes to
a third party movement than any
other third party had pOlled since the
outbreak Of the civil war The Green
hackers got over 100000 popular votes.
After that the third party movement
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