Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-13
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NOTIFYING
OF THEIR
The Procedure Used to Be
Very Simple, the Mails
Being Employed.
the candidates Of
tHtIF HOIhiHalIOIls D. tbeIF re-
spectiye conventions may take

A Y spectiye conventions may take
place at any time. There is no
rule about IT, Generally it occurs with.
In thirty days after the conventions.
The permanent chairman Of a conven-
ton is usually chairman OF the notIf-
cation committee. The first presiden-
tial nominee TO get the notification as
1t Is now made was Henry Clay, in
1851 The committee consisted Of one
delegate from each state. From then
until now to be one Of the notification
committee has. in the estimation Of
the committeeman, added luster TO his
name.
Before the plan now In vogue nomi.
nees were notified by mail. That Gus
tom caused one nominee some chagrin
The chairman of the convention noti-
fled him by letter. In those days the
recipient Of a letter paid the postage
when the letter was delivered. In the
case Of the nomination Of General Tay,
lor by the Wing convention the chair
man, Governor Morehead, wrote the
notification letter. After several weeks
Of silence Governor Morehead became
uneasy. General Taylor's mail was I'M
usually heavy, and he gave orders that
all mail to his address should be re-
turned to the dead letter office unless
the postage was prepaid. The chair
man Of the Wing convention had failed
to prepay on his letter Of notification,
and back 1t went to the dead heap in
Washington. Thereupon the chairman
wrote another letter of notification
put on the stamps and hurried 1t to the
waiting nominee in Louisiana. General
Taylor replied to that at length.
Notification of Hendricks.
The nominee is notified at his place
OF residence unless some other arrange
ment Is made. If the officer of the day
at Governors island had not understood
his business laughable incident might
have occurred when General Hancock.
then in command of the eastern depart
ment, was waited upon by the notiflca
ton committee from the Cincinnati
convention. which nominated General
Hancock for president. A Missouri
editor, who was one of the committee,
broke away from the main body as 1t
approached the veranda of the house
of the commandant and endeavored to
persuade the officer In charge OF such
matters that he must have the guns
roar out the presidential salute. 1t is
said that the Missourlan used his per
feryid oratory in trying TO have the
officer understand that he the Nilsson
RAM had verbal order for what he
asked. 1t is not known what reply
the officer made. but the guns didn't
roar and the story never got out.
1t is remembered by few of the old
politicians who were in the conven-
ton that nominated Cleveland and
Hendricks, .hat the Indiana statesman
and his friends were greatly incensed
over the failure of the convention to
make the tall of the ticket reverse it
self. Mr.. Hendricks was n sage In
Democratic councils when Mr.. Cleve-
land was a day scholar. Mrs. Hen
bricks was high born lady in the
best social circles of her own home aud
in Washington. She shared the po-
litical ambitions Of her illustrious hus-