El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-30

century and a quarter OF the existence
Of the Democratic party that it went
into a campaign without a candidate
of its own. The experiment was such
a fiascO that there never has been any
I temptation to try it again. 1t was like
1 many an election that mas come since
! the Republicans seemingly were beaten
in August and September, only to be
caught up on the returning tide of pub
lie sentiment in October, and borne to
victory in November.
Grant Was Disappointing.
! Successful as Gen. Grant had been
as d soldier, he was a disappointment
| to great many of those who had first
| nominated and elected him president.
Both In his Judgment of men and meas
! Ures he Succeeded in arousing bitter
I antagOnisms within his own party, and
/ presently he found that tWO-thirds of
[ those who had been delegates to the
/ Republican conventions of 1856 and
! 1860 had broken with him. He wanted
/ to annex SantO Domingo to the United
/ States and pressed the matter so hard
! that he was soon at political daggers'
/ points with Charles Sumner and Horace
! Greedy.
Then there was graft rampant in the
[ public service. His secretary Of war,
| William w. Belknap, and his secretary
/ of the navy, George NJ. Robson. were
| accused of all sorts of graft. Charles
I A. Dana, in the New York Sun, thun-
] dered every Gay against the ROBBERS
! at Washington" and Horace Greedy
joined the revolt with his Tribune.
Manipulation Of political jobs for pri-
vate purposes was openly INDUCED in
by men IN whom Grant unfortunately
placed his confidence, and the bloody
shirt issue was getting tiresOme TO
many voters.
Coalition in Missouri.
The beginning of the coalition be-
tween the disaffected Republicans and
the Democrats began in Missouri The
issue was amnesty for the southern
soldiers of Missouri and their restOra-
! ton to citizenship, and the fusion won
The following year-1S11-the oppO-
SitiOn to Grant continued to grow and
meetings were held against his re-
election Finally Clement Vallandig-
I ham, the arch-cOpperhead of the north,
who in the COS had been exiIed to the
south from his home in Ohio as a re-
suit of his opposition to the war, drew
up series Of resolutions which were
adopted in a Dayton, Ohio, convention
They declared for the unificatiOn of
all the elements opposed to the re-
election Of Gen. Grant on the basis Of
a complete acceptance of the results
Of the war, the reconstruction policy,
the amendments TO the constitution,
etc.
This Ohio idea was christened The
New Departure" and il called hundreds
Of party leaders to its Uplifted stand
ard The Democratic press, headed by
what is now the St Louis Republic and
by the Louisville COurier-JOurnal,
hailed the new idea and directly the
liberal Republicans took it up, and
soon state convention in Missouri
called national convention of all lib
eral Republicans to convene in Cincin-
natl.
Birth of ProhibItiOnists.
But before this convention met the
Labor RefOrmers got in the field with
a national convention, having had their
movement started by a New England
shoemakeTs, trade union, known as the
Knights of St Crispin. They nominated
Tor president David Davis, VINO had
been LinCOln's political manager in ,
1860, holding their convention at Co |
lumbus, Ohio. Davis first sent a non
eommittal dispatch and later declined |
the nomination. They then nominated /
Charles O'COnOr, OF New York We
shall presently see mat another party I
also nominated O'COnOr, a nomination !
which he declined, but which was per /
mitted to stand in the face Of his I
declinatiOn.
The PrOhibitionists began their ca I
reer as q party in this campaign with /
John Russell Of Michigan, as their nom
inees.
When the liberal Republicans met 4
they realized that the Democrats were
takes were made. Horace Greedy was
the most notable exception to the rule I
that those talked Of for the nOmina-
ton leaned toward free trade. There
GA 4 Nd44ltudLCS ap4GAL1- 1A14AOlS dAO4E
had three-judge David Davis, Lin
coins campaign manager Gov. John NJ
Palmer, and senator Lyman Trumbuu
Ohio suggested eX-secretary Jacob D.
Cox and chief justice Chase; Missouri (
offered B. Gratz Brown; and the east,
Charles Francis Adams and Horace
Greedy.
Stampede to Greedy.
Charles Francis Adams, on leaving !
for Geneva. to sit as arbitrator on the
claims commission, wrote to
David A Wells, saying he was indif-
ferent about the nomination and was
to authorize any one to speak
for him, but if he were asked to give
any pledges or assurance OF his own
honesty, Wells should please draw me
out of that crowd" In spite of this,
Adams lacked only ten votes Of hav-
ing majority on the sixth ballot,
when the stampede to Greedy took
place. A motion to make the nomina-
ton unanimous was offered, but there
were dissenting votes to this.
P. Gratz Brown, editor of the st.
Louis Democrat, was nominated as
Greely's running mate. This is the
only time in the history of the repub-
lie where both ends of a presidential
ticket consisted Of active journalists. !
WhitelaW Reid was on the
ticket with Harrison when he was
nominated.
Everybody knew Grant would be re-
nominated, and the interest in the Re
publican convention centered in the
fight for the vice presidency. Schuy-
Ter COlfaX was a candidate for re-
election, but he had had a break with
some of the members of the corps OF
Washington correspondents and they
set about to bring out another candi-
date who could defeat him. They
brought out Henry Wilson, the ''Natick
CObbler," and he defeated Colfax by a
close margin.
Candidates Changed Their Names.
This is the only time in the history
Of the country that a presidential
ticket was made up Of mon who had
their names. Grant was
christened Hiram Ulysses Grant, and
he used that name until he entered
West Point There they put his name
down as Ulysses S. Grant, and he made (
the IS" stand for Simpson and ever
after signed his name in that way. Will |
sons real name was not even akin to
was jeremiah Goliath. But
In his days at the Natick shoe bench |
he studied oratOry and politics, and |
was such an admirer of representative
Wilson, of New Hampshire, that he |
adopted his name and kept it,
An instance where a man came into
he United States senate under an as
sumed name was when Oregon sent 7
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