The Daily Missoulian., 1912-10-30
all the elements opposed to the re-
election Of General Grant, on the basis

alI Une elements opposed TO the re-
election Of General Grant, on the basis
Of q complete acceptance OF the re-
suits of the war. the reconstruction
policy. the amendments to the Coneti.
tuition. etc. This Ohio idea was
christened The New Departure" and
it called hundreds OF party leaders to
its uplifted standard. The democratic
press headed by what n 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 a state conven-
tion of Missouri called a national con-
vention Of all liberal republicans to
convene in Cincinnati.
But before this convention met the
labor reformers got in the. field with
a national convention, having y had
their movement started by "a New
England shoemaker trade union,
known. as the Knights Of st. Crispin
They nominated for president. David
Davis who had been Lincoln's poliu-s
cal manager in 1850. holding their
convention at Columbus. Ohio. Davis
first sent non -committal dispatch and
later declined the nomination. They
then nominated Charles O'Conor OF
New York. We shall presently see
that another party also nominated
O'Conor. a nomination which he de-
clined but which was permitted to
stand In the face Of his declination.
| The prohibitionists began their ca
reer as a party in this campaign with
James Black of Pennsylvania, and
John Russell Of Michigan. as their
nominees.
When the liberal republicans met
| they realized that the democrats were
ready to ratify their work II no mis-
takes were made Horace Greedy was
the most notable exception to the rule.
that those talked Of for the nomina-
ton leaned toward free trade. There
| were candidates a-plenty. Illinois
had three-Judge David Davis, Lin
coins campaign manager, Governor
John M. Palmer. and Senator Lyman
Trumbull Ohio suggested ex- -Secre-
tary Jacob D. Cox, and Chief Justice
| Chase; Missouri offered B. Gratz
Brown, and the east, Charles Francis
Adams and Horace Greedy.
| Charles Francis Adams, on leaving
for Geneva to sit as arbitrator on the
| Alabama claims commission, wrote to
David A. Wells, saying he was indif-
ferent about the nomination and was
unwilling to authorize any one to
speak for him, but II 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 10 votes of
having majority on the sixth ballot,
when 4he stampede to Greedy took
place. A motion to make the nomi
nation unanimous was offered, but
there were dissenting votes to this.
B. 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 republic where
| both ends of a presidential ticket con-
| sisted of active Journalists. although
Whitelaw Reid was on the ticket, with
Harrison when he was renominated.
Everybody knew Grant would be
renominated, and the Interest In the
republican convention centered in the
fight for the vice presidency. Schuy-
ler Colfax was candidate for re- -elec-
ton, but he had had a break with some
of the members of the corps OF Waslf-s
ington correspondents and they set
about to bring out another candidate.
who could defeat him. They brought
out Henry Wilson, the "Natick Cob ]
bier and he defeated Colfax by a,
close margin.
This is the only time in the history
of the country that presidential ticket
was made up of men who had changed
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
rs" stand for Simpson and ever after
signed his name in that way. Wilson's
real name was not even akin to Wilson
it was Jeremiah Goliath. But in \
his days at the Natick shoebench 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 the
United States senate under an as
sumed name was when Oregon sent
John II. Mitchell to Washington as a
senator. He was formerly of Penn
sylvania, where his name was John
Nipple. The senate. therefore, has
had both a presiding officer and a
senator wearing some other name than
his own.
AS was forecast, the democratic ma
tional convention of 1872 accepted the
nomination of Greely and Brown and
made the liberal republican ticket its
own. over the protest OF iBayard of
Delaware, and Voorhees, of Indiana.
There was an element in the party
that was not satisfied and wanted q
straight democratic ticket. It held a
convention at Louisville. Kentucky, |
and nominated Charles O'Conor. who
was the nominee of the labor reform
ers. with John Quincy Adams OF Mas
sachusetts, as his running mate.
OConor refused the honor, and the
president of the convention, James
Lyon of Virginia, was nominated. He,
too. thrust the nomination aside, and]
Adams refused to accept anything but !
second place and that only In the
event that O'Conor would head the
ticket. Therefore. O O'Conor was noni-
mated in spite Of his decltnation.