Evening star., 1918-07-14
FIFTY YEARS AGO In THE STAR

doubt they suppose that havs acted
properly in this matter, but we can
assure them that the great body of
the community. including those Who
late election. viii not sustain them
in any factious course calculated to
keep the municipal wheels at
standstill and stop all city legisia-
tion. We are all in the same boat In
sequently citizens Of ali parties VIII
alike censure the attempt of half
a dozen men to continue the deadlock
to crafty their own whims."
After two days OF fruitless ballot
Ing the democratic national convex
tion at New York.
Ex-Gov. Seymour on the sth N
Nominated. @ na,.a % unr"t,o -
Seymour. Ex-Governor of New York,
for President, and Gen. Frank Blair.
jr.. Of Missouri for Vice President.
Seymour had been serving as chair
man of the convention and had not
been voted for until the twenty-see-
ond ballot. when the deadlock caused
by the triangular fight between PEN
dleton. Hendricks and Hancock was
broken by a stampede for the New
Yorker. The Star of July says OF
the nomination:
The nomination Of Mr.. Seymour
took the politicians hero a good deal
by surprise today. 1t was deemed
among the probabilities that his name
would turn up formidably in the
course of the day, but IL was not e1-
pected that the combination would
be effected so suddenly. The New
IL .~1I lAt> lH
with great adroitness and brought
forth their bashful and reluctant can
didate exactly at the proper moment
to win. after the other candidates
had butted each others brains out.
Opinions vary here concerning the
strength of Mr. Seymour as a candi
date. 1t is certain, however, that the
nomination fails to elicit any enthusi-
asm on the part of the democratic
politicians. and that the leading re-
publicans at tho capital receive IL
with positive feeling Of relief. The
latter hold that seymour's war rec
ord will be fatal to him in the east
and his financial position in the west.
The democrats aver. however. that
their platform 10 to do the business
and that Seymour or anybody else csn
be run in on II with a rush. The
coolness Of feeling here in democratic
circles over the nomination Is due to
the fact that Seymour has few paftt-
sans here. most of the democratic poll
iticians having taken strong ground
for other candidates, more especially
for Hancock. The Blair family have
worked to some purpose In ehecting
the nomination of Gen. Frank Blair
for the vice presidency, after he
failed for the first place on the ticket
This is a bid for the soldier vote"
X +
A CHASTITY find of some Historical
interest was noted in The Star Of
July 10, 1865. as fol-
Skeletons lows:
"The verkmsn are
Exhumed. now engaged in srad.
ing in the arsenal grounds the space
occupied by the penitentiary building.
Near the site of the workshops In
the center of the south yard Of the
penitentiary a few days ago four
teen skeletons were sxhumed. most
of them being in a remarkably good
state of preservation. 1t was By
some thought that they were the re-
mains of the English troops which
were blown up by an explosion In
the war Of 1872. and by others those
of convicts. but from the fact that
a number Of copper buttons with
thirteen stars in their face were
found near them II is thought that
they were the remains Of Knitted
States soldiers who died during the
first years of the existence Of the
arsenal as a military post"