Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-31
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Grant.
We are ready for the conflict,
With loyal hearts and true.
Shouting the battle cry Of '.Seymour.'
And we'll surely gain in progress
In the work we have to do.
Shouting the battle cry Of Seymour"
In the quadrennial contest in 1872
Gen. Grant was opposed for re-elec-
ton by Horace Greeley, candidaet of
the liberal republicans and the demo-
Gratis. Scores Of PAROLES on popular
songs were sung in support Of Gree
ley. the sage farmer Of ChappaQua-"
One was:
Greeley forever, hurrah boys, hurrah.
Down with Long Branch, and up with Chap
And we viii rally round the white hat. we will
rally once again.
Shouting for honest Horace Greeley.
Grant Ministries also were prolific in
their satire of Greeley; for example:
IT'S the last show for Greeley,
And that show. oh, how thin!
All his old friends have freely
Gone back on him.
The victor Of Appomattox" won q
runaway victory, and Greeley. broken
in health and spirit. once a power
among men and a pungent writer on
politics for forty years. died soon
after the crushing defeat.
The second seriously contested
n
the first was the Jefferson-Burr con-
test in 1900. The Hayes-Tilden con-
troversy very nearly brought the
country into a second civil war.
James G. Blaine was one Of the
strongest personalities ever developed
in the republican party, and the cam
paign Of 1876 brought him into promi-
hence for the first time as an aspirant
for the presidency. and for sixteen
years thereafter he was before the
An$4
Henry Clay of the republican party.
for, like Clay. heswas twice rejected
as nominee when his party won, and
he was given the nomination when
his party lost.
Grant--was sparring for a third
term. Pointed admonition was given
in the House by passage of a resolu-
ton, 234 to Is, with seventy out of
elshty-eight republicans voting for
it, that any departure from the time
honored custom would be unwise, un-
patriotic and fraught with peril to
our free institutions"
Biaine's friends went into the con-
vention with a clear majority. Then
came telegram from Washington
that he had fallen when entering
church and was at deaths door. It
was later learned that these reports
nominating Blaine is considered the
model par excellence and it made a
profound Impression. But Blaine was
defeated for the nomination by a
scheme devised by ex-senator Cam
eron OF Pennsylvania. This held the
pennsylvania vote as unit until it
was too late to do Blaine any good
On the seventh ballot there was a
stampede to Rutherford B. Hayes
and at that Blaine was beaten SO
votes out of 1876. James NJ Cox and
Hayes are the only men ever Governor
of Ohio for three terms.
CAMUEL ]. TILDEN was nominated
by the democratic convention at
St Louis. the first to cross the Father
|of Waters. Henry Watterson was
temporary chairman. Bitterness boil
ed up in the convention between the
clans supporting Tilden and Thomas
A. Hendricks of Indiana. A duel be-
tween Gen; Morgan. lighting demo-
Breckenridge of Kentuinky was
averted only by Col Watt ON sepa-
rating the disputants andVl4nally ad-
justing their differences. Tflden die
tated his own platform.
Tilden really entered the campaign
with three electoral votes against
him. The democrats could have kept
Colorado out of the Union, but Thomas
y. Patterson. democrat and delegate
from Colorado. had given assurance
that it would be a dependable demo-
cratic state. When 1t was admitted 1t
promptly elected the entire state re-
publican ticket. and to avoid the ex-
pense Of another carly election gave