Arizona republican., 1920-10-10
Presidential CdnpG1g11s

another day to await the action of the Baltimore meeting.
 The regular convention assembled in Baltimore and the old fight broke out afresh Caleb Cushing of Massa- chusetts, who was president of the convention, finally became so disSusted with the Douglas followers that he re- signed his chair. and led another bolt from the convention. The remnant Of the regular" convention then proceed ed to nominate Stephen A. Douglas for president and Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama for vice president. Fitz- patrick declined, and the second place was given to Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia. The Caleb Cushing bolters in Baltimore nominated John C. Breck- enridge, then vice president of the United States, for president, and Je- seph Lane of Oregon for vice presi- dent. The waiting "seceders" at Rich
 mond immediately ratified the nomi- nations of Breckenridge and Lane. l Lincoln a Machine Candidate
 Lincoln was nominated at Chicago | by a group of shrew politicians who
 deliberately overthrow the will of the | majority of the party in the interests
 of expediency. William H. Seward
 was the great leader of Republicanism,
 and when the delegates met at Chi
 cago, tWo-thirds of them were for Seward. But Seward as governor of | New York had been too closely asso-
 ciated with the Roman Catholic poli tics. The Know Nothing vote was still large and had to be reckoned with especially in Pennsylvania and India ma. Andrew G. Curtin and Henry $
 Lane, Republican nominees for gov
 ernor in Pennsylvania and Indiana, re-
 spectively, put up the scheme to defeat Seward. They knew his Catholic af filiations would defeat him in their
 states, and would probably defeat them
 also
 But with all the sthnuous opposition
 and scheming, Seward probably would
 have won if his managers had not
 foolishly organized a great street pa-
 rade in his behalf. That took all the
 Seward boomers on the streets. While
 they were marching, the Lincoln man l agers packed the Wigwam galleries
 with Illinois folks who were instructed
 to yell for Abe" They yelled all
 right, and by this cheap political meth
 cd of organizing a claque, Abraham
 Lincoln was nominated for president
 The Constitutional Union party was
 the last attempt made to gather the old line Wings" into a political or , ganization It's candidates. John Bell of Tennessee and Edward Everett or , Massachusetts received more than three
 times as many electoral votes as the
 Douglas ticket and more than half as , many as the Breckinridge ticket. Lincoln received a great majority of electoral votes over all his opponents, but he was greatly in the minority in 3 the popular vote. The possibilities of
 the electoral system of choosing a 7 president were keenly illustrated in the result. Lincoln received 1S0 electoral s votes and 1,S66,352 popular votes g Douglas was next in the popular vote I with 1,375,157 but he got only 12 cleo ' toral votes. Lincoln received an cleo toral vote for every 10000 popular . votes, while Douglas had more than . 10000 popular votes for each electoral n votes. Breckinridge had S47,514 popu- '' lar votes, but little more than half of e Douglas, yet he received 72 electora e votes, six times as many as Douglas S Bell with less than half of Douglas r popular vote received 39 electoral votei - to Douglas F. Douglas, running nex b to Lincoln. carried only one state, Mis-
 souri, although he received three of tn
 seven votes of New Jersey and three O e the 30 votes of Pennsylvania. 'r The election of Lincoln had beel IS expected early in the campaign on ac 10 count of the Democratic split an, y threats of secession were borne o v every wind from the South, and re le taliatory threats of war were waite d back on every northern breeze Tn 1t great crisis was at hand and Lincol Df was the man to meet it.