t'-V, I gffir. ■ ■ 11 i" J0H1I M THURSTON’ 1 'e&>~cLs«L JOHN D 5PRECKELL, 5l C Q-t-i fern l a eP 1 MATTHEW S QUAY '7>ennzylvanici __2 ~~, I I I ^SENATOR MARK HANN HENRY C PAYNEl " WlNFiELD T DURBfN ' S7n days t* a ns:.cns for the jr«. .*c*j wr*r> r.aete :n cutfrti SioaaaJ ra ... 'ones.. 11 * he congress men cheat* iwe- tears prior to the presidential electa t no mm sled the prewid* atiai candidate*. separating ate ji.rtj uaum hr that purpose. That lari hod not being popular, t «-v*r **rrt_* U* >P :** aer* !*. n; tiau to nme made by the electoral* to tact If superseded Ly a system Shat w«.-.aid more fully ewafuna with the id*-*.* of popular toner* .gory. T ta t fttate .*-g .stature* began, eu h .on its own account, to mate# presi dent note.oat.< t*. let bold:eg their ... ‘ - * . . -"■* : :.*i *e.e* :.oa •: Wanhfafftnu. Tu Wt.gs or Federal.*!* held a na t..': .er. This war. the fcrst t a»»e*t.«n of the party based ,-n tu ey**.«m that aui obtains. The PeOrral party wa» now wholly known as the Ui.{ party. The next Wfa.g coasrn’xm me: in Ra.it.more an-J nominated Retry f ay and Theodore Fr* liagtu? sen IU t p-irty adopted a p-atfi-na the Whig* «h l*r:ng for a weU-regulated »ar:*T. y ar.-i a tariff for *111 incidental proiec t. L This was th* brst >e-r of na lunal platform*. la ih*2 the whig* set In national I ilium wn gfkm ta Philadelphia Jane * ani m-mm-ted Za^Lary Taylor and Millard t . *vrc. N> platfjrm *« a and to change the foundation prin ! c:;*>s of the republic. Tee republican ; -—mace by a :nion of the free soil l * l arty and the northern.portion of the j •*. gs—ht .J their national conven’ion •..at ye..r in Phi’ade]ph:a and notnl ! nat*-j John C. Freemont and William A Dayton. The main plank 'in their j a-! - rm was ;n opposition to the ex I tension of siavery. The repuuL ans held their 1S60 con 1 ro-it: n .n Chicago. It nominated A -..am Lincoln and Hannibal Ham r ✓ ALEXa!\d£& HAMILTON. In. It* platform was m the main a laration in favor of restricting ► ♦ *y to the states where it then ex .-•♦-d. and by way of emphasis it re ts. ' ulied the declaration of independ ct.re. George Ashman of Massachu ' setts was permanent chairman of the i convention. Horace Greeley had been ruled out of the New York delegation, it he ap,’.eared in the convention as a delegate from Oregon. In 1104 the republicans held their (onventlon in Philadelphia and nomi nated Abraham Lincoln and Andrew’ i Johnson. In 1m>v at Chicago. Gen. V. S. Grant vra* nominated for president and Si 1 uvler Colfax for vice president. The rc.nvent on was held in the Exposition tu.lding on the lake front. Gen. Jo I SENATOR CHAINCEY M. DEPEW. sepn n tiaaiey was permanent cnair ■■■ For the second term Gen. Grant was nominated at Philadelphia, in 1872, and ; Henry Wilson was nominated for vice | president on the same ticket. Thomas Settle of North Carolina was the pre 1 aiding aOeer. The liberal republicans, , all republicans who were opposed to Grant, he:d a convention in Cincinnati »d nominated Horace Greeley and B. aiz Brown. The democrats held their convention in Baltimore and in dorsed the nomination of Greeley and Brown. But some democrats were dis satisfied. and the straight-outs, as they called themselves, held a convention in Louisville, Kv.. and nominated Charles O'Connor and John Quincy Adams. The republican convention held In 1876 was at Cincinnati, and nominated Rutherford B. Hayes and William A Wheeler of New York. Edward Mc Pherson of New York was presiding officer. In 3880 James A. Girfield was nomi nated at Chicago for president and Chester A. Arthur for vice president, and both became president. Senator Hoar was permanent chairman. In 1884, at Chicago, James G. Blaine and John A. Logan were nominated respectively for president and vice president. John B. Henderson was the presiding officer. In 18SS the republicans nominated in Chicago Eenjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton, M. M. Estee of California presided. In 1802 the republicans held their convention In Minneapolis and nomi nated Benjamin Harrison and White law Reid. William McKinley presided. The last republican national conven tion (1896) was held in St. Louis, and nominated William McKinley and Gar ret A. Hobart. HISTORY OF VEGETABLES. Garden Products Developed by Cultl vatlnc Wild Species. It is difficult to imagine that 300 years ago a boiled potato or a dish of mashed turnips was not to be had in Europe for love or money. In those days people lived chiefly on bread and meat and beer, and the bread and meat were, as a rule, of such quality as would have caused a riot in the workhouse of today. Beans they did have—at least, the upper classes had them. Henry VIII. was very fond of beans, and bad a Hutch gardener over, who found English soil would grow broad beans every bit as well as Dutch. They rather sneered at peas in the year 1000. Such as wore eaten were imported from Holland. "Fit dainties for ladies; they came so far. and cost so dear.” says one writer. But Moth er-Country peas were highly cultivated from very early times. Last year, in the Isle of Bute, a splendid crop of peas was raised from seed, which was at least 2,000.ar.d probably nearly 3.000 years old. This seed came from an F.gyptian tomb. The flowers had a beautiful red center, surrounded by white petals, and the peas wer£ well up to the modern market garden stan dard. Cabbage has always been a pet vegetable of the Dutv h. We got it from them in 1510, and in 1900 we still use thousands of pounds of Dutch cab bage seed. And tVe extraordinary part of it is that cabbage is in reality a native of Great Britain. All om garden vegetables are merely type* improved by long cultivation of wi;d species.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Malay Sylla. "I notice that Senator Beveridge called Aguinaldo a Malay Sylla. Who wa* Sylla. cad?” "Some derned Hoosier, I s’pose. that Beveridge knows to hrjne."—Cleve land Plain Dealer. . .. ■ —— fanii. THECON YENTION H ALL WHERE REPUBLICANS WILL EOON ASSEMELE. Arra»gfn)t'n:« MnCf to Seat Fifteen Thovtaoil I’eople—l>rt-< r.plion of the Interior—Huilt for the Kmr*. Lx* port EipofUiiaa. # The plans for the alteration cf the Export Exposition auditorium for the pdrposes cf the Republican national convention at Philadelphia, June 13. provide in a most liberal way for del egates, alternates and visitors. Just 14.998 seats have been arranged. This ■’•ill be the largest number of seats •'er provided at a national conven y on. On the main floor of the hall are the seats for the delegates, and immediate ly behind them come the alternates. Each one is allowed a floor space of one foot and ten inches by two feet and six inches, which is more room than delegates ever enjoyed before. Then, going toward the stage, comes the space reserved for the press. This is on a vast platform raised four feet above the level of the main floor. There w ill be seats for ijUO reporters. Each reporter will have a floor space of two feet four and one-half inches by four feet one and one-haif inches, and this, like the delegates’ room, is more than any other convention has allowed. Leading back from the press section will be wide aisles, going under the stage to the telegraph and telephone rooms at the rear cf the building. Out there will be scores of operators, click ing out the news to a waiting nation, and between the press section and the telegraphers there will be a steady stream of hustling messenger boys rushing with “copy.” The press space will be for working newspaper men only. The Philadelphia papers will have a large staff and the big New York and Chicago dailies have three men in the hall all the time and a fresh relay always waiting to take the places of those who get fagged out. Next beyond the reporters comes the stage. This is raised four feet from the press stand, which brings it eight feet above the main floor of the hall. This will be given over to the nation al committee and distinguished guests from all over the country; back of thi« again are special guest seats. So much for the main hall. Now we’ll go back to the main entrance which is at the opposite end of the building from the stage. Between the doors and the auditorium is a spa cious lobby, where hundreds may clus ter and chat without disturbing pro ceedings within. Connected with this are ample rooms and places where the weary sightseer may sn Jtch a few mo they demand a reformer after as well as before the election. They demand a politician in the highest, broadest and best sense—a man of superb moral couragi. They demand & man ac quainted with public affairs—with the wants of the people; with not only the requirements of the hour, tut with the demands of the future. They demand a man broad enough to comprehend the relations of this government to the other nations of the earth. They de mand a man well versed in the pow ers. duties and prerogatives of each and every department of this govern ment. "The Republicans of the United States want a man who knows that this government should protect every citizen, at home and abroad; who knows that any government that will not defend its defenders, and protect its protectors, is a disgrace to the mqp of the world. They demand a man SENATOR CUSHMAN K. DAVIS. v ho believes in the eternal separation and divorcement of church and school, ".hey demand a man whose political I reputation is spotless as a star; but | they do not demand that their candi date shall have a certificate of moral i naracter signed by a confederate con gress. The man who has. in fall, heaped and rounded measure, all there splendid qualifications is he present grand and gailant leader f the Re publican party—James G. . tine. Our country, crowned with the vast anti marvelous achievements of its first century, asks for a ^Mgmcorthy of the post, and prophetic c^^^^hture; asks for a man who has the audacity of genuis; asks for a man wno is the grandest combination of heart, con science and brain beneath he; flag such a man Is dames G. Blaine. FJr the Republican host, led by this in trepid man, there can be no defeat. This is a grand year—a \ear filled with the recollections of the revolu CONVENTION HALL, PHILADELPHIA. meets’ rest. At the back of the hall, | in the rear of the stage, is a space al most as large. Here, as has been men tioned, are the telegraph and tele phone offices, and also rooms for the national committee and any special committee .which may have occasion to retire and confer. Besides these i rooms there will be one large room in each corner for the press, where re porters may get away from the crowds and work out their copy at their leis ure. Back of the gallery on the sec ond floor are mere rooms and further •space for those who do not care to stay within the hall. THE REPUBLICANS IN 1S76. A Speech That Vividly Recalls the Issues Then 1’redomlnent In the convention of 1S76 that nomi nated Rutherford B. Hayes for the presidency was delivered the most re markable nominating speech ever de livered in a national convention. It was that in which Col. Robert G. ln gersoll, speaking for the Illinois dele gation, put in nomination the beloved Blaine. He said: “MassachuseUs may be satisfied with the loyalty of Benjamin H. Bris tow; so am I; but if any man nomi nated by this convention cannot carry the state of Massachusetts, 1 am not satisfied with the loyalty of that state. If the nominee of this convention can not carry the grand old commonwealth of Massachusetts by 75,000 majority, I would advise them to sell out Faneuil hall as a Democratic headquarters. I would advise them to take from Bunker Hill that old monument of glory. “The Republican* of the United SENATOR STEVE ELKINS. States demand as their leader in the great contest of 1876 a man of intelli gence, a man of integrity, a man of well-known and approved political opinions. They demand a statesman; • tion; filled with proud and tender memories of the post; with the sacred legends of liberty—a year in which the people call for a man who has pre served in congress what our soldiers won upon the held; a year in which they call for a man who has torn from the throat of treason the tongue of slander—for a man who has snatched the mask of Democracy from the hide SENATOR THOMAS K. CARTER. ous face of rebellion; for a man who. like an intellectual athlete, has stood in the arena of debate and challenged all comers, and who is still a total stranger to defeat. Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the hails cf the American congress and threw his shining lance full ar*c fair against the brazen foreheads cf the detainers of bis country and the maligners of his honor. For the Republican party to desert this gall rat ieaoer now. is as though an army should desert their general upon the field of battle. James G. Blaine is now and -has been for years the bearer of the sacred stand ard of the Republican party. I call i: sacred, because no human being can stand beneath its folds without be coming and without remaining free. "Gentlemen of the convention, in the name of the great republic, the only republic that ever existed upon this earth; in the name of all her de fenders and of all her supporters; in the name of all her soldiers living; in the name of all her soldiers dead upon the field of battle, and in the name of those who perished in the skeleton clutch of famine at Andersonville and Libby, whose sufferings he so vividly remembers, Illinois—Illinois nomi nates for the next president of this country, that prince of parliamentar ians—that leader of leaders—Jam«« G. Blaine.” f- -*= THE CONVEX ; 4 BIRTH OF REPRESENTATIVE NATIONAL COUNCILS. Originated In the Campaign ©r 1832— The I'ouercasional laurnu and Its Unpopularity—The State LegisUtlTt System That Followed It. As regards the selection rl candi dates fo_* president the theory of the constitution is that the people have free choice in the matter. And accord- i :ng to that theory the electoral col lege is the only body standing between the people and the object of their choice for the presidency. But in fact j the electoral college nas never stool ) in any self-determining way between the people and the presidency. The body that did so stand, or, rather, as- i sumed itself to be the people, was the j house of repiesentatives of the United States. From the beginning down to Ifc3ii the house intervened and took from the people their prerogative to i ;#t freely in the presentation of can didates for the presidency. At first ‘ the representatives acted as a caucus ! for all the people and all parties and ; named the candidates for whom the people should vote. But soon the par- i ties were in different camps, so to j ^peak. and the members of congress of each party held their own caucus I and named candidates to be voted for j by their own following. Formerly the j congress had a committee of corres pondence, whose duty it was to com municate with influential citizens of the several states in order that acqui- ! essence and active co-operation might be had over the country. When par ties were formed, as almost immedi ately was the case, then each party raised a congressional committee, and these committees now continue in the congressional campaign committees. The first revolt from the congres sional caucus was in lKbS, when seven teen members of the “Republican” caucus at Washington bolted the con gressional nomination. The stall SENATOR JOSEPH E. FORAKER legislatures then began to make nomi nations and congress as a rule ratified these. This continued through several administrations but aid not conform to popular ideas. In 1S27 Niles” Register foresaw the coming change and said “conventions appointed by the people for a specific purpose are not liable to the objections which apply to legislative caucuses,” and advocated the national conven tion. But it did not come all at once, tut by slow degrees. The way was pointed out by local conventions and even by local legislatures. In 1832 the Jackson men had fully organized on the convention plan and so had the friends of Henry Clay. Both conven tions were held in Baltimore. Neither party adopted a platform, but at a ratification meeting of the supporters of Clay a declaration was made of their political faith. Jackson was a platform in himself, for what his first administration hud been everybody knew his second would be likewise. He was triumphant'v elected and as his second term was ending he was powerful enough to name his succes sor in advance of a national conven tion, though a national convention was finally held. It was convened at Bali.inure, and nominated Martin Van Buren for president, but as several of the states had indicated their choice respectively for a candidate for vice president, the convention made no nomination for that office. It adop. ed nc platform. The Whigs heid no national convention, but at a conven tion held at Albany, N. Y., they adopt ed the following resolutions: “That in support of cur cause we invite all citizens opposed to Martin Van Buren” and “that the support we render to William Henry Harrison is not be cause of his brilliant success in the 'ate war so much as on account of his statesmanship and patriotism, which are of the school of Washing ton.” The Democrats also held a meeting m New York, at which they adopted a series of resolutions which stood through the campaign as a kind of platform. The first resolution recited the declaration of independence, and die succeeding ones declared against bank notes and paper currency as a circulating medium, because gold and silver is the only safe and consti tutional currency; hostility to any and all monopolies; hostility to the dan gerous and unconstitutional creation of vested rights or prerogatives of leg is’ation; holding that each and every law or act of incorpoiation passed by preceding legislatures can be right fully altered and repealed by their suc cessors, and that they should be alter ed or repealed when recessary for the public gerd and when required by a majority of the people. Approving. ‘•Yes,”’ said Farmer Corntossle. “let Josh go right ahead playin’ golt 1 reckn it'll do him good. “You said you thought it was a waste of time yes terday.” said his wife. “I've changed my mind. If he keeps on practicin' with those sticks for a few years meb be there won’t be so much danger ol cuttin' hisself when he trie* to han’l# a scythe.”—Washington Star. The “elephant beetle” cf Venezuela is the largest insect in the world. A fulVfrcwc ou weighs half a pound. amusing trick "" * K1='dd, . , M«U. In cu,r 1 “I never hear that «■, ’em on a string,- ” sa‘d ;!'SS-“n '^ot Grunt wall ,Mt *"*£.*%“ 01 «*• calling an ineiderr tl:'. , 101,1,r<“ number of years art. -;n at . Ulred a Kansas. I was Sp«ij . 7b Ul a 1-ne banjo, who scon i.vJ *. ntr with a Then the fakir pr,,.( ". , ‘g. pro_ duties a ball of narrow j a. tane 1 want all of you who ■ ...Vi a ’ arkod wrapper to take hold r ; . ibb n Get in line, pleas l- --m- . , obeyed with a rush, and pn.set:*:v t ■ men were strung out along arb. hold ing to the tape and v. .. -«r, v.hat was going to happen ur, ;f^ir drove slowly up th« str.it, paying out the tape as he went, ey {,a th( magic ribbon,’ lie y* . pi -t jet of the magic band.’ TL- tap .vas live blocks long, and when 1. ... cut the last of it he whipped -.am and vanished in the gatne'dig r: hi leav ing 40d large, a hie-bodied chumps hanging patient.y *i, .. ^ ,n!t rnal string. When the trick dawned on them he wn? half v. v * the next township. Was 1 in line, did \ >a ask? Yes. d-it. 1 was.--—New Orleans Times-Democrat. FAMILY HORSE Ate the Ilea.H of I.ivr l•>!> r Rochester Spe. New York Mail and Express: Fred Wiiner, a well-known and prominent farmer f Portage, Liv ingston county, reports an astonish ing occurrence on his farm. On nu merous occasions of late ! c has found in his pastures young lambs of his herd with their heads completely eaten away, but not mutilaed in any other poition of the body. After losing sev eral in this manner Mr. Wilner armed himself with a rifle and spent the greater parr of two days and nights in an effort to solve the mystery, but without avail. Monday morning lie dis covered several more dead iambs in the field with tbeir heads e iten off and also a dead lamb in the barn. Not having time to bury the carcase found in the barn he threw it into the yard, when suddenly, to his amazement, a six-year-old family horse rushed up and commenced eagerly eating his head off. When the next iamb died Mr. Wilner placed a lot of cayenne pepper on the head and threw it to the horse, who. after taking a few bites, dropped the carcass, and cannot now be made to touch a lamb or any other animal. Valueless to Hiui. Gen. Wheeler is not a prophet with out honor at the capital, but a here with a large following, who have for him a sincere if sentimental admira tion. At the Cosmos club the other | day the treasurer of a certain patriotic i organization, who had just received a j check ior dues from ‘ Little Joe, was i debating with the secretary of the so j ciety the advisability of keeping the i check for the value of the autograph and depositing cash to the proper amount instead. “I prize tbat aato~ graph very much,” he said. It is worth many times $2 to me, and 1 think I shall keep it. Gen. Greely. who happened to be in the room, and who could never be accused of senti mentality. overhearing the conversa tion, called out to the treasurer, “Oh, deposit the check, deposit :t. I will give you fifty of Wheeler s autographs just as good as that! —New York Tribune. Prettily Turned. The car was crowded, therefore quite a number of passengers suspended themselves from the straps and sway ed with every motion of the car. A voting man in the garb of a mechanic clung to a strap with one hand, while the other hand clung to a dinner pail. He was standing in from l!t a woman who was richly dressed and Seemingly blessed with an abundance of this world’s goods. As the car swung round a corner the strap to which the young man clung parted with a snap am. e young man was precipitated into the lap of the woman. As soon as