TITE BEE: OMATTA. RATTTRDAV. XOrEMKKK 13,
SOME POLITICAL HISTORY
Becollectioni of Gen. Grant's Attempt
to Secure a Third Term.
CONTEST IN THE CONVENTION
Mmnnti on the Political Cheaa
board Before aad After the domi
nation Th Garfleld-IIaBa
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Th unwritten code of th republic de
crees that tho president shall serve but
two termp. Since Washington set the ex
amplean example strengthened by the re
fusal of Jefferson and Jackson to permit
their names to be used In connection with
a third presidential term there has been
but one attempt to overcome this tradition.
None but a man of tremendous popularity,
one capable of arounslng tumultuous en
thusiasm, could have been brought for
ward a a candidate for a third term.
General Grant, the triumphant and mag
nanimous leader of the civil war, was this
and more. At the close of his second term
In 187 there bad been talk of nominating
him for another term. Startled by the
rumor, several state conventions adopted
resolutions declaring that as a matter of
principle two terms should be the limit for
any president
General Grant Hmself stopped the move
ment by writing a public letter announcing
that he was not and would not be a candi
date. Shortly after his successor's installa
tion, he started on his famous tour of the
world, returning to the United States In
September, 1879, landing at San Francisco.
, His trip across the continent to his home
In Galena, 111., was triumphal march.
Ho warm was his welcome and so loud the
popular acclaim that some of the fore
most men In the republican party, including
the United States senators, Conkllng of
New York, Cameron of Pennsylvania and
Logan of Illinois, combined In an effort
to make him a presidential nominee.
By the end of the year he was recognised
as a candidate for a third term. When
esked as to his own attitude in the matter
he refused to answer, saying that his life
long habit was to make his decision when
time for decision had arrived. In April,
1RS0, he returned from a trip to Cuba and
Mexico. .Soon after, at an Immense meet
ing held In Chicago, It was formally an
nounced that he would, accept the nomina
tion If It were made In the right way.
A Memorable Coaventloa.
The republican convention, the first of
four held to name a presidential ticket In
18S0, met In Chicago from June 1 until June
, 8. It was mado memorable by the arduous
struggle which this decision of General
Grant's developed. It was also remarkable
lor its oratory, It duration, and Its many
brilliant, able men.
James O.-Blaine had been an unsuccess
ful candidate for the republican nomination
In UTS. Ills brilliant personality made him
the Idol of his adherents, who were deter
mined that this time he should win the
roveted honor. General Grant's friends
were as equally determined. For fixity of
purpose and unwavering fidelity, they have
never been paralleled, either before or
since. On the first ballot they gave Grant
(04 votes. On the thirty-sixth, when Blaine's
forces had rallied to the support of the
compromise . candidate, General James
Abram Garfield of Ohio, they i lined
up as faithful as . the Swiss guard
of Marie Antoinette, and on that
final ballot General Grant received two
more votes than on- the first.
At the opening of the convention three-
.fourth of the delegated were divided Into
two compact and hostile forces, skilfully
managed, admirably orgar ted. each con
fident and eager for victory. Boscoe Conk
ling, senator from New York, was the
recognised leader of jthe Grant forces, as
Kugtne Hale of Maine was the leader of
of Blaln. '
John Sherman of Ohio had a strong fol
lowing. General Garfield, at the head of
the Ohio delegation, was pledged to his
support and had been . chosen to make
the speech nominating Sherman In the
convention. He did not, therefore, repre
sent the Blaine forces, but In the parlia
mentary contests of the convention he was
the recognized leader of the opposition to
.o Grant.
Stare in tbe Drama.
Others who played an Important part
In the drama were General Logan, George
F. Hoar, J. Donald Cameron, Preston K.
Plumb, William Pitt Kellogg and Blanche
K. Bruce, all' members of the senate.
Among the delegates about to enter that
august body were Benjamin H. Harrison
o Indiana. Eugene Hale and William P.
Frye of Maine, William J. Bewail of New
Jersey, Omar D. Conger of Michigan,
Pwlght M. Sabtn ef Minnesota and Fhlle
tus Sawyer of Wisconsin. General Gar
field already held his commission as senator-elect.
His colleagues on the Ohio
delegation were Governor Foster and
former Governor Dtnnleon. Fire of Gen
eral Grant's cabinet were delegates to the
convention Boutwell of Massachusetts,
Creswell of Maryland, George H. Williams
of Oregon, Edward Flerrepont of New
York and Senator Cameron. Other names
which have not been forgotten, though
nearly three decades have passed, are
Chester A. Arthur of New York, Colonel
Quay of Pennsylvania. William E. Chand
ler of New Hampshire. Emory E. Storrs
of Illinois. Govenor Warmouth of Louisi
ana and Henry Cabot Lodge of Maschus
etts. Blaine In his "Tweny Years of Con
gress" says that probably no convention
since the one which nominated Henry Clay
had contained so many eminent men.
When the convention assembled Senator
Hoar wae selected to serve as both tem
porary and permanent chairman. The
rights of congressional districts to select
their delegates had been Indirectly affirmed
In the republican national convention of
1878, when the unit rule was overridden
and the right ot each Individual delegate
to cast his own vote was established.
Yet, in 1880, it was part of the Conkllng
plan to have tbe states vote as units.
General Garfield was chairman of the com
mittee on rules and was one of the
strongest protestants against the attempt
to enforce the unit rule. It was largely
through his efforts that the attempt failed.
In several states, among them Illllnols,
there were contests , between delegates
elected on the district plan and those se
lected at a state convention, regardless
of the district. In each of these contested
cases the convention accepted the majority
report of the credentials committee recom
mending that delegates chosen under the
district plan be seated. The report of the
committee on rules, as submitted by Gar
field, contained an amedraent designed to
protect the vote of the Individual dele
gate which was a final blow at the unit
rule.
Conkllng Attltade.
Conkllng's attitude toward thoae not sup
porting Grant was arrogant and Insulting.
At the opening of the third day he offered
a resolution "that In the sense of the
convention every member Is bound In honor
to support Its nominee, whoever the nomi
nee may be, and that no man should
hold a seat who Is not ready to so agree."
In this, he Insinuated that unless so
pledged the Blaine men would bolt If
Grant were nominated. The resolution was
adopted with three dissenting vote from
West Virginia, whereupon Senator Conk
llng offered another resolution praotlcally
declaring that by their action in not In
dorsing the resolution, these three delegates
had forfeited their votes In the convention.
The discussion between one of these three,
Campbell, editor of the Wheeling Intelli
it, caught a flag and, wrapping It about
her, stirred the crowd to a new frensy of
enthusiasm for the man from Maine.
Blaine was first placed In nomination by
Mr. Joy of Michigan, seconded by Mr.
Plxley of California and Frye of Maine.
Conkllng's nominating speech for Grant
was delivered with great dramatic effect.
Even today its opening sentence la subject
ef controversy. Whether he said,
"When asked whence comes our candidate,
Our sole response ehall be,
He halls from Appomattox
And Its famous apple tree,"
or used the simpler, stronger sentence,
"When asked whence comes our candidate,
we say from Appomattox," is still a moot
question. Finer that this In matter and
form was his phrase. "His (Grant's) fame
was born not alone of things written and
said, but of the arduous greatness of
things done."
General Garfield made the nominating
speech for John . Sherman, a calm appeal
from the swelling tumult of the moment
to the calm lever of publlo opinion. Senator
George F. Edmonds was nominated by
Frederick Billings of Vermont; EUhu B.
Washburne'of Illinois, by Cassoday of Wis
consin; and William Wlndom of Minnesota,
by Drake of the same state.
Contest of the Ballots.
The balloting began Monday. The ' first
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ballot gave Grant WM. Blaine 2X4. Shermon
M, Edmonds 34, Washburne 30. Wlndom ln
and Garfield l. As chairman of the New
York delegation. It fell to Conkllng to
announce the vote of his state. Having
failed to force the unit rule on the con
vention and thus give New Tork's seventy
votes to Grant, he studiedly stung the anti
Grant delegates by his formula: "Two of
the New York delegates, Mr. Chairman, are
said to be for Mr. Sherman; seventeen for
Mr. Blaine; flty-one are for Grant."
And they were for Grant as were all his
supporters from start to finish, going down
with him to the last ditch.
On the thirty-fifth ballot, taken Tuesday,
Grant reached his highest number of votes
113. The number needed for a choice was
78. On the thirty-sixth ballot Garfield,
who had fifty votrs on the thirty-fifth,
was given the votes of the delegations
TiMch had been voting for Sherman and
Blaine.
This record of thirty-six ballots has yet
to be surpassed In a republican national
convention. On ten of these thirty-six
ballots, Garfield received one vote; on
eight of them he had two. O.i the thlrty
fcurth ballot his small contingent had In
creased to seventeen, vliich was augmented
to fifty on the thirty-fifth. On the thirty
sixth, he was nominated by 399 votes.
Arooad the Victor.
Blaine In his book says: "The banners
of the states were caught up and massed
In a waving circle around the head of the
predestined and now chosen eandldate, who
sat pale and motionless ln his seat with
the Ohio delegation. The scene of enthu
siasm and exultation long delayed the final
anrouncement, which gave Garfield 899
votes. Grant 309, Blaine 42, Washburne 5,
Sherman 3. The nomination was Immedi
ately made unanimous on motion of Mr.
Conkllng."
For vlcepresldent, Chester A. Arthur of
New York, a friend of Conkllng, was nomi
nated on the first ballot. Others placed In
nomination for the office were Ellhu B.
Washburne of Illinois. Marshall Jewell of
Connecticut, Horace Mayrard of Tennes
see, Edmund J. Davis of Texas, Blanche
K. Bruce of Mississippi, Thomas Settle of
Florida, and Stewart L. Woodford of New
York. The platform adopted declared the
republican party to be In favor of a pro
tective tariff, of national aid to state edu
cation, of a thorough reform of the civil
service, and opposed to the support of sec
tarian schools.
Democratic Leaders.
The democratic national convention mot
at Cincinnati, O., June 22, and completed
ita work June 24. So quickly waa It organ
ised with George Headly of Ohio as tem
porary, and John W. Stevenson of Ken
tucky aa permanent, chairman, that bal
loting was begun on the second day. On
the second ballot General Wlnfield Scott
Hancock of Pennsylvania was nominated
for president Before the result of the
second roll call was announced, states
whloh had voted for other candidates, the
strongest among them being Thomas F.
Bayard, senator from Delaware, changed
to Hancock, giving him 7(X votes, leaving
but two to Bayard, thirty to Thomas A.
Hendricks of Indiana, one to Samuel J.
TUden of New York and one to Horatio
Seymour of New York.
The list of names presented to the con
vention for the presidential nomination In
cluded Wlnfield S. Hancock of Pennsyl
vania, Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware,
Henry B. Payne of Chio. Allen G. thur
man of Ohio, Stephen J. Field of Cali
fornia, William R. Morrison of Illinois,
Thomas A. Hendricks of Indiana, Samu3l
J. Ttlden of New York, Horatio Seymour
ot New York and Samuel Jt Randall of
Pennsylvania. For vice president. William
H. English of Indiana, member of congru.is
during Buchanan's administration, was
nominated by acclamation. Richard M.
Elfhop of Ohio had been suggested as a
candidate for the nomination, but his name
was withdrawn. The platform, compact
and energetic, denounced centralization
and sumptuary laws, called for honest
money, consisting of gold and sliver and
peper convertible Into coin on demand, a
tariff for revenue only, publio lands for
actual settlers, civil service reform a free
ballot, subordination of the military to the
olvll power, free ships and no discrimina
tion in favor of transportation lines, cor
porations and monopolies. It declared that
the democratic party was the friend .f
labor and asked that Chinese Immigration
be carefully guarded. The democratic con
gress was praised for Its thrift and the
republican administration criticised, while
Samuel J. Tllden, the candidate of lf?7fl,
who had refused to let his name go before
the convention, received merited mention.
Minor Gathering.
The prohibition convention of 18S0 was
held at Cleveland, O., with Rev. M. Miner
as chairman. Twelve states were rem--..
sented by 142 delegates. Neal Dow of
Maine was nominated for president and
M. Thompson of O:no for vice nr.i.
dent. In Its platform this year the party
ignorea tne industrial and financial prob
lems which supplied Issues for the domi
nant parties, and confined itself to a
cuRslon of the liquor Question, a erinim
of both the democratic and republican par-
lira ana an appeal that the hAiio. k-
granted to women.
The greenback-labor convention i
Chicago from June 9 to June 11. 1SS0. Rev.
Gilbert do la Matyr of Indlnna was the
temporary, Richard Trevelllck of Michigan
mo permanent. chairman. James It.
Weaver of Iowa was nominated for prert
dent on the first ballot. Other names pre
sented ware Hendrlck B. Wright of Penn
sylvania, Stephen D. Dlllaye of New York
benjamin r. Butler of Massachusetts
Solon Chaae of Maine, Edward P. Allia of
Wisconsin. Alexander Camnheli rt mi. ....
On a vote for a candidate for vln
dent. B. J. Chambers of Texas received 403
vcies ana Alanson M. West of Mississippi
811, whereupon Mr. Chambers wo. r,i
mously. nominated. The greenback platfor n
urciun-o. mat ail money should be issued
by the government and not bv banking
corporations; that bonds should be re
funded, legal tender currency substituted
for national bank notes, the national bank
ing system aDoilshed and the n.i. ...
coinage of silver established by law- that
labor should be protected, tho !,,. t,
law of congress enforced: the santt.-irv
dltion of Industrial establishments placid
unaer control, competition of contract con
vict labor abolished: a bureau r i.i..
statistics established; fnctorles, mines end
wumsnops inspected, emnlovmem i.ii
dren under 14 forbidden and win. n.i.i .-
cash. It agreed with tho .u ... .
democrats In asking that public land he
kept for actual settlers and that Chinese
Immigration be regulated. It denounce
committee rule In congress and asked for
a regulated Income tax and a congressional
regulation of Interstate commerce.
A Close Contest.
Though there were four tickets In "the
field, the contest was between the dem
ocrats and the republicans. The Issue was
the tariff and Its effects on manufacturing
Industries and the laborer. The republi
cans claimed that the protective policy they
stood for had given prosperity to the na
tion. The democratic platform declared
for a tariff for revenue. General Hancock
issued a letter In which he seemed, to a
portion of the people, to try to explain
away the revenue reform plank by marking
the tariff a local issue.
StiU tbe contest waa regarded aa close.
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Two weeks before election, the famous
Morey letter, a forgery purporting to have
been written by General Garfield and de
signed to represent him as approving
Chlntse immigration, was scattered
broadcast. It cost General Garfield
the electoral votes of Nevada and
New Jersey and five of the six votes of
California. He carried every other
northern ftato, receiving 214 electorlal
votes. General Hancock carried every
southern state, receiving 155 electoral votes.
The election took place November 2, 1880.
Thirty-eight states voted. Xut of a tota.
popular vote of 9,218,251, Garfield received
4,154.116; Hancock. 4,444,952; Weaver, 306.67&.
and Vow, 10.300.
During this period the Forty-seventh
congress had in the senate thirty-seven
democrats, thirty-seven republicans, one
independent and one readjuster. In the
house, 130 democrats, 152 republicans, nine
nationals and three readjusters.
Tha forty-eighth congress had ln the
senate thirty-six democrats and forty re
publicans, in the house, 200 democrats, 119
republicans, four independents and two
nationals. The Voter, Chloago.
Street Hallway fur Adel.
ADEL, la., Nov. 12. (Special.) The spe
cial election held here Tuesday to vote
upon a franchise granting the Adel City
Railway company the right to construct,
operate ar.d maintain for a period of
twenty-five years a street railway over and
along tho streets of the town of Adel car
ried by nearly a bnar.lmous vote, the reault
belrg 207 votes in favor o granting the
franchise and but six against It. There
being no real opposition to the measure,
the" question did not draw out a very large
vote. Tho granting of this franchise will
r.uan active efforts upon the part of the
Adrl city Railway company to promote
the construction of one or more lnteruiban
Ui.es to connect this city with Des Molncs
and points to tho west tnd northwest.
Women Vote at Klrrtloa.
DENISON, la., Nov. 12. (Special. )-Ninety-three
women voted at the special
election held here yesterday on the proposi
tion to ityend $1,000 for additional grounds
for school purposes. The women gave a
majority of fifty-one for the tax. while
the 21 men only save the tax a majority
of three. It was the afternoon for the meet
ing of the Penelope club and many women
voters came to the polls in society gowns.
The school board plana lrr time to erect a
gymnasium and manual training building
on the newly acquired property.
Dentin) Klecv orflrers.
MARSIIALLTOWN, la., Nov. 12 (Spe
cial.) The Waterloo Difctrlct Dental society
at Its meeting her elected the following
officers:
President C. IX. Miller, Cedar Falls.
Vice President L. F. Kelligg. Mare-hall-town.
Secretary C. N. Shane, Waterloo.
Treasurer George P. Kler, Eldora.
Waterloo will have the next meeting In
the spring.
Kdllor Shot While Haatlair.
IOWA CITY. Nov. 12 (Speclal.)XWIll
H. Tcunkin, editor of the Lone Tree Ue
porter, la the first victim of a serious hunt
ing accident In Johnson county the current
season. He was out hunting with James
Lux and the latter, failing to see the news,
paper man in concealment, biased away at
til quarry and emptied the conteuts of both
barrels of his shotgun In Mr. Youkln's
legs. Fortunately no vital part of the
victim's body was even touched by scatter
ing shot. He Is painfully wounded and
suffering much, but Is ln no grave danger
if blood poisoning does not cnuue.
JOHNSON DECKER WITH SPARKS
Negro Champion Sports a Bunch, of
Diamond Worth Twenty Thou
sand Dollars.
There's an Illustrated phenomenon ln
town which Is puzzling Broadway astron
omers. It was visible around Wan Juan
II1U and ln the region of "Baron" Wilkin's
hostelry at times last nlghtL As there are
no comets or heavenly derelicts for tho
earth to buir.p into now except Halley's,
and that's several million miles away yet
the brilliant light caused much specula
tion. Llko a meteor, the peculiar object,
which to many had the shape of a human
being, flitted and flashed from Thirty
fifth street ua to Harlem and back, daz
zling the eyes and whirling by like a
shooting star.
Persons v ho shied to one side as the
llt-up object passed describe it as a gi
gantic being, with legs and arms like a
man, but wonderfully disguised in raiment
of colors which sparkled and twinkled in
fearful energy. Great lights of some 20,-
000-candle-powcr, possibly, gleamed from
the front of the creature, casting effulgent
rays on colors In stripes and bars and
squares in wondrous blend. No such spec
tacle ever bewildered the Great White Way
before.
Imrlng one short Interval it moved slowly
and with measured step ns It passed In 1
and 'out of Hammersteln's, but usually
these immense lights were described as il
luminating the way for a fast automobile,
whose front linhts were hardly visible in
the expanse of illumination as it ap
proached. As It seemed to center about
the negro district persons labeled it the
San Juan Aurora Borealls.
This phenomenon, later identified as
Jack Johnson, has totally eclipsed all pre
vious illuminated human bodies. Of the
$-6,000 the negro- bonanza got for pounding
some sense into Stanley Ketchel's head
about 120,000 has gone Into diamonds real
Ice, too. A ten-karat searchlight on his
necktie furnishes him with both gas and
electricity; a studded watchcharm and
chain gives him light to see the second
hand at any time of the night, and he can
glance at his ebony-hued, manicured "pink
lea" any moment of a day and see that no
speck of dust mars their rounded though
rugged grandeur. There are four of these
finger bulbs.
Tho "ice" packed around his time appa
ratus could be exchanged for a steamboat
line. Of course, there is nothing against
John "Rrady" Johnson, or "Flngy" John
sonas a hoodlum hailed the distinguished
colleague of Booker T. Washington yes
terdayfor the precedent was set by Mr.
Connors at a reception ln the home of a
Uuffulo society matron the night when the
statesman remarked at the table:
"Well, I notice them what's got 'em
wear 'em."
So "Diamond Jack'.' has all the liberty
to which precedent and his prowess entitle
him to sport his illuminations. Bob Flts
simmons had one In a front tooth until the
Cornlshman went broke and a dentist took
the gem out while Bob slept.
Johnson's row ot glittering gold teeth
fully illuminated by the Tiffany bulbs,
gives you the general Idea of a Jack-o'-lantern
head on a Hallowe'en night. It
Is to be regretted that Jack didn't five
two centuries ago, when he could have
decorated himself with more personal sat
isfaction, likely.
They used to use the ears and nose to
fit pretty things into, and certainly such
additions to Jack's person now would not
detract from his princely Zulu countenance.
In fact. Jack could easily look like a Sen
egamblan Salome with on or two addi
tions. One of these fin day a great big bear
not the constellation will hit "Diamond
Jack," and he'll lose a lot of hi aurora
borealls. New York World.
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Federal Bnlldln;. ,
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (Special Tele
gram.) Bids were opened today at the
Treasury department for the construction
of an extension to the publlo building at
Fort Dodge, la., the lowest bidder b'jinr
J. H. Wlese of South Omaha, at SmVbO.
Other bidders were: General Construoto"
company, Milwaukee, $116,988; Hazelton 'V
Wallln, Chicago, $118,000; Paul RelBen Sons,
Milwaukee. $118,777; J. W. Miller, St. Paul,
$121,000; W. J. McAlpln. Dixon, 111., $127,600.
The secretary of the Interior ha rejected
all bids' for the construction ot the Path
finder dike ln connection with the North
Platte Irrigation project ln Wyoming .I'd
Nebraska because they were too high mX
has authorized work carried on under small
contracts.
URGES JUDGE COXE FOR HONOR
Vice President Sherman Propose
New Yorker a Perkham'
Successor.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 12. Vice President
Sherman came to Washington today to lay
before the president the name of Judge
Alfred C. Coxe of the I'tioa circuit court
as a candidate for the position on the su
preme bench vacated'by the death of Jus
tice Peckham. JudKe Coxe Is a nephew
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