Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1928, Page 11

. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D.°r.* WEDNESDAY. OCTORER 17. 1 The History of XVII—Greenback High Tide in 1880. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Americ Author of “TI The preliminaries of the presidential contest of 1880 had many points similar | 1o that of 1912. Gen. Grant was a can- | didate for a third term—not a third consecutive term, but a third term after a four years' break. He had made a trip around the world and wherever he went had been received with that same acclaim and welcome that char- acterized the European visit of Theo- dore Roosevelt at the end of his Afri-| can_hunt. | “The Republican party was divided sharply into the Grant and the anti- | Grant factions. The bitterness of the | anti-Grant sentiment is iliustrated by a tale that is told of the preacher who was exhorting his hearers to be pre- | pared for the fulfillment of Mother | Shipton's prophecy that “the world to an end will come, in 1881." While | he was declaring that this probabl: gation exclaimed: “Thank God!" | The preacher wanted to know the rea- | son for his sudden burst of thankfui- | nd he replied: “Anything to beat ant!" On the other hand, with Roscoe © ling the leader of the Grant fo it was a case of using the name of Grant to defeat Blaine. Conkling had prevented Blaine’s nomination in 1876, and now was equally determined to circumvent it in 1880. One cannot tell whether he was more earnest in hi hatred for Blaine or in his affection for Grant. nk Hayes Drops Out. Hayes was not a candidate for ye- election. He had incurred the enmity of both sides. Coming into the White House with a clouded title to the presi- dency. he was handicapped trom the | beginning. He broke with his own party, to a large degree, because he ized the Democratic State govern- n Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana. His party associates de- clared that in doing so he recognized | the fairness of the Democratic conten- | tion that Tilden was defrauded out of | the votes of these States. Senator Hoar said that Hayes had oniy three or four supg y the Scnate. He was not worth while to aspite to a renomination, although his ad- ministration was one of much credit to | himself. | When the Republican convention met. ! Conkling, fearing that if Grant should be nominated there would be a bolt offered a resolution binding every dele- gate to support the nominees of the convention or withdraw beforehand. It passed, 719 to 3, and then he sought to drive the three out of the conven- tion, just as Bryan sought to drive Bel- mont, Ryan and Murphy out of the Baltimore convention in 1912, { Soon after the balloting began nine Ohio delegates =\s wvere pledged. to Sherman bolted him and went to Blaine. | Some of the party leaders asserted aft- | erward that the boit to Blaine so an- | gered the Sherman forces that it pre- | vented Blaine from being nominated. The very morning of the day the nomi- | nation was made Garfield, who was leading the Sherman forces, declared | he was afraid that Grant would be | nominated after all and that it would | destroy the Republican party. Dark Horse Named. | | | Garfield's speech. nominating Sher- | || man, in which he declared that the fine | frenzy of the Grant adherents remind- | ed him of the billows and the spray | of a tempest-tossed ocean, but that all heights and depths are measured from a still, smooth sea, riveted the eyes of the convention upon him. When he finally was nominated, such observers as Senator Hoar and Senator Cullom say he was overcome. Sherman charged | others with double-dealing, but ac-| quitted Garfield. | The Democratic convention nomi- nated Gen. Winfield S. Hancock. There were contesting delegations from New | York, the regulars and the Tammany | forces. The Tammanyites wanted to cast 20 of the votes of New York, but the fact that John Kelly, the Tammany chieftain, had declared he would not | support Tilden if he were renominated gave them litile standing in the con- | vention, and by a vote of more than | two to one the Tammany delegation was denied seats in the convention. Tilden wrote a letter saying he did not | want a renomination, but left the im-| pression that he might not refuse it if | it came. Tanimany said it woula not| support him, und the convention turhied away from him to Hancock. | The campaign had four Federal gen- | erals running for President that year. Garfield had been a general, Huucock‘ was one, and so was Weaver, the| Greenback candidate. The Prohibi- tionists nominated Gen. Neal Dow as | their standard bearer. The candidacy | of Weaver brought more votes lo a | third-party movement than any other | third party had polled since the out Four Great Scenic Routes 1 !by that the Republicans proved he did | | not know enough about fiscal matters to Presidential Elections | |5 ceiea Presdent. After Garfield won he made Blaine | ) his Secretary of State. Garfield was | staying at the old Riggs House prior to | his inauguration and Conkling and two other leadefs calied to protest against | the appointment. One of them after-| | ward declared that he had never heard | any living mortal rt‘r‘ei\‘l; such a r‘:‘d ing | out as the President-elect receivi at break of the Civil War. The Green- | Conkling's hands. Garfleld sat on the backers got over 200,000 popular votes. | side of his bed and Conkling paced the Both of the major parties could, in{fioor, and for the best part of an hour close States, take enough votes away | poured forth his powerful invectives from one party or the other to throw | ypon the head of Garfield. But the ap: the electoral votes of thosz States to! pointment stood. the opposition. That was why both | | parties in their conventions were care- 77 5 R g FICTION WRITER DIES. iul for years to straddle on the money | All States Take Part. | ¥ oty question. This was the first time that all of the ; Jack Boyle, Newspaper Man, Suc- States participated in a popular election s and saw their electoral votes counted. cumbs in Oregon. South Carolina had never had a popu-{ PORTLAND, Oreg.. October 17 (#).— lar election for President before the!jack Boyle, New York newspaper man, Government.* Civil War, and since that time in every election something had happened which prevented some State from having its vote counted or from having a popular election. When Colorado was admitted to the Union in 1876, tha Republicans of the State, under the pretense that they did 1ot want to hold another election so s00n, but' probably because they con- trolled the Legislature and feared the Siate would go Democratic on a popu- lar vote, chose its electors in the Legisla- ture. It is more than probable that this maneuver, engineered by Scnator Teller, | who has been on the Pacific coast for | several months, died unexpectedly early | yesterday. He was 45 years old. With | him at the time of death was his wife i Olive, who told the coroner she awoke lto find her husband dead. Death was | said to have been caused by acute kid- | ney trouble Boyle was widely known as a writer {of short stories, his “Boston Blackie" | stories having attracted wide attention. Portland newspaper men have arranged to cremate the body in accordance with Boyle's request. who became a Democrat 20 years later, gave the presidency to Ha The fighting was neither fast nor furi- ous until after the Maine State election was held. This ante-election barome- ter had regularly disclosed the direction of the politicel wind since the days of Tippecanoe Harrison, and now it showed { squally weather ahead of the Repub- Jicans. It gave them a great scare and the Democrats an oversupply of -confi- dence. Grant and Conkling had practi- | 2 reed to knife the ticket, but now chet was buried and the two barnstormed the Middle West, Conk ling doing the talking and Grant grac- ing the platform. 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