Show j C x C CAN N NOT A AND D WILL NOT On the Fourth of July the New York World copied pied the pr proceedings in the Democratic convention convenE conven- conven tion E held the Fourth our h which r ll thirty nine years year ago nominated J Horatio S Seymour for President It tells tell Jiow now Ge George H H. Pendleton was was was' the natural candidate candidate candi candi- f date but c could uld not obtain the necessary two-thirds two to that on the twenty-first twenty ballot allot he e arose and andin andA l A in iii n tl the e name ame of the Ohio Ohi delegation insisted that the ther M r i 1 nomination be given to Horatio Seymour Then Mr 11 i Seymour who was chairman o of the convention c came forward and thanked the Ohio delegation but V f reiterated what he had before said that he could not be the candidate But ut later h he was nominated and accepted the nomination 1 I But the World V orld n night might gh hav have added that his n nomia nomi- nomi nl a nat nation on was not well received by his party and that t r he was badly defeated in the election On his way i v home from the convention Dean Richmond who Vas was vasa l la a a power in the New York Democracy at that time f said id Seymour always has been a sneak There was another nomination for President something like that of Seymours Seymour s. s Garfield went to Chicago tp to nominate Senator Sherman but on the first ballot there was one vote cast for James A. A y Garfield At each succeeding ballot that one vote was cast After three or four ballots a Grant stalwart stal- stal 1 wart turned to a friend and asked who that delegate v was s who was voting yoting for Garfield The reply was r v A A preacher from Pennsylvania Then said the stalwart we are gone When the votes began to increase for Garfield that gentleman gentl gentleman gen gen- tl man arose and like Seymour said he could not a accept f But he lie did accept when the convention nomi- nomi nominated 4 him But those two precedents are not encouraging en- en S to other candidates Seymour was badly r d defeated Garfield was was stricken with th a fatal wound tr I three months after his inauguration We suspect that the World intended the editorial edi- edi ori l as 85 a hint that someone else might b be induced tf v to to change his lis mind if sufficiently urged but the thet V t cases are different The two gentlemen mentioned said i I cannot cannot accept the nomination The other r 7 gentleman said I I will not accept and if the convention convention con- con nominates me there will have to be a new 5 S' S convention called for I will not have it After such a pledge were a man to break it he would be beaten at the polls |