| Show ii o o 8 ei A If ao A 0 Og eo 0 AA THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION II IIO 00 00 99 00 00 oe 0 00 p e 0 O 8 e e e LONG the advantages of living In 10 Inthe A AMONG the Halted the politicians politician 18 ay must bt be included the chance of oC the ce presidential chair or at least of being elo elected a delegate to ont of oC the Nt national conventions There art are U bIaD many la In the land Iud who look tard to becoming either president of If te lt to be for the thes s u being of t their co and the bin ben benIt eat It bt t posterity The u iv ev ivare itI are oae is II the tom at b republiC and a delegate to ana anau a na u nUon clothed with witha a little brat authority I U a man of no Importance betOr fo sad aDd during durin a aNat Nat t of it male mak maleia Tau ia time the grad quadrennial event the twelfth In the history of oC the I l r IrI I t t b v d IC I 1 t 1 q l a I r rf f Wi f o rt u C i f r I f fi t i tJ y 1 i The ion All 1 d f r rr rJ r rh h 1 FI 1 1 r 55 j ij t l l J fd r 1 l lI lf lt I 1 a t by t q y t 1 J lk t A v r 3 r f r ri I i k 1 r r t ta LI a 9 ko koy 11 y I I R I Ip 1 p v d rf L J JHENRY HENRY CABOT LODGE PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Republican party part begins June 11 la the city or of which vu trot to traditions that thal all us lIa ua 1111 political contentions must be for I in th be most mOlt magnificent miner and Uld be housed boaM accordingly has haa itself to II every other fl et hi character within the lb memory of oC JM the first place It pledged itself 1 Nough It Its I public spirited to lO tos s and this It ba has done don Jt It to furnish a amply ampt MCfeat to accommodate the delet delegates sad their tb it than 1100 In with floor and ald gal al 4 1517 space for 10 more mon and this also t hu hag done The Tbt tall last of the Ih and the lut dab of 01 th the paint rg brush ba brae e already Garen en applied i I sad the ITt gnat Export exposition build tn UI an of Gf spice pare und and blaut beauty awaits the coming of lh the Ii Twel Twelve thousand penny in fa the q ag and this including rooters rJ artists telegraph operators and on In V t I a IS III a stage lu Iv accommodate Ute en test t with a platform In Int Met t of It for I 1 newspaper men an for seating tl the 1101 and delegates sad alternate with wound and aDd galleries abc above for consisting mainly of oft t t N 11 the tbt average V citizen for tor a moment nu that tbt a national be a or I Is going Ia b Idi lu heed 1111 under a bushel h he will as greatly aU mistaken n as al that other of the last loal cn can tur wa was when he be took General Wash Walh farewell of hi his army rm to be hi his last lut appearance 1 I in th the arena of public affairs With aU all due respect for tor the It may mat be stated a as all an u ax mm that no national convention can exist and It Its proper functions function without a mighty attendant nol and commotion Allot Another is II that It must mut be waited upon by the bet beat citizens of the III which l I Is held who are sup supposed up posed to welcome with joy this self If tin posed polled and to humbly bow the knee before his the clan daa and nd carry ens his II The tate late lam V N Ns by once advised President Andrew John lion Inn when hll he had hatt under contemplation the Ix ofa of a at the Confederate Y X roads road to withhold the as long lone u as for Cor then theD said he bt assuming that you ou have 1 applicants for lor Ue the position you ou still have law frIends d but bat after giving aw away the office you have only Obly ii tb the postmaster AO o It hal baa been with the tbt selection of oC a c for tor convention boa bets ors ora and aad the fortunate recipient of po b hund hundreds of ether that do not draw w the prize And An Anet yet et this enviable DV distinction com rather high for the 1100 to toward toward ward a building U Only a beginning sad the total wUl pot lot tall far abort b rt ot of w But what U than whoa t te th this elt city as a foal point wUl wUI converge the mot most eminent men In Republican politics who will 11 not come Om empty empt handed nor without the lodging an and pt only will tb the thrifty business men of Philadelphia receive back a goodly If net Dot aU all of nf what bl I they contributed but they wilt conjointly taU 10 be valuable prestige auar te ti that hat has now Ma been a convention con conI city It t I Philadelphia todo tu eon boit a Its tta own on for lor It ItIn sou In this tit city It 44 years tarl ago this month J June 1 1 that the Abet national Rl convention w wee held and the party may a tie be said a leave uye then tbd be Ion IGn II its career If seers are to be con suited the choosing of this tJ for the meeting In ma may be Upon poll a as pro or 01 the rev reverse for 11 la Ita first arlit candidate General Oural John Joba C I w was rejected by the people at tile the bolis I yet ot In when General Orant arant 11 was nominated for reelection Ito t w was re n nI returned turned to the chair At the I time of nomination condl were wre not nOl favorable for a pro pronounced antislavery man anti and is hi the election that ensued the Int intrepid ld l th finder andr wu was beaten aten by lm James Buchan Sm an It It opposed to his hla But when th the second R Republican ron con mp met al II t Chicago slay fa 1118 Abraham was nominated and later eL un u which denied the authority ot of con congress of a terri teal territorial tonal or of any Individuals to give 1 legal lal existence to slavery lavry In any territory of 01 th the Fre wont had peen nominated on the lint first I Iw Ij Il V r y yA l Y r a a j A t bl w e 4 5 re l I f PRESIDENT WHO WILL BE formal ballot o brit t hid hat M ep opponent W R l award who ml 1785 votes ot on tilt first rat ballet bat a Iut which w were only 10 for Us U On the second lODd vote however ho the It later gained 71 7 and on the tbt third kle tion w sou assured Q by a e change of tour tOUl votes of oC tM the Oh III h his fa favor vor The Whip had bad asked It ff not Seward who then r and bI his I and I against t ard trained tactics hid answered them A tow tew minutes after the result was the cannon outside the hall be began to te boom na and d WIt went wildes it bu btu done oer NY j oral times since OR on similar I out But when b be the nova new newIt I It by wire read the telegram In s I lees then folded it Il up and pu put It Il la In bi bit his et t quietly remarking Theres a little woman down at out ou bOUt who whit would like lib a hear tin this and Ill run rn over and I tell her I I When two delegal s were sent to no notify Lincoln of his hiM nomination h he thanked them theat In a f few words and then said Kid looking at one anI Pt them Kelley Kelle youre oure a pretty tall fellow you ou must be u tell tall u I am m lets letl measure From m h his manner it Il seemed that he be WU waa bettor better UIS to nn find hI he was 1 two inch inches es taller wiler U Kelley elle than to learn of hi his nomination The third thinS national Republican con at which Lincoln wu with Andrew Andrw Johnson u aa hi his running mate male instead of Hannibal Hamlin was w held at Baltimore June j 7 antI and 3 1164 Four years tan later at Chicago Slay 11 to 20 21 lit Grant was wa unanimously noted on the Che tint first ballot ballotIn In 1873 June 5 1 8 6 a ste sta Gad Una Ume became ue the peat t of a Uon when Ge General Grant wa was looted JI py a acclamation with henry WI 1111 son lOll u vii nominee In place of 8 Schuyler Colfax I Tbt Republican of f 1176 I mt met at Cincinnati June un 1417 and Ind Gin Gen General Brat eral Rutherford B who on the lint ballot wag WAI honored with but H 44 vote vot and theM thew frets 11 his own state Itte of Ohio on the received owing U UI I Ii wn well known to all the opponents of Mr Blaine Blain hI having I Is his hll favor faor favorAt At Chicago I in I ISIS June JUlIe II 3 i a liar combination favored fa the of Garfield who at first Int lad bad but butone one vote over Grant 1 n and He n finally rota lOt lOtell ell a the t ballot Yet Tot It WI was significant that General Grant nr never lost Olt a rne 4 nile cud on the had two more mer t than at Ut the beginning In 18 the UtI next t Chicago June a J James amp O 0 at last lut rev reo ceh Ivd ed the long lone coveted borne of a nom votes on the first ballot hll hil chief competitors being President Arthur Arlhur and I Senators ltd IId munde and Logan Ion On III the second bal ballot ballot lot the Blaine vote ote rose rOM to att on the third to 36 and nd on the fourth to when the wag wa an aa usual made unanimous with John A Logan u as nominea for tor the vice IC In 1831 June 1235 1121 the Republican convention was WAI again held In the city ot of Chic Chicago with 14 In ht the field fieldOn eld eldOn On the first ballot the vOt votes stood Sherman 26 pew 9 Aller Alger st Harrison 81 1 On the eighth ballot John Sherman had Alger Benjamin JH and accord accordingly the lut lul named became the par tyl candidate At Minneapolis OU In 1113 June Benjamin Harrison was a with Whitelaw Held as nominee for the theIre vice Ire presidency Just four year ago June 1619 ISH 1296 the last lut p previous lou national mt met In St It Louts that city been a successful bidder for tor the i honor and nominated William McKin Iy Icy of Ohio who a majority on the first ballot ballotA As A the most mOlt recent lIt of the national Republican conventions and as emi eminently typical of oC them nit 1111 t the e ot of the proceedings In St t Louis Loul ma may be betaken betaken taken as a precedent for what will occur In Philadelphia First t of oC all there are Ih the national and local organisations organ which are aN ei to work wark together In though a as has JIAS been said by an old stager while or organization is III th the life of an any political party arty the grandest feature o of a us ne canal convention I is that It rune MUI itself Still th there is II a temporary who runs rUM thin thing until the permanent chairman Is elected when he be resigns the reins Into his hla hands Doth Both chair are an more or less leu ephemeral honors bono and on one rarely recollects who has baa filled ailed the lM place from one oe convention to another Senator Marcus Marcu A as the bead bad or of the national or organisation and 1 Wanley Manley of Maine Main chair chairman man of oC the national subcommittee In charge charre of oC the convention will work ork orkIn In cooperation with wit the com committee of at t whose head is II Mayor Maor I fi n II with head headquarters headquarters quarters at the city hall This last Jut named committee hu bag bad of raising the funds pled pledged for tor forthe the convention and nd paving the WI way so that the thi great t national machine mil may roll along without unnecessary fric lion Having accomplished this th they ba have turned ov over r the tle great anat building and d the management of 01 IL ii to the na Glottal who on this occasion II Ur lie G 0 N of Mu Waukee Ife has hili already taken posses lion ilon and set t Ills little army at work and from his hili pral ua experience as a ll In the coil COli of 1888 1223 1292 and 1816 1396 It le Is pre Phi dieted that th the best beat results ul m may be ox ex expected peeled Not that this statement means mean that everybody d applying for tor tickets to the convention will In getting them nor ner that there will be no Ills dis members for It is III II a matter ot of record that the position ot of r arms arme la is one of the tb moat to 10 nil fill fillin In the long category of office whose whOle r rev wards are arc purely honorary sought for Hmo reison known only to tb In cumb nt But they are supposed d to result ln In ot of political ex which will lead up to other and better thin later on or raise ralle them lu III the estimation of the party part Yet from whatever motive the position Is accepted there thero I is no doubt dt t all that It ItIs Itis Is mOlt t Onerous and that the incumbent is II entitled to whatever ht he my may gain In future rewards One of the problems ot of the sergeant and his hla men headed by the veteran Colonel Swords Sword of oC New York will be to accommodate some via Is hors with only 1000 at command The city In which t e convention Is held has the first rat claim antI and at the last one St Louis Louie modestly preferred are a rev quiet for 1100 while the state of Ohio alone wanted It is I Ih the necessary of oC claims from party part men that will cause pain to the thes s af ruts end his while the opinion In whirls they will willbe willbe be held by the on ones wilt II stet not be large enough to b be worth rain men There the te always a bI big anoy the eting tine capacity of I lilt liar and ad the demands made matle and it if those who a are entitled to favors Il et halt half of what they desire they should hould consider themselves fortunate fortunato The Th f le In a measure for the expenses attend attendant ant upon n the regular which lIS is no small mall item and besides tilt these Chore thore will be much that is III incidental but un unavoidable avoidable U an for the expense ot of new every evory Journal of IMpOrtance having from two to ten writers on its Ita lat whose sal salaries 1 aries rt constitute but one ODe Item Iten of bilk which gibe 8 messengers tn type typewriters writers liquid refreshment for tor the ever faithful but ever thirsty hanger on Oh who ba has valuable tidbits tidbit or of Information and lastly the long column columna of news nen nenI I to be wired of expense Dun Dur lug the pre press of bUI business It is II calculated I the tl telegraphic oIw of news will average anywhere from 00 to I words worda daU daily A network of wires has haa been strung to the Various IN rd of t 1 agen a lid l ates tta end and th their lr R tor ht j lea a the hot bot stuff the nil all loa l the r ells or j g and nd Important I om 1111 m tr fur I wi ii an is II e Supposed to bt be a I It firmed 11 of oC the n 1111 for tor a brief brieC period an ot of bUill It may 1 be f J al a It I Bas aR d The nill had hat bo r f ed arid publican 11 I and was WaR os II thin thing well rould 1 to j 1 1 ter Icy ItY Alllan 1 r M I lit r I non fOn but this b I year pr w wh tb Ih favorite sons IOn I Ja I hi r fences to mend and 1111 era to placate the cu Iu will t I 1 1 shove T 1 f c 1 been I en apparent that Ihal i almost ur t b IT I As a fah criterion f 1 If 1 cur At Philadelphia tit III rr 1 It t louls In 1591 V I dance The hour lit when ben the chairman 1 words word War ular or er ot of I K I it r I ot of the states fur for nr II for n 1 retal rotary I ally nOi andi It I was Wat Mr ur lOr tIn t I In na II a f 1 Allison In an Imi eluding thus now perhaps but hilI I over or his name a II rl music on your and It a thrill of jo jn west to the Ile east 11 C bling way the Rn Anne only to to t bet In n It nails Nominate s Born s Willi In our teen i lull full r rand i and Inti night upon h halar alar Iw he wen 1111 nn r I lit lee leeM M I fur tur I of which stood fu h 1 tt its v 1 I I logy of the man h i j 1 continued Ife tl I IV We V kIlO know It Ir bPI 0 h hI leed I have Ih u t honor to III Ate te for your our er n 0 ll t house of f 1 r t n nU U Ibid of Maim Mal I Nox tI 1 puI 11 I Ite I vats te oUlI II tan 1111 app humor tr If n 4 o j It aUld not nol tl nt I tn In to minaI r tan with rib pe suaI a Implied led I the I m h In Inlo 1 R I II jotter I to 10 N tin 1111 1 II eagerly Iy as nt d I t 1 Senator Fn ut I j want a ti It 1 want su china Ii I triode I Ito I Ito I lan to present to 10 Ih man III Iris name m I IThe is The 11 lira I r sued aued showing tit Ih l 1 gates the chairman ens u t p check and at het Io t r nave up ire while the volumes of r I e r ra 1 a 11 hurrIcane or of pout anon l J tL iI 1 I f even the mu of r tit th la 01 I C multitude joining in I a feet to the rhythm of I deavor u as they en the Ih J hod 1900 cannot raise rail IL a t did those tholf of 1896 soh n M t h was mentioned 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