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Show Garfield's Nomination. At the Republican national convention conven-tion In 1880 the Blaine Half-Breeds (to use the nomenclature of the day) and the Grant Stalwarts, 306 in number, j hugged each other in a death grapple! They crushed each other and Garfield scampered off with the nomination for president. When leaving Washington Wash-ington to attend the convention as leader of the Sherman delegates, Garfield Gar-field was asked by John Randolph Tucker of Virginia :'NWiom are you going to nominate?" Garfield is said to have loved Ran. Tucker. They were far asunder in politics, but there were love and affection and intellectual kinship between the iVirginian and the Ohioan. Garfield put his arm around Tucker's shoulders and whispered: whis-pered: "Keep your eyes on me." And so it was.- Garfield became President end Blaine took the secretaryship of state, "to keep his hand on the helm," his friends said. "To watch the Peruvian Peru-vian guano beds," his enemies repliedWashington re-pliedWashington Letter to Richmond- (Va.) Times. |