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Show FAILED TO WIN VOTES. Great Speaches Have Not Always Had Effect Desired. In eloquence and point no other speech in tho whig convention In Baltimore In lS52'ovcn remotely approached ap-proached tho ono which Uiifus Choato mado for Webster, but Webster was never a serious factor In tho ballot-lnp. ballot-lnp. In every ono of the 63 ballots Fllimoro and Scott had several times as many votes as Webster, and Scott carried off tho candidacy, nobert G. IngersoU's "Plumed Knight" speech, la which ho said, "Llko an armed warrior, llko a plumed knight, James G. nialno marched down tho halls of tho American congress and threw his shining lanco full and fair against tho brazen forehead of every defemer of his country and mallgner of its honor," In the Cincinnati convention of 1876, gave Blalno a sobriquet which ho carried to the end of his lite, and It made Ingersoll famous. But Hayes and not Blalno won the nomination. Conkllng's Appomatox speech In tho Chicago convention of 1880 In favor of Grant captivated the country at tho moment and "swept the convention off Its feet" (except tho delegates). Garfield's in favor of Sherman In tho samo convention was scarcely Inferior to Conkllng's In point and power. Neither Grant nor Sherman Sher-man received tho nomination. Garfield's speech for Sherman helped help-ed Garfield to get tho nomination himself him-self in the deadlock, although neither ho nor anybody else at tho opening of tho convention had' thought of him as a possibility. When Bryan mado his "cross of ' gold" speech, which stampeded tho Chicago convention of 180G, ho.wnH not, ostensibly, talking for himself, nor did anybody In tho convention think of him In connection with tho candidacy at tho time ho got up there to speak, lie entered that convention ns a member of n contesting contest-ing delegation and was unknown to tho country nt tho time, though ho had tho presidential bco In his bonnet bon-net nnd was working for his own nomination nil the tlmo that he was in tho convention. Leslie's Weekly. |