Show 0 0 0 0 a 0 0 6 little band bandwagon wagon journeys by L T MERRILL biml 04 1928 western New alln on 18 Lincol ns first rodaina No nomination Daina A A GRAHAM debates 1 with stephen A douglas on the slavery question in 1858 made him the logical man for the west to put for ward for republican presidential hon bon ors in asco after the success of his speech at cooper institute in new york and the enthusiastic reception he rec received elied in new england early in the hie election year lincoln himself became a receptive and active aspirant for the nomination the republican convention of at chicago Clil cago was more nearly like the present day national nominating gatherings than any pr previous elous convention find been the huge wigwam a build ing erected especially for the occasion witha with a seating capacity of enabled larger crowds than had ever attended a national convention to gather in the auditorium and tor for the first time by their cheering to take a large part in influencing the proceed ings of a nominating gathering the managers on neither side were slow to try to use to good advantage psychological effects of crowd support but in the technique of mass demon stra eions Lincol ns managers had rather the better of the show rom compared pared willi wilh the Impress arlos of any other contender william seward of new york rork leading aspirant from the east came to the convention with a contingent of several thousand supporters and a colorfully uniformed brass band ills hla myrmidons held a grand parade through chicago streets and basked overlong in the acclaim of admiring crowds this gave the lincoln managers opportunity port unity to put into effect a clever piece of strategy they packed the convention galleries with lincoln shouters and when the seward ers finished their marching they found the space for or spectators jammed almost to c pacify capacity so hundreds of the seward contingent other than delegates cooled their heels outside while old abes adherents who filled the tha wigwam made the best of 0 their cities to whoop up enthusiasm for to the illinois rall rail splitter candidate the seward supporters had been overconfident the night prey previous to placing the alie favorites names in nomination they gave a big cham supper and went about sere the city with their band but while allo they were imbibing liquid rear refreshment ashment and marching the lincoln leaders were swinging large numbers of delegates to the lincoln standard by the argument that seward could not be elected it if nominated because of his more radical utterances te rances on the question of slavery than lincoln had generally been accredited with malting making the Seward ites had a stunning surprise coming to them the next nest day they managed to make a great demonstration on when their favorite was put in nomination with a prizefighter prize fighter of the time acting as cheerleader cheer leader hundreds of persons stopped their ears cars in pain testified murat halstead cincinnati editor who declared the shouting was absolutely frantic shrill and wild and of an infernal intensity never dever equaled by any comanche put but the lincoln managers also had hired a couple of cheerleaders cheer leaders laders w with alb stentorian voices one ot of them the historian rhodes declares had shouting power with which he could make himself heard above the howling of the loudest storms on lake michigan the same authority says the other leather lunged worthy was a democrat engaged solely for his bis recognized ability to organize a claque the pair of them were put in charge of the lincoln cheering section the resulting uproar in the lincoln coun ter demonstration was wag put down by the cincinnati editor as beyond description fillon 41 4 1 I 1 thought the seward yell could not be surpassed he wrote hut but the lincoln boys were clearly ahead and feeling their victory as there was a lull full in the storm tool took deep breaths all around and gave a concentrated shriek that was positively awful and accompanied it with stamping that made every plank and pillar in the building quiver when the victory tor for lincoln came such a deafening tumult burst forth again that a cannon which was being ired op on the roof cot of the wigwam to signalize the result could not be heard inside the building when ane roll call of the third ballot was taken lincoln was waa found to be just one and a q wi halt t votes short of a victory then ohio switched cpu fpu votes to the lincoln column and some other states changed their votes till thi the rall rail splitter had bad a total ot of or 21 more then than a majority when th the nomination was made unanimous by acclamation john T tefler ier shed tears when henry clay his bis favorite for the whig nomination was defeated by thurlow weeds duc doctrine trine of availability la in the whig convention of 1830 1839 now it waa the turn of weed a former law partner 0 of f seward to see his own doctrine used with deadly effect against the new york favorite favor lle son and at defeat he was completely unnerved and even shed beark tear |