The Presidential Election of 1880

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CHAPTER III
The Republican National Convention

The Republican convention which opened in Chicago on June 2, 1880 surpassed almost all others in color, in determined purpose, in men of strong character, and in the singing and band playing that brought to the 756 delegates memories of a distant but unforgotten past.1 The convention opened at noon on Wednesday, June 2, and did not complete its work until midnight of Tuesday, June 8. It was not only the longest Republican convention up to that time, but it was also the first in which every state was represented.2

The Grant forces, who had felt that Chicago afforded just the proper environment for the "Little American Ulysses," were soon disillusioned. Edwards Pierrepont was not so sure that Grant would be nominated.3

General Grant's lieutenants, Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York, General John A. Logan of Illinois, and Senator Don

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1
Henry L. Stoddard, As I Knew Them: Presidents and Politics from Grant to Coolidge, p. 102 ( New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927). See also Stoddard, Presidential Sweepstakes, p. 77.
2
The Indianapolis Journal, June 2, 1880 gives data on the length of previous Republican conventions.
3
Fish MSS, Letter Book, Edwards Pierrepont to Hamilton Fish, June 7, 1880. See San Francisco Bulletin, June 10, 1880 for the hostility of Chicago to the Grantites.

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Table of contents

  • Jesuit Studies i
  • Jesuit Studies iii
  • Jesuit Studies iv
  • Title Page v
  • Preface vii
  • Contents ix
  • Introduction 1
  • Chapter 1 - The Struggle For The Republican Nomination 22
  • Chapter 11 - Democratic Struggles For Nomination 52
  • Chapter III - The Republican National Convention 82
  • Chapter IV - The Democratic National Convention 122
  • Chapter V - Third Party Movements During The Campaign of 1880 157
  • Chapter VI - The Republican Campaign 167
  • Chapter VII - The Democratic Campaign 206
  • Chapter VIII Garfield Wins And Loses 240
  • Bibliography 269
  • Index 279
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