munds' nomination, which he did with his accustomed grace and elegance, but the appeal fell lifeless as the man of the hour had evidently been named. When the question came, at a later stage, upon the candidates for the Vice Presidency, a strong effort was anticipated for Secretary of War Lincoln and also for Postmaster-General Gresham, but it was understood that these gentlemen preferred that their names be not used, and so the whole Convention swung bodily to General Logan, who, though he had been nominated for the first place on the ticket was, nevertheless, understood to be "in the hands of his friends." His friends used him well, and rallied about him with unbounded enthusiasm and great good sense, making him, in fact, the one man presented for the second place. CHAPTER V. THE CHOICE. FRIDAY, June 6th, was the eventful day of the Convention. It was called to order by Chairman Henderson at 11.19 A. M., and the Rev. Dr. Henry Martyn Scudder led in prayer, after which the body quickly addressed itself to the work of nominating the candidate for the presidency. By vote of the National Committee and of the convention itself, the rules of the convention of 1880 were adopted for the government of that of 1884. These rules provided, First That each State must respond when called, or lose its right to be counted on that ballot. Second-That an absent delegate has no right to authorize any one to vote for him, and that each delegate or each alternate must cast his own vote. Third-That when a delegate fails to respond, the name of the alternate borne upon the roll opposite that delegate shall then be called. If that alternate does not respond, the names of the other alternates selected for the same representation by the same authority will be called in their order; as, for instance, if a delegate-at-large fails to respond, and the alternate whose name is on the roll opposite that delegate-at-large also fails to respond, the chair will direct the other three alternates-at-large to be called in their order, and there stop. If, on the other hand, the failure to respond be that of a district delegate, the chair will direct the name of the other alternate from that district (the first one failing to respond) to be called, and there stop, Fourth-A delegate absent when the vote of his State is announced and recorded cannot, on that vote, be counted. All these rulings, which were carefully and distinctly stated by the president, Senator Hoar, were acquiesced in without dissent, and were accepted as the law governing the proceedings of the Convention of 1880, and were rigidly and impartially applied. During the roll-call there were numerous calls for a poll of the delegates, which necessitated the calling by the Secretary of the names of the individual delegates in the states from which these calls proceeded. This caused great delay in balloting. After the announcement of the vote by the Secretary, the Chair said: "A ballot for a candidate for the presidency having been had without securing a nomination, according to the rules, the Convention will now proceed to another vote. The Secretary will call the roll." The first ballot stood as follows: |