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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936 ThéììtanlUhoOQ £05 / «A Tales c- •) — To Traditions and Ay fmuAmtnan Cs Political History C i FRANK E. HAGEN FT m ano bwo ELMO SCOTT WATSON THE SUNNY SIDE OF LIFE Clean Comics That Will Amuse Both Old and Young A SPEECH OF NOMINATION M OST of the reason for the title of these little stories—The Man Who—is supplied by the orators at political conventions who place the name of candidates in nom ination. Today from the loudspeakers come to most of us convincing talks, startlingly free of modesty, which extol the virtues of this favorite son or that one as his name is placed before convention delegates. But the most successful of these nominating speeches occurred long before static was a household word. It was made in Chicago at the Re publican convention of 1880 by James A. Garfield, and made hon estly, in behalf of the nomination of John Sherman. Its net result was that Sherman failed to win the nomination but Garfield succeeded. So that Gar field, later a martyred President, actually is the man who nominat ed himself. Here is how it happened. Presi dent Hayes had pledged himself not to be a candidate. When the convention opened it was plain that great efforts would be made to nominate General Grant for a third term. James G. Blaine was a formidable candidate but Grant had been presented in a glowing burst of oratory from Roscoe Conk ling, a bitter enemy of Blaine. Garfield’s speech in behalf of Sherman followed Conkling’s effort. Instead of qualifyng merely as an anti-clmax it is described by those who were there as an outstanding oratorical triumph. Grant, Blaine, Sherman, George F. Edmunds, Elihu B. Washburne and William Windom divided the votes until the thirty-fourth ballot. Then Garfield, whose speech still resounded in the minds of the dele gates, received 17 votes. He immediately took the floor and protested that he was there only in the interests of Sherman, whose candidacy he managed. He was ruled out of order. On the next ballot his strength had in creased to 50 votes. On the thirty sixth ballot, with 399 votes, he re ceived the nomination which his epochal speech had asked for an other man. Showers Bring Relief By Osborne THE FEATHERHEADS DAMPNESS—'NE HAVE To CUT DOWN ON OH- 800, *00 — You DON'T CARE ANY- THING WHAT You W ANT— BuT POOR LITTLE Me — H-UH- WHA-A-A-H , EXTRAVAGANCES ABOUT ___ ME !--------- Cs Quais - AH-HH — THANKS, NOW, DONT GO I TURNING ON THE GET THE NEW HAT—BuT leLL Me WHY SOME THIAG LIKE HAT STARTS THE SHOWERS DEAR — I DUNNO- You MEAN A GOOD CRY GETS THINGS OUT OF MY — IT GETS A THINGS OUT OF TOUR —1 husband / 1----------- WOMAN WHO ■ suffers IN SILENCE, REALLY SUFFERS By a M. PAYNE S'MATTER POP— Is This Another Grammatical Error? ou C am ( SE ARC+ j Me, PoP/ (© The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) MESCAL IKE The Old Land Grabber By S. L. HUNTLEY VAIL I i TAKE NOTE " L / GRANDPAPPY 3 STTTeRs HANKERS s TO GIT MULEY BATES (ARRESTED FEP, 7 LAND STEALI r TOOK AN 7 FOURTEEN ACRES NOT SHOR OF LANJD ALONG WITH HIM OVER INTO TH’ y COUNTY 1 ’ NOUGH.' Cvor. ORIGINAL STEAM-ROLLER HE steam-roller may not cover groun 1 with the speed of an antelope, but it gets there just the same. First of the steam-roller tacti cians to appear on the American political scene was the illustrious Marcus A. Hanna of Ohio, whose effective maneuverings behind the scenes still serve as an outstand ing lesson in the political primer. Steam-roller methods of attain ing the objective, which in this case was the nomination of Wil liam McKinley for President, were first utilized by Mark Hanna in the Republican convention of 1896. And they succeeded. Hanna had observed the amaz ing switch of delegates to James A. Garfield in 1880 when the latter was earnestly and honestly plead ing the cause of John Sherman of Ohio. Sherman tried again in 1888, this time employing McKinley as his convention manager. At one stage of the proceedings, the report spread that if McKinley would say the word the strength of the delegate? would be thrown to him. He promptly put an end to the movement, his vigorous inter ruption of the roll-call, for he al ready had received a vote, ending with a demand that: “No dele gate who would not cast reflection upon me shall cast a ballot for me." Hanna was impressed, as were many others. From that day he moved his support from Sherman, who had been defeated three times, and began to groom McKinley for the presidency. The opportunity came in 1896. When the convention met, only “regular’’ delegates were seated. The national committee o.k.’d them, one by one, by the vote of 35 to 15. And it just happened they all were McKinley men. Newspaper reports of the times describe the proceedings as a farce. But at any rate they were successful for McKinley’s princi pal opponent was courting the southern vote, many of whom could not prove an unbroken chain of party fealty, and therefore were not seated. The result was an outstanding majority for McKinley on the first ballot, Thomas B. Reed of Maine running a tired second, flattened under the weight of the original steam-roller, today an accepted part of our national politics. © Western Newspaper Union. Little Things Little things! Life and death, prosperity and ruin, happiness and misery, hang upon little things; they are like the linch-pin to the wheel, on which depends the safe ty of the vehicle; they are like the rudder to the vast mass which it guides; like the slender nerves to the hollow muscles. FINNEY OF THE FORCE A Fine Point ‘ OHOOLOSSFER FINNEY By Ted O'Loughlin Ez BE UNDER /REST FER r RECKLISS I WHO ? ME! WHAT , DROIVIN' // DID I DOt t—• HO /! ME 2 WHO A WAS PERSIN KIN DRN ING? BE FOI NED , F'DRIVIN 100 FAST OR NOT, PRONIN ATALL- WHIN HE PARKS IN TH' WRONG J, PLACE — By O. JACOBSSON ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES The Hunt The Curse of Progress 31 Smart The officer took out his book and poised his stubby pencil. “What’s your name?” “John Smith.” “Yer real name,” bawled the of ficer, who had been tricked before "Well, then, put me down as Wil liam Shakespeare.” “That’s better. Yuh can’t fool me with that Smith stuff.” THE SUN SPOT Lies THINKIN6 or ALL THE RMHER Do TAN JIN65 HE’D 1¥E His NAP v By GLUYA3 WILLIAMS BECOMES INTERESTED m A REFLEC1ON or SUNLIGHT Puts HEAD CLOSE DANCING ON THE WALL CAUSING n, to E/PMINE CAS1N6 * SHADOW AND sect 10 DISAPPEAR. Nothing New Adorer (nervously) — Isn’t that your father’s step on the stairs? Sweet Girl — Yes, but don't mind that; it’s only a scare. He won’t come down. He always stamps around that way when I si: up with young men after 11 o’clock UES DOWN DISAPPOINTED, SPOY OF LiOHT IMMEPINTEL COMING BACK, DANCIN6 MERRY 14 DECIDES <0 CAPTURE K CLAPS Mother—What happened when that high-pressure salesman called today? Daughter—Oh, I sold him fa ther’s old clothes and all the dis carded furniture in the attic.—De Toit Free Press. PURSUES n ovw THE WALL DowN ( Bor Dis LIGHT sPor 15 VERY ELUSIVE Super Salesgirl HAND COVERS THE Ci
