THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1936
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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
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(© The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
MESCAL IKE
The Old Land Grabber
By S. L. HUNTLEY
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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
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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
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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
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DOWN
DISAPPOINTED,
SPOY OF
LiOHT IMMEPINTEL
COMING
BACK, DANCIN6
MERRY
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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.
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