BALLOTS.
| Ballots. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grant, | 304 | 305 | 305 | 305 | 305 | 305 |
| Blaine, | 284 | 282 | 282 | 281 | 281 | 281 |
| Sherman, | 93 | 94 | 93 | 95 | 95 | 95 |
| Edmunds, | 34 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 31 |
| Washburne, | 30 | 32 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 |
| Windom, | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Garfield, | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Harrison, | 1 | |||||
| Ballots. | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| Grant, | 305 | 306 | 308 | 305 | 305 | 304 |
| Blaine, | 281 | 284 | 282 | 282 | 281 | 283 |
| Sherman, | 94 | 91 | 90 | 91 | 62 | 93 |
| Edmunds, | 32 | 31 | 31 | 30 | 31 | 31 |
| Washburne, | 31 | 32 | 32 | 22 | 32 | 33 |
| Windom, | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Garfield, | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Hayes, | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Ballots, | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Grant, | 305 | 305 | 309 | 306 | 303 | 305 |
| Blaine, | 285 | 285 | 281 | 283 | 284 | 283 |
| Sherman, | 89 | 89 | 88 | 88 | 90 | 92 |
| Edmunds, | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 |
| Washburne, | 33 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 34 | 35 |
| Windom, | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Garfield, | 1 | |||||
| Hayes, | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Davis, | 1 | |||||
| McCrary, | 1 | |||||
| Ballots, | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| Grant, | 305 | 308 | 305 | 305 | 304 | 305 |
| Blaine, | 279 | 276 | 276 | 275 | 274 | 279 |
| Sherman, | 95 | 93 | 96 | 95 | 98 | 93 |
| Edmunds, | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 |
| Washburne, | 31 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 36 | 35 |
| Windom, | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Garfield, | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Hartranft, | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Ballots, | 25 | 26 | 27 | |||
| Grant, | 302 | 303 | 306 | |||
| Blaine, | 281 | 280 | 277 | |||
| Sherman, | 94 | 93 | 93 | |||
| Edmunds, | 31 | 31 | 31 | |||
| Washburne, | 36 | 35 | 36 | |||
| Windom, | 10 | 10 | 10 | |||
| Garfield, | 2 | 2 | 2 |
There was little change from the 27th ballot until the 36th and final one, which resulted as follows:
| Whole number of votes | 755 |
| Necessary to a choice | 378 |
| Grant | 306 |
| Blaine | 42 |
| Sherman | 3 |
| Washburne | 5 |
| Garfield | 399 |
As shown, General James A. Garfield, of Ohio, was nominated on the 36th ballot, the forces of General Grant alone remaining solid. The result was due to a sudden union of the forces of Blaine and Sherman, it is believed with the full consent of both, for both employed the same wire leading from the same room in Washington in telegraphing to their friends at Chicago. The object was to defeat Grant. After Garfield’s nomination there was a temporary adjournment, during which the friends of the nominee consulted Conkling and his leading friends, and the result was the selection of General Chester A. Arthur of New York, for Vice-President. The object of this selection was to carry New York, the great State which was then almost universally believed to hold the key to the Presidential position.
The Democratic National Convention met at Cincinnati, June 22d. Tilden had up to the holding of the Pennsylvania State Convention been one of the most prominent candidates. In this Convention there was a bitter struggle between the Wallace and Randall factions, the former favoring Hancock, the latter Tilden. Wallace, after a contest far sharper than he expected, won, and bound the delegation by the unit rule. When the National Convention met, John Kelly, the Tammany leader of New York, was again there, as at St. Louis four years before, to oppose Tilden, but the latter sent a letter disclaiming that he was a candidate, and yet really inviting a nomination on the issue of “the fraudulent counting in of Hayes.” There were but two ballots, as follows:
| FIRST BALLOT. | |
|---|---|
| Hancock | 171 |
| Bayard | 153½ |
| Payne | 81 |
| Thurman | 63½ |
| Field | 66 |
| Morrison | 62 |
| Hendricks | 46½ |
| Tilden | 38 |
| Ewing | 10 |
| Seymour | 8 |
| Randall | 6 |
| Loveland | 5 |
| McDonald | 3 |
| McClellan | 3 |
| English | 1 |
| Jewett | 1 |
| Black | 1 |
| Lothrop | 1 |
| Parker | 1 |
| SECOND BALLOT. | |
| Hancock | 705 |
| Tilden | 1 |
| Bayard | 2 |
| Hendricks | 30 |
Thus General Winfield S. Hancock, of New York, was nominated on the second ballot. Wm. H. English, of Indiana, was nominated for Vice-President.
The National Greenback-Labor Convention, held at Chicago, June 11, nominated General J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, for President, and General E. J. Chambers, of Texas, for Vice-President.
In the canvass which followed, the Republicans were aided by such orators as Conkling, Blaine, Grant, Logan, Curtis, Boutwell, while the Camerons, father and son, visited the October States of Ohio and Indiana, as it was believed that these would determine the result, Maine having in September very unexpectedly defeated the Republican State ticket by a small majority. The Democrats were aided by Bayard, Voorhees, Randall, Wallace, Hill, Hampton, Lamar, and hosts of their best orators. Every issue was recalled, but for the first time in the history of the Republicans of the West, they accepted the tariff issue, and made open war on Watterson’s plank in the Democratic platform—“a tariff for revenue only.” Iowa, Ohio, and Indiana, all elected the Republican State tickets with good margins; West Virginia went Democratic, but the result was, notwithstanding this, reasonably assured to the Republicans. The Democrats, however, feeling the strong personal popularity of their leading candidate, persisted with high courage to the end. In November all of the Southern States, with New Jersey, California,[[36]] and Nevada in the North, went Democratic; all of the others Republican. The Greenbackers held only a balance of power, which they could not exercise, in California, Indiana, and New Jersey. The electoral vote of Garfield and Arthur was 214, that of Hancock and English 155. The popular vote was Republican, 4,442,950; Democratic, 4,442,035; Greenback or National, 306,867; scattering, 12,576. The Congressional elections in the same canvass gave the Republicans 147 members; the Democrats, 136; Greenbackers, 9; Independents, 1.