ial change, when the Convention adjourned until the next day.
On Tuesday morning the twenty-ninth ballot exhibited no variation,
except that Massachusetts transferred the majority of its votes from
Edmunds to Sherman, reducing the former to 12 and raising the latter
to 116. On the thirtieth ballot Sherman advanced to 120 and Windom
fell to 4. The next three ballots were substantially the same. On
the thirty-fourth ballot Wisconsin cast 16 votes for General Garfield,
and the great body of delegates at once saw that the result was
foreshadowed. On the thirty-fifth ballot Indiana, following Wisconsin,
cast 27 votes for Garfield, and scattering votes carried his aggregate
to 50. The culmination was now reached. As the thirty-sixth ballot
opened, the delegations which had been voting for Blaine and Sherman
changed to Garfield. The banners of the States were caught up and
massed in a waving circle around the head of the predestined and now
chosen candidate. The scene of enthusiasm and exultation long delayed
the final announcement, which gave Garfield 399 votes, Grant 306,
Blaine 42, Washburne 5, Sherman 3. The nomination was immediately
made unanimous on motion of Mr. Conkling. For Vice-President Elihu B.
Washburne, Marshall Jewell, Thomas Settle, Horace Maynard, Chester A.
Arthur, and Edmund J. Davis were placed in nomination, and General
Arthur was chosen on the first ballot by a vote of 468 to 193 for Mr.
Washburne and some scattering votes for other candidates.

The result of the Convention was generally accepted as a happy issue
of the long contest. The nomination of General Garfield was unexpected
but it was not unwelcome. It was not an escape from the clash of
positive purposes by a resort to a negative and feeble expedient.
General Garfield was neither an unknown nor an untried man. For twenty
years he had been prominent in the public service, both civil and
military, and for ten years he had ranked among the foremost Republican
leaders. No statesman of the times surpassed him in thorough
acquaintance with the principles of free government, in knowledge of
the legislative and administrative history of our own country, and in
intelligent grasp of the great questions still at issue. In eloquence,
culture, and resources he had few peers. His ascendency in the
Convention was so marked as to turn all eyes towards him. His
conspicuous part in the debates of Congress, his numerous popular
addresses, had mad