Our political drama, conventions, campaigns, candidates (1904)
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, 1847-1928 · New York : Scott-Thaw co. · leaf 66
00 and 10,000, and it wascrammed at every session. The spectators, out-numbering as they did the convention itself five orsix to one, played the part then that their successorshave played in similar bodies ever since. They con- NATIONAL CONVENTIONS 61 sisted almost entirely of ardent supporters of… … THE WIGWAM, IN WHICH LINCOLN WAS NOMINATKD IN 1860. (By kind permission of the Century Co.) in tests of noise and endurance, began at this con-vention. In this first contest the East was pittedagainst the West from the outset. In the prelimi-nary skirmish for position, the West came off victor.The…
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