. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . JAMES A. GARFIELD. 685 was altogether that of a soldier, they were new and unfamiliar. After an activeand ably-fought contest, Garfield was elected by a vote of 214, to 155 for hiscompetitor. Garfields administration began with war,—political war,—war with theelements in his own party which had supported Grant at the Chicago conven-tion, and which now transferred the contest to the Senate. So peculiar was thiswell-remembered struggle, and so far-reaching in its effects, that the story de-serves to be brierty told. The very first
. The library of American history, literature and biography .. . JAMES A. GARFIELD. 685 was altogether that of a soldier, they were new and unfamiliar. After an activeand ably-fought contest, Garfield was elected by a vote of 214, to 155 for hiscompetitor. Garfields administration began with war,—political war,—war with theelements in his own party which had supported Grant at the Chicago conven-tion, and which now transferred the contest to the Senate. So peculiar was thiswell-remembered struggle, and so far-reaching in its effects, that the story de-serves to be brierty told. The very first question that met Garfield on his accession was that of appointments. Mr. Conkling, thesenior senator from New York,had been the chief and mostdetermined advocate of Grantsnomination. By the practiceknown as the courtesy of theSenate, it was customary forthat body to decline to confirmnominations made by the Presi-dent to ofifices in any Statewhich were distasteful to thesenators from that State. Inmaking nominations for NewYork offices the President had i
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