| Greeley | 147 |
| Brown | 95 |
| Adams | 205 |
| Curtin | 62 |
| Trumbull | 110 |
| Chase | 2ZZZ |
| Davis | 922 |
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opinion that a native-born Republican should preside; and that he consented to take the place only when assured that, if he did not, it would go to a man who was radically objectionable to the entire intelligent reform sentiment of the movement.
The real explanation of the Blair-Brown scheme in favor of Greeley is rather to be sought in the long-time political enmity of the Blair and Adams families.
When the balloting began, only vague rumors of the Brown program had reached a majority of the delegates, and very many of them were ignorant of the light in which it was regarded by their chairman.
The first ballot resulted as follows:
This vote aroused the enthusiasm of the Adams supporters, but evidence of the Brown-Greeley deal was supplied at once.
As soon as the result was announced the chairman, reading from a slip of paper which he held in his hand, informed the convention that a gentleman who had just received a large number of votes desired to make a communication, and Governor Brown ascended
New York, D. Appleton and Company, March 1903.
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