His friend
and Commander, General Thomas, whose stubborn courage saved
the day in the battle for the possession of Tennessee, was
well called The Rock of Chickamauga. In the greater battle
in 1876 for the Nation's honor Garfield well deserves to be
called The Rock of Ohio. There has been hardly any single
service to this country in recent times greater than that
rendered by him when he stood against the fiat money movement
in Ohio.
CHAPTER XXIX
FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
1884
It happened to me again to be put at the head of the Massachusetts
delegation in the convention of 1884. The leading candidates
were Mr. Blaine and President Arthur. Mr. Arthur had, in
many respects, made a very satisfactory President. He was
a man of pleasant manners and skilled in the subtle ways of
New York politicians. He had been one of the chief representatives
of a faction in the Republican Party, and he never seemed
able to shake off the influences which had surrounded him
before his election. At a dinner shortly after he was chosen
Vice-President, he made an apparently approving allusion to
what he called the use of soap, which was understood to mean
the use of money for corrupt purposes.
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