This compromise in reality gave effect to the opinion of the committee, as if they had been a tribunal of arbitration.
Of course they had no authority to enforce their opinion against the objection of either party.
As soon as the nomination of President Hayes was declared in the Convention of 1876, I spent a very busy hour in going about among the delegates whom I knew, especially those from the Southern States, to urge upon them the name of Mr.Wheeler as a suitable person for Vice-President.

I have no doubt I secured for him his election.

Mr.James Russell Lowell was a Massachusetts delegate.

He was a little unwilling to vote for a person of whom he had no more knowledge.

I said to him: "Mr.Lowell, Mr.Wheeler is a very sensible man.
He knows the 'Biglow Papers' by heart." Lowell gave no promise in reply.