Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1893 — “THB OLD GUARD.” [ARTICLE]

“THB OLD GUARD.”

Oyer two hundred survivors of the famous 306 that, under the lead of Roscoe Conkling, voted for General Grant in Chicago in 1880, and remained truo to their candidate even when beaten by the combination that secured the nomination of General Garfield, held tlieir reunion at Philadelphia, Tuesday. Ex-Vice President Morton presided at the banquet at night. A census of those composing the “Old Guard,” as they were termed, developed the fact that seventy of the original 306 have died.