There weren't many candidates fitting that description.
Us sheriff candidates have to practice.
Candidates must have passed their sixtieth year, i.e.
Though votes were often cast for ten names, there were but two real candidates before the convention, Grant and Blaine.
An excited controversy having arisen about the result of the balloting in the states of South Carolina, Florida, Oregon and Louisiana, the two parties in Congress in order to allay a crisis dangerous to public peace agreed to pass an act referring all contested election returns to an extraordinary commission, called the "Electoral Commission" (q.v.), which decided each contest by eight against seven votes in favour of the Republican candidates.