The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-06-08
The Republican State Convention
aud its Ticket

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IS, its principal doings we're faly arranged and
and provided for on Wednesday, the first o.
Tune. The managers from a distance met the
Central Junto here on Wednesday, and before
night fl Of that day the fate Of Judge Swan was
decided, aRd that decision acguiesoed in by
Thomas Corwin and others who protested to
come up here for another purpose. Chase, Gid
dings & Co. had determined that Swan must
lie defeated for his manly vindication OF the
Constitution in the Bushnell and Langston case
and Corwin not only acquiesced, but was as fn-
rIouS for it as either Giddings or Chase. II
Corwin had resisted the wicked designs of Chase
and GI3Ehg. Judge Swan could not have been
deleEtsd. Buth e shamefully betrayed the prin.
ciT3cS he protested to come here as a delegate,
to defend, threw himself readily into the arms
Of Giddings, and opposed no resistance whatev-
er to the efforts that were made to overthrow
Swan. Well might Old Joshua declare as he
did in the body OF the Convention on Thursday
Corwin to his embrace, which at the same he
did, exclaim, "Now Lord let thy servant de-
part in peace" The Convention was taken
captive by the higher lao gentlemen of the Re-
publican party, and Corwin and his conserva-
tive squad were handled like children.
William DenniSon, ir., was nominated for
Governor. He made his peace with Giddings
when the latter was here in April, wrote a
sympathizing letter to the traitors meeting at
Cleveland, is the heir apparantto Chase's stool
(if he can get it, the ~favorite of the Central
Junto, and therefore was successful. The quail
~iications of Mr.. Dennison for a statesman. not
having been developed, are mere matters OF
speculation. He is an agreeable gentleman,
with very moderate talents and destitute of the
necessary force of character requisite for the
Chief Executive Officer of the Safe. 1t is rare,
we think, that any mans name has been con-
nected with the office Of Governor who presents
so few proper traits of character for the station.
Mr.. Dennison is the pet and ~favorite of the spe-
ciaI privilege class, and has been ever since his
first settlement in Columbus. His property
hH wv NA"hJ "bfhilCu lilpu2i pIOScNN ildI
services ofa certain grade for corporations, and
through dividends on their stocks. He has
been complicated with the old Clinton Bank
and other similar matters, also the Trust Com
pany aft ,irs, and is up to his eyes in the-mys-
~terieS Of Railroading in Ohio, a science by which
the stockholders grow poor and a few men have
very rich pirkings. Mr.. DEM iSon is one of
those who has been salaried by Railroads for a
number of years. He is decidedly opposed to
the Homestead plank in the Platform Of the
Convention, and in favor of giving the Public
Lan1s away to Railroad Companies. and is now
one of a Mammoth Concern which was organ
led at Omaha City in 1857, with a nominal
cap tai Of some eighty millions Of dollars, and
the design of which is to absorb the public lands
from the eastern boundary of Nebraska to the
Rocky Mountains, as a splendid Railroad grant.
We did not know that the nominee for Lieu
tenant Governor lived in Ohio. He went to
Minnesota two years ago, and we supposed he
was there yet; but it seems he was not smart
enough to get along out there, and having fail
ed in his plans in that new State, he returns to
OHIO, and presto, before mis- ~neighbors know
that he is here he is a candidate for Lieuten.
ant Governor.
The nominee for the Supreme Judgeship is a
gentleman of legal qualifications and very fair
talents. Judge Gholson has been esteemed a
gentleman Of a very high sense of honor, but
many, no doubt, will be disposed to Judge of
in this respect, according to his conduct in
accepting or declining this nomination.
Mr.. Taylor, of Mohoning, on whom the NOM
ination for Auditor of State was bestowed, is a
pleasant gentleman, who has proved by his Of
fetal acts here, as a Senator, that he is not
qualified for the responsible trust. He was on
a committee that investigated the State Treas
ury while Gibson was in that Office, and when
it was bankrupt, but before the d. dedication was
known to the public. Mr.. Taylor reported the
money all in the Treasury, all safe and all right;
when, in fact, there was none there, to VIII ich
fact Mr.. Gibson has since testified. We NAV
say, therefore. that Mr.. Taylor is not qualified
for State Auditor, 1t being one Of the duties of
that officer to examine the Treasury periodical
ly.
Mr.. Stone was re-nominated for State Treas
urer. He was of course the ~favorite ofthe Gen.
trail Junto, Gov. Chase's right bower, and hav-
ing with Dennison united with Giddings & Co.
to defeat Swan, he stood almost without compe.
fifinp Tho oolu cnoo;,I o,oJ.G,u L. L..
exhibited since he came Treasurer, is a ready
willingness to violate the law, and pay money
out of the Treasury in defiance oft.
The present Secretary Of State, Mr.. A. P.
Russell, seems to have united the Convention in
his favor, and j. no doubt a respectable officer.
He must, however. have s.gorln allegiance to
Giddings, or his fate would have been similar
to Judge Swans.
The present School Commissioner, Rev. An
son Smyth, was also re -nominated. The Gin
C matt Gozette had admonished the Convention
that Mr.. Smyth was not a suitable man, and
charged that there was some of his official acts,
to which we will have occasion hereafter to re.
fer, which were not consistent with honesty and
fairness. How the matter was arranged we can
not now say, and must hereafter Seek for the
causes that led to his nomination while the
charges ofthe Grzete were hanging over him.
MIR. Gregory, who was nominated for the
Board OF Public Works, appears to be a pleas
ant young gentleman, without the ability and
experience to take charge o. such important in.
terests az are committed to a member Of the
Board Of Public Works. The present Board
did not regard him as qualified for the Engi.
n.er Ola Div sion, and removed him from that
post some thirteen months since. That iact