Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-25
AboIition stnte Convention.

The State Convention to elect delegates
for the State at large to Mr.. LINCoLN's Bal
timore Convention, and to nominate an
Abolition State ticket, meets at the theatre
in this city to-day. The town was full of
the politicians of the dominant party last
night, and the unclean political cauldron
over which they preside seethed and bub-
bled about the hotels and street corners to
the exclusion of all other topics or business.
The chief business of the convention is to
select the proper men to cast the vote OF
Ohio for LINCOLN in the Baltimore Con-
vention, alongside the vote of Florida, South
Carolina and the other "rotten boroughs,"
purchased by Mr.. LINCOLN with the blood
Of our soldiers and the tears of their friends.
The applicants to this distinguished honor
are numerous, and prominent among them
arc Ex-Goyernors DENNIsoN and TOD, Sen
ators WADE and SHERMAN, the retired mill
tary heroes GARFIELD and ScHENCK, and
the Hon. SAM. GALLOWAY. Considering the
simplicity of the duties to be performed,
the array of regulations in search of this
position is something remarkable.
For the State offices to be fillec the candi-
dates are multitudinous. In the list of forty
or fifty patriots we observe many familiar
names-names which periodically turn up
in connection with political nominations
For Supreme Judges, WHITE, WILDER and
DAY are the most prominent and will e
nominated. For Attorney General there are
a dozen candidates-more or less-among
them Honorable WILLIAM STANTON, Repre-
sentative from Hamilton, who shed the daz-
cling light of his legal genius upon the
muddy deliberations of the House Judicia-
~ Committee. TO muddle the obscure,
and obscure that which is lucid, WILLIAMS
the most senseless and fit man that could be
nominated. He is the same forensic genius
who enunciated the doctrine that "as the
people elected Representatives, and the
people were higher power than the Con-
stitution, the Representatives were above
the Constitution and were not bound by its
provisions II that flash of judicial wis
dom is insufficient to secure WILLIAM the
nomination then genius is not appreciated,
and williams learning deserves to go a.
begging.
For Secretary of State, candidates are
plenty. Among them are Kaga, Cole, G.
/. YOUNG, STEWART, and VIM. HENRY
SMITH, the lively little Secretary to the
Governor. Mr.. SMITH, appears to have
the ainside track and the only difficulty
is that he and STANTON are both from Ham
ilton county, and 1t is thought both cannot
be nominated. One or the other must be
thrown over board, but as SMITH has got all
the brains and STANTON all the hair-oil and
neck-tie, il is believed that the Convention
in its wisdom win select-STANToN.
For the other offices the applicants are so
numerous that the memory of man cannot
grasp them all. Father THRAIL OF the
Express is after the comptrollership and is
putting towards the goal of hot race with
q dozen others. His merits are conspicuous;
he appears to have organized the "Strong
Band, apparently for no other purpose than
to seize on tho offices and prosecute the war
by punctually drawing fat salaries at home.
In this patriotic enterprisehe is ably assist
eddy OF CoLE, ct al; but o. Cole particulars
Iy. In fact Cole viii accept almost any
Office that may be given him-he is not par
ticular. He may be described as waiting
at the door of the convention for favor
with his mouth open, like bird waiting for
q worml
In this state Of affairs the Convention
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