The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-06-26
From the Ohio Statesman.
The COnyentiOn-Its Ticketand
its Platform.

From the Ohio Statesman.
The COnyenti0n-Its Ticketand
its Platform.
The Radicals Of Ohio, in State Con-
v%cntion assembled, met in this city on
yesterday and adjourned last evening,
after a prOtracted and stormy session..
The members Of the last Legislature
who came to the city 10 demand that
Justice be done Them, by an endorsement
Of the negro suffrage rcSolution-thus
committing the party to negro voting
we're successful, and, under the name Of
Impartial Loyal Manhood Suffrage" the
negroes are to. be entitled to all the rights
Of the whites. The issue is thus made
negro suffrage is to be the great cues
tion at the polls, and all who hold that
the negro is the equal, If not superior Of
the white race, is expected to vote the
ticket which flies the negro at its head.
The. candidate for Governor, Gen. R.
B. Hayes, of Cincinnati, chosen as the
standard bearer in the contest, is the
right mai in the right place. Meth er
he nor his friends boast of his enlarged
intellect. His record 90 Negro Suffrage
is a good one for the darkies. He voted
for it in Congress, when, against the
wishes and tho protest of the people Of
District of Columbia, it was forced upon
them, and the capital city Of the nation
was given over to the negroes whose
votes controlled the election.
We had hoped that, as the Democratic
party had placed in nomination one Of
its best aud most talented men for Gov.
ernor, that the Republicans would at
least have nominated a man of more than
medium talent, but they fell below it,
If the Republican party admit their nom.
lnee to be a representative man Of the
intellect Of their party, we, on our side,
confidently point to Judge Thurman as
occupying a representative position in
the Democratic party.
The nomination Of Mr.. Galloway, as
Lieutenant Governor, was a sore blow
aimed at that gentleman. With talent
far above that Of tho bead Of tho ticket,
the Office is one he il the least fitted
to fill. The duty assigned to it is more
ornamental than useful aud consists alone
in being the presiding officer of the
State Senate. 1t is expected Of Mr..
Galloway that, in the campaign, he is to
do the duty usually assigned to the head
of the ticket, in delivering stump speech
es throughout Ohio, that Gen. Hayes
may derive benefit therefrom. Mr.. Gal.
loway, although not a military man, nor
bred to the art Of war, still has as much
~pugnacity as falls to the lot of most men,
and the curt answer he gave to the com
mittee, who waited upon him to get him
to give his consent 10 run, show that his
feelings are deeply wounded in thus be-
ing slaughtered in the house of his friends
"a victim to the triumph of ~expediency
over brains.
The balance Of the Ticket is but q re.
hash Of the present imbeciles 10 power.
Gen. Goldman, the chief Of the Board Of
Fund Commissioners, and his aid, w. Fl,
West, who rendered him great service in
filching from the Soldiers Relief Fund
100000 Of the money raised by taxa
ton to support the necessitous families O
those who fell in battle, are again nomin
ated, the former for Auditor Of State
the latter for Attorney General. Col
Brady, whose Office the Auditor ant
Treasurer Of State did their best, tn
' two past winters, to get abolished as use
less, because, perhaps, it iuterferred wit
> their plans, was, against their earnes
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