Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-26
[Feom the Wheeling Register.]
The Ohio Radical COuyentit

The ticket and platform OF the Radical
party in Ohio will be found in another col
umn. In the Convention just held at Co.
lumbus the Presidential pipe-layers were
quite numerous. The Chase men and the
| Grant men and the Wade men were all out
in force, and some alarm was at one time
| felt, lest unfortunate collisions and quar-
rels might result from their well meant
efforts in behalf of their respective favor
ties.
The organization of the Convention was
the result of q compromise. Schenck was
made Chairman, with the distinct under
standing that the selection was not tri-
umph for either side in the Presidential
ISSUE" The platform also bears evidence
of concessions for the sake of harmony"
The "ifs," "buts," and proviso lodges are
the chief characteristics of the document.
1t is wordy, wishy-washy and obscure
Almost every point is hidden in a bewild-
ering maze of superfiuous words; every
| important enunciation is prefaced or fol-
lowed by lengthy string of apologetic
qualifications, as If the authors appreciated
the insult they were offering to public
sense and decency, and felt the need of
elaborate excuses. So far as we are able
to decipher it, the platform, reduced to
English, is about as follows:
The first resolution declares "that the
American people are nation, and not
merely confederacy of sovereign and in
dependent States"
The second indorses the Declaration of
Independence, and then attempts to make
| that document responsible for the Emanci-
patton Proclamation, the Constitutions al
Amendment abolishing slavery, and the
Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congress. 1t
tacitly admits that the latter arrangements
cannot stand on their merits, and tries to
hold Jefferson, the Democratic author of
the Declaration, accountable for them
Failing in this, it calls for additional leg
islation," meaning thereby the Sumner
Wilson suffrage bill.
The third is a regular teetotum resolution,
spinning over the whole surface of the po-
litical board, showing a new face with
every turn, and finally settling down with
first exhibit is plainly in favor of State
sovereignty; the second is as plainly in
favor of unlimited Federal supremacy.
Another revolution makes display in op-
position to Capitalization, and then the
tlnal fiutter rotates local and State SOW
ereignty clear out of sight, and leaves the
despoLism doctrine Enthusiastically devel-
oped.
The fourth resolution makes use of nine
teen lines to say that all the negroes in
Ohio must vote, and that good many of
the white men must not.
The fifth applies an onion to the loyal
eye for the benefit of the soldiers widows
and orphans.
The sixth resolution reminds Sheridan
that he is the Conventions fellow citizen
and will be expected to deport himself ac-
cordingly. This will be hard on Louisi-
ana.
The seventh chloro forms the dissolving
agonies of Governor Cox. With this pro-
found declaration of principles the plat
form ends.
The choice of the ticket is thought to be
favorable indication for General Grant in
the Presidential way. Hayes is said to be
a Grant man, and for this reason his nomi-
nation was not very acceptable to the
friends of Chase. His success is regarded
as proof of Chase's weakness.
With the nomination of this ticket the
canvass in Ohio commences, the Democrats
having placed their nominees in the field
some months ago. The struggle will doubt
less be severe one, but if the Conservative
Republicans were honest enough to oppose
negro suffrage men as they will oppose the
negro suffrage amendment, the election OF
Thurman would be matter about which
there could be no question.