Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-08
State Convention.
10 The RepuJlican Toters Of Ohio

10 the RepHCticdp Foters Of Ohio.
At a meeting of our State Central and
Executive Committees in the .Seuate
Chamber, at the Capitol, at which were
present, by invitation, the officers of, the
state Government, the Union members
OF the State Legislature, and prominent
and influential Union citizens from var;-
Gus portions of the State, twas resolved
to hold the Annual State. Conye, ton OF
the party at Columbus, en "Wednesday,
the 4th day of March, 1868. ,.. t-.- nj
| This Convention will make nomina-
tions of candidates on the State ticket for
the following officers, viz: i5u.4.. ,-.t
Secretary of State. .,..s..p4.. rf,7.. 4.
! Judge Of the Supreme Court. F.
Commissioners of Common Schools. A,
Clerk Of the Supreme Court. ,,l, h.. .-..
Members of the BOARD of Public Works.
. The Convention will also make choice
OF four delegates. at large to the National
Republican Convention, to assemble at
Chicago, May 30, 1868, TO nominate can
1idates for President and Vice President
OF the nited States, at the ensuing Pres
idential election. , -, a-e ste..- -. -.
The Convention will also nominate two
electors at large for President and Vice
President, and transact such other busi-
ness rs may come before it. iir,s.s .ts5
| The Committee would recommend
that lie meetings in the several counties
for the election of delegates be held on
Saturday, February %; and that, if the
several county meetings so desire, they
select their delegates with view to the
appointment of district delegates to the
National Convention, from their several
districts, when they shall meet at the
State Convention at Columbus. aIi5
/ he basis of representation, in this
Convention, has been determined to be
one delegate for every four hundred votes
cast for Governor Hayes in 1867, and an
additional delegate for any fraction of
two hundred votes and upwards, in each
county,. sas 80. gaf; ..'.tl i.oss bis
The vote, and delegations of the 10Th
| District are as follows: -~ .. ...G &c.
.AShtabula, 5,06l votes. 13 delegates :;
Geauga. :, ,454 votes, 6 delegates; 1Iahon1
ing, 2,S98 votes, : delegates Portage,
3,342 votes, s delegates; Truhbull, T.
525 votes, l delegates! ed
/ The attention of the Republicans of
Ohio is most earnestly invited to this call,
in the hope that it will receive their
prompt attention. 'n. l i.-.'.' ..sr
| The campaign of 1868, in the issues it
involves, is one of the most, if not the
most. important we have ever been called
upon" to engage in. Manv'of. the ques-
tions growing out of the war are unset-
tied. Their proper settlement depends
entirely on the Republican party, and our
defeat in this campaign will be the sur.
render of'the Government into the hands
OF the party which brought on the war
Shall the destructive policy of that party
again become the policy of the nation o.. ].
We must Judge oar opponents not by
their present professions alone, but by
their past actions. The same Influence
hich in 1861 precipitated the rebellion,
and for four years waged a reasonable
war, still rules its councils, and will shape
is policy should it return to power In
! illustration of this, we have the action of
the majority in the present General As
sembly, in resembling the ratification of
the Constitutional Amedment and the
proposed instructions to our members of
Congress to vote for the repeal of tie
Reconstruction acts "i ~.''-.'At '-..'.-
We must hove patience in the labor of
Reconstruction. 1t is not the work of a
day. The Vaccinations of 3 perfdious
Executive, aided by a powerful and de-
termined party, largely composed of5de-
feated rebels,f have served to delay the
execution of the wishes of the loyal ma
jority of the country, but cannot prevent
it if we are as faithfult to our trtistin the
future as we have been in the past. la]sH
Reverses may meet us in the execution
of our policy Dow, as they did during the
war, but they must not cause us to falter
in the course marked out. Rather should
they nerve us to renewed energy and
more determined effort. ..az1.. g. - r-.ai
The result of last falls election has been
most happily modified by the recent glo-
rious victory won by the galant1Repub-
licans of the Eighth District. Let their
spirit animate all, the Districts, and the
campaigns of 1868 will be as cheering in
its results as those of / lSs3 and 1864 ro
-.f.s ,tt4"B. r. CowEN, Chairman
A Washington special says il, has been
current here for a week or two. that the
President had gone so far in his determip-
alton not to recognize Stanton, that he
had actually issued. IAN order to Gen.
Grant forbidding him to obey any orders
received from the Secretary Of War.
| This turns out to be true. and il is also