The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-03
OHIO POLTTIw.

Preparations across the River for the
PresidentIal Campaign..-Cnll for a
state Convention at COIUmbns ON
the 4th OF March.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee have called a Convention 10
meet at Columbus on the 4th of March
next, to nominate candidates for Secre.
tary of State, Judge OF Supreme Court.
Commissioners of Common Schools.
Clerk of Supreme Court and members
of the Board of Public Works. The
Convention will also nominate. four
delegates at large to the Chicago Con-
vention, and also two electors at large
for the Presidential ticket. The Com
mittee recommend that county meet
ings for the purpose of choosing dele
gates to the Convention be held on Sat.
urday, February 22d, and that
If the several county meetings SO de-
sire, they select their delegates with a
view to the appointment of district del
egateS to the National Convention, from
their several districts, when they shall
meet at the State Convention at Colum-
bus. &,
The basis of representation, in this
Convention, has been determined to be
one delegate for every four hundred
votes cast for Governor Hayes in 1857.
and an additional delegate for any
fraction of two hundred votes and up
wards, in each county.
Under this arrangement our neigh
bor, Belmont county, gets 9delegates,
having cast S,419 votes for Hayes; JEFF
ferson county, delegates; Monroe
county, 8; Noble county, 8.
In their address, to the Republican
voters of Ohio, the Committee says:
"The campaign of 1868, in the issues
1t itinVolves, is one of the most, If not the
most important we have ever been call
ed upon to engage in. Many of the
questions growing out of this war are
unsettled. Their proper settlement
depends entirely on the Republican
party, and our defeat in this campaignj
Will be the surrender of the Govern
ment into the hands ofthe party which!
brought on the war. Shall the destructl
i've policy of that party again become
the policy of the nation2
We must judge our opponents not by
their present professions alone. but by
their past actions. The same influence
which in 1851 precipitated therebellion,
and for four years waged a treasonable
war, sttll rules its councils, and will
shape its policy should it return to pow
er. In illustration of this, we have the
action of THE majority in the present
General Assembly, in resembling the
ratification of the Constitutional
Amendment and the proposed instruc-
ttons to our members OF Congress to.
vote for the repeal of the Reconstruc-
'tlon acts.
We mustIhave patience in the labor
OF Reconstruction. It is not the work
OF a day. The mRchinations of a per-
hdious Executive, aided by powerful
and determined party, largely COM
posed of defeated rebels. have served
to delay the execution of the wishes of
the loyal majority of the country, but
cannot prevent it ii we.are as faithful
to our trust in the future as we have
been in the past.
Reverses may meet us in the execu-
ton of our policy now, as they did d u
ring the war, but they must not cause
US to falter in the course marked out,
Rather should they nerve us to renew
ed-energy and more determined fort.
The result of last fall's election has
been most happily modified by the re.
cent glorious victory won by the gall
liant Republicans of the Eighth Dis
trict. Let their spirit animate all the.
districts, and the campaign of 1858 will
be as cheering in its results as those of
1858 and 1864.