The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-16
Ts.PoI;tjcaI Canvass in Ohio.

The following arJlcle gu InS oleuo'iOu
in Ohio is from the Cincinnati Enquirer OF
June 18th:
On the ODD of June the Republican
State Convention assemblies in Column
bus. 1t will undoubtedly renomlnate
Governor Hayes for rejection, although
there is a strong feeling against him in
the wool-growing aud sheep,rai1lng
counties of the State. As is well known,
he favored such a modification OF the
tariff as TO re nder the production of wool
very improbable in this Western sec
tion. In the course of his career he has
been devoted to black rather than white
wool. With Hayes, we presume, others
of the present Republican State officers
will be renominated.
The Democratic State Convention
meets at Columbus July z, now lessthan
a month distant. 1t is high time that
the note of preparation was heard in the
various counties, and that public opin-
ion was concentrated upon the gentle
man who, we fondly hope, is to bear the
Democratic standard in triumph at the
next election. Much will depend upon
the choice of the delegates to the State
Convention. They should be all men of
sense. looking to victory as the aim OF
our efforts, aud willing to make any sac
rifice, short Of principle, FOR success. The
Democracy want men who Wall represent
the present and the future-not the dead
past. The party can not DO sacrlhced
upon the altar of pride,or antlquatedah
venerable resentmepts. Political organ
izations should take the same measures
to secure success that an individual does
in ordinary business life. 1t is an old,
but true, adage that politics sometimes
makes us associate with strange bed
fellows; but, nevertheless, III the tide
of human vicissitudes, We must accept
them.
1t is highly important that we should
carry the next elections for Governor IN
Ohio and Pennsylvania. We already
have the Governor of New York, and the
addition of the two other largest States
would give us immense power IN the eX-
ecutiye councils Of the country. Its
moral effect upon public opinion wouid
also be very great. We believe that II
ordinary discretion and prudence gov
ern the assemblage at Columbus on the
9TH of July, it carname the successor of
Governor Hayes, and be Installed In
Mace of power where il can continue tor
wears. The gates should not be barred
against the admission Of new converts,
or any rules adopted, or nominations
made, looking to their Ostracism.
The election of Democratic LegIsla.
ture is even more important than that
of Governor We can not too strongly
impress upon our Democratic friends the
duty of selecting in every case, partlcu-
larIy in all close and doubtful counties,
the most popular men that can be found
to accent. 1t was by this procedure that
we carried the last Legislature. The APP
nortiounent under the Floats" for the
next Legislature, is somewhat against
M Int il can be overcome in the manner
we have suggested. The next LogiSla'
ture has no United States Senator ia
elect, it is true, but IL will have still
more important duty, that OF dlStrlctIng
the State for Congressman for the ten
wears after 1870. We have already sui
fered enough by partisan and traudu'
lent apporlionmeut, which gives the De-
mocracy few, if any, representatives pro-
portiOnate to their numbers, to induce
them to SCARE no efforts in this behalf.
The main issues this fail will be the same
as they were in loG7-the greenback and
negro suffrage. Subordinate to these are
the defeat by the Republicans of the Nor
gan claims in Southern Ohio, and the in
jury of the wool. growers in the Northern
section of the State. These outside and
extraueous issues will assist the Democ-
racy, aud if they do not generally carry
their tickets this fall, it will be because
they do not act with the requisite pru-
dsnce and discretion.