Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-07-02
sPEECH o. GeVERNoR AyIss.

! B. Hayes and inform himof bis nom
ination.
The Governor was introduced just
/ after the reading Of the resolutions,
4 met with a most enthusiastic reception >
1 and addressed the ConEeatlon as Io4-
lows;
1 Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN -
/ The honor conferred upon me by the
/ Convention, ard the very generous and
| hearty way in which il has been done,
/ demand from me a moss grateful and
sincere ackno cement. The approy-
| al of my efforts to discharge my OIL
cial duty implied in your tender of
| denomination is exceedingly welcome
to my feelings, and is accepted, I assure
1 you, with the deepest gratitude.
The circumstances of this occasion
do not permit me to enter upon any ex-
/ tended discussion of the topics belong
/ ing TO the canvass for which we are
/ now preparing. / Will however occu-
py a few Ia inutes of your time in pre-
senting some considerations which it is
my purpose to discuss before the peo-
pie, with more ample details of facts
and figures, during the progress of the
/ cantest.
Twice since the organization of ex-
isting political parties She people OF
Ohio have trusted the law making pow
| er of the State in the hands of the
Democratic party. They hrst tried the
experiment twelve years ago, and such
]
| before they VeDLured BpOn reps t.
| tion OF it. Two years ago in a time o.
| reaction which was general throughout
| the country, the Democratic party by a
/ minority of the popular vote, having
large advantages in the ppOrtiOnment,
obtained complete cgntrol of the Leg
| islatuTe in both of its branches They
came into power proclaihning that the
| past ought to be forgotten that old is
/ sues and divisions should be LAID aside I;
1 that new ideas and new measures re-
| quired attention and they were par
| Jicularly emphatic and earnest in de-
/ claring that the enormous burdens of
debt and taxation, under which the
people were struggling, made retrench-
ment and economy, the supreme duty
Of the hour.
These were their promises, and the
manner in which they were kept is now
/ before the people for their judgment.
Disregarding the we'll known and
solemnIy expressed Nsll of Ohio they
began the business 6f their first session
! by passing fruitless resolutions to re-
send The RATIFICATION of the 14th
amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States.
| They plsced on the Statute book visi-
| bic admixture bills to deprive citizens
/ OF the right of suffrage constitution
/ al rignt long enjoyed and perfectly well
settled by repeated decisions Of the
| highest Court having jurisdtetion Of the
I question.
/ : They repealed the law allowing, after
/ the usual residence, The disabled Rete-
| rams of the Union arIIay to vote in the
| Township in which the National Sol
diers Home is situated, and enacted a
/ law designed to deprive Of the right of
/ suffrage a large number of young men
engaged in acquiring an education at
s'any school, seminary, academy, COL
lPge, university, or other institution of
learning" To prevent citizens who
were deprived of their constitutional
rights by these acts, from obtaining
! prompt relief in the Supreme Court,
/ they passed law prohibiting that
court from taking up causes on it's dock
ct according to its own Judgment of
what was demanded by pub ic justice
in anv case 'teXcept where the person
seeking relief. had been convicted OF
murder in the first degree, or of a
crime the punish ment of which was
/. confinement in the penitentiary.
! I believe it is the general judgment
of the people of Ohio that the passage
of these measures, unconstitutional as
/ some of them are. and unjust as they
all are, was mainly due to the fact that
Il the classes of citizens disfranehised by
/ them do not commonly vote with the
Democratic Party. The Republican
party condemns all such legislation
and demands its repeal.
II On the important subject of suffrage
Gen. Grant, in his Inaugural Message,
expresses the convictions of the Re-
, publican party. He says 'tThe ques-
, ton of suffrage is one which is likely
to agitate the public so long as a pOr-
tion of the citizens Of the nation are
excluded from its privileges in any
State. 1t seems 10 be very desirable
that this question should be settled
now, and / entertain the hope and eX-
press the desire that 1T may be by the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
meut to the Constitution
f During the canvass which resulted in
: the election of the late Democratic
Legislature, the Republicans were
charged with having used $500, 900, rails
t ed for the relief ofsOidiers' families, tC
/ pay the State debt, and this charge was
insisted upon, Notwithstanding a ma
iority of the Democratic members haC
: supported the measure. The idea wa'
: everywhere held out that if the Demo
: cratic party were successful this mOneI
would be restored to the relief fund anf
: and expended for the benefit of tn
i soldiers. The failure to redeem thu
, pledge is aggravated by the fact tina
t the Legislature, by a strictly party v0t
/. IN the Senate, refused TO provide 70
e the support of soldiers, destitute or
: phans at Homes to be esta blished with
+: out expense to the State, by the volun
d tary contributions of patriotic ant
4 charitable people.
Bot of all the pledges upon which th
Z Democratic Party obtained power in b
last Legi islature, the most important an
those i'll regard to which the Just expse
= tations of the people have been mos
IS siguaIIy disappointed, are their pledge
s. in relation tu financial affairs-io ex
q penditure, to debt, and to taxation
y Upon this subject the people are coln
S1 PEELED to feel a very deep interest. Th
81 flush times of war have been followe
g. by a financial reaction, and for the las
y y three or four years the country ha
y been on the verge of a financial crisis
The burdens of taxation bear heavil
upon labor, and upon capital. I'd
Democratic Party, profuse alike of az
cusations against their adversaries, an
of promises of retrenchment and II
. form, were clothed with power to del
with the heaviest part ofthese burden
p viz with the expenditures, debts, a.
sessments and taxes which are autho.
lied by Slate legislation. The result
r. of their Two years of power are no
of in the Goth aud Goth Volumes of II
u Laws of Ohio. Let any Republica
9g diligently study these volumes an
d he will fully comprehend the meanin
an of Job when he said, "Oh, that mir
er adversary had written book" \
y Intelligent man can read CAREFUL
as these volumes, aud note the mum b
0f and character of the laws increasiI
ali the expenses and liabilities ofthe Stat
de and authorizing additional debts ar
or additionsl taxation for city and vIllag
re- IOI COu1!tJ oii' i " - ~ = = rFl = : -
ge hIm that The gentlemen who enactt
he these laws hold to the opinion that Il
e, way to increase wealth is to increa
Nj taxation, and that public debts are pu
lss lie blessings.
When the late Democratic Legislatu
HI cd "a
Ir- HssettAD1SO thSJ ~ iOr AA~ 'A-S VI - = a.
ny ed yearly in ONO Dy taXauon 70 pi
be the intert st on the state and local deb
and tor State and local exppnditur
was $50. .253, ,6l5. "a. This Is At the ra
O almust forty dollars for every vo
- cast IN the state at the last election, al
N eAceees SoFVl' y, " ~ ~ - ~ ~
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