Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-08-25
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

18th N. j. Turney, Pickaway.
18th 1" w. c. Cooper, Knox.
l4th g John II. Boynton, LOrain
18th j. L. Kessinger, Athens.
18th % j H Barnhill, Tuscarawas
18th /" Hon. j. Dunbar, Jefferson
18th 6 Chas. H. Babock, Cuy'ga
18th " Col j NJ Nash, Mahonine
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention was called to or
der at Il o'clock p. NJ. by Gen. b. F.
Potts, Temporary Chairman.
Mr.. A. b. Buttles, chairman ol
the committee or Permanent organ.
ization, reported for President OF
the Convention, Hon. Samuel Gal
loway, of Franklin county, and one
vice president from each Congress
sional district. A. L. Brinsmaide
of Cuyahoga, Secretary, with the
following assistant secretaries:
Assistant Secretaries-W. S. Tay
lor, Captain A. S. Mcclure, C. j
De Wolf, Herman H. Roschieg, join
T. Raper, III. c. Armstrong, Colone
NJ. Barnes, j. W. Quimby, W. T
Bascom, J. @. A. Campbell and JOIN
Hopley. f
.t..t oRDCP OF pJTSJNEsS .l..lt
1st. Report of committee on ere
dentials. r.a -..a
I'd. Nominations in the following
order: s -..' .H
Secretary of State; Judge of Su
preme Court; Comptroller of the
Treasury; Member of the Board OF
Public Works. ."'..
The report was accepted, the an.
nouncement of Permanent Presi-
dent being received with demonstra
tions of hearty applause.
The President, Vice Presidents
and Secretaries of the Convention
took their places on the stage.
Gen. Potts introduced Mr.. Gal.
loway, who met with enthusiastic
reception.
The following are few extracts
of his remarks: .-a'i
am thankful, my fellow-citizens
and fellow members of this Conven-
tion, to meet you on the present oc.
casion. l have met you in Conven,
tions before, and have become famil,
lar with your faces, and still more
familiar with the glorious principles
which have given celebrity to the
name and fame of the Union party
of Ohio. [Applause.] I consider
that it is one of the proudest dis
tinctions of my life that l have been
permitted to be identified with the
party that has made itself so illus.
trious by its advancement in free
dom and civilization.
We occupy to-day a more promi-
nent position than we did ten years
ago; for then we could only bear the
milk of the doctrine of human
rights; now We are vigorous and
sustained by the strong meat of the
principles of liberty and equality.
have only time at present to
briefly advert to what has occurred
during the past year since last we
met together. l congratulate you
ON the fact that the administration
elected last year have honestly and
conscientiously discharged their du-
ty. They are bright examples OF
the power and purity of the Repub-
lean party.
Our legislature the fullest expo
Eent of the sentiments of the party,
commands our confidence and our
commendation. The last legisla-
ture forms striking contrast with
the preceding legislature in the
economical administration of the
finances of the State of Ohio; and
it rises far above it in the significant
fact, that to the last Legislature we
owe the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. [Applause. The
preceding Democratic Legislature
consigned it, as they supposed, to
the grave, but in the Providence of
God the people of Ohio bid it come
fnrtn, and at the last Legislature it
came forth with its resurrection
dress on, in the beauty of the ac-
complished principles of the Repub-
lican party. Then ] say so far as
our Representatives are concerned
in the State of Ohio, we have great
reason to be grateful that we have
been permitted to elect men who
have so fully and faithfully repre-
sented the principle of our party.
One year ago there were four OF
the insurrectionary States yet unre-
stored; now they have been restor-
ed, and every star upon Qnr banner
now represents State in The Union.
To the Republicans you owe this
achievement. Congress has reduced
the National debt. President Grant
compares brilliantly in this respect
with his predecessor. In the first
sixteen months of Grants admins
tratiOn he collected some thirty
millions more of internal revenue
than was collected by MIR. Johnson
i'm his administration. About nine
teen millions more were collected in
the first six months of Grants adj
ministration than in the last six
months of JOhnson's. During
Johnson's administration but two
millions were paid in reduction of
the public debt. In the siKtnpp
months of Grants administration
$14O,0OO,O00 of the public debt were
paid, and in the same time no in
crpaSa nf tho Suhihcts for which tay