Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02

and firm In securing sure untrammeled
( vote may do So lust once at each election. %
without fear of molestasion, prescription
on ,a aee0gnt Of his political faith nstiyiSy or
Executive Mansion. December 6th, 1870,
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.
We had the pleasure of attending
the Second Annual Meeting of the
Ohio. Editorial Association which
met at Akron. on Friday the Esd inst.
On arriving at the depot. the Recep-
ton Committee with carriages were
in readiness to convey tho visitors to
the headquarters, which were in
Goods Commerce Block, q magnili
cent new structure.
As soon as the noon trains were
arrived Wednesday, procession was
formed of the carriages escorting the
Editorial delegation to their head
quarters and the Millersburg and
Akron bands, which marched to Sum
ner's Opera House. where the first
business meeting was held. Here the
convention was called to order by C.
NJ. Nichols, Vice President, who oc
curied the chair in absence of Presi-
dent Emil Rothe. Mr. j.. Fl. Wise
chairman of the Committee of Ar
rangements then introduced j. Park
Alexander. President Of the Akron
City Council. who delivered brief
address as follows:
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
Gentleman Of the Press Of Ohio:
It's in the fuliilment of pleasant
social duty, that appear lefore
you at this early hour of your. first
convocation as tie representative of
our city and citizens, to lid you q
profoundly hearty welcome.
We welcome you both with hands
and hearts, opening wide our doors
and sharing with you the most prec-
ious of all greetings: ''the greetings
of Home" The JOY beneath our
roofs and around our fresides, with
our wives and our families, are offer
ed you in this welcome as partial
recomrense atleastfor the separation
from your own.
z. Coald we have directed when this
Convention should have taken place
here, we should have said let us bide
the coming OF spring: when the very
hills surrounding our city. clothed in
their new robes of yerdure. for 1871
'.should nod you Welcome and our
valleys join US in ''a smile at your
coming.
But that it is otherwise and that
you are here when winter has lain
her icy hand upon US, we shall but
strive the more to make it "a feast of
reason and a flow of SOUL"
We can we com you indoors with
the music of a thousand merry ham
mcrs; the daily ring of which has
brought to tlos who WELD them
competence, and as each recurring
days labor comes 10 close you will
fnd these ST N hard working, intelli
gent, reading mechanics, making
your acquainsance around their own
hearthstones, in the perusal OF the
very papers your iabors have sent
out to US from some distant city.
We shall greet YOU with the whirl of
half an hundred miilstones, the daily
product of which would place in each
of fifteen hundred families, one bar
rel of the wherewlth to make the staff
oflife. $50 es..5.4. ssa
We can greet you with miles Of
standard Reapers and Mowers ready
for the harvest-fields of187l, for the
right to manufacture which the world
pays US tribute as originatofs. Here
We have wrought from the crude ore,
the iron composed in their structure,
producing in all its perfectness that
polished sickle whose keen edge in
our own machines has cut its way to
SO many victories.
Here, too, we make the small chain
and the great cable; and to these we
shall add ere the fight of many days.
our own rubber goods from the mas
sive belt to the useful car spring.
You will pardon an Akronian, gen
tlemen, for referring to our industries
in this brief welcome, when I add as
an apology. ssThey are our sinews,' y
furnishing food for the hungry,
clothes for the naked, brain, muscle
and morals for the workers therein
In. this welcome is rendered to you
the hospitalities of our young city
whose citizens will vie with each
other in their attentions to and care
Of and for you, while you remain witt
ns. We bid you exercise here all the
liberty and freedom you enjoy in your
own households. Briefly, gentlemen
of the Press of Ohio, please consider
while here zsstickets furnished ant
baggage checked through Her
let it be demonstrated that athe Pei
is mightier than the sword and thu
this, your annual meeting, may b
productive of good results ripenin,
into warmest friendship within you
own organisation and reaching ou
into the hearts of our people, bear
ing richer fruit Of another world. &
Let us not forget that your associ
alton meets today in mourning
for it meltsaway by death the name
net answering at roll call here, ar
not silent, nt,forever, and while you
ranks. Are filed BY others, Deaths re
cerding angel has written New Ham
burg" I should do you injustic
should / fail to observe the death 81
ence at the call of George S. Bene
dict. His star has gone out; and i
exchange we have mourning father
mother, wife, children, friends! S
young so hopeful! SO sudden faith
fui christian! true hero! hail an
farewell ;. Others are gone 'sbefor
u.s. one from our own city, NOR
aged, yet leaving vacant chair