The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-03-02
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.


. some seventy or eighty i'll number
Upon the arrival OF the trains in the
morning, the members of the iraterni-
ty were met by citizens of the Sum-
nit CITY, with carriages, and pro-
cessien was formed and, preceded by
Marbles Banj. in splendid new uni
forms, and the Millers5argh Band,
were escorted to Goods magnificent
Commercial Block, which was head
quartcts for ihe occasion. la the af-
ternoon the Convention was called TO
order, at Summers Opera Honse, by
C, NJ. Nichols. of the Springfield
Republic, the President of the Asso-
citation, 8Ir. Emil Roth, being absent.
Dir. j. III. Wise, chairman of the
committee of arrangements, then in
troduced j. Park Alexander, President
of the Akron City Council, whe well
coined the representatives. in the fol-
lowing brief and eloquent address:
GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS OF OHIO /:
1t is in the fullfilment of a pleasant
social duty, that appear before you
at this early hour of your first convo-
cation, as the representative of our
city and citizens, to bid you pro-
1 foundly hearty welcome. We well
come both with hands and hearts,
opening wide our doors, and sharing
with You that most precious of all
greetings, " the greetings of home" "
The joys beneath our roofs aud around
our firesides with our wives and our
families are offered to you in this
welcome, as partial recompense at
least for the separation from your own.
Could we have directed when this
convention should have taken place
we should have said, let US bide the
coming of spring, when the very hills
surrounding our city, clothed in their
new robes oPverdure for 1871, should
nod you a welcome, aud our valleys
| join us in g smile at your coming"
| But, that it is otherwise, and that you
are here when winter has laid her icy
| hand upon us, we shall but strive the
more to make it "feast of reason
and flow of SOUL"
We can welcome you indoors with
the music of a thousand merry ham,
mers, the daily ring of which has
brought to those who WELD them a
competence, and as each recurring
days labor comes to a close you will
find these same hard-working, intelli-
gent, reading mechanics making your
acquaintance around their own hearth
stones in the perusal of the very pa
pers your labor have sent out to us
from some distant city. We shall
greet you with the whirl of half an
hundred millstones, the daily product
of which would place in each of fif-
teen hundred families one barrel of
the staff of life. We can greet you
with miles of standard reapers and
mowers ready for the harvest fields of
1871, for the right to manufacture
which the world pays us tribute as
originators. 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 flight of many days,
our own rubber goods, from the
massive 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, They are our sinews"-I
furnishing food for the hungry, clothes
for the naked, brains, muscles 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 attention and care for you. 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, g Tickets furnished and baggage
checked through" for we sincerely
hope your annual meeting may be
productive of good results, ripening
into warmer friendship within your
own organization, and reaching out
into the hearts of our people. bearing
rich fruit of another world. Here let
it he demonstrated that % The pen is
mightier than the sword. Y our asso-
citation meets III mourning, tor it melts
away by death. The names not an
swering at roll call here to-day are
not silent forever, and while their
ranks are filled by others, the Record |
ing Angel has written New Ham
burg"
should do you injustice did l fail
W ODsOIf6 inc SilciiCC W YOU
called the name of George S. Benedict
His star has gone out aud i'll exchange
we have mourning father, mother,
hopeful, faithful christian, true hero,
hail and farewell! Others are gone
before us-one from our own city,
more aged, yet leaving a vacant chair
in your organization. With tear for
the mast dead LET ia
g Act in the living present.
Heart within and God o'eIhead.'
In conclusion, gentlemen, let me
bid you thrice welcome, and while
you are with us be of Us. Then in
deed, we shall have "met upon the
levels" we can :" part upon the square"
To which Mr.. Nichols briefly re-
sponded in behalf of the Convention,
rendering thanks to the authorities and
citizens of Akron for their proffered
hospitality.
The roll of members was called and |
56 members were found to be in at
tendance.
On motion an opportunity was Of
fered to the members of the press in
attendance to become members of the
Association by subscribing their
names and paying the initiation fee of
81 and number of new names were
added to the roll.
s On motion. w. T. Bascom. Mt. YER
non; John S. Heatun, St. Clairville
Geo. w. Washburn, Elyria J. Q. NJ.
Campbell, Bellfontaine; S. L. Everett,
Akron; were appointed committee
to arrange business for the Conven-
ton.
On motion, Joshua Saxton, Urbana,
and A. McGregor, Canton, were ap-
pointed temporary Vice Presidents.
Whereupon, on motion the Conven-
ton adjourned to two o'lock, p. IN.
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