Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20
Grant and Wilson.

Grant and Wilson.
For the third time in the history of the
Republican party, it's nomination to the
Presidency has been made by reclamation.
For the third time the sentiment of the
rank and file of the party has been so pro-
nounced as to amount to a mandate to
the Conventions; and for the third time
the representatives of the people, in Ma
tional Convention assembled, have con-
tented themselves by simply recording
the will of the masses of the Republican
party, long since emphatically expressed
through the conventions of the several
States.
The nomination of U. S. Grant, by Mr.
Cullom, of Illinois, was received with
demonstrations of unbounded enthusi-
asm; the Convention rose to its feet as
one man; the galleries resounded with the
widest shouts of applause, and the scene
was repetition, on grander scale, of
the ovations upon the occasion of the nom-
ination of Lincoln in 1864, and that of his
own in 1868. 1t was fitting exhibition of
| the majesty of the will of the hosts of the
Republican party, in opposition to the
petty schemes and intrigues of mere poll
| ticians who, like camp followers, hang
| upon the outer verge of political organi-
| cations, seeking to gather the spoils of
victory. No President ever entered upon
the duties of the chief executive Office
with prouder record than that of Pres
ident Grant upon the occasion of his ac-
cession to the Presidency in 1869. No
President has ever been more vilely ira
! duced and no man ever bore more patiently
the shafts of poisoned malice hurled by
malignancy unparalleled in political war
fare. Equally unmoved by the treachery
of pretended friends, and the bitter
denunciation of open enemies, he has
calmly pursued a straightforward course,
with an eye single to the best interests of
the country, and in strict fidelity to his
oath to support the Constitution and per-
form every duty of his high Office accord
ing to the dictates of an enlightened con-
| science. After stormy session of Con-
gress, devoted, by his enemies in the
Senate, to every form of insult and abuse
which ingenuity could devise, it must be
a source of supreme satisfaction to him
again to receive the emphatic indorse-
ment of the Republican party of the
nation, and to be once more called to lead
the party of progress and reform to vic
tory. Modestly as he accepted the
honors showered upon him by grateful
country, in return for his distinguished
services at the head of the armies of the
Union, unostentatiously as he has borne
so with equal honor to himself and credit
| to the nation will he receive this new
testimonial of the continued confidence
and esteem of the American people. The
denomination of U. S. Grant will be
received by the country, as that of Lin
coin was in 1864, as his first nomination
was in 1868, with enthusiasm, with solid
satisfaction, and accepted as guarantee
of degree of peace and prosperity like
that enjoyed during the last three years.
| For the second place on the ticket our
| choice was Schuyler Colfax. We believed
him, after Grant, the strongest man with
the people in the country. We still be
lieve so. We believe his friends did him
an injustice in forcing him into the cam
paign against his repeated expressions of
a desire to retire from it, and from public
life. This being the strong desire of Mr..
Colfax, the only regret we feel is, that he
has been placed in an apparently false
position. But, willing, as he always has
been, and is, to sacrifice every personal
consideration to the good of the country,
he will be the first to congratulate Henry
Wilson, of Massachusetts,, upon his
deserved success before the Convention; !;
and his services in the campaign will be
as hearty and unremitting as those of any
other man in the ranks of the Republican
party. In setting aside Mr.. Colfax and
selecting Mr.. Wilson, the Convention paid
a well-merited compliment to one of the
ablest and purest men in the nation. No
man has been more faithful or conscien-
tious in support of the great principles
upon which the Republican party is
founded; no man has labored more ear
nestly for the equal rights of all before
the law; no man has been a more con-
sistent or indefatigable advocate of the
1 -, &c h. 1ah al - he
country than Henry Wilson, of Massa-
chusetts. His private character is as pure
as that of Mr.. Colfax; his fidelity to prin-
ciple is as far above question as that of
the martyred Abraham Lincoln, and his
public record is unsullied by single de-
Election from the path of conscientious
duty. In Grant and Wilson as standard
bearers, we have the West and the East, a
combination as invincible as that of Grant
and Colfax in 1868.
The resolutions are models of perspi-
cacity, force, brevity and directness. They
renew the pledge of the party to the per-
fection of the system of civil service re-
form already inaugurated; insist that the
spirit of the recent amendments to the
Constitution shall be carried out; commit
the party to policy of peace with for
eign nations; condemn the further grant
of public lands to corporations; advocate
the abolishment of internal revenue, ex-
cept upon spirits and tobacco; favor the
adjustment of duties to aid in securing
remunerative wages to labor and promot-
ing the industries, prosperity and growth
of the whole country; recommend that
the further bounty of the Government
should be extended to the soldiers and
sailors of the late war; defend the Amer
ican doctrine of naturalization; advocate
the abolition of the franking privilege;
support the early resumption of specie
payments; approve the late action of
Congress on the subject of amnesty, also
its Ku-Klux legislation; insist that the
rights reserved to the States must be re-
spected; and finally express confidence in
the modesty, patriotism, earnest purpose,
sound judgment and practical wisdom of
President Grant.
With ticket which powerfully appeals
to the country, through its high character
for tried ability and unquestioned patriot
ism, upon the issues made up in the plat
form, the Republican party will go before
the people proud of its candidates, strong
in its principles, and confident of a tri-
umph only equaled by those of 1864 and
1S6S.-Chicdgo Inter Ocean.