The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-05-29
REPUBLICAN STATE C0NYEN-
TI0N.
A POPULAR TICKET NOMINATED.
An UumlstakabIe Platform.
a GOOD DAYS WORK.

one Of tile largest in the cOuntry-Was
not filled at the hour of meeting, but
the assemblage was eminently re-
spectacle, and embraced nearly all
the leading members of the party in
Ohio. l understand that the dele
gates embraced, in a greater degree
than perhaps ever before, a represent
alton of all classes of Ohio people.
Lawyers, farmers, merchants, me-
ehanics--all were there and all mani
tested a sober, orderly, and interested
department, which is peculiarly char
acteristic of Republican conventions.
Gen. G. G. Walcutt, Chairman of
the State Executive Committee, call
ed the convention to order.
After prayer by the Rev. J. II.
Gardner, of Bigelow Chapel, J. 4.
Updegraff, of Jefferson, was an
nOunced as temporary Chairman of
the convention, and made the follow
ing speech:
SENATOR UPDEGRAFF's SPEECH.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION:
l thank you for this great honor of
presiding over an assembly like this.
But realizing that the fitness of the
occasion will justify me in claiming
only moment of your time, / pass
at once from what is personal to the
duty and purpose that brought us
! here.
The representatives of the Republi-
can party gathered here to-day do not
come to ina1gurate any new policy
or announce any new principles.
They come to reaffirm with increased
confidence those that Justice and pat
riotism adopted in the foundation of
the party; that wisdom and exper-
ienee have abundantly confirmed,
and upon which the people, clothed
with the majesty of power, have,
year aftersyear, set the approving seal
of their continued and abiding trust
| [Applause,
Every party has its character writ
ten ia its history. The Republican
party has glorious record of great
principles, wondrOus triumphs. and
An unmatched history from which to
draw inspiration for fresh efforts.
Under its guidance our eountry's his
tory was made luminous with valOr
and devotion in defense of an impe-
| riled nationality, and preserved by it,
| our Union thus became an unchange-
able, an indestructable, and, human
| ly speaking, an immortal thing.
And now, in peace, under the same
party, by commerce revived; by in
dustry developed; by confidence re-
| stored; by the Inauguration for the
whole world ofa new era of peaceful
| international arbitration; by an In
dian policy full of wisdom as 1t Is of
humanity, which time will soon vim
| dicate; by whole race freed and en-
| franchised; by magnanimity to van
| quished foes unmatched in all history;
by the map of empire unrolled; by JUS
tice enthrOned everywhere, our cOun-
| try stands before the world to-day
more illustriOus than in the hundred
| triumphs and all the trophied glOries
of her gathered armies. Applause. ]
A fresh conflict and another success |
await it. To-day it here gathers its
| tried and trusted veterans of our own
State to choose their leaders for q new
! campaign of victories. Its pledges re-
1 deemed, its principles accepted by its |
foes, no sham "departureD stains its
honor, no decOy banner mOcks its fol-
lowers. With party thus founded
in the right, thus strong in the peO-
pies confidence, thus educated in vic
| tory, against an enemy schOOled to
defeat, and bankrupt in everything
bat the reckless audacity of hope, who
can doubt the issue of the contest ?
We shall triumph, for we are stick
| ing for the right. We shall triumph,
because we are inspired by the noblest
| principles that ever animated a pOlit- |
ical party. We shall triumph be-
4 cause we are faithful to those who, in
the tender words of our Own Lincoln,
"have borne the burden of the battle,
4 n il Ill
because we are faithful to the honor
ed dead, who on stricken fields were
kissed by death and married to i'm
mortality because we are true to the
heritage of the millions of the hereaf-
ter in the teeming future but above
all, we shall triumph because our par
ty has never turned its back on any
public peril, but, trusting the people,
has resOlutely dared to- stake all its
power and anchor all its legislation
on what the great CommOner of Eng
land las so well said is the only safe
principle on which any great national
question can be grounded, 1.-THE basis
of eternal right" Applause
The last few eventfuI and historic
years have given our State a proud
place and commanding influence in
the country. Indeed, Ohio has be-
come the very Thermopyle of every
4 national battle, and bravely have her
/ Spartans held it. But the mission of
our party is not fulfilled. 1t still
presses on to grander heights, to meet
j new issues, and solve new responsible
tiles. Your work this day is full of
eventful interest. Standard bearers,
"duly and truly prepared, worthy and
4 well uua1ifiad - a uyait xyot1r orders Tn
the selection of our candidate for Gov
eTnor, the people have already decid-
ed for us. We have only to embOdy
their sovereign will by formally NOM
mating, without dissent or delay, that
scholar and soldier, that safe states
men and spOtless executive, a man of
the peOple-EdWard F. Noyes. Inn
mense applause. And the absolute
unanimity of the choice, and this
Spontaneous enthusiasm, is an earn
est that the nomination will receive
abundant and triumphant ratification
in October. Prolonged applause.
/ Among candidates for other offices
there may be various preferences, but
so worthy are they all that only a
good choice can be made, and when
once decided we shall all feel that we
have succeeded, and that the interest
and honor of our party are safely and
wisely intrusted.
But, fellow Republicans, We are not
here merely to advance the power of
our party, but to maintain its princi-
pies and its hOnOr-tO promote and
subserve p cause. Applause. There
is false wisdom OF the timid and the
weak, which, wearing the alluring
name of "eXpedieucy," is ever ready
to barter for a moments peace the Sc
curity of ages, and to sacrifice to a
moments fear the justice of eternity.
Not under this guidance mas the Re
publican party heretofore triumphed.
1 Applause. Its strength has ever
been its utter trust in the wisdom, the
virtue, and the moral sense of the peO-
pie. When its leaders prove false to
its honor, and are discarded, they are
inpotent to divide and pOweTless to
destroy, for the party has perpetual
succession, not like dynasty, in the
line OF its rulers, but like a republic, in
the line of its masses. They are al
I ways living, and ever present to au-
thOrize its acts and TO give perpetual
and unceasing vitality TO its princi-
Piles. Applause.
Let the party then be true to its
history and its mission, and giving
| forth no uncertain sound, move for
ward to victory over the hungry ele-
ments of decaying and disOrganized
parties-OYer an enemy dishearteHed
by defeat, divided in council, and dis
honored by dislOyalty-and soon the
uplifted shout OF your rejOicings in
Ohio shall again become the key note
and grandly swell the glad acclaim Of
the nations triumph.