The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-09-10

A. NJ. and was called to order by Gen
G. G. Walcutt, Chairman of the State
Central Committee.
The decorations were the same a!
at the Democratic Convention, anC
the protrait of Washington looking
out from between the flags at the
back of the stage wore pleasant as
pect, as though he had at last founC
his friends.
THE ATTENDANCE.
The Opera House was not very
I well filled, the number being abou
the same as at the opening meeting OF
the Democratic Convention. But il
was unmistakably the finest appear.
ing body of men 1 ever saw assembled
in Ohio.
The delegation from Hamilton
County was especially noticed for the
large number of gentlemen of stand
ing and character it contained, and
indeed, the whole Republican party
of Ohio had reason to be proud OF its
representatives.
THE PRAYER.
The Rev. Mr.. Hutchins, Of the
Broad Street Congregational Church
opened with prayer.
MR.. FOSTERS SPEECH.
Gen. Walcutt then nominated for
temporary Chairman of the COnven-
tion, Hon. Charles Foster, of Seneca,
who was greeted with loud cheers,
and spoke as follows
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION :
For this expression of your generous
confidence and high esteem, 1 am
profoundly grateful. We are met
again as the representatives of the
great Republican party of the great
State of Ohio, for the purpose of TAX
ing counsel together, as we did
through its earlier years of trial and
triumph-the bloody years of war and
carnage, and its later years of recon-
struction and reconciliation.
We meet to-day to deal with any
new question that may have arisen,
and to perfect our organization by the
selection of candidates that will be
elected in October.
After an almost uninterrupted con-
troll of the State for twenty years, our
opponents last year obtained control
of the Legislature and elected Hon.
William Allen for Governor. We
have no apologies to make for the
character of our acts in all this time !;
our opponents themselves testify to
| the fact that we have administered
! the affairs of our great State wisely
and well. We have largely reduced
our State debt, and in few years it
will be wiped out forever. Under our
fostering care, our benevolent and
reformatory institutions have largely
increased their capacity for the alle-
Walton of suffering, and the reduc-
ton of crime, and have become the
pride of the people. So, too, in ma
tionaI affairs. The Republican party
points with pride to its brilliant and
glorious achievements, and it chal-
Ienges the most rigid scrutiny of its
record through the vicissitude of both
peace and war. By its successful eff
forts of self-eXamination, It's wise
economy, shown both in the reduc-
ton of taxation and of expenditures
(the reduction this year amounting to
more than twenty millions ofdollars)
it proves that it does not rely upon its
past history for public favor, but re-
tains the confidence of the people by
its capacity to deal with the present,
and its unfaltering determination to
administer the affairs of the nation
with integrity and economy. II
shows its ability to deal with the
present by promptly graphing with
the great question of cheap transporta-
ton, instituting and inaugurating a
system of scientific and practical in
quiry, that will result in the enact
ment into law of measures which
will largely decrease the cost of tran
sportation.
The Republican party stands pied
ged to carry out the principles en-
bodied in its three great amendments
to the Constitution, and their practi-
cal application by the enactment and
enforcement of such laws as will
make every man in the Republic,
let him 1--we North or South, be be
black or white, freeman in fact, as
well as freeman in name.
The Republican party rejects with
Indignation any and all attempts al
reputation, in any degree whatever
The credit of the nation must be kept
inviolate. Let our opponents, if they
choose-and they have SO chosen
indulge in the attempt to revive the
corpse of Pendletonian reputation
let them place the seal of cOndemna,
ton on their great Senator, because
The dared to be honest let him bow
, his neck to the yoke of reputation
if he will, but for US and ours, we
will honor the men who stand for
honesty against reputation. On an
Tissue of this kind the people have
Ispoken once, and their response will
be equally emphatic again.
Notwithstanding the embarrass-
ments growing out of the panic, the
financial legislation of the last session
of Congress has proven to be wise ,anC
the good effects of it are seen in the
plainly discernable returning prosper
ity of the country. The rate of inter
est is lower than for years past, anC
the value of the paper dollar has beer
enhanced. Let our legislation in fu
ture be such as will increase still fur.
ther the value of the paper dollar, anC
the fulfillment of the pledge of an ear
ly return to specie payments. W.
have the best paper currency ever de-
vised by man, so far as safety to tht
holder is concerned, and when bank
ing is made free we will hear no fur.
ther discussion over the questions o
contraction and initiation, but tht
whole subject will be regulated by thu
great law of legitimate supply and de
mand.
, And now, gentlemen, after fourteen
wears of the successful administration
in war as well as in peace, we are tolC
that our mission is ended, and tina
we ought to give up the glpst and die
and surrender the reins OF govern
.ment into the hands of party that
to be mild in charaeterizing their acts
whose every suggestion for the pas
twenty Years has been that of stupiC
imbecility, Tor downright dishonesty
a party that now advocates repudia
ton, and even opposes a Christian
burial to the colored people of the Re
public.
With fair presentation of the is
sues made for US by the Democrati
party, we can confidently appeal +
: the people, whose response will glad
den the hearts of all those who rang
ed themselves on the side of the coun
try in the hour of its greatest peril.
Again thanking you, gentlemen, fo
the honor you have done me, / an
ready to proceed with the business o
the Convention.
RECEPTION OF THE SPEECH.
Mr.. Fosters speech was well receiy
ed. Every allusiOn he made to til
uncompromising stand the Republi
can party should occupy against repU
diation in all its forms was cheered t
r the echo. There were some expires
sions afterward of dissent at Mr.. Foi
ters's indorsment of Senator Thu
o mans honesty, as there are many RI
publicans of Ohio who remember Ser
e ator Thurman's utterly dishones
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