Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-09-10
Republican State Convention.
Resolutions On the Issues Of
The Day.

on the fine looking assembly, with the
same compiacency as on the Unterri-
fed two weeks since.
General Charles Walcutt, of the Cen
tral Committee. called the assembly to
order, and prayer was offered by the
Rev. r. Y. Hutchins of Columbus.
Hon. Charles Foster was chosen tenn
porary chairman, and on taking the
stand said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvRNTIoN-l
For this expression of your generous
confidence and high esteem | am pro-
foundly grateful. Weare met again As
the representatives of the gI eat Repub-
lican party Of the great State of Ohio,
for the purpose of taking counsel to-
gether as we did through its earlier
years of trial and triumphs
the bloody years of war and
clrnage, 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
oar organization by the selection of
candidates that will be elected in Octo-
ber. After an almost uninterrupted
lSOhehOA Va thO oldtO lOt tWcHGf HSdTS.
Our opponents last year obtained
control of the Legislature and elected
the Hon. VIM. All-n 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-iH few years it will ne
wiped out forever. Under our foster
ing care our benevolent and reforma-
tory institutions have largely increas-
ed their capacity for the alleviation of
suffering and the reduction of crime,
aid have become the pride of the peo-
pie. SO, too, in national affairs OF the
Republican party points with pride to
IFS brilliant and glorious achievements,
and it challenges the most rigid scruti-
~ OF its record. Through the vicissi-
tudes Of both peace and war, by its sue
cessful efforts of self examination, its
wise economy, shown both in the re-
ductidn of taxation and of eXpendi-
tures-the reduction this year amount-
ing to more than $27 900, ,000-it proves
that it does not rplv upon its past his
tory for public favor, but retains the
confidence of the people by its capacity
to deal with the present, and its unfal-
tering determination to administer the
affairs of the nation with integrity and
economy. 1t shows its ability to deal
with the present by promptly grap-
pling with the great question of cheap
transportation, institIIting and inaugu-
rating asylums of scientific and prac-
j tical inquiry that will result in the en-
actment into law of measures which
will largely decrease the cost of trans
portation. The Republican party stands
pledged to carry out the principles en-
, bodied in its three great amendments
to the Constitution, and their practical
application by the enactment and en-
forcement of such laws as will make
every man in the Republic, let him
live North or South, be he black or
white, a freeman, in fact, as we'll as a
freeman in name. The Republican
party rejects with Indignation any and
all attempts at reputation in any de-
gree whatever. The credit of the ma
tion must be kept inviolate. Let our
opponents, if they choose, indulge in
the attempt to revive the corpse of
2 Pendletonian reputation; let them
place the seal of condemnation on their
great Senator because he dared to be
honest; let him bow his neck to the
I yoke of reputation if he will; but for
us and ours we will honor those men
who stand for honesty against repudia-
tion. On an issue of this kind the peo-
pie have spoken once, and their re-
: sponse will be equally emphatic again,
, notwithstanding the embarassments
growing out of the panic. The finar cial
legislation of the last session of Con-
gress has proved to be wise, and the
e good effects of it are seen in the plainly
t discernible returning prosperity of the
! country. The rate of interest is lower
than for years past, and the value OF
the paper dollar has been enhanced.
4 Let our legislation in the future be
ol such as will increase still further the
value of the paper dollar, and the full.
fllment of the pledge of an early re-
turn to specie payments. We have
/ the best paper currency ever devised
] by man, so far as safety to the holder is
\ concerned; and when banking Is made
free, we will have no further discussion
over the questions Of contraction and
e imitation, but the whole subject will be
# regulated by the great law of legiti.
A mate supply and demand.
And now, gentlemen, after fourteen
years of the successful administration
d in war as well as in peace, we are told
e that our mission is ended, and that we
(. ought to give up the ghost and die and
surrender the reins of government into
. the hands of party whose-to be mild
II in characterizing their acts-every sug.
n gestion for the past twenty years has
been that of stupid imbecility, or down
: right dishonesty. A party that now
u advocates reputation, and even op
l. poses Christian burial to the colored
I, people of the republic. With a fail
. presentation of ths issues made for u:
by the Democratic party, he conf
: IDENTIFY appealed to the people whose
o response will gladden. the hearts of al
those who arrayed themselves ON the
a side of the country In her hour of great
: est peril. Again thanking you, gen
. tlemen, for the honor you have done
Il me, am ready to proceed with the
business of the Convention.
o Preliminary Business.
e G E Irwin, of Sciota, was elected
d temporary Secretary, with the follow.
i ing named assistants: R johnson, o.
i Mahoning; G f Hornberger, of Hamil-
g ton; S n Field, of Franklin; HI l. More
t ry, of Butler, and d w Rhodes, Of Del
t aware.
e Standing Committees were then ap
e pointed, alter which the Convention
adjourned until half-past one O'Clock
P. NJ. The Sixteenth Congressional
;. District was honored by places on the
committees as follows:
On Credentials: ID d Taylor, of Guern-
y sey
Y On Permanent Organization: Hon
L Updegraff, of Belmont.
On Resolutions: Hon L. Danford, OF
Belmont.
/ On State Central Committee: Hon
t Samuel Knox, of Harrison.
' Vice President: q 2 Simons, of
Guernsey.