The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-04
OHIO REPUBLICANS.

The republicans of Ohio have done no.
bly,. They deserve success, even If they
do not attain it. They have, moreover,
taken the true course to, not only to make
victory possible, but to command and
achieve it. Their nominations are uneX-
ceptionablc, and their platform all that
could easonably be expected. AT their
state convention, held at Columbus,
Wednesday, Rutherford Il. Hayes was
unanimously nominated for governor.
HIS ability is unquestioned; his patriotism,
of the noblest kind a general during the
war of the rebellion, his military record is
brilliant his integrity undoublcd, and his
character without spot or blemish, and
he is, wthal, as such men usually are, per-
sonally popular. Although never an office
seeker, he has a large acquaintance with
public affairs, derived from participation
therein in positions Of honor and trust, to
which he has been repeatedly called by his
fellow citizens. A member of the thirty
ninth congress, he was called home by his
fellow republicans to lead them in the can
vass of 1867, when, ptted against the
ablest and best of the Ohio democracy,
Allen G.. Thurman, he was elected COVER
nor by some three thousand majority.
Again, two years later, he was pitted
against George II. Pendlcton, and again
carried off the gubernatorial honors, this
time by majority of something over
seventy.llyc hundred.
Once more Rutherford r. Hayes is called
to lead the republicans of Ohio, we trust,
again, to victory. Again the nomination
comes TO i'm unsought. The Office sought
HIM, not lie the office. His own choice
was to bo a private, mot leader in the cum
paign lie persistent, declined to be a
candidate for the ncm nation, and with a
seli-abncga'ion common enough to him,
hut never t, be fUuld with professional pol
iticil ms, he urged the nomination Of an
other, endorsing him as san able and pure
"man, and sound republican," and de-
claring absolutely Il at he would not accept
Il nomination if obtured by a contest with
him. But there was no contest, and Cen
cral Hayes was unanimously nominated,
and will doubtless ,i"ld his personal prefer
ences to the public god. Rare is it, that,
in these latter days, nominations are SO
worthily bestowed, and still rarer is it, that
after a military and civil life, so conspicu-
Gus, and running through so many years,
his political opponents are compelled, with
one accord, to say, as they do of him, CHS
military and political record is absolutely
"without stain or reproach."
Their declaration of principles ought to-,
and we doubt not will, command success.
In the very hot bed of imitation, they have
unequivocally pronounced in favor of q
currency equal in value with gold But
more than this, and it is significant fact
too, they have said that Washingtons ex
ample in retiring from the presidency will
as in the past, be " regarded as Il funda
mental rule in the unwlitten law Of thu
republic" This declaration is of uIusua
significance now, following, as it Goes, tht
presidents letter, which IS construed by
some, TO mean that he has not been, j.
not, and will not be candidate for re-
election and especially as it was adopted
in spite of the advice of prominent politi
clans, telegraphed from Washington, recon-
mending that an anti-third term resolution
be not adopted, but instead thereof, that
the convention should favor constitu-
tional amendment limiting eligibility to
the presidency to two terms. But the
noble republicans of Ohio did not snap al
this bait They followed the example OF
Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Kansas
Nebraska and Nevada, and said what they
meant. They appreciated the "diflicul
ties" under which the president labored
and assisted in taking the "load' off hit
shoulders" by making it impossible fol
circumstances to arise rendering il
Imperative on him to accept OF
u denomination. They, moreover, rathel
pointedly informed the president that thu
question of third term could be " fairly
before the people in some other shape THAI
that of constitutional amendment. Now
let them "go in and win," for they can i
they will.