Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-06-24
The Presidential Campaigh.
GOV. HAYES WAR RECORD.

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GOV. HAYES WAR RECORD.
Gov. Hayes, at the outbreak of
thelwar, was solicitor for Cincinnati,
but volunteered at a very early
date for military service ; was
made major of the Twenty-third
Ohio, June Z, 1861 was judge adj
vocate to Gen. Rosecrans during
the summer and fall; was made
lieut.. col. of his regiment Novem-
Der A, of the same year took COM
mand of it during the West Vir-
ginia campaign in the spring of
1862. and continued in command
until wounded at South Mountain
under Mcclellan, in September.
He was promoted to the colonelcy
October Is, and on Christmas day,
of the same year, took command
of a brigade in Kanawha division
and continued in that command
until Sheridan's battle at Win
chester in September, 1864, in
which Col. Hayes won distinction
by his conduct in leading a charge
across a morass under a very Sc
we're fire. He got his brigadier's
commission dating from October
10, 1864, for gallant services in the
battles of Winchester, Fishers
Hill and Cedar Creek. At the
time Of these battles he was IN
command of the Kanawha divi-
sion. He was engaged in many
battles, had three horses shot un-
der him, was wounded four
times, served until the close of the
war, and was brevetted a major
general.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS ON THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
The following comments on the
republican nominations for Presi-
dent and Vice President are taken
from the leading daily papers.
The New York Herald (indepen-
dent says:
"As it now stands the ticket is a
fair one. 1t is no such a ticket as
WashbCrne and Logan, Conkling
and Hayes, or Morton and Hart
ranft would have been. 1t means
nothing but mediocrity. Governor
Hayes is a good man. If elected
he will bring these qualities into
the White House. There are, we
have no doubt, ten thousand re-
publicans, any one of whom would
make as competent a President as
Hayes. He has no such hold upon
the country as Blaine or Morton,
or Conkling. He happened to
have fewer edges than any other
candidate, and the party took
him. Itmay be a choice as wise
as that of Lincoln or as foolish as
that of Tyler. Time must deter
mine this. Mr.. Wheeler, the can
didate for vice-president, stands
we'll in this State. Hayes and
Wheeler will poll the party vote.
They will call out the solid, hard
working party men. AS a ticket
Hayes and Wheeler represents the
average common-sense, sober
minded-classes."
The New York Times (republi-
CAM says:
with two such nominees the
republican party can listen to no
such word as fail. The strife at
Cincinnati has left no sore which
o little time will not heal the de-
feated candidates cherish no
grudges which can impair either
the unity or the efficiency of the
campaign. The candidate who
came SO near the nomination has
given another example of the
manliness and warmth of heart
which have wen for him many
friends, by frankly pledging him
self to throw all the influence
which remains to him on the side
of his successful rival. Let all the
friends of all the candidates make
up their minds to do likewise.
The time for dispute and struggle
within the party is over"
The New York Tribune (ind.)
says;
convention was something of a
surprise, but it will command the
approval of a large majority of re-
publicans and the ticket will have
the cordial support of the whole
party. Gov. Hayes is a man OF
whom it is impossible to say a
word of evil. Personally he is not
only above reproach, but above
suspicion. There are no dark
corners in his history which need
investigation or have ever set the
tongue of scandal wagging. Mr..
Wheeler, like Gov. Hayes, is a
sound republican from conviction
and not for the love of Office. The
combination indeed, is one of the
most formidable that have been
suggested on either side, and al
though it cannot be said the course