The Morning herald., 1876-06-17
CINCINNATI'S CHOICE.


Yesterday at Cincinnati the curtain was
lifted from the scene of uncertainty, and
the star Of the play stridcd upon the boards
amid the blare of trumpets and a chorus
of cheers from over thousand enthusiastic
throats. 1t was Rutherford r. Hayes, of
Ohio, whose star had transcribed that Of
eight other candidates, and won the nomi.
nation AS leader upon the Republican
ticket in the coming Presidential cleo
tien.
The selection of Hayes is surprise in
more respects than one. He was only
among the lowest up to the fifth ballot,
when he struggled about in the sixties, and
on the fifth ran over one hundred, and on
the wind up, which was the seventh, came
in the winner in a vote of three hundred
and eighty-four.
The defeat of Blaine was not very great,
only thirty-three votes, but remarkable in
considering the large backing that Blaine
started with; however, precedent for this
is had, and even more remarkable, in the
defeat of Seward by Lincoln.
Governor Hayes.th nominee of the Gin
cinnati Conventions is not much known as a
public man ,and, until he ran against and de-
feated Governor Allen for the Governor,hip
of Ohio, was not known prominently in
politics outside Of his own State.
He was born in Delaware, Ohio, Octo-
ber A, 1922; graduated at Kenyon College,
Ohio, and at the Law School of Cambridge;
adopted the profession of law; was city
solicitor of Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861;
Major and Lieutenant Colonel of the
Twenty-Third Ohio Volunteers in 1861 ;
Colonel of the same from 1862 to 1864,
when he was appointed a Brigadier-Gen-
eral, and during the same year was elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty
Ninth Congress, serving on the Committee
of Private Land Claims, and as chairman
Of the Committee on the Library.
His name was presented to the Conven-
ton by Governor Noyes, and the nomna-
ton seconded by the old veteran, Ben
Wade. Governor Noyes expatiated large
" upon the character and merits of Hayes,
but he was offering him for the favor of the
Convention, and, Of course must put the
best dressing of praise upon him.
The greatest card that his spokesman
could offer for him was that he had gotten
into the way of beating Democrats, having
defeated successfully Thurman, Pendleton
and Allen, and being in the habit to beat
Democrats would DO il again if nominated.
Mr.. Noyes came nearer the truth when he
stated that his candidate wouid carry the
Convention.
As a man of extended political reputa-
ton Hays was in the background of the
great political picture; he needed the dash
and vim that watered the prospects Of the
leaders and brought themin so prominently,
but it seems that it was in this semi
modesty the party sought for the winning
card.
In the selection, Grants revenge is COM
plcte. Emergent circumstances favored
his schemes. The guilt stained letters
turned the tide on the fourth ballot; he was
fought into his corners but beat his way
out with stout resistance and followed
closely upon the heels of Hayes, with vote
Of only thirty-three less, enough to defeat
him. and make that defeat all the more en-
barrassing, soothe the pricking revenge Of
Grant, and stir to it, very depth and bit