The Portland daily press., 1876-08-28
POLITICAL.
Professor seelye Expresses Himself with
out Reserve i'm Favor of the Republican

Professor seelye Expresses Himself with
out Reserve i'm Favor of the Republican
Nominees.
Especial Despatch to the Boston Herald.1
AMHERST, Mass, Aug. 26.-The Hayes and
Wheeler club held an enthusiastic meeting to-
night, and at 30 threw to the breeze a mag
ni6cent piece of bunting. About 1000 people
of the town committee, introduced Hon Julius
H. Seelye, who spoke in substance as follows:i
Mr. Chairman, fellow citizens and ladies,
The flag you see is the flag of our free and lib
erty loving Union, and the Union which, if
the Democratic party had had it's way wo Md
which was waged against that flag and which
cost US untold millions of money and unnum-
bered hosts OF brave men, had its birth in the
spirit which the Democratic party constantly
fostered. During the war no repulses
were felt by the army more than that in
fiicted by the proclamation of the Democr at
ic convention of '64, of whose committee on
resolutions Samuel j. Tilden was a ruling
member. which proclaimed the war for the res
toration of the Union failure The consttu-
tIonal amendments adopted after the war, and
which were intended to guarantee the fruits of
the war, met the constant opposition of the
Democratic party, and the grandest of these,
the thirteenth, was voted against by Thomas
A, Hendricks. l, for one am not willing to
transfer the great power of the government
hands still reeking with the blood of its brave
defenders. 1 do not stand here to defend
everything which the Republican party has
done; but when the Democratic party is held
the decrepid old lion in the fable, who sought
to gain by strategy what he could not gain by
strength.
The spirit and tendency of the Republican
party is toward reform. 1t is still worthy of
confidence, and though 1 am not willing TO
fhn TO-
men who have used the patty for their own
evil ends. l accept the Republican party be-
cause believe in its principles, which it has
never beed. do not hesitate to say that Will
liam A. Wheeler has Teen my first choice for
the Presidency; but this is no disparagement to
that quiet thoughtful, unpretending, yet I'M
hlnching man, whom the Cincinnati conven-
ton assigned to the first place on the ticket;
and recommend to you the Republican party,
and these its nominees, as worthy to be the
defenders of this proud flag in time of peace,
just as they were wise, and strong, and brave
to uphold and defend it in time OF war.
Colorado Republican n Nominations.
PUEBLO, Aug. 26-The Republican state
convention closed yesterday. The following
candidates were nominated: Governor, John
L. R0utt: Lieut.. Governor Lafayette Head;
Judges of the Supreme Court, HI. G. Thacher,
E. I. Wells and S. H. Ebert: Secretary OF
State, VIM L. Clark; Treasurer. George G.
General, A. j. Sampson; SUPERINTENDENT of
Public Instruction, j. G. Hat.uck
The platform endorses the National Repub-
licsn platform and says the election of T;lden
would be national calamity; that the cry of
reform by the Democrats is a false pretence 1t
asks for donation of land by the general gov
erument for educational purposes, and that
some plan be adopted by the general govern
ment 10 exterminate grasshoppers, and urges
economy in state expenditure.