The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-30
OUR CANDIDATES.

The republican ticket will be triumphAntly
elected in November Both men have beer
IT'S good works, aud they stand upon platform
which advocates the best Interests OF the nation
and OF humanity.
The republican party goes into the contest
with no explanations to make. Both candidates
have untarnlshed records, and when the past
history OF the republican party is contrasted
with tnat OF the democratic party, it is like q
comparison between sunshine aud darkness
Ohio will keep her place in the republican ranks
by rouslng majority, and New York will wheel
INTO line in support OF her favorite son who IL
candidate for the wee presidency
The countenances OF democratic leaders grow
long while contemplating this nomination, for
they see that the strength OF the democratic
party Will be confined 70 the south IN the COM
ING struggle.
When the result is reached IN November the
almost unbroken electoral vote of the north
Will be found for Hayes and Wheeler, while the
south, with perhaps the exception OF South
Carolina, will be for the democratic candidates,
whoever they may be- The battle was prac-
tcally won at Cincinnati. aud the campaign
will be an aggressive one. The whole republic
can party, the friends of peace, OF civil and
personal liberty, OF the maintenance or law
and the protection of the citizen, OF whatever
party. will recognize in the nomination OF
Hayes and Wheeler the certain guarantee OF
all this The soldiers and sailors OF the nation
will help to keep the ball rolling. for nobler,
Drawer soldier never commanded a regiment
than Rutherford b. HAYES. The German and
Irish element, which believes in liberty In
America as well as in the old world, will stand
nobly by this ticket.
The platform adopted, has no uncertain
sound or glittering generalities. There can be
no doubt as to the meaning or the financial
plank, for the demand is clearly made that the
nation shall have honest money. There was
the most cordial acquiescence in the principles
laid down in the financial plank. and II there
was any greenback sentiment in the convention
it found itself so much at variance with the will
Of the party that il was forced TO- submit in
ailence. There lie no longer any doubt as to
where the republican party stands on this great
question Of finance, which is likely to split the
democratic party at st. Louis from center to
circumference. The action Of the democratic
house OF representatives, indicates that ma
greenbsckism and Reputation, and that the
financial problem is likely to be the rock on
which the democratic craft will founder at st.
Louis.
The 18th resolution charges the democratic
party as being the same In character and spirit
as when 1t sympathized with treason; with
making Its control of the house Of representa-
tives the triumph and the opportunity OF the
nations recent foes; with asserting and ap-
plaudng in the national capitol the sentiments
of unrepentant rebellion; with sending union
soldiers to the rear and promoting confederate
soldiers to the front with deliberately pro-
posing TO repudiate the plighted faith OF the
government; with being equally false and i'm
beetle; with overshadowlng the ends OF justice
by the partisan mismanagement and obstruc-
ton OF investigation with proving itself,
through the period of its ascendsncy in the
lower house OF congress, utterly incompetent
to administer the government. 1t 10 fearful
arrangement, but truthful one. Should the
democratic party be placed in power there can
be no change for the better, for the democracy
IN
the same confederates who have captured con-
gress and we're the leaders Of the unholy REBEL
lion against the union will be the men to die
tate the policy OF the democratic party.
Ohio, Oct. T. 1922. He graduated at Kenyon
college, Gambler, Ohio, at the head OF his
class, in 1912. Three years later he graduated
from the Cambridge law school, and commenced
the practice OF law at Fremont, Ohio, where he
now resides, IN partnership with Ralph P.
Bucklsnd. Both OF these gentlemen were mem
bers OF the 39th congress. In 1S49 Mr.. Hayes
removed to Cincinnati to practice his profess
sion. In 1852 he was married to Miss Lucy
Ware Webb OF Chillicothe, Ohio. He was city
solicitor OF Cincinnati in 1854, his rival for the
nomination beng Caleb b. Smith, who after
ward became secretary OF the interior under
President Lincoln.
Mr.. Hayes held the solicitorship OF Cincln-
matt until the breaking out Of the rebellion,
when he enlisted in the 23d Ohio infantry and
lieutenant colonel, and led his
regiment in the battle OF South Mountain,
where he was severely wounded in the arm
bat be did not leave the battlefield. His COM
mand was the fret to gam and hold position
ia the battle OF South Mountain. He served
faithfully until 1854, when he received briga-
der generals commission for gallant and mer
itori0us services at the battles OF Winchester,
Fishes Hill, and Cedar creek. he was bre-
vetted major general in the same year FOR gal
ii
While engaged with Sheridan in the ever
memorable shenandoah campaign, he was nom
mated and elected to congress from the second
Ohio district. After he was nominated his
friends urged him to return and stump his dis
t1ct, but he sent back the reply that they must
attend to things at home: his services we're
needed at the front. A few days after his re-
fusal to return to civil pursuits. while the life
OF the nation was at stake, he led his division
IN the battle of Cedar creek, and was again Sc
verely wounded in the leg. Although MEM
Der Of congress, he remained with his division
and in the epung OF 1866 he was put in COM
mapd OF an expedition to operate against
Lynchburg when the war closed.
BE was wounded four times duripg the war,
twice severely.
70 show his indomitable bravery, a quality
30 necessary in military leader, q single Incl
dent will be sufficient. While engaged In q
desperate charge ut Winchester his troops
came suddenly upon morass, soft and miry,
some 6U yards vide. The men In front heei- |
tsted on the brink and those behind kept |
pressing forward. The enemys srtaIlery opened
fire from the opposite side, and for . moment |
1t seemed that the union troops had met an in
surmountable barrier, and there WAS nothing |
left but to retreat. To retreat under the muir
deroue IRE OF the enemy would probably cause
a panic, and impenl the safety Of the whole
army. The situation was quickly considered BY
Colonel Hayes, and squirting his horse through
the crowd OF men on the BRINK, he boldly
plunged into toe morass. His horse made but
a few plungee when he hopelessly mired, and
The gallant colonel. dismounting, made his way
ss well ne he could scross the morsss. Reach
ing the opposite side he waved his hat to his
men, who, seeing thst the moraes could be
crossed, plunged into the miry a. 1ugh and were
'oon with their trusted leader. The crossing
vas made under murderous IRE, a a shenoan
lay.
His two prominent characteristics d . ms
potess integrity and his ability to grsppfe NnS
axe comprehensive view Of al subjects VIM
ONE me up for consideration.
While member OF the seth congress- he | 3
erveo on the committee on private land claims. Il
10 was chairman Of the committee on library 7
= u iooo ne was reelected to congrecs aud he q