Wilmington daily commercial., 1876-06-17
THE NOMINATIONS AT CINCINNATI,

The Cincinnati Convention has performed
its work and adjourned. Its deliberate
Judgment now goes to the country for ap-
proval and in view of the favorable recep-
ton given the nominations made yesterday
there can bo little doubt of their ratification
by the people. Republicans are everywhere
satisfied Democrats are disappointed and
dumb. The main hopes of the Democracy
lay in the preparation of a blunder at Gin
cinnati, and since this has failed them they
are left without any definite line of policy
They can offer nothing to the country more
in accord with the needs of the times than
the Cincinnati platform, while Its embodi-
ment in the personal character and lives Of
the candidates is such that the Democratic
party canrot produce the equal, even if it
could bring itself to the plane of statesman
ship which the platform compasses.
Rutherford B. Hayes and William A.
Wheeler, the Republican nominees for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency, are men
of that stamp of character which the coun-
try needs i'll the present hour. They are
intelligent, able, discreet, patriotic, and
not without experience in the councils of
the nation. Both Of them have served in
Congress, and AIr. Wheeler won for him.
self, while there, national repute and es-
TEEN in the solution which lie made of the
complications in Louisiala. They both pass
ed through the aLurements and corrupting
influences of Washington life, and
returned to their Constituents
without befoulment In their per.
sonal lives they are without reproach liv.
ing uprightly and in general esteem, While
the records of 80 many other men have
been tarnished, they have preserved their
homer unsullied and Their integrity unim-
peached. 1t Is notable fact worthy Of re-
membrance that Mr.. Hayes passed through
three Of the most exciting campaigns in the
great State OF Ohio, and not an insinuation
was made against the purity of his public
or private life. Politically both MIR. HAYES
and Mr.. Wheeler are staunch and unwayer-
ing Republicans, and within their party are
representatives of reform. They possess
the full confidence of the party, and the
thorough accord which was given their
nomination will hndle within it an enthu.
siasm which will enfold the country in its
sweep.
The effect Of these nominations will be
most salutary. They will bring back into
the party the Liberal element which went
out with Greeley, and will crystalize into
new life and purpose the Republican party
entire as in the days of Lincoln. Charlie,
Francis Adams, George William Curtis
Carl Schurz, Elihu Washburne aud the 9th
ers, seeing that reform within the party i,
possible, will remain in arrangement nC
longer but will yield their hearty support
And further, the nomination OF Mr.. Hayes
Will secure Republican triumph in Ohio anG
= Indiana in the preliminary contest, which
30 many men of both parties deem essen
tial to success in the final struggle. The
choice of MIR. Wheeler will secure the elec
toral vote of New York, even if MIR. Tilder
should become the Democratic standard
bearer, which the nomination of MIR. Wheel
or has made more imperative than ever.
The one general effect will be the enthus
astic uni6cation of the Republican party in
to phalanx which will be irresistible.