The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-19
RUTHERFORD Ii. HAYES.

Three times elected Governor and
twice n Congressman, Mr.. Hayes has
never vet carried either State or District
by a heavy majority. a native of Ohio,
| Mr. HAYES gained his aCademical educa
tion within the limits of that State, COM
mandcd an Ohio regiment during the
war, and has passed his entire profcs
sional life nj the bar of the State He is
now fifty four years of age having been
born aL Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1922.
He graduated at Kenyon College. Gam.
bier, Ono, and obtained his professional
knowledge at the Cambridge Law
| School The practice of his profession be-
gan IN Cincinnati in his thirty-fourth
year, when he received his first official
position as City Solicitor, which he held
till the war broke out in 1861. Very near
its opening he enlisted in the Twenty.
third Ohio Volunteers, and served with
the regiment till he received the com
mand of brigade in 1864. His first ap.
pointmant was rs Major, his first promo
ton came within less than year, and
in September of 1862 he held "a commits
SION as Lieutcnant-C Colonel, and was III
command of his regiment, which he led
into the battle of South Mountain. The
Twcnty-thrd Regiment formed Il
part of General Reno's Division
It's command devolvlng on General Cox,
who aiterward preceded General Hayes
as Governor, after the death OF General
Reno in aCtion-opcrating as the right
wing of the Army of the Potomac. Du-
ring the action, Col. Hayes received n
severe wound in the arm, but remained
with his regiment TO the last, and WAS
the first officer whose command cStab-
lishcd position ut South Mountain.
Two years later he hid become Briga-
dicr-Gencral Hayes, when he received
the Republican nomination in the Sec
ond Ohio District, n part "t HamiI.
ton county, ana received, home and
army vote together, 3,O9S major
ity over Joseph {. Butler, the
Democratic candidate. The ONO dele
cation to the Thirty ninth Congress. in
which Gen. Hayes took his seat D"ccm-
Der, 1860, was remarkable for it, ability,
and included an Unusual numhor OF men
who have since gained marked and un.
usual distinction in the Republican party.
Mr.. Robert G. Schcnck, Mr.. Columbus,
DcIa.o. Mr.. John A. Bingham. Mr..
James NJ. Ashley and Mr.. Samuel Shell
sbargcr were all members OF the deIega-
ton. and the extent and variety of the
talent by which General Hayes
WAS surrounded doubtless had much to
do with the obscurity IN when
his term was passed. He served on the
committee on Private Land Claims and
on the Library committee, and passed
through the important reconstruction
legislation of the session with no greater
distinction than vote gwen uniformly
and on All occasions for his party, and
urnn the most liberal Of the measures
which was presented in this Congress 10y
Mr. Stcyens-thc resolution relating 10
attorney test oaths-Mr. Hayes Hota was
recorded in the negative. In the fall OF
1866 Mr.. Hayes was second time nomI-
mated for Congress, and. running against
Theodore Cook, was elected by some
what smaller majority than two years be-
fore The For,ieth Congress had, how
ever held but one session when Mr..
HAYES was nominated for Governor by
the Republican party, and, accepting Tue
cspd,dsiure. was elected over Allen u.
Thurman bv q majority of 1883 IN total
vote of 4S3, OO0--a close and narrow es-
cane from defeat, which Mr.. Hayes sue
cessfully repeated last fall. Mr.. Hayes
wss y candidate for reelection NJ the
close of his term of office, but another
nominee was preferred, and 1t was not
till 1869 that he was second liihe
pl.ced at the head of the Repubiicsh
ticket in Ohio. He enterea the cam
psign with strong odds in his favor
General Rosecrans was nominated oy the
Democratic Convention which met IN
July of that year, snd At which Mr.. rem
dleton's name was peremptorily WIN
drawn; the expected candidate refused
the nomination, however, and At is'e
date Mr.. Pendleton WAS induced TO take
the Democratic nomination. Success
was scarcely possible under the clrcum-
stances, and General Hayes Carried the
State by msjority OF I,5!e or
about one third that OF the year before
on the State ticket The next appear
ancc of Mr.. Hayes rs n candidate was
LIS, fall, when he WAS nominated on inc
Public Schools platform, after 'nSrP
contest with Judge Taft, whose candida
CIV in opposition to Mr.. Hayes was no
fault OF his own, but was due entirety I"
letter which Mr.. Hayes wrote the
night before the convection, OF winch
the following is an extract:
IL cannot allow my name TO be USED
against Judge Taft He became can,
didate after l declined. DE Is pure
man ond a sound Republican. l VIII