The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-04-06
Republican State Convention,
ENDORSED FOR
PRESIDENT.
CorunRns. March %.

itOrs, which began on Monday, wa
continued until this morning, wheI
the crowds filled the hotels and OveI
flowed upon the sidewalks, and pre-
sented an animated spectacle as hun
dreds Of men met snd passed and re
passed, and gathered I'm groups, re
newing old Rcquaintances and discuss
ing the situation. The men one me
in this crowd were, as a rule, good
looking, as all our people are; intel
ligent, as was to be expected in |
meeting of this kind; and earnest, a
men who had come together for I
purpose, and knew what they haG
come for. With all the apparen
unanimity as to the object to be accom-
pIished, there was manifested lacE
Of organization quite remarkable un'
der the circumstances. The Question
seemed all the time to be mainly ont
as to the best selection of delegates t.
carry out at Cincinnati the unmista-
kable wishes OF the Convention.
The solitary exception to this
unanimIty was found in the laborious
efforts Of q delegate elected from the
Twentieth District to the Cincinnati
Convention to create an impression
that there were possibilities some.
where in the remoteness of the Con.
vention proceedings for Mr.. Blaine a.
4 a candidate for President. This par
tiality for the Maine statesman came
somehow to be associated with the
mention of Mr.. Garfield as q candidate
for delegate at large until about the
only contest discernible in the group
of delegates was as to q choice be-
tween General Garfield, MIR. Upson
and Mr.. Clark Waggoner as delegate
at large from Northern Ohio.
The day opened auspiciously, with
the weather all the fsirer by contrast
with the stormy days preceding.
At IL o'clock the crowd, preceded
by the Cadet Band, OF Columb bus,
moved from the Neil House to the
Opers-house, which was speedily fiji
ed in all parts-Jhe delegates coming
in with q quiet air and assuming
their seats with all the decorum of
an organized deiiberative body.
Hon. A. Il. Wykof called to order
and introduced Rev. ]. Z. Stidham,
of the First Baptist Church, who o.
fered the following invocation
"Holy art thou, 0 Lord God Al
mighty, and the whole earth Is filed
with Thy glory. We thank Thee for
Thy blessings upon the gre L Nation
Of which we are part; for its past
history; FOR its present prosperity.
And we beseech Thee now to let Thy
blessings rest upon the officers of this
Government, the President of the
United States and all associated with
him in authority; the Governor of
this State, and all with him conhec-
ted, and with the General Assem-
bly,.
t.Now, o Lord, let Thy blessings
rest upon this Convention. Wilt
Thou guide them in all their delib-
erations, that all they do may be done
to the best interests of the people at
large; that right may be lifted up
higher and wrong depressed; that the
glory of the Lord may cover the earth.
We invoke thy blessings upon all that
may be done and accomplished this
day, and Thou shalt have the glory,
forever and ever. Amen"
Hon. John G. Lee was introduced
as temporary presiding officer, and on
taking the chair, said:
SPEECH OF GENERAL LEE.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN
OF THE C0RVENTIoN-It is proper
that express my earnest thanks for
the pertiRlity of the con- mittee in
making me temporary Chairman Of
this Convention. The distinction i'm
FLIED in it is enhanced by the time
and the Occasion-the time, the hum
dredth year of the Republic and the
seventy-fifth Of the State, and the
occasion the selection of delegates to
the National Republican Convention,
at which we hope one of our citizens
will be nominated for the Presidency.
Loud applause.
We are met under most Interesting
circumstances. 1t is twenty-five years
since the National Republican party
was organized. Sixteen years ago it
gained National ascendeney. Sihce
that time it has substantially stood
charged with the administration of
the Government. A partial suspen-
sion of that charge existed from 1855
to 1869. The blessings of good govern
ment and the evils of bad govern
ment, so far as either force existed,
are mainly due to the Republican par
ty. lApplause.
II slavery was checked and stayed
in the universality of its empire If
personal liberty was exalted to con-
stitutiOnsi protection co-extensive
with the whole country il secession
was condemned, resisted and over
thrown; IL slavery was abolished, and
four millions of people brought into
the light OF liberty If the most
powerful and most determined insur-
rection, maintained by unparalleled
persistence and courage, was sup
pressed if the destroyed credit of q
temporarily disrupted Union was re-
covered and maintained if the Con-
stitution was amended so as to forever
prohibit slavery iftbe freedman wSs
clothed with citizenship, with civil
rights, and with suffrage if the dis
membered States have been reunited,
and the forces put into action, that
will bring civilization inspired by
universal education, intelligence, pa
triotism, morality and religion If
National debt oftwO and half bill
lions, incurred in the preservation of
a united Republic, has been partly
paid and put in course Of ultimate ex-
tinction if the faith Of the Nation
with its creditors has been kept, it is
due, under God, wholly due to the
National Republican psrty. TProlong-
ed applause.
II in the future the Nation is to con-
tinue its good faith to its creditors /; if
the National debt shall be steadily re-
dueed, and that currency, born out Of
the necessities of the civil war, which
then served q good purpose, shall
within q reasonable time be brought
to an equality with coin, by the Ma
tional Republican party must it be
done. Cheers. II industry shall
thrive, if commerce shall be prosper
Gus, TO the Republican party must
they look for whatever aid or comfort
Government can give. lCheers.
We are here to-day not only to NOM
mate candidates for State offices, but
TO select delegates to speak our wishes
in the National Republican Couven-
ton. We are here not merely to re-
affirm our devotion to that financial
policy, by the Republicans of Ohio
heretofore declared, of steady return
to the convertibility of currency and
coin OF the maintenance intact of
our common schools OF the mainte-
nance OF noelIty, integrity anO purity
in the administration of public
affairs but we are here, the repre-
sentstives of 300, ,00e voters Of Ohio, TO
give form to their united preferences
for President Of the United States.
That preference is one and unmis-
taxable. lCheers. II has not requir-
ed any magnet TO gather together its
scattered or disintegrated parts. It
mas not required an inquest to de-
termine its character. It is a growth
natural, healthful and mature. The
people demand full evidence Of patriot
ISM, and they have found it in both
mliitar ana civil service. Applause.
They demand maturity OF considers.
ton and wisdom in council. and thew
have found it. They demand firm
ness and sagacity in administration.
and thew have found than T,ho,- -