The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-06-29
RUTHERFORD b. HAYES.

RUTHERFORD b. HAYES.
The Republican Nominee for President of
the United States.
From the New York World.
Three times elected Governor and
twice q Congressman, Mr.. Hayes has
never vet carried either State or dis
trict by heavy majority. A native
of Ohio, Mr.. Hayes gained his aca-
demical education within the limits of
the State, commanded an Ohio regi-
ment during the war, and has passed
his entire professional life at the bar
of the State. He is now fifty-four
years old, having been born at Della
ware, O.. October, 4, 1922. He grad
uated at Kenyon College, Gambler, O.,
and obtained professional education
at the Cambridge Law School. The
practice of his profession began in
Cincinnati in his thirty-tourth year.
when he received his first official po-
sition as City Solicitor, which he held
till the war broke out in 1861. Very
near it's opening he enlisted in the
Twenty third Ohio Volunteers, and
served with the regiment till he re-
ceiyed the command of brigade in
1864. His first appointment was as
major, his first promotion came, with
in less than year, and in September
ho hnIl mis- O
tenant-colonel, and was in command
of his regiment, which he led into the
battle ef South Mountain. The Twen-
ty-third Regiment formed at the time
a part of General Reno's division-its
command devolying upon General
Cox, who afterwards preceded Cen
eral Hayes as Governor, after the
death of General Reno ia action, op-
Grating the right wing of the Army of
the Potomac. During the action Col.
Hayes received severe wound in the
arm, but remained with his regiment
to the last, and was the first officer
whose command established position
at South Mountain. Two years later
he had become Brigadier-G eneral
Hayes when he received the Republi-
can nomination in the Second Ohio
District, part of Hamilton county,
and received, homo and army vote to-
gether, 309S majority over Joseph G..
Butler, the Democratic candidate.
The Ohio delegation TO the Thirty
ninth Congress-, in which General
Hayes took his seat December, 1865,
was remarkable for its ability, and in
cluded an unusual number of men
who have since gained distinction in
the Republican party. Mr.. Robert G
Schenck, Mr.. Columbus Qelano, Mr..
John A. Bingham, Mr.. James NJ. Ash
ley and Mr.. Shellabarger were all
members of this delegation, and the
extent and variety of the talent by
which Mr., Hayes was surrounded
doubtless had much to do with the
obscurity in which his term was pass
ed. He served on the committee on
private land claims, and on the library
and passed through the
important reconstruction legislatio u
of the session with no greater dis
than vote given uniformly
and on all occrsions for his party. and
upon the most liberal of the measures
which was presented in this Congress
by Mr.. Stevens--the resolution relat-
ing to attorney test oaths-Mr. Hayes
vote was recorded in the negative. In
the fall of 1866 Mr.. Hayes was again
for Congress, and, running
against Theodore Cook, was elected
by somewhat smaller majority than
two years before. The Fortieth Con-
gress had, however, held but one ses-
sion when Mr.. Hayes was nominated
for Governor by the Republican party
and accepting the candidature, was
elected over Allen q. Thurman by q
majority of 1888 in a total vote of
$4,000, a close and narrow escape
from defeat, which Mr.. Hayes repeat
ed successfully last fall. Mr.. Hayes
was q candidate fer reelection at the
close of his term of Office, bat another
nominee was preferred, and it was not
until 1860 that he was a second time
placed at the head of the Republican
ticket in Ohio. Meanwhile he busted
IN politics and made friends
by various means--One at least is hint
ed in a published letter from Murat
Halsted and Richard Smith, two gen.
tlemen who haye not in late years
their correspondence in
addressed to Columbus
Delano, then, March 20, 1869, Commis.
sioner of Internal Revenue, in which
these two representatives of the Re-
publican press say: "The suggestion
comes to US through General Hayes
that we name certain persons to occu-
py and administer the internal revenue
offices in this city," aud the twin ed
itors accordingly nominate four men,
"neither of us having any personal
feeling in the matter" 1t wasn't
strange that Mr.. Hayes, with ideas of
this character in regard to the manip-
ulation of Federal offices, and high
ly serviceable friend like Mr.. Delano
In office, should have gained the NOM
ination which he had previously lost.
lie entered the campaign with strong
odds in his favor. General Rosecrans
was nominated by the Democratic
convention which met in July of that
year, and at which Mr.. Pendlcton's
name was peremptorily Withdrawn !;
the expected candidate refused the
nomination, however, and at late