The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1876-06-22

duce but WheTe nOt even log caDll
had been erected or 9 white mai
born, when our government was or
gsnized.
The last three National Conven
tiOns OF our party have had indicates
to them, i'm advance, the names o.
the candidates for the National tick
ct, so that they have been little els
than ratification meetings of DEGREES
thst have been made by the people
lmersly putting in form that which
had already beeu decided upon.
allude to President LineO!n's secOn'
nomination, and to the nomination
and denomination of the splendiG
soldier aud patriot General Grant
, But such a state OF things no lOnge
exists there appears To be, at tn
? present time, no one To whom tb
Z unerring finger points as the Oul1
candi late There seems To be ID
man rising so far above all Others a
to cause exultant voices to eXclAim
"ThOu art the man ~
The consequence is that many dis
tinguished names among our partI
friends have been mentioned "a can
didates, and will be brought befor'
the Convention when the pTOpe
tire arrives for making nominations
Therefore it is that have expresses
myself as seeing greater responsible
ties resting upon the delegates to thi
Convention than upon any or all thai
have preceded it.
The history Of the Republican part,
furnishes abundant evidence of itl de
sire that the government shall b.
] sr,f f,Ta-a1 NTH hnn-afxy
economy, and as a IN cans to tnat end
that the civil service should be ele
waited by the Introduction pf all nee J.
full and proper reforms. With such a
history. and at 4 time like the present
it can not be doubted that the choice
OF the Convention will fail on soms
one, whoever he may be, clearly com
mitted on this euestiGn-nOt only 10y
his expressed opinions, but also by
his public life and conduct.
1 will not further anticipate the
action of this honorable body, except
to say that the firm support, on the
part of tue nominees, of all the re-
cent amendments to the National
Constitution, and the support and
maintenance OF all other principles
involved in the war for the pTeserva-
ton of the Union, must also be regard
ed as the prerequisites for the high
offices of President and Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States. With
this accomplished, it will be the high
est duty and should be the greatest
pleasure for all in authority to extend
the warm hand of fellowship TO all
good citizens of this Union, and as
rapidly as possible to fOIgive and "a
forget the recent past, and to dc
every act To make US satisfied to be
and remain in fact, as we are In
name, one people, aud one country.
It is fit and proper, citizens of Gin
cinnati, that the Republican National
Convention, in this Centennial year,
should be held in your city and under
yOHr auspices, as you, quite as fully
as any other locality, represent In
yourselves the industry, the enter
prise, the sublimity, and the grandeur
Of our cOuntry's growth and great
ness.
The speech OF Gov. Morgan WAS fire.
quently interrupted by applause, and
the allusion to the achievements oi
the Republican party, to the financial
principles of the party, and the deter
minatiOn tD remain true TO its prom
ises made in the past ever enthu.
siastically received. Having con-
concluded, he nominated the Hon
Theodore NJ. ID. POmeroy, OF New
York, as temporary Chairman, aud
appointed Gov. Baldwin, of Michigan
and Gov. Van Zandt, OF Rhod Is.
land. TO escort him to the chair.
SPEECH OF THE TEMPORARY CHAIR
Mr.. POmerOy was brought on thG
stage by his escort, and began an elo-
quent address in words like the fol-
lowing:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION
IL thank you most heartily for the
compliment conferred by calling on
me to preside over the temporary or
ganiZation of this Convention.
1 have been so long withdrawn
from practical participation in politl'
cal affairs, that it Is in obedience tC
custom, rather than my own inclina
ton, that occupy even few mo-
ments of your time in the -considera
tiOn of the political situation, and o.
the principles so long and so success
fully entrusted to the keeping OF the
Republican party. Events have
chased each other so rapidly from the
inauguration of Abraham Lincoln tC
the closing year OF the administration
of President Grant, fraught with such
fundamental changes in the whole
theory and practice of governme ent
that the consideration OF them in the
/ 49,. .,raoln1aA -,
occasion such as this. Brief as may
be considered the existence of the Re-
publican party, none other in the
history of the Nation has, for so Ions
a consecutive period, controlled 1t:
government without encounterine
|, popular defeat, and still, nCtwith
standing popular paleness Of political
ascendency long continued by any
party, it is in the power of this Con
/. VentiOn to designate the comiue
President of The United States. OuI
folly may concede what the wisdom
of the opposition can not achieve, oul
defeat at the polls Ia November, buI
such defeat can come from no OtheI
source. We are not met here a. con.
tending factions within the party TO
test under various leaderships our re
: lative strength, but as representatives
occupying 3 high responsibility to ex
tract from th5 erucIble of conflicting
} opinions that type OF American states
! manship which shall be occupied q
| the worthy embodiment Of. the prin
ciples of the party. Men, as Well a
measures, are to be weighed ia tn
balance during the coming canvass
| and neither must be found wanting
to secure success. The Republican
: psrty can not continue to live by rea
, son Of its splendid achievement OF thi
past, nor the Democratic party expec
{ to be returned to power upon its gilt
tering promises to reform in tn
future. The former has but 10 pre-
sent men representative of its princi
) ples the latter must discover boil
men and principles. 10 former days
? when party ties were firmer whel
) the immediate pressure of impendiuG
! National ealqmitiss hedged us abou!
= and compelled party fidelity, the plat
g form carried along the man, whOeve
t he might be. Party ties are loose
D now, and no platform is buoyRn
B enough to float an unworthy candi
date. The necessity of the cOntinu
t anee of the administrative policy G
e the Republican party, while not y
: apparent in immediate results, Is a
8 commanding respecting future cOnse
:. gueaces as at any time in its history
g We are told, that it has accomplishe
its mission, and, therefore has d
J, longer claim to live. Well, IL it has
= and the time for its dissolution ha
e come, it can die triumphantIy, eX
claiming, with the Apostle of old, ''
It have fought good fight, have KEEP
: the faith" 1t has fulfilled the mis
= sion Of its birth in neutralizing tn
0 disastrous effects of the repeal of Tn
4 Missouri Compromise in saving {
: freedom the great Territories OF th
q Northwest, aud in bringing CaiifOI
8 mia into the sisterhoOd Of States. un
Il defiIed by slavery, and adorned like
g bride in the glitter of her gOlde
Il promise. 1t fulfilled the mission {
= its youth by accepting the "irrepres
:. sible conflict" and it was q missio
!. worth living for to have saved a nj
g tiOnality like ours; to have freed fou
e million slaves and raised them tO th
I dignity OF American citiz snship, an
o to have reconstructed the FEEDERS
n COnsfifUfinn an az Tn nlcoa the lihel