The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-05-04
Secretary Bristow
PowELToN, Fla, April Is.

PowELroN, Fla, April Ia.
/ To the Editor Of the Cincinnati Times:
Will you please give your reasons for
| your opposition to Secretary Bristow.
/ The Republican voters of Florida like
\ Governor Hayes very much, and are will
/ ing to vote for him, if he is the choice OF
/ the Cincinnati Convention. We also
like Secretary Bristow. He has a good
record, and we believe he would make a
good President MANY READERS.
Our position in regard to the nomina-
tion OF Secretary Bristow as the Republi-
can candidate for the Presidency can be
stated in a very few words. His record
as prosecutor Of whisky frauds. under
instruction of the President to "let no
guilty man escape" has received just
commendation. On this capital. q num-
Der OF politicians, conspicuous for their
opposition OF the Republican party, urge
that Mr.. Bristow should be run for the
Presidency. There are some good Re-
publicans aside from these political
schemers, who like the idea but in this
part of the country they are not numer-
Gus. 1t has been a very common thing
in the past, for impulsiye people. on
hearing OF some good thing done by one
not before prominent in public life, to
nominate him for President. Col FIRE.
mont was not only proposed in this way,
on the strength of heroic feats as a
pathfinder" among the Rocky Noun
tains, but was actually nominated as the
Republican candidate. We presume no
one will now claim that il was fit NOM
ination, or that he was the best man Of
his time for Chief Magistrate of this
great Nation. So, too, when Major
Robert Anderson removed his little coul-
mand to Fort Sumter, electrifying the
Nation with really a very small amount
of galvanism. all over the land there were
forward individuals who, with a hurrah,
named him the next President" We
need not multiply instances. The talk
for Bristow is just OF this sort. His acci
dental connection with the whisky pros
ecutions is his sole capital We are not
so destitute of Republican statesmen who
have borne the burden and the heat OF
the day, who have integrity more thor
oughly tried, abilities more eminent, ex-
perience more valuable, and a national
reputation more solid, that we need take
up a comparatively unknown man, train.
ed in a different school Of politics, and
from a Southern State whose electoral
vote he could not possibly carry. We
prefer Gov. Hayes, because we know him
of trial in various public positions-to be
a man OF incorruptible honesty, Of proved
capacity, and of sound Republican prin-
ciples. lie is a man not only Of spotless
record, but one against whom no damag-
ing charge was ever even alleged. though
he has three times carried the Republi-
can banner, in hotly contested battle, to
victory in Ohio, and each time over the
strongest candidates his opponents could
nominate-frst Thurman, then Pendle
ton, and lastly Allen.
There are other Republican statesmen,
who have been prominently
named for the Presidency, any one OF
whom seems to US better deserving the |
of a Republican National Z
and better qualified for the /
high office of Chief Magistrate of the /
United States than Mr.. Bristow. We /
oppose him in this sense-not that we !
are hostile to Mr.. Bristow, but that there /
are solid Republican statesmen we be- |
lieve would be stronger as candidates |
and better qualified, when elected, TO fill !
the office of President. Give US the best. |
Times.