The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-06-17
HAYES AND WHEELER.

tlonal R~epubiican party, Governor
Hayes, of Ohio, and Congressman
Wheeler, of New York, these gen
tlemen having received from the Ma
tional Republican convention at Gin
cinnati, yesterday. the nominations
for the highest offices within the gift
of the American people. This tick
ct will adorn these columns until the
first Tuesday of November next,
when Hayes and Wheeler viii be
chosen TO the important offices for
which they have been placed in NOM
ination by the Republican party in
National convention assembled.
RUTHERFORD d. HAYES,
tile nominee for President, was born
in Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1922;
he graduated with high honors at
Kenyon college, Ohio, and at the
law school Of Cambridge. He
adopted the profession of law, and
was elected City Solicitor of Cincin-
natl, in which capacity he served
from 1858 to 1862, when he resign
ed to enter the service for the Union
as Major of the 23rd Ohio Volun-
teers was promoted for gallant con
duct in the field to the Colonelcy of
his regiment, and in 1864 to a Brig
adler G~encralship he took part in
all the prominent battles in the south
west during the war, and returned
home covered with glory, and with a
splendid record for gallantry and pa
triotism. Ills fellow-citizens of Ham
ilton county, approaching his distin-
guished services, honored him soon
after with their choice as their rep
~resentative in Congress. He took
his seat in the Thirty-ninth Con-
gress, where he soon assumed and
maintained a high rank as a public
speaker and debater, and where he
was recognized as a man of great
power, tact and He was re-
elected to the Fortieth Congress,
but resigned in order to take part in
the Ohio campaign for State officers,
he having been nominated by the
Republicans of his State as their IAN
didate for Governor. He came out
of this campaign with flying %colors,
receiving a large majority of the
popular vote. Gov. Hayes filled his
great office with marked ability, ex-
hibiting in the discharge of his du-
ties comprehensive knowledge of
public affairs, which has SO greatly
distinguished and endeared him
to the people of his native State. In
1875 he was again chosen Governor
of his State, defeating "Bill Allen"
and recovering the Buckeye State
from the thrall of Democratic mis-
rule.
Gov. Hayes is in the prime of his
life, having nearly completed his ff-
ty-fourth year. He has a robust
constitution and powerful physique,
well preserved by careful and tenn
perate habits of life, capable of en-
during great labor, and accustomed
to it. He possesses a mind singular
ly well trained and evenly balanced.
His Judgment is cool, his impulses
generous and his decisions and pur-
poses are tenaciously adhered to.
Genial and affable in manners, not
too ready to form intimacies, but
unchangeably true to friends when
friendship is once declared. In pri-
vate life his name and fame are I'M
sullied even by a whisper, and his
public career has only been known
as upright, true and just. He is
amply Independent, without possess
ing large wealth, and is therefore
able to devote himself to the public
service with an ambition as honorable
as it has thus far been successful.
Gov. Hayes will be President
Hayes after March 4, 1877.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER.
The distinguished gentleman up
on whom has fallen the choice of the
National Republican convention for
its candidate for Vice-P President, was
born in Malone, Franklin county,
New York, in 1920; he was a mem
Der of the class of 1912 of the Uni
versity of Vermont; in the following
year he adopted the profession of
law served in the New York legis-
lature in 1850, 1851, 81 and So,
and was elected to- Congress from
New Yovk, in 1860, and reelected
to every succeeding Congress up to
the present time. He was for many
years engaged in the banking bust
ness, also President of the Ogdens-
burg and Rouse railroad company.
He was chosen delegate to the State
Constitutional convention" of 1867,
over which he presided with great
ability.
Mr.. Wheeler occupied a seat in
the House of Representatives during
a most important epoch of our Ma
! t;opo1 av;stanca ond was an,onp the