The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-27
The Second District.

Otr0at az the republican COngreSsaOn-
at Convention, Second District, held
in Red Wing on Wednesday,, Sept.
9th, 1876.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen of the Con-
vention:
l assure you that l highly appreciate
this expression of renewed confidence
and good will, and thank you most
emphatically for the distinguished honor
conferred i'll selecting me for the third
time as your candidate for the response
bic position of representative of your
interests in the national council. |
have not heard read the resolutions that
you have adopted, but have no doubt
that the platform prepared by this con-
vention will meet with my hearty APP
prevail. Gentlemen, it is with due ap-
probation Of the distinguished honor
: that I accept the nomination rendered
me, believing that it is testimonial of
confidence expressed by the people of
this second congressional district
through their delegates here assembled.
If the nomination of this convention
shall be ratified by the people in Nov
embcr next, as l anticipate it will be,
shall faithfully devote my time and
energy in the future, as in the past, to
the faithful discharge of the responsible
duties Of the Office, and I shall endea or
to so demean myself as to do honor to the
position and meet the appreciation Of
the people that have I the honor to rep
resent.
The wisdom displayed at Cincinnati,
and the enthusiasm that has been awak,
ened by the nomination of such good,
pure, and true men as Gov. Hayes for
president and the Hon. W. A. Wheeler
for vice-president will continue unit,
the people Of these United States shall
have ratified by IN overwhelming ma
jority the choice of the convention.
Gov. Hayes record, both in public and
private life, is so unexceptionably pure
that it stamps him as an honest, abb
and high -minded man, one we'll worthy
to be president of the United States.
have great confidence in him, and
believe that he can safely be entrusted
with the management of the civil service.
Il have known the Hon. W. A. Wheeler
during three years service in the
house Representatives, and can cheer
fully say that he is a fearless, upright,
hOnorble man; one that can be trusted
by men of either party. He is one of
the best presiding officers that it has
been my good fortune to have met, and
by these qualities eminently fitted to
preside over the United States senate.
The opponents Of these gentlemen,
Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks, are
leaders of that democracy who continue
to charge upon the republican party
dishonesty, corruption, and extraya-
gance. That some dishonest men have
found place in the republican party, We do
not deny. No government has ever been
free from baG or dishonest men, even
from the administration of Washington
down to this day we have evidence that
not one has escaped them. l allege
that the charges Of corruption and ex-
travagance are unfounded and entirely
untrue, as has recently been shown by
the reports Of the thirty-three investi-
eating committees Of the democratic
house of congress. History, if it ever
does notice this house of congress re-
Gently adjourned, will note this effort of
investigating as stupendous frand up
on the American people. And for this
reason they have had at work thirty odd
investigating committees; nothing has
been too sacred for invasion; private
correspondence and kilograms have been
made public; they have gone into the
very dregs of society for witnesses; have
searched with frantic desperation the
archives Of every department, but they
have utterly failed to fasten upon the
republican party the oft repeated
charges Of corruption. They have not,
in all their Investigations, been able to
ind that one dollar of money had been
stolen from the treasury, and yet they
are not happy. The republican party
has Of itself exposed and punished it's
own wrong doors. 1t has exhibited the
power, and l trust ever will continue
to punish all its dishonest and corrupt
officials.
The DamOcratic n,rtr bovine c,1l