The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-06-24
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| onellaDArger were all members of thia
delegation, and the extent and voriotu.
OF the talent by which Mr.. Haves ,.o,
surrounded doubtless had much to 40
with the obscurity in which hjs tern,
was passed. He served on the con,
mlttee on private land claims and On
lhe library committee, and nassos
thrOugh the important reconstruction
legislation OF the session with no oraat
er distinction than vote given uni
tormly and on all occasions for IT.,
party, and upon the most liberal NJ tho
measures which was presented in ,J,i1
congress by Mr.. Stevens the resolutinS
relating to attorney test oaths- W.
Hayes vote was recorded in tbo III Ill
tive. In the fall OF 1866 Mr. rIo.- rIes"-
was second time nominated TO conN
gress' and running against Theodoro
Cook, was elected by a somewhot
smaller majority than two years boforo
me tortleth congress had, howevar
held out one session when Mr.. Have,
was nominated as governor bv tha ro
puollcan party, aud, accepting the can.
a,Iuature, was elected over Allen u
thurman by majority of 2.0s3 in a
total vote of 4S9, a close and nor'
row escape from defeat, which NJ
iiayes successfully repeated last fall
MI hayes was candidate for reelec'
tlon'at the close of his term of office
ouG ahother nominee was preferred
ana IL was not till 1869 that he WAC
second time placed at the head oF tba
republican ticket in Ohio. Meanwhiio
ne busted himself in politics and n,odo
friends by various means-one at Io0st
is hinted in published Ietter fr"ns
Murat lialstead and Richard Smith.
two gentlemen who have lot of late
years conducted their correspondence
IN partnership, addressed TO Columbus
Delano, then, March 20, 1869, comlnis.
sioner OF internal revenue, in wbitb
these TWO representatives of a republl.
can press say, 1.-THE suggestion comes
10 Us through General Hayes that wa
name certain persons to occupv and
administer the internal revenue off 90
In thls city," and the twin editors ac,
cordlngly nominate four men, "nether
Oh us having any personal feeling i'm
me matter" 1t wasn't strange that
Mr. Hayes, with ideas of this Character
IN regard to the manipulation of Fed.
era! offices, and serviceabe friend Iikn
Mr.. Delano in Office, shonld bava
gained the nomination he had prpvions,
~ lost. He entered the campaign with
strong odds in his favor. Genarai
ltosencrans was nominated by the demo.
cratic convention which met in july of
that year, and at which Mr.. Pendleton's
name was peremptorily withdrawn:
the expected candidate refused the
nomination, however, and at a late date
Mr' Hehdleton was induced to take the
democratic nomination. Success was
scarcely possible under the circumst,n-
ces, and General Hayes carried the state
by majority ot 7,5I9, or about one
thlrd that OF the year before on the state
tlcket. The next appearance of Mr..
Hayes dS candidate was last fall, when
he was nominated on the public school
platform, after sharp contest with
Judge Taft, whose candidacy in oppn-
sition to Mr. Hayes was no fault of his
own, but was due entirely to letter
which Mr.. Hayes wrote the night he
fore the convention, of which tbe fol.
lowing is an extract
1,,a.l1 cannot allow my name to be used against
Jndg, az. He became candidate after I de-
Guned. lie is q pure man, and a sound rem III
nehn' wlli not nocept nomination obtained
WIN ntest against hlm.
The pith and point of the voluntary
Endorsement which Mr.. Hayes gives to
Judge Taft lies in the fact that the con-
test OF the convention turned on an en-
ergetic effort to plOcate the liberal re-
publican party by his nomination. The
attempt failed, and Mr.. Hayes became
a candidate, accepting the nomination
by teleg am the same day. In the bit,
ter and hard fought canvass which fol-
lowed, Mr.. Hayes was successful, Ie-
ceiVng majority of 5,544 over Mr..
Allen. The duties of the third term to
which Mr. Hayes was thus raised on an
anti third-term platform, ike the two
terms that preceded it, have been so far
successfully executed by Governor
Hayes without affordng the slightest
ground for comment, for observation or
for reflection, and Mr.. Hayes enters the
Presidential contest the best figure head
which the party could furnish.
WILLIAM A. WHEELER, who has re-
ceived the Republican nomination for
Vice President, is native of Malone,
Franklin county, n. Y, and was borne
June 3, 1919. After a short course in
the University of Vermont, Mr.. Wheel
er studied law and took up practice in
his native county. He was elected
District Attorney as a Democrat, an
Assemblyman as Wing, and State
Senator as Republican, presiding over
the Senate in 1858 and 1859. In 1860
hR took seat in Congress. During
that Sc ssiOn he voted for the Pacific
Railroad land grant. In 1867 Mr..
Wheeler served as Chairman of the
New York Constitutional Convention.
He was re elected to Congress in 1868,
taking his seat in Mr.. Blains s's frat ses-
sion as Speaker. Mr.. Blaine made him
Chairman of the COMMITTEES on the Pa
ciic Railroad, in which position he
served during the ensu ng Congress al
so. From the time OF his first election
until the present, Mr.. Wheeler has
voted for every railroad subsidy, wheth.
or Of money or lands. On the question
Of protection, as well as on other mats'
tiers, he has been strict party man.
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