The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-06-30
The Republican Nomination for Presi-
dent.

From the Memphis Appeal, June 18th.
We give this morning full reports Of
Yesterdays proceedings et Cincinnati,
from which 1t will be seen that Gov.
Rutherfbfd 3. Hayes, of Ohio, was nomi-
mated as the republican candidate for
| the presidency, and Hon. William A.
| Wheeler, of New York, for vice-presi-
dent. From an extended sketch of Gov.
HAYES, in the New York World ct a
recent date, we learn that he Is d native
of Ohio, and received his academical ed
ucatipn within the limits of the state,
commanded an Ohio regiment during the
war, and has passed his entire professional
life at the bar of the state. He is now
fitty-four years old, having been born at
Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1893, He
graduated at Kenyon college, Gambler,
Ohio, and obtained his professional edu-
cation at the Cambridge law school. The
practice of his profession began in Gin
cinnati in this thirty=fOurth year, when
he received his first official position as
city solicitor, which he held till the war
broke out in 1861. Very near its
opening he enlisted in the Twenty
third Ohio volunteers, and served with
the regiment till he received the
command of brigade in 1864. His first
appointment was az major, his first
promotion came within less than year,
and in September of 1862 he held a COM
mission as lieutenant-coOnel, and was in
command of his regiment, which he led
into the battle of South Mountain. The
Twenty-third regiment formed at the
time part of General Reno's division
its command devolving upon General
Cox, who afterward preceded General
Al,a Il -
General Reno in actiOn--Operating as the
right wing of the army OF the Potomac.
During the action Colonel Hayes received
severe wound in the arm, but remained
with his regiment to the last, and was
the first officer whose command estab-
li5hed a position at South Mountain.
Two years later he had become Brigadier-
General Hayes, when he received the
republican nomination. the second Ohio
district, part of Hamilton county, and
received, home and army vote together,
three thousand and ninety-eight majerity
over John g. Butler, the democratic can
didate. The Ohio delegation to the
thirty-ninth congress, in which Gen.
Hayes took his seat, December, 1860,
was remarkable for its ability, and the
extent and yarietyOf the talent by which
Mr.. Hayes was surrounded, doubtless
had much to do with the obscurity in
which his term was passed. He
served On the committee on pri-
vate land claims and on the
library committee, and passed through
the important reconstruction legislation
of the session with no greater distinction
than a vote given uniformly and on all
occasions for his party, and upon the
most liberal of the measures which was
presented in this congress by Stevens
the resolution relating to attorney test
Oaths-Mr. Hayes vote was recorded in
the negative. In the fall of 1866 Mr..
Hayes was a second time nominated for
congress, and, running against Theodore
Cook, was elected by a somewhat smaller
majority than two years before. The
fortieth congress had, however, held but
one session when Mr.. Hayes was nomi-
mated as governor by the republican par
ty, and, accepting the candidature, was
elected over Allen G.. Thurman by a ma
iOrity of two thousand nine hundred and
eighty-three, in a total vote of four hun
dred and eighty-three thousand, close
and narrow escape from defeat, which
Mr.. Hayes successfully repeated last fall.
Mr.. Hayes was a candidate for re cleo
tion at the close of his term of office, but
another nominee was preferred, and it
was not until 1869 that he was a second
time placed at the head of the republican
ticket in Ohio. He entered the cam
paign with strong odds in his favor.
General ROsecrans was nominated by the
democratic convention, which met
in July of that year, and at
which Mr.. Pendleten's name was
peremptorily withdrawn; the expected
IL 4.
ever, and at n late date Mr.. Pendleton
was induced to take the democratic
nomination. Success was scarcely pos
sible under the circumstances, and Gen.
HAYS carried the state by majority of
seven thousand five hundred and eighteen,
or about one-third of that of the wear be-
fore on the state ticket. The next APP
pearance of Mr.. Hayes as a candidate
was last fall. when he was nominated on
the public schools platform, after sharp
contest with Judge Taft, Mr.. Hryes
became a candidate, accepting the NOM
ination by telegraph the same day. In
the bitter and hard fought canvass which
followed, Mr.. Hayes was successful,
receiving majority of five thousand five
hundred and forty-four over Mr.. Allen.
The duties of the third term to which
Mr.. Hayes was thus raised on an anti
third term platform, like the two terms
that preceded it, have been so far sue
cessfuily executed by Governor HAYES
without affording the slightest ground
for comment for observation, or for re,
Election, and Mr.. Hayes enters the presi-
Dental contest the best figurehead which
the party could furnish. 1t will be seen
that Governor Hayes is not a strong
man-indeed, not so strong as his party
in Ohio; for, although three times elected
governor and twice to congress, he has
never carried either state or district by
his party majority.
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he can have it right where he can defend
it in an emergency.