Wilmington journal., 1876-06-23
THE KEPUBa.ICAN CANDIDATES
AND THEIR PLATFORM.

The Republican party in it's National
Convention has adopted its platform
and has put forward the ticket which
is to lead it in the Presidential contest
in the centennial year of the Repub
lie. These leaders of the Republican
party to-day. the men deemed fit to
wear it's highest honors and hold the
first offices in the gift of the. people,
have SO far identified themselves with
the local politics of their respective
sections of the Union as to enable us.
to look somewhat into their personal
history and to judge whether they
have performed anything that entities
them to the positions they have been
nominated for, or that would give
them claims to craftsmanship.
We propose this morning to give
brief sketch of each of the candidates,
taken from the New York World of
the 14th and 18th inst, following
which we print the platform OF the
party that was adopted at Cincinnati.
First then comes the candidate for
the Presidency,
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.
Three times elected Governor and
twice Congressman, Mr.. Hayes has
never yet carried either State or dis
trict by a heavy majority. A native
of Ohio, MIR. Hayes gained his acade-
oI tho 1ipoitc nf
that State, commanded an Ohio regi-
ment during the war and has passed
his entire professional life at the bar
of the State. He is now fifty-four
years old. having been born at Della
ware, O., October 4, 1922. He gradu-
ated at Kenyon College, Gambler, O.,
and obtained his professional educa-
tion at the Cambridge Law School.
The practice of his profession began
in Cincinnati in bis thirty-fo,lrth year,
when he received his first official posi- ;
ton 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 re-
ceived the command of a brigade in
1864. His first appointment was a
major his first promotion came
within less than year, and in Sep
| tember of 1862 he held com mission AZ
| lieutenant-colonel and was in command
of his regiment, which he ,led into the
| battle of South Mountain. The Twen-
| ty-third Regiment formed at The time
a part of General Eeno's division-its
command devolYing upon General Cox,
who afterwards preceded General
| Hayes as Governor, after the death OF
General Reno in action-operating as
the right wing of the Army of the Po-
tomac. During the action Colonel
arm, bat remained with his regiment
to the last, and was the first officer
| whose command established a position
at South Mountain. Two years later
he had become Brigadier-Generai
Hayes wheu he received the Republi-
can nomination in the Second Ohio
| District, u part of Hamilton county,
and received, home and army vote to-
gether. 3, 3,09S majority over JOS. {.
Butler. the Democratic candidate. The
Ohio delegation to the Tmrty-nintll
| Congress, in which General Hayes
took his seat December, 1865 was re
markabe for its ability, and included
an unusual number of men who have
since gained marked and unusual dis
tiuction in the Republican party. MIR.
| Robert o. Schenck, Mr.. Columbus De
lano, Mr.. John A. Bingham. Mr.. JAS.
A. Ashley and Mr.. Samuel Shellabar-
ger were all members of this delega-
ton, and the extent and variety of the
talent by which Mr.. Hayes was sur
rounded doubtless had much to dc
with the obscurity in which his term
was passed. He served on the Com
mittee on Private Land Claims aud on
the Library Committee, and passed
through the important reconstruction
legislation of the session with no great
er distinction than a Vote given uni
formly and always for his party, and
upon the most liberal of the measures
which was presented in this Congress
| by Mr.. Steveus-the resolution re-
10 ing to attorney test Onths-Mr.
| Hayes vote was recorded in the mega
| L., eoH e
was second time nominated for Con-
gross, and, running ag iinst Theodore
| Cook, was elected by a somewhat
smaller Majority than two years be-
fore. The Fortieth Congress had,
however. held but one session when
| Mr. Hayes was nominated as Governor
by the Republican party, and. accept
ing the candidature, was elected over
Allen G. Thurman by majority of
1888 in total vote of 4S3, 900, a close
and narrow escape from defeat, which
Mr.. Hayes successfully repeated last
fall. Mr.. Hayes was a candidate for
reelection at the close of his term of
office, but another nominee was pre-
ferred, and i was not till 1869 that he
WAS a second time placed at the head
of the Republican ticket in Ohio.
| Meanwhile he busted himself in poli-
tics and made friends by various
means -one at least is limited in apub-
lished letter from Murat Halstead and
| Richard Smith, two gentlemen who
| have not of late years conducted their
correspondence in partnership, ad-
| dressed to Columbus Delano, then,
| March 90, 1869. Commissioner of
| Internal Revenue, i'll which these
two representatives of Republican
press say, 1.-The suggestion comes to
us through General Hayes that we
name certain persons to occupy and
administer the internal revenue offices
in this city aud the twin editors