Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-04-06
THE STATE CONVENTION.

We congratulate the Republicans of
Ohio, and especially those of Belmont
county, on the eminent success of the
recent State Convention, and the results
likely to flow from it. 1t had been
predicted that the stringency Of tie
times-the inauspicieus time of year
following so closely on the heated cam
vass of last year, the recent develop
ments at Washington, &c.,-the State
Convention would be failure, and
that this would of itself be the enter
ing wedge of untold disaster in the
future to the party.
But see! From every hamlet and
nook of the great State went flowing to
Columbus, the largest and perhaps the
solidest bsdy of nen ever assembled in
delegate capacity in the State. Every
hotel was crowded to repletion long
before the time announced for the
Convention to assemble. True, no i'm.
portant officers, nor many, were to be
nominated-only partial State ticket
hence the gathering of the invincible
clans were all the more significant.
The busy hum of voices mingling and
resounding through the parlors of the
hotels and the corridors of the capitol
indicate an earnestnesS-a determine
tion-an enthusiastic interest-meas.
ured only by the patriotic motives that
brought the great convention together.
The Republican party had grand
destiny yet unfulflled, and pointing
to its glorious past, its devotees hesi-
tated not to declare in it, yet rested the
hope of the Republic. Betrayed by
pretended friends in high places-the
representatives of the Republican par.
ty in Ohio, came together in numbers
and spirit to excite even from their en-.
emies earnest words of communication,
to denounce wrong and the wrong-doer
to put the seal of condemnation on all
who did their trust abuse, and to de-
clare again that the guilty must be
punished-the affairs of State must be
administered honestly and faithfully,
that the public faith must be maintain
ed, and the pledges Of the Nation must
be kept inviolate, and the affairs of
the nation be so administered that all
will realize that this is "a government
of the people, by the people, and for
the people," 1t was the largest dele
gate convention ever assembled in the
State. Its deliberations were entirely
harmonious, though it was thought that
in so large a mass perfect unanimity
could hardly prevail to the present
conflict of public opinion. The con-
vention assembled and not a jar or dis
cord was felt. 1t lent itself earnestly to
the great work before it, burying all
personal differences and preferences
out of sight-and with a unanimity
most admirable it united upon the
platform adopted.
But one sentiment actuated that vast
assembly-how can we
best subserve the manifold interests of
our common country, and add to her
fair fame and prosperity? All went
home feeling it was good to have been
there.
Governor Hayes was most enthusi-
endorsed-that, too, without
any effort on his or his friends part.
There was no setting up or fixing up of
things. The sentiment expressed for
Hayes was simply that of the common
his unsullied public life,
the purity of his private character, and
his heroic record in The field entitled
him to-and was only that love of the
man 10 which the good and great are
IfGnv. Hayes, though heart
Iy endorsed, is not nominated at Gin.
'innati the Republicans Of Ohio, head
ID by Hayes, will fall into line in the
upport of a host of good Republicans.
elbows touching, eyes right, forward
Q victory, Republicans Of Ohio. /