The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-06-29
From the Erie Dispatch.
Our Ticket,

OHIO, Is native of that State, and
will be 81 years old on the 22d of next
October. After receiving a liberal
education he entered the Law School
of Harvard College, where he COM
pleted the regular course and was
graduated with credit. Engaging in
the practice of his profession at Gin
cinnati he soon took a leading posi-
ton at the bar and was elected city
solicitor. AT the outbreak of the war
his services were rendered the gov
ernment, and on the sth of June, 1861,
he was appointed Major of the % Ohio
Infantry, being advanced to the Lieut..
Colonelcy in November following. On
the 18th of September, 1862, the 23d
took part in the fierce contest that
was. fought at South Mountain. 1t
was q terrible day for Colonel Hayes
command. He went into the action
ut the head of 325 men, and before
night nearly 200 of the brave band
were among the dead and wounded.
This regiment was the first infantry
engaged and held the advance of the
column all day. Colonel Hayes was
badly wounded, his arm broken, and
he was carried off the field, but before
the surgeon could dress his wounds he
rushed back to the field, placed him
self at the head of his command and
fought until carried off by main force.
At the battle of Berryville Colonel
Hayes commanded brigade, but
went out of the line to lead his old
regiment.
The gallant part which Colonel
Hayes and his command took in the
battle of Winchester is thus described:
Moving forward on the double. quick
under fire, the brigade reached thick
fringe of underbrush, dashing through
which it came upon a deep slough,
forty or fifty yards wide and nearly
waist deep, with soft mud at the bot
tom, .overgrown with thick bed of
moss, nearly strong enough to bear
the weight of man. 1t seemed i'm
possible to get through it, and the
whole line was staggered-fora moment
Just then Col. Hayes plunged in with
his horse, and, under a shower of
shells and bullets, with his horse
sometimes down, he rode, waded, and
dragged his way through-the first
man over. In houndering through
this mOrass men were suffocated and
drowned; still the regiment plunged
through, and, after a pause long
enough to partially reform the line,
charged forward again yelling and
driving the enemy....He Hayes
was everywhere recklessly expos
ing himself as usual. He was the
first over the slough; he was in adj
vance of the line half the time after
ward; his Adjutant General was
severly wounded; men were dropping
all around him, but he rode through it
all as if he had a charmed life"
Many columns could be filed with
accounts of his valOr in the field, but
sufficient has been said to show how
he fought his way up from the rank of
Major to that of Major General.
Before the war closed the second
Cincinnati district had elected him to
Congress, and in 1866 he was re-elec.
ted. Here he was noted for prudence,
sagacity and the soundness of his
judgment. During his entire term of
service in Congress he was never
known to make mistake, and he
was generally recognized as one of the
safest counselors in the party. So
popular was his course that the atten-
tion of the entire State centered upon
him, and in 1867, before his Congress-
ional term had expired, he was nom-
mated, almost spontaneously for the
Governorship of his State and elected.
His career since then has been one of
national renown The same wisdom,
good sense, integrity and eff
cheney which had been exhibited on
the floor of Congress, were conspicu-
Gus in his administration of the State
government. He made model Gov
ernor, and last year, when soft money
and bill-allenism seemed to have be-
witched the Commonwealth, Gov
ernor Hayes was again placed in NOM
ination as a candidate that would poll
the full vote of his party, and some
thing more. The Ohio Republicans
were not mistaken in their man. He
redeemed the State from Democratic
misrule by a majority nearly seven
times as great as that given for his
Democratic predecessor in 1873. The
speeches he made in that campaign
are among the finest to be found in
the stump literature of the country.
But his words, though eloquent, can
not match. his deeds.
Our candidate for Vice President,
Hon. William A. Wheeler, is now
serving his fifth term i'll Congress as a
Representative' of the Nineteenth
New York district and will be fifty
seven wears old on the 30th Of this
month. He received a college educa-
tion and began the practice of the law
at Malone, where he now resides lie
,,,os for sayeraI wears District AttOr-