The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-28

has been identified neither with the
men who have betrayed the trust
which the party confided to them, nor
with the scandals which have marked
the recent history Of all sections of
American politics. Neither of them
has excited violent animosities, and
both of them have done such service
to the Union and to their party as will
secure for them the warmest support
of Republicans of all shades of opinion.
The nominations are such as ought to
command the approval of every ''Inde-
DESTROYS of elevating the tone Of our
who has been honestly dissatisfied
with the dictates of office-holders or
the abuse Of the political influence of
the administration.
Gov. Hayes was a brave and capable
soldier, and has been resolute, faith
full, and painstaking as civil admins
TRAITOR. Ten years ago his name was a
tower of strength for the Republicans
of Ohio, and the successive ordeals of
political struggle and administrative
responsibility have only increased his
hold on the confidence of the people of
his native State. The man who led
the desperate charge across the treach-
erOus morass at Winchester lived to
overcome in the political arena the
Democratic leaders of Ohio, Allen G.
Thurman, George II. Thurman, and
Gov. Allen. He lived also to become
the embodiment Of all the principles
opposed to the financial sophistries,
the ill.concealed dishonesty, and the
arrant demagogism of which these
sentatives. His election was a tri-
umph of able and cautious leadership,
and of the bold and steadfast cham
pionship of public faith and conscience
against the mischievous intriguers
who paltered in double sense with
these essentials of the stability of the
State. In that most delicate and diff
cult Ohio campaign of 1875, Gov.
Hayes was prudent without being pu-
sillanimous, wary without trickery,
and bold without temerity. He bated
not a jot of the integrity of his party's
record on the treatment of the fnan-
ces, and he went far beyond the halt.
ing utterances of the State platform
on the question of resumption. But
he never insulted the wavering mass
of doubtful voters by reckless impu-
tatiOns of motives, and he acted on
the principle that. advantages which
could not be gained by sober discus
sion were not worth gaining at all.
The man who was last year elected
governor in the face of Democratic
majority at the previous election of
1900, and after the State had polled
10000 more votes than at any previous
time in it's history, will secure Re-
publican victory in Ohio in October,
1876, whose proportions will family
indicate the sweeping character of the
triumph which awaits him in Novem-
Der.
St. Louis Republican (Denocratc).
1t is useless to disguise the fact that
the ticket-Hayes and Wheeler-is a
very strong one, as presenting ele-
ments of political success. Of course
Gov. Hayes does not enjoy the promi-
nence Of some of the other candidates
for the leading position, but he possess
es nevertheless some notable negative
qualities which render him, as we
thlnk,.s;a very formidable selection.
The fact that he is from. Ohio cuts no
figure in the case, as the foolish dis
sensions of the Ohio Democracy had
already given that state over to the
Repnbli caus; but he is outside of all
factional quarrels has escaped invest
igations; was good Union soldier; is
opposed. to ''intlation,'' and stands
generally upon the "high moral
ground of the Buckeye statesmen and
newspapers. Mr.. Wheeler's nomina-
ton was doubtless an effort to discour-
age the nomination of Tilden by hold
ing out the idea that New York could
be carried for the Republicans by rea-
son of being favored with a Vice-Pres-
ident, after the ''favorite SON. had
been beaten for the first place. Mr..
Wheeler, too, has not been thus far
mixed up in the Republican corrupt.
ions of the day, and he sustains a good
reputation for ability.