Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-06-22

are standing rebuke to the extrav-
agance, the reckless extravaganza,
which leads to corruption in public
and in private places. [Cheers.
Remember now, delegates to the
Convention, that a responsible duty
rests upon you. You can be gov
erned by no wild impulse. You can
run no fearful risks in this campaign.
You must, if you would succeed,
nominate candidate here who will
not only carry the old, strong Repub-
lican States, but who will carry Indi-
ana, Ohio, and New York, as well as
other doubtful States. Cheers. We
care not who the man shall be, other
than our own candidate. Whoever
you nominate, men of the Conven-
tion, shall receive our heartiest and
most earnest efforts for his success.
[Cheers. But we beg to submit that
in Gov. Hayes you have those quail
ties which are calculated best to COM
promise all difficulties, and to soften
all antagonisms. Cheers. He has
no personal enemies. His private
life is so pure that no man has ever
dared to assail it. Cheers. His
public acts throughout all these years
have been above suspicion even. /
ask you, then, if, in the lack of these
antagonistics, and with all these
good qualities, living in a State
which holds its election in October,
the result of which will be decisive,
it may be, of the Presidential cam
paign-if it is not worth while to
see to it that candidate is nemina-
ted against whom nothing can be
said, and who is sure to succeed in
the campaign? Cheers.
In conclusion, permit me to say
that, if the wisdom of this Conven-
tien shall decide at last that Gov.
Hayes nomination is safest, and is
best, that decision will meet with
such responsive enthusiasm here in
Ohio as will insure Republican sue
cess at home, and which will be so
far-reaching and wide-spreading as to
make success almost certain from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. Cheers.
The Hon. Ben. Wade spoke to the
second of Gov. Hayes nomination,
but his voice was inaudible to the
Convention beyond the reporters ia
bles.
Mr.. Wade-After what has been
said by my collegue there remains
but very little for me to say. In fact,
Gen. Hayes needs no second to name
him as a nominee for President.
[Applause. He is well known in
Ohio. He is well known by all the
Republicans of Ohio, and respected
by all the Democracy of Ohio. Ap-
plause and laughter. He is gen.
tleman about whom nothing can be
said to his discredit; a man who will
run without opposition; man who
will enter the field without the fear
of any opposition whatever. We of
Ohio know him well. He is not un-
known in official life. He has occu-
pied high and responsible official po-
sitions, not only in the State but in
the Nation, and in the whole period
of his official life he has acquitted
himself to the entire satisfaction of
those who placed him there. Ap-
plause. And two years ago, when
the Republican flag seemed to be
trailing, when the Republicans stood
in fear that their cause might tempo
rarily be lost, he was the man that
we put up to bear the standard of
this State in the face of the nation
when the eyes of the whole people
were upon us, looking at us with the
most intense anxiety. l need not
tell you, in whatever portion of the
United States you may reside, that
the result of this canvass cheered
the hearts of Republicans in every
part of this Union, and turned the
tide of victory against Democracy.
Gen. Hayes has ever been sound
Republican, never deviatlng from his
course when others have fallen, and
always abetting the cause of Repub-
licanism, spending his fortune, and
his power, and strength to promote
its interest, an undertaking Repub-
lican in whom there was never any
mistrust. He stood by the Republi-
can party in the blackest hour of our
peril. He stood by it in council and
in peace, and he stood by our guns
in war, and we intend to stand by
him as he stood by US. Applause.