The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-10

duce at home.
Needless of the fact that al ire
deemable paper currency has cansed
su u,h a fiuctuation in values az 10 un-
settle every branch of business. break
down public confidence and destroy
prosperity. it not only demands that
paper none shall forever be tie cir
culatipg medium. but demands such
legislation as will still further initiate
the currency, unsettle and finally de-
stroy commercial confidence forever.
Standing amidst the devastation OF
ruthless mobs, the magnificent rail-
road system of the country paraly zej,
its property in the hands or armed vio-
lators of the law, the State officials in
many States overpowered and over
awed by force. 1t shrinks from IL anifest
duty and fails to offer a single sugges
ton about one of the most fearful
spectacles OF modern times-cowering
before the outburst of frenzy and pas
sion, II has no suggestion to offer as 10
a remedy.
1t dares to charge Republican legis
lation as the cause of the sufferings of
labor. while the record show. that its
own party in Congress, last winter, cut
down the appropriations for the pay of
of labor upon unfinished government
buildings until tens of thousands were
thrown out of employment in the midst
of hard season aud have been unable
since TO procure employment or bread.
This is a single leaf of a long chap
ter of wrongs against labor committed
by the Democratic party.
Gentlemen of the Convention. the
Republican party, its history, its
achievements, its record, need no eu-
logy from me. Its history is the his
tory of the brightest days of the Re
public. IL was rocked in the cradle of
a mighey revolution, which engulfed
and forever destroyed the corner-st stone
upon which the Democratic party
stood Its history records one grand
onward march to the ultimate en-
thronment of the idea of civil and relig-
ious liberty. To-day it stands as the
champion and defaulter OF human lib
erty tae guardian and protector Of the
people in all enemies; the educator OF
the masses and the hope of generation
yet unborn.
The ba.ance of the gentleman's re-
marks were in approval of the Presi
dents policy of pacification and were
received with hearty applause. At
the conclusion of his remarks Hon.
William Leonard was appointed tenn
porary secretary, with Charles Wheel
er, of Morrow; John r. Minor, of the
Tenth District; William Eames, OF
Ashtabula; John r. Nesbit, of ofGreene
county, as assistants.
On motion OF John h. Ireen, of
Hamilton county, it was ordered that
all resolutions be referred in the Com
mittee on Resolutions without debate.
APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.
The roll of the districts was called,
and the chairman of each delegation
announced the selection of members
of the various committees.
Following are the members from
this Congressional District:
Tice PreSident-E. Bogardus, Huron
county.
Com. on Credentials -Jno. NJ. Lem
inon, of Sandusky county.
Com on Per. OrgGnizdti0R-W. II.
Gibson, of Seneca county.
Com. on ResolHtiOns-l F. Mack, of
Erie county. -....-..
State Central Commhtee-Theo Tot
ten, OF Hancock county.
Following these announcements the
Convention adjourned till two O'Clock,
when it reassembled to hear the re-
ports of Committees. Committee on
Permanent Organization reported Gen.
James Garfield, for Permanent Chair
man, and VIM. Leonard Secretary.
Gen Garfield being engaged on the
Committee of Resolutions, Commit
tee was appointed to wait upon him.
and while they were absent on that
duty, Hon. Charles Foster and Hon.
Stanley Mathews, made short speeches,
after which the Convention adjourned
till 1 o'clock, to allow the Committee
on resolutions time to report.
On reassembling the Hon. James A
Garfield was introduced and addressed
the Convention as follows:
GEN. GARFIELD'S SPEECH.
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION:
II will probably be some fifteen min
utes yet before your Comnzsttee on
Resolutions will have their report here,
ard take the intervening moments to
thank you for the honor you have con-
ferred upon me in calling me to pre-
side over the deliberations of this
great Convention. Let me say that
nothing is more marked in the differ
ence between the great political par
ties than this: the Republican party
represents in its convention its best
thoughts and the best thoughts, / be-
lieve, of the nation. 1t is peculiari-
ty of our political enemies that for
many years they have been governed
by the most violent element of their
party. The violent and reactionary
elements of the Democratic party have
commanded their policy and directed
their opinions for many years in the
past. In tue days of secession the
most violent men of that party led and
dragooned behind them all the better
elements and brought their party into
line after their worst thoughts. 1t was
so in the days of reconstruction, it has
been so ever since, and it was marked
ly so Cne week ago today when the
Democratic party representing the
State of Ohio met at a time when a
great aud new peril threatened our
people, peril peculiarly alarming in
Its character, a peril that paralyzed
the great industries of the United
States, that stopped labor everywhere
in its processes. aud that Convention,
instead of speaking one brave word in
favor of law and order and tine rights
of labor and the rights of the people
under the law, commenced by igpor-
ing in the most cowardly manner the
great danger, and by daring to insin-
uate that the evils that had befallsn
upon this country had befallen upon
it because of the Republican party.
They dare to talk of the psuperisation
of labor as the cause of the great strike.
They talk of the pauperization of la
Dor, who for fifty years had done all
in their power to put one-fifth of the
laborers of America in chains, and buy
them and sell them. and whip them,
and scourge them at the will of capi
talists [applausel "a policy that de-
graded labor everywhere; and then,
after prating about the pauperization
of labor, in the same breath they de
mand the repeal OF all the laws that
the Republican party had enacted to
protect the labor of this country by
giving our laborers a fair chance to
compete in the markets of the world.
Applause. / have noticed that as an
instance of the worst and most violent
element of the Democratic party gnid
ing its counsel and molding its policy. |
And they have done more. In the
same platform one week ago to-day
they undertook to shake the solid !
Of our public peace by |
poisoning, if they could, the very
of our political power. by as
serting that our Chief Magistrate, the /
man Of our choice, was fraudulently
and attempting to throw