Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-08-10
Judge VESTS speech.

The response of Judge West to his nom
ination for Governor, we wer uUable to
make room for last week at the late hour
the report of the proceedings came to hand.
We hasten to do so now, that our readers
may gather something of his ability and
style, in an off-haDd effort, as well as to
satisfy themselves, in some measure, of his
way of looking at political matters.
Mr.. Chairman and Republicans of Ohio:
The action of the Convention and
the hearty greeting which this dem
onstration imports, have touched me
so deeply that l have not words of
sufficient warmth to express my deep
sense of the honor conferred. In
iuncture of affairs so critical as the
present, when questions of such great
delicacy are agitating and dividing
the public-mind, | almost shrink from
encountering the responsibilities
which the position to which you call
me will necessarily cast upon me.
Sincerely distrusting my own ability,
however, shall go into the fight,
Tapplausel, and with the help of a
benifcent Providence, who has not
hitherto deserted us, and relying up
on the iustness of our cause, we shall
triumph or fall in the harness. Ap-
plause, and cries of "Good, goods
have not had an opportunity to
read the platform of principles put
forth. The substance, however, has
been stated. So far as l understand
them, most cordially and heartily
approve of It's sentiments. l desire,
therefore, to say, that in so far as in
me lies the ability, | shall give our
present administration an honest
and fair trial aud a thorough test.
| Applause. A house divided against
itself cannot stand. Unless America |
shall be reconciled and paci6ed our
Republic is no more. Applause. |
Whilst | cling to the right of FEEDER
al Intervention to enforce the Con-
stitutional guarantee of liberty, jus
tice and protection, prefer that the
several States may themselves so en-
force in good faith these great guar
antees that no occasion for Federal |
Intervention may arise.
Touching the question of the cur
rency ! shall not pause at this time
to speak. 1t is too complicated and
too vast. have no doubt the Com
mittee have done wisely and done |
well. No contraction, no expansion.
and no depreciation, is my motto.
TGreat applause. ("HOw about the
school question:" asked a voice.)
My friend calls my attention to the
school question. My motto upon
that is, no division of the school
fund. Applause. No support of
seciarian or parochial schools by
public taxation. Applause. No al
lance between Church and State; no
encroaehment of either upon the do
main of the other.
No, gentlemen, the proprieties of
the occasion admonish me that I
should not speak at length. For If
| should branch out l might attemnt
to indulge in eulogy upon the Re.
publican party; it needs no euloov.
if l am to attempt such thing, /
should only point to the monument
preserved by the energies and con-
ficts of that glorious organization.
l would point to the colossal god
dess surmonting the dome of our tenn
pie and holding aloft that noble en-
sign that has fioated over so many
fields in triumph without a star dim
med or stripe erased. Applause
| would point to the mountains of
stricken from the wrists of
five millions of men Applause over
whom two hundred years of bond