The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-06-12
DEMOCRATIC D0IkGS.
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| The State Convention.
a, WINNING TICKET AM
A Platform Sound i'm Ever,
Plank and Timber.
The Democratic. State Convention
assembled in the Opera Honse in Co
lnmbss at ten o'clock on Wednesday
June 4th. General James B. 6ieedman
Of Toledo, was chosen Temporary
ChairmAn, and Allen o. Myers, ot
Columbus. Temporary Secretary.
General 6tsedman on coming TO The
front was received with vociferout
chsers and spoke - follows:
DEMocRxrs OF ONO IN CoNvENT1os
AssEnBLED: Tbeg leave, through you.
to tender to your Committee my mosl
grststul acknowledgement for the dis.
[ttnguished honor conferred upon me
BY preceding temporarily bye our
deliberations. It IL IN hoser r. Whfch
any citi1sn OF Ohio might fe6f proud
and beg . assure yon that I esteem
It the highest compliment I ever re-
ceived in my life [applause], since
this Convention, the largest that has
assembled in the State since the war,
u attracting the attention OF tho entire
people OF this country, and the patri-
OTIS and lovers Of liberty throughout
the land ars looking with tho deepest
soi,citude upon the action which you
shall take here to-day npon the mo-
mentous issues forced upon the coun-
try by the attitude OF the Republican
party. '2s.N Z 90 = ssa' -.
HAdthe Conscript Fathers supposed,
when they were framing this Govern
msnt, that It would eyer attempt to
nee the bsyonst 10 oyerawe and intim-
idate the people. and control their
elections. tho Constitution OF the
United States wonld not have been
adopted. (Long, coniinued applause. ]
Our Rsvolationary fAahers were i'm
PEELED . the step which they took
when they separated from the mother
Government on account Of the use Of
baysnsts to do the very thing with
them which the Republican party has
been doing since the var, aud is de-
tsrmined to continue doing in this
country. CApplause.l 3 m ia
This issue 10 forced, upon ue, and
we are determined to meet il. Our
-oppoDents In this State have Endorsed
II, and present to % the gauge Of bat
tie. Te. deceive the psople - to- the
real. living issue before them in the
coming campaign; they have avowsd
their determination to reopen al the
issues of, the war, and swing the
bloody shirt again in the facaa Of the
people. They have decided uponrtlsat.
Well, tho Democracy Of Ohio can we'll
Afford to meet that iissue with the Re-
publican party. [Cheers.J Tho base
slandsr which they haSe .heaped upon
the heroic Democrats who are sleep
ing IN seldisrs' graves, and whose
bones Are bleaching on tho battle fields
Of the war Of the rebellion. is to be
repeated, In this campaign. And they
have nominated their ticket with ref
erence to the conducting Of the CAM
paign upon that plank. They might
have done better than to nominate
Charley Foster to lead them In such
Echesrs and laughter. |
OF course, have nothing to say here
to-day, persenally, against Mr.. Foster
or Mr.. Hckenlooper, or any other
gentleman on the Republican ticket,
- gentlemen; deal only with them
s;soaistI s61 sizf a8isl
: According to the ,pablishsd bis-
graphy of this gentleman, Mr.. Foster,
he was twenty-eight yssrs old In 1851,
when the war broke out. He had just
then reached the zenith Of his young
and he wss . sterling, loyal
patriot but he was net loyal enough
70 shoulder = musket, or gird on .
sword daughter and spplauseI ! and 60
10 the front to fight the battles Of his
sonntry.f He stayed ct home, like .
great many Of those loyal patriots,
Ind made money out Of the people
md soldiers. Cheers.
The Republican party has persistsd
IL this absurd claim that It 10 the only
loyal political Organization In. this
until almost every man who
belongs to 1t. really believes that he
% patriot and hero. [Great lsugh.
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Now. I assert here to-day, fellow
Democrats, and I defy contradiction
when make the statement. that It the
Hose Of the wsr, with two or three
aonorsble exceptions, every soldier
Who had won distinction and was in
command Of . department, Of an army,
or Of . corps, was Furnished by the
Dsmooratic party. [Great applause. ]
that the men whose fail.
nre in war brought disaster to the
Union, and cast disgrsce upon our
srms,wers not Democrats. Applause
that the Vances, the
the Fremonts, were not
by the Democratic party.
Applause, and . voice, Hit him
again." iissFsst 5ass gEe3 sEzH II
: / make another statement here to-sI
lay, and there 10 q living witness in
he State Of Ohio Whe was present
whom Mr.. Lincoln made the utterance.
The fret time / ever saw him was
lfter the battle Of Chickamauga, when
| was ordered By Telegraph to report
n person to him.. fApplanse.l went |
Up, aud called upon him, and, Mr..