Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-07
ONO REP UBETCAN CONTENTION.


At Columbus yesterday, the Ohio Repub-
licans, in convention assembled, nominal
ed Gov. Fosters ticket, and Judge j. B.
Foraker, of Cincinnati, adorns the first
place upon the sacrifcial altar. The
convention was very harmonious and en-
tn usiastic, owing to the fact that man
had been secured at last who was willing
to be nominated for governor, with
utter self-abnegation, allowing Foster
to place him at the head of the
forlorn hope. 1t was never before known
in the history of Ohio politics that Re-
publican state ticket, from end to end, was
nominated by reclamation. With the ex
ception of Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor the candidates are the present in
cumbents and could afford to allow them
selves to be placed under fire, and encoun-
ter no special disadvantage in defeat. If
there were the slightest prospects of sue
cess the nominations would have been
sharply contested, but the alb
sence of that prospect saved all trouble,
and the motions were quickly gone through
with.
Private Dalzell, who hates John Sherman
reason to, put his name before the con-
vention, but Sherman knew too we'll his
standing in the state to hazard the thought
for a moment, and with his accustomed
demagogical leer Kissed out his declina-
ton. No man in the state could be bur-
;al in
Sherman, and he knows it.
There has not been an hour since
his first election to the United States
Senate, to accomplish which he betrayed
and drove from public sight E. A. Parrot,
of Dayton, that Sherman has dared to
last election to the Senate he owed en-
tirely to Garfield, over whom he exercised
some mysterious power, which more than
once he brutalIy used, the secret of which
is probably forever buried IN the grave of
the dead President. And so reluctant was
the Legislature to forego their favorite
choice that it required the most
urgent demand of the President-elect
to secure the election of the man who had
far too few friends of his own.
The platform, as whole, is after the
usual form of latter day Republican liter
ature, merely sounding brass. Upon the
tariff question the plank is bodily taken
from the platform adopted by the Ken
lucky Democratic convention, which has
met with general public approval, and,
after parading in stolen garments, the
next step was to turn upon
citation, as the real thief often gains in the
pursuit, bawling loudest, ''stop thief"
The position taken by the platform re-
garding 'prison contract labor adopted
almost the identical language employed
regarding the support by the last Dem
ocratic state convention of New York. Up
on the temperance question the platform
is contemplate straddle, favoring pro-
hibition, license, taxation, free rum, "jest
as you may light O. chaps as Mr.. Weller
would say. The platform is congratula-
tory upon an alleged reduction of taxes
by the last congress. but makes
no mention of the large deficiency bills
that the continued extravaganza of expen-
datures and administration will demand of
the next congress. The convention did
not dare to omit word of approval of
civil service reform, claiming it with char
acteristic effrontery as being exclusively
Republican doctrine, denying as far as pos
sible the fact, that the civil service law
now being put in practice was introduced
into congress by Democrat, and would
have been defeated if the Republicans had
had the power to defeat it.
Such was the Republican nominating
convention of the great state of Ohio.
SounI and fury, signifying inglorious de-
feat. The ticket nominated is not calcU
lated IL any part to awaken interest, md
the platform, wherein it departs from
threadbare platitudes, is understood to &c
promises made to the ear to be broken 10
the hope. AS the result of yesterday IS
work by the Republican party of Ohio the
Democrats will sweep the state in October
next, and the name of the next governor of
Ohio is not Foraker, but George B. Hoad
ley, who by popular acclaim will be the
Democratic nominee, commanding not
only the entire vote of his own party, but
sure to receive large and valuable support
from independent patriotic citizens who
have heretofore voted Republican tickets.