Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-05-01
The Buckeye Republicans
in Council
Make a State Ticket which will Insure
Victory in Ohio.
GEN. JAMES S. ROBINSON, OF
KENT0N. FOR SECRETARY
OF STATE.
Prominent Republicans for Other
Places.
COLORED MEN REMEMBERED.
A Platform Needing No Props.

The State Republican Convention Wa:
called to order Wednesday afternoon al
o'clock, in the Tabernacle, on Ontari,
street, Cleveland, it being the first polit
ical gathering that was ever permitted
to convene in that building. 1t wa:
fortunate that such permission was
granted the local committee, for in NJ
other hall in the city could so large an
audience as assembled there have beer
accommodated. The Tabernacle never
presented so exhilarating scene. filled
as it was with 1000 Republicans from
all portions of the State, and decorated
with profusion of flags and banks Of
flowers.
AS early as l o'clock the crowd began
to gather. and by o'clock not seat on
the floor or gallery was unoecupied. The
stage was beautifully decorated with
rlants and cut flowers. The seats recede
from the stage in the form of an am
phitheater, apd on these seats were SOC
of the most prominent Republicans in
attendance on the convention, beside
many local Democratic leaders. Viii
sons full uniformed band were station
ed in the midst of this group, and for
two hours previous to the calling of the
convention thrilling National airs re-
sounded through the great building.
An immense canopy of flags had been
built over the stage. In the rear the
great Tabernacle organ formed the back
ground for tasty arrangement of tropical
plants, and from the chandeliers were
pendant blooming baskets of wine and
flowers. Flags and bunting were sus-
pended from the gallery railing. and IA
bank of plants. composed of Gala lilies,
ferns, fuchsias, ribbon leaves" and
azalias. was built around the front of
the speakers platform. Before this
were the press tables. at which were
seated representatives of 100 leading
joui nails In the audience seated in the
galleries were many ladies. who seemed
to take decided interest in the pro-
ceedings.
Hon. J. o. Converse, chairman of the
State Central Committee. called the
convention to order, and on behalf of the
who had sent the Delegates to
the convention to organize for victory.
he welcomed the representatives of the
Republican party of Ohio. With this
brief remark he then introduced Rev.
DR.. D. H. Muller, pastor of the Scovill
Avenue Methodist Church. who opened
the convention with prayer, the same
honor having been conferred on him al
the National Convention of 1875 at Cin-
cinaati. he being then stationed in Cow
ington, KY.
Upon the conclusion of the prayer, MIR.
Converse made brief address, and an
nounced the following temporary Or
ganization:
Chairman Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor,
of Athens.
Secretary-W. E. Sherwood of Cuya-
hoga.
Assistant Secretaries-D. NJ. Glenn of
Cuyahoga, s. n. Field of Franklin, j. F.
Hamilton of Fulton.
Gen. Grosvenor was receiy ed with ap-
plause and delivered the following elo-
quent address:
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITI
zENs-The Republican party is entering
upon another Presidential campaign. It
is well that, in so doing, we take first
view of the Republican par
ty and its opponent; that we examine the
present p inciples of the Republican par
ty, and finally, that we look forward, can
vass the prospects and possibilities of the
future, and take counsel together, with
a view to harmonious action. The histo
ry of the Nation during the past 25 years,
rises before us like dream" We see a
broken and disrfembured Union. We see
a demoElized public sentiment, dis
honored flag, treason in arms against the
an empty treasury, a ruined
public credit, industries prostrated, bank
rhptcy everywhere staring the Nation and
private individuals in ihe face, enterprise
confidence extiDguished, Ha-
tional destruction imminent. We see
slavery the domineering idea in the coun-
try. The administration of the Govern
ment devoted to its promotion and ex-
tension. We see that liberty, freedom of
speech, freedom of thought. freedom OF
action, were wholly unknown among the
penple of the eutire country.
But a new political party springs up,
phoenix like, out of the ashes of the old
parties. 1t was called into being and ac-
tion by the reviving spirit of liberty. 1t
was famed into breath and action by the
great apostles of freedom of that day. the
Chases. the Stewards. the Wades, the Sum
ners, the Wills ms, the Fessendens and
their associates of that heroic age in
American politics. 1t grew rapidly. 1t
grew numerically in the ratio of the
growth of the sentiment which called it
into being. 1t went forth to execute the
behests OF the people of the country that
liberty and union should be something
more than sounding brass in our Govern
ment. Defeated in 1856, it carried the
country in 1850, and it has administered
the Government from that time until
now. almost a quarter of century-mo
mentous and magnificent period. Ele
mens that before the war were working
the slower. but none the less certain. de.
struction of the country, rush to arms, to
accomplish by faster, but not more Ger
tain means, the destruction of the Union.
1t overthrew the rebellion; it DESTROYED
slavery; it enthroned liberty; it engrafted
upon the organic law of the county. for
the first time. the spirit and purpose of
the Declaration of Independence and of
the Constitution itself; it restored the re.
beilious States to their places in the