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OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Opening Remarks by an Offensive Partisa..TD
FRIGHTFUL DISASTER IN FRANCE.
Hon. j. ID. Taylor. the Temporary
Chairman. Opens Proceedings with
strongly Partisan speech. but Has
No Criticisms for the President.

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SPRINGFIELD, o., June 1.-THE republican
state convention was called To order i'm the
New wigwam in Market Space at ten O'Clock
by Hon. JOS. h. ONeall, OF Lebanon, chair
man of the republican state central committee.
The delegations of the 81 counties OF the state
were all full. and over 1000 persons were
packed in the Wigwam.
Hon. j. ID. Taylor, OF Guernsey county, was
announced as temporary chairman, and ad-
dressed the convention. Referring To the out
come of the last presidential election. Mr.. Tay-
lor began by saying: "Since you last met in
convention the most anomalous event i'm his.
tory has transpired i'm our country. by COM
bination of crimes, accidents and bunders, this
government, with all its great interests, has
passed out of the control OF the party that
saved il from treason and disunion, into the
hands of a party which. through its leaders,
sought for four long and Dloody years to tear ii
from its proud place among the nations OF the
earth, and hurl its discovered fragments into the
vortex of anarchy and dissolution. This crime
of crimes, condoned by the Over-magnauimity
of the republican party, unatoned for and un-
repented of by Its chief participants, rears its
head again in the government at Washington.
The soldiers of this Union, brave defenders OF
their countrys honor. have suffered the humili-
alton of seeing the men they fought and van
Quished on the field elevated to the highest
places of the nation and entrusted with the
public welfare. This stigma must be wiped out,
and here the work must begin, TO be completed
in lSSS.''
NOTHING To SAY AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.
The success OF the democratic party last fall,
tnS sptathtf Sdiu, WstS DuI lstll II SutttSS. anu
that this year every nerve OF the administra-
tion would toe strained To win the victory in
Ohio, New York and Virginia, needed To ratify
Its doubtful title to the presidency. The speaker
lad no criticisms To make on President Cleve-
land, whom he believed TO be infinitely better
than the party leaders behind him. He spoke
OF Jefferson Davis as the "arch traitor" and
pointed TO the fact that his eulogist, the man
who was the trusted and confidential agent of
the confederacy abroad during the war; was
to-day at the head of the department which
controls all the pension interests of the Union
soldiers, and was honored with a seat in the
Presidents cabinet
Speaking of the conflict of labor, Mr. Taylor
said: both labor and capital are being driven
into bankruptcy and ruin. Under democratic
rule in the south the laboring classes have been
kept in n condition OF ignorance and yassalage
equal TO- if not worse than the pauper labor of
Europe"
Referring to the "coal oil legislature" the
speaker said that when the democratic party
came into power the public Institutions of the
state were in a prosperous condition and there
was in the treasury a surplus of more than half
a million dollars. the Ohio penitentiary,
under the careful business management of the
republican party, had a surplus OF $4,000
over expenditures, but in eight months after
the democratic party came into power the pen-
tentiary was in debt $4,000, and two hundred
OF the convicts were Idle. The corruption and
extravaganza of this legislature had brought
the state to the verge of bankruptcy and in
creased bonded indebtedness in the state
over S100Oo,OU0.
Mr.. Taylor said the coming campaign would
not only determine the recuperatiye powers of
lIle TcpuDllcdn out Wnclnef the next
United states Senator from Ohio shall be a re-
publican or a democrat. and probably deter
mine whether the next House of Representa-
tiveS Will be democratic or republican.
In conclusion the speaker said: I'VE will carry
Ohio this year, and we will carry the country
i'm 1SSS as certainly as the stars are in the firm
ament above, if republicans do theirdu Even
now the reverberations of victory are rolling in
from the prairies of Illinois, where the grand
old hero, John a. Logan, has taken the long
contested fort Take that struggle your
inspiration and you will achieve a victory i'm
October that will shake the continent from the
mountains TO the sea. Ohio is and must ever be
republican state. The state that SO proudly
upheld the banner of James u. Blaine i'm SS4,
the resting-place of Garfield, the home of Sher-
man, Sheridan and Hayes, the birthplace of
that hero OF heroes, L. - Grant, who is to-day
watching us from his sick room in the metrop-
oils OF the nation, the state that gave To the
country 35O,O0O brave and true soldiers must
ever be a republican state"
Committees were appointed and the conven-
tiOn took a recess until after dinner.
The weather is fine and cool and the visitors
to the city are all com iortiby cared for.