The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-06-06

Taylor, w. .. heTT, II. ~. Ndu NOOEuiS,
Lorenzo Danford, A. s. Mcclure. R. w.
Taylor. s. A. Northwsy, ]. B. Burrows
and H. G.. Wilder, with c. P. Grifin's
place contested by J. NJ. Ashley.
On motion of General A. c. Hurst the
convention adjournad ed to sp. m.
SPEECH OF SENATOR SHERMAN
When Chosen Temporary Chairman of the
Convention.
GAINESVILLE, o., May %. Senator
Sherman upon being chosen temporary
chairman of the Republican state con-
vention responded in the following
speech:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION Il
thank you for tho honor you have con-
ferred upon me in selecting me to preside
over this great convention. You have
met to designate the next governor of the
4tate of Ohio. You have a good many
candidates before you, but each of them is
worthy of the highest honor you can con-
fer. You have the assurance that who
ever you may nominate will have the
hearty support of all the candidates and
each member of the convention. You
have also to select several of the chief ex-
ecutive officers of the state. l need not
impress upon you the importance of se-
lecting those who will honestly and faith
fully perform the duties assigned them.
You have a still higher duty, to announce
The Principles and Policy
of the Republican party in the state of
Ohio and in the United States. What you
will say here will have an important in
fluence beyond the limits of your state,
for the intelligent action of the Republi-
cans of Ohio will, as in the past, indicate
the opinions of Republicans of all parts of
the United States. We have a common
faith and creed. We act together on great
matters on principle, on small matters for
discipline. The primary and fundamental
sentiment of the Republican party is love
for our country, our whole country. We
are for the Union. one and indivisible,
now and forever.
The Republicans of Ohio are
Not Provincial, but National.
This is our cornerstone, planted in the
first Republican convention in Ohio in
1855. We stood by it in the storms of war
when Lincoln was our standard bearer.
Our soldiers fought for it under Grant,
Sherman aud Sheridan. The soldiers of
Ohio carried our flag in every great battle
of the war for the preservation of the
Union. Other patriotic citizens and SOL
diers were equally deserving of honor and
praise, hut they could not carry their
party with them. When Grant was In
the Wilderness and Sherman was before
Atlanta great party declared the war q
failure. Ours made a success. When the
war was over we did not treat our enc
mics rs conquered subjects, but as erring
brethren. We invited them back into the
Union with unabridged powers, prescrib-
ing only one conditiOn-that there should
be no slaves in our country. We now
meet them and greet them as friends, and,
Turning Our Backs on Dead Issues
we congratulate them in their prosperity,
which they did not and could not have in
their condition prior to the war.
When the war was over the Republican
party developed its civil policy. First of
all it declared its purpose to pay every
debt or obligation contracted during or
since the war that the public faith should
be unblemished. This promise has been
performed. In spite of all temptation and
the shrieks of Populists, we have dis
charged every obligation contracted dur
ing the war, and especially the highest
and most sacred debt to the surviving
soldiers of the war, their widows and
orphans. The pension roll is a roll of
honor, higher in amount than any pension
roll ever before provided by any nation.
While the Republican party is in power it
will only be diminished By the death of
pensioners, a fate that awaits US ali
Favors Protection.
We are in favor of protective tariff.
We had such tariff. While it was in
force we had prosperity. good times and
money plenty. We had SO diversified our
domestic industries that American labor
! and American capital supplied nearly all
the wants of the American people. We
prefer to tax foreign production rather
than our own. We believe that the policy
of protection should be extended to all
productions impartially, to labor on the
farm as well as in the workshop. We are
opposed to the Democratic policy of pro
tecting w0olen manufacturers and admit
ting wool free of duty.
We Denounce . scheme
public debt more than $50, 600, 600. This Il
the result of Democratic ascendency. The
tariff law of the last congress is partly .
copy of he Mckinley law and generally q
/ failnre All that Is good Of 1t was taken
from the Mckinley tariff and the rest Of
1t is confe.sedly hotchpotch. The su
preme court has already disposed Of par,
of il.
/ All the productions Of the south, from
peanuts TO whisky. are carefully ) protected
while the duties on the great staple indus