The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-06-07
ARTHUR ROPES. General Bditor.
In Ohio.

The Ohio Republican State conven-
ton nominated for Governor on Fri
day George NJ. Nash of Columbus.
Mr. Nash is forty-five years old. In the
course of his professional and political
career he has been prosecuting attor-
ney for the county of his residence, at
torney general of the State, judge in
the supreme court, and during four
campaigns chairman of the State COM
mittee. Age, offices held, service rem
dered to State and party, indicate a
man of aggressive energy, ability, and
popularity which is the product of
natural qualities and causes.
In its statement of principles the
convention naturally sustained the ma
tional administration, but there was
nothing perfunctory in the form or
manner of its support. There is no
exaggeration in saying that President
McKinley's conduct of public affairs
sis distinguished in a remarkable de-
gree in the history of national admin
istrations." And there is no depart
ure from sober truth and solemn fact
in the subjoined statement:
Under the last Democratic administration
and as a result of the Democratic principles
and policy, our industries were destroyed,
capital and labor were unemployed, the
poor suffered as never before in our history,
agricultural products could not be sold be-
cause consumers could not earn money with
which to buy, and every branch OF trade
felt the blighting influence OF the Demo-
cratic tariff reform hard times; the treasury
OF the United States was depleted and the
gold reserve disappeared. The government
borrowed money to pay current expenses,
increasing the public debt in times OF peace
by hundreds OF millions of dollars.
The remedy the Democratic party
proposed for these Democratic ills was
"a deprecated and dishonest currency
which intensified every evil" During
this Democratic reign of terror the Re-
publican party held steadfast to its prin-
ciples in finance and economic policies,
"under which American industries had
been built up and had hourished be-
yond example," elected in 1896 William
Mckinley, the foremost representative
of those policies and principles, and,
10, public credit has been restored,
the prosperity of the people has devel-
eped, our commerce has grown great,
our trade, domestic and foreign, has in
creased to degree never before
known, and the people are looking
with confidence for greater things to
come"
The Administrations purpose and
achievements in intervening between
the oppressed Cubans and Castlian des-
potism "are necessarily subjects of high
est enconium by convention of Ohio
Republicans" The solution of the mo-
mentous problems of the future re-
specting the possessions taken over
from Spain may "be safely committed
to the same master guidance" and the
issue shall be "vast increase of our
foreign trade, the spread of American
civilization abroad land increment to the
honor and power and glory of this
great nation"
AS the State of the Presidents citi-
zenship and the party of his political
allegiance, Ohio and the action of its
Republicans in their organized capacity
are objects of exceptional interest, at
any time, and particularly in the incip-
lent stages of movements and combi-
nations for the national election of next
year. Ohio is not exempt from war
ring elements in politics. The "old
Adam" sometimes comes to the front
in Republican councils, but there was
that degree of harmony in the conven-
ton, that indication of political enthu.
siam, that are the presage of united
front and the inevitable triumph at the
polls in the Buckeye State in the year
preceding the national election.