SPEECH OF MR. NOYES.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: On behalf of the fortyfour delegates from Ohio, representing the entire Republican party of Ohio, I have the honor to present to this convention the name of a gentleman well known and favorably known throughout the country; one held in high respect and much beloved by the people of Ohio; a man who, during the dark and stormy days of the rebellion, when those who are invincible in peace and invisible in battle were uttering brave words to cheer their neighbors on, himself in the fore-front of battle, followed his leaders and his flag until the authority of our government was reestablished from the lakes to the gulf, and from the river around to the sea; a man who has had the rare good fortune since the war was over to be twice elected to congress from the district where he resided, and subsequently the rare fortune of beating successively, for the highest office in the gift of the people of Ohio, Allen G. Thurman, George H. Pendleton, and William Allen. He is a gentleman who has somehow fallen into the habit of defeating Democratic aspirants for the presidency; and we in Ohio all have a notion, that from long experience, he will be able to do it again. In presenting the name of Governor Hayes, permit me to say we wage no war upon the distinguished gentlemen whose names have been mentioned here to-day. They have rendered great service to their country, which entitles them to our respect and to our gratitude. I have no word to utter against them. I only wish to say that Governor Hayes is the peer of these gentlemen in integrity, in character, in ability. They appear as equals in all the great qualities which fit men for the highest positions which the American people can give them. Governor Hayes is honest; he is brave; he is unpretending; he is wise, sagacious,―a scholar and a gentleman. Enjoying an independent fortune, the simplicity of his private life, his modesty of bearing, are a standing rebuke to the extravagance, the reckless extravagance, which leads to corruption in public and in private places.

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Remember now, delegates to the convention, that a responsible duty rests upon you. You can be governed by no wild impulse. You can run no fearful risks in this campaign. You must, if you would succeed, nominate a candidate here who will not only carry the old, strong Republican states, but who will carry Indiana, Ohio, and New York, as well as other doubtful states. care not whom the man shall be, other than our own candidate. Whoever you nominate, men of the convention, shall receive our heartiest and most earnest efforts for his success. But we beg to submit that in Governor Hayes you have those qualities which are calculated best to compromise all difficulties, and to soften all antagonisms. He has no personal enmities. His private life is so pure that no man has ever dared to assail it. His public acts throughout all these years have been above suspicion even. I ask you, then, if in the lack of all these antagonisms, and with all these good qualities,-living in a state which nolds its election in October, the result of which will be decisive, it may be, of the presidential campaign,-if it is not worth while to see to it that a candidate is nominated against whom nothing can be said, and who is sure to succeed in the campaign?

In conclusion, permit me to say, that if the wisdom of this convention shall decide at last that Governor Hayes's nomination is safest and is best. that decision will meet with such responsive enthusiasm here in Ohio as will insure Republican success at home, and which will be so far-reaching and wide-spreading as to make success almost certain from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

SPEECH OF MR. BENJAMIN F. WADE.

Mr. Wade, of Ohio, said:

After what has been said by my colleague, there remains but very little for me to say. In fact, Gen. Hayes needs no second to name him as a nom

inee for president. He is well known in Ohio. He is well known by all the Republicans of Ohio, and respected by all the Democracy of Ohio. He is a gentleman about whom nothing can be said to his discredit; a man who will run without opposition; a man who will enter the field without the fear of any opposition whatever. We of Ohio know him well. He is not unknown in official life. He has occupied high and responsible official positions, not only in the state but in the nation; and in the whole period of his official life he has acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of those who placed him there. And two years ago, when the Republican flag seemed to be trailing, when the Republicans stood in fear that their cause might temporarily be lost, he was the man that we put up to bear the standard of this state in the face of the nation, when the eyes of the whole people were upon us, looking at us with the most intense anxiety. I need not tell you, in whatever portion of the United States you may reside, that the result of his canvass cheered the hearts of Republicans in every part of this Union, and turned the tide of victory against Democracy. Gen. Hayes has ever been a sound Republican, never deviating from his course when others have fallen, and always abetting the cause of Republicanism, spending his fortune and his power and strength to promote its interest; an undeviating Republican, in whom there was never any mistrust. He stood by the Republican party in the blackest hour of our peril. He stood by it in council and in peace, and he stood by our guns in war; and we intend to stand by him as he stood by us.

SPEECH OF MR. ST. GEM, OF MISSOURI.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: I claim the right to raise a voice from the state of Missouri in support of the nomination of Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio. Without reflecting upon the great and illustrious names that have been presented, yet I must say, that, in the present state and condition of the country it is the duty of the Republican party and of this convention to reflect upon the selection of a standard-bearer that will win in the contest of November. I will say, that on the nomination of Rutherford B. Hayes, of Ohio, a response will be heard, not only from the great valley of the Ohio, but from the still greater valley of the Mississippi, that has not been heard in many contests since the great Republican party was organized. The man who has been known as the citizen-soldier, and afterwards to have been so nonored by the great state of Ohio as to have thrice defeated the leaders of the Democratic party, and last, but not least, when the state of Ohio rested under the cloud of defeat, was the only man who, like Cincinnatus of old, forsook the plow. saved Ohio, and defeated William Allen,-that man was Governor Rutherford B. Hayes; and, gentlemen of the convention, there will be a response of all the elements of the Republican party, and a concentration of disaffected elements' that. I believe, no other man could concentrate up on the ticket. You would hear no more of Liberal Republicans, or of Reformers. It would be a general arousing of the Republican party for the ticket: it would be the most triumphant victory since the days of the illustrious and immortal Lincoln. Give us Rutherford B. Hayes as the champion of honest money and popular education, and a shout will be raised through the land that no other candidate can raise. Give us Rutherford B. Hayes as the candidate of the Republican party, and there will be no such thing as defeat.

SPEECH OF MR. J. W. DAVIS, OF WEST VIRGINIA.

Mr. President: In behalf of myself and of my colleagues, I heartily second the nomination of the gentleman who has preceded me. The character of Governor Hayes is irreproachable and unreproached. As soldier, he inspired enthusiasm among his followers and respect among his foes. He has

filled the highest offices of the state, civil and military, legislative and executive, state and national, and on every occasion he has been found equal to the situation which he filled. His devotion to the principles of civil liberty is such that his election would be a guaranty of the freedom of every citizen of the United States. His hand would hold firmly the reins of government. Nominate him here to-day, and he will surely be elected. Elect him, and you have a president that every American citizen, at home or abroad, will be proud to call his president. Without saying anything against anybody else, I feel sure that the nomination of Hayes is an assured fact. His election is just as certain as that the sun is to rise to-morrow morning. Nominate him, and he will be the president of the United States when the next presidential election shall oc

cur.

JOHN F. HARTRANFT.

Mr. Linn Bartholomew, as the representative of Pennsylvania, took the platform and said:

SPEECH OF MR. BARTHOLOMEW.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: The manifest anxiety that pervades this assembly to depart, shall hasten me to a conclusion. I know well that the gentleman whose name I propose to this convention, should he direct me, would ask and request that, so far as his merits are concerned, they should be expressed with exceeding great modesty, for that is his character. I say here, as others have said before me, that I concede to the gentlemen named a great intellectual superiority over my candidate. I do not claim for General John F. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, that he possesses great intellectuality, but I do claim for him that he knows enough to know that he does not know everything, and is willing to take and to follow good, sound, wholesome advice; and when an individual gets that far upon the road, he possesses decided merit, at least in my estimation. I can say this, gentlemen, in behalf of John F. Hartranft,-that his patriotism cannot be questioned; that his Republican principles cannot be questioned. His Republicanism was taught him under rebel fire. Before the echo of the first gun that fired on Fort Sumter had died away, John F. Hartranft was in the service of his country. He remained at the front, doing battle for his country, until material treason failed at Appomatox. His civil life has been a successful one. He has been an executive, re-elected in the state of Pennsylvania. His character is that of a Christian gentleman. He possesses the requirements for an executive officer; and let me say here to you, that he has a patriotism as large as our land. It will cover every inch of territory in our land; and in our commonwealth his name is a synonym of honesty. The people of Pennsylvania love him. You have pronounced in this convention over and over again, that Pennsylvania is a certain state. Let me say to the delegates here, that no single man upon our soil has done more to make her a pronounced Republican state than General John F. Hartranft. His administration has been economical. No word, no charge of corruption, was ever uttered successfully against his acts. Economy is his rule,-not that false economy that would send our representatives to foreign courts in nankeen pants and straw hats, but that good, wise economy of administration government that is the evidence of statesmanship; and I say here, without detaining you further, that he is with us one of our chosen.-nay, our chosen leader. This nomination on the part of Pennsylvania delegation was unsought by him. He never sought it. It was thrust upon him by the Republican party of Pennsylvania; and I ask of you here to take his claims into due consideration, because we know he is worthy. He wants in nothing to complete a good and available and successful candidate of the Republican party.

ADJOURNMENT.

The PRESIDENT. It is not necessary to read the remaining states, as there are no other candidates.

Mr. CUMBACK, of Indiana. I move we adjourn till to-morrow morning. at 10 o'clock, and that the vote be taken by the call of the states.

The PRESIDENT. The question is upon a motion that this convention adjourn until 10 o'clock to-morrow. The secretary will call the roll of the

states.

The roll-call was begun. Alabama voted 20 nays; Arkansas, 11 yeas and one nay. At this point,

Mr. EDICK, of New York. I move as an amendment that we take an informal ballot, and after that, we take an adjournment until 10 o'clock to

morrow.

Another DELEGATE. The roll-call has commenced. That motion is out of

order.

Mr. Frye, of Maine, inquired if the hall could be lighted.

1ne PRESIDENT. I desire to say, for the information of the convention, that I am informed that the gas-lights of this hall are in such condition that they cannot be safely lighted.

On motion, the convention then adjourned at 5:15 P. M. until 10 o'clock Friday morning.

THIRD DAY.

FRIDAY, June 16, 1876.

At 10:30 A. M. the convention was called to order by the president, who requested unauthorized persons occupying seats set apart for delegates to retire, and announced that this rule would be absolutely enforced during the session of the day.

The proceedings of the morning were opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Morgan, of St. John's Episcopal Church, of Cincinnati, as follows:

OPENING PRAYER.

Almighty God, Father of all blessings, Ruler of the universe, to thee we come to ask for grace and mercy to rest upon this convention. We need thy help. We pray thee in mercy to interpose and vouchsafe unto us thy grace, as thou seest thy servants need at this time. We pray thee, O God, to look upon us graciously and bless us, gathered together in this council. We pray thee to bless the people of these United States: bless the fathers and mothers: bless our sons and our daughters. Bless, we pray thee, the chief magistrate of this nation. Bless, we pray thee, the senators and representatives of this people in congress assembled, and this national council. Vouchsafe unto them, we pray thee, the direction of thine own wisdom, that by their endeavors all things may be so ordered and settled upon the surest and best foundations, that truth and happiness, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations. Save to us, we pray thee, the goodly heritage that thou hast bequeathed us by the hands of our fathers. Make strong and firm the hearts of the rulers; make patriotic and pious the hearts of the people of this land, we pray thee. Settle and establish our civil and religious institutions. Deliver us, we pray thee, from the blight of ignorance and supersititon. Bring to naught the machinations of evil and designing men. We pray thee, O Lord, that truth and justice may be established in our land for all generations. These and all other mercies that we need, we humbly ask in the name and for the sake of thy Son and our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath taught us to pray, and to say,-"Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name: thy kingdom come: thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven: give us this day our daily bread: forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;-for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever." Amen.

The PRESIDENT. Before proceeding to general business, the chair desires to call the attention of the delegations from Alabama, from Florida, and from the District of Columbia, their privilege of naming a member of the National Committee for their respective districts, the order relative to the announcement of the committee having been passed prior to the settlement of the contests.