Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — The National Republican Convention. [ARTICLE]

The National Republican Convention.

SECOND DAT. The Convention was called to order a little after eleven o’clock, and the proceedings were opened with prayer. The memorial of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association was presented and referred to the Committee on Resolutions, and Mrs. Sayler i. Spencer was, on motion, granted a brief hearing in behalf of the claims of women citizens to a practical recognition of their political rights. The Committee on Rules made their report One of the rules, providing that the nominations should not be made until after the

adoption of the platform, elicited some objection and debate, but was finally adopted together with the remainder of the report. By the rules, as adopted, it was provided that in making nom'natlous for President and VicePresident, In no case should the calling of the roll be dispensed with; and that when any Bt*te had announced its vote, It should so stand until the ballot was announced, unless In the case of a numerical error. ” The Committee on Credentials reported no contested delegations except from Alabama, Florida and the District of Columbia, in the Alabama case the committee recommended toe admission of the antl-Bpencer delegateo; in the Florida case they recommended to admit the Conover delegates; and they recommended the admission of Bowen and Green from the District of Columbia. A minority report was made in the Alabama case in favor of the Bpeucer delegation. The report of the committee on all points save the Alabama question was adopted. A lively discussion then ensued on the Alabama case, alter which the minority report was rejected—yeas, 854; nays, 375—and the report of the majority was adopted. The Committee on Resolutions then reported the following platform, which was subsequently adopted without amendment: When, in the economy of Providence, this land was to be purged ot human slavery, and when the strength of the Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, was to be demonstrated, the Republican party came Into power. Its deeds have passed into history, and we look back to them with pride. Incited oy their memories and high aims for the good of our coantry and mankind, and looking to the future with unfaltering courage, hope and purpose, we, the Representatives of the party in National Convention assembled, make the following declaration of principles: 1. The United States of America Is a Nation, not a leagne. By the combined workings of the Nation and Stale Governments nnder their respective Constitutions, the lights of every citizen are secured at home and protected abroad, and the common welfare promoted. * 2. The Republican party has preserved those Governments to the hundredth anniversary of the Nation's birth, and they are now embodiments of the great truths spoken at its cradle, that '* all men are created equal;” that they are “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, for the attainment of these ends Governments have been instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Until these truths are cheerfully obeyed, or, if need be, vigorously enforced, the work of the Republican party is unfinished. 3. The permanent pacification of the Southern section of the Union, and the complete protection of its citizens in the free enjoyment of all their rights, are duties to which the Republican partv stands sacredly pledged. The power to provide for the enforcement of the principles embodied in the recent Constitutional amendments is vested by those amendments in the Congress of the United States; and we declare it to be the solemn obligation of the Legislative and Executive Departments of the Government to put into immediate and vigorous exercise ail their Constitutional powers for removing any just causes of discontent on the part of any clasß, and for securing to every American citizen complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of all civil, political and public righta- To this end we imperatively demand a Congress and a Chief Executive whose courage and fidelity to these duties shall not falter until these results are placed beyond dispute or recall. 4. In the first act of Congress signed by President Grant the National Government assumed to remove any doubts of its duties to discharge all just obligations to public creditors, and solemnly pledged its faith to make provision at the earliest practical period for the redemption of United States notes in coin. Commercial prosperity, public morals and National credit demand that this promise be fulfilled by a continuouc and steady progress to specie payments. 5. Undei the Constitution the President and heads of departments are to make nominations for office, the Senate is to advise and to consent to appointments, and the House of Representatives is to accuse and prosecute faithless officers. The best interests of the public service demand that these distinctions be respected; that Senators and Representatives, who may be judges and accusers, should not dictate appointments to office. The invariable rule for appointments should have reference to the honesty, fidelity and capacity of the appointees, giving to the party in power those places where harmony and vigor of administration require its policy to be represented, but permitting al! others to bo filled by persons selected with sole reference to the efficiency of the pnblic service, and the right of all citizens to share in the honor of rendering faithful service to their country. 6. We rejoice in the quickened conscience of the people concerning political affairs, aud will hola ail public officers to a rigid responsibility, and engage that the prosecution and punishment of all who betray official trusts shall be speedy, thorough and unsparing. 7. The public-school system of the several States is the bulwark of the American Repnblic, and, with a view to its security and permanence, we recommend Jin amendment to the Constitution of the United States forbidding the application of any public funds or property for the benefit of any schools or institntioas nnder sectarian control.

8. The revenue necessary for current expenditures and the obligations of the pnblic debt mnst be largely derived from duties on importations, which, so far as possible, should be adjusted to promote the interest of American labor and advance the prosperity of the whole country. 9. We reaffirm our opposition to further grants of the public lands to corporations and monopolies, and demand that the National domain be devoted to free homes for the people. 10. It is the imperative duty of the Government so to modify existing treaties with European Governments that the same protection shall be afforded to the adopted American citizen that is given to the native born, and that all necessary laws should be passed to protect immigrants in the absence of power in the States for that purpose. 11. It is the imperative duty of Congress to frilly Investigate the effect of the immigration and importation of Mongolians npon the moral and material interests ofthe country. 12. The Republican party recognizes with approval the substantial advance recently made toward the establishment of equal rights for women by the many important amendments effected by Republican Legislatures in the laws which concern the personal and property relations of wives, mothers and widows, and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class of citizens for additional rights and privileges and Immunities should be treated with respectful consideration. ' r . . A 18. The Constitution confers npon Congress sovereign power Over the Territories of the United States ior their government, and in the exercise of this power it is the right and 'the duty of Congress to prohibit and extirpate in the Territories J that rqkc of .barbarism, polygamy. jmd we demand such Isolation as shall secure this end, and the supremacy of American institutions in all the Territories.

14. The pledges which the Nation has given to our soldiers and sailors mast be fnlfilled; the grateful people will always hold those who periled their lives for the country’s preservation in the kindest remembrance. 15. We sincerely deprecate all sectional feeling and tendencies; we therefore note with deep solicitude that the Democratic party counts aa Its chief hope of success upon the electoral vote of the nnited South, secured through the efforts of those who were recently arrayed against the Nation; and we invoke the earnest attention of the country to the grave truth that a success thns achieved wonld reopen sectional strife and imperil the National honor and human rights. 16. We charge the Democratic party as being the same in character and spirit as when it sympathized with treason; with making its control of the Honse of Representatives the triumph and the opportunity of the Nation's recent foes; with asserting and applauding In the National Capitol the sentiments of unrepentant rebellion: with sending Union soldiers to the rear, and promoting Confederate soldiers to the front; with deliberately proposing to repudiate the plighted faith ot the Government; with being equally false and imbecile; with overshadowing the ends of justice by Its partisan mismanagement and obstruction of investigation; with proving itself, throngh the period of its ascendency in the Lower House of Congress, utterly incompetent to administer the Government. We warn the country against trusting a party thus alike unworthy, recreant and incapable. 17. The National Administration merits commendation for its honorable work in the management of domestic and foreign affaire, and President Grant deserves the continued and hearty gratitude of the American people for his patriotism and his eminent services in war and in The Chair then announced that the next 7 business would be the nominations of candidates. A motion to adjourn was made and lost. Mr. Kellogg, of Connecticut, then presented the name of Marshall Jewell for President, and briefly stated his record. Mr. R. W. Thompson, of Indiana, nominated Oliver P. Morton, and was seconded by Mr. Pinchbeck, of Louisiana. Gen. Harlan, of Kentucky, nominated Benjamin H. Bristow, which nomination was seconded by Messrs. Poland, of Vermont; Curtis, of New York, and Dana, of Massachusetts.

Col.R. G. Ingersoll, of Illinois, then appeared upon the platform and offered the name of James G. Blaine, of Maine, as a candidate for the nomination for the Presidency. After the conclusion of Mr. Ingersoll’s remarks, Henry M. Vtktier (colored), of Georgia, and Wm. B. Fcye, of Maine, seconded the nomination of Mr. Blaine. Stewart Woodford, of New York, then offered the Convention the name-of Koscoe Conkling. E. W. Noyes, of Ohio, presented the name of Rutherford B. Hayes, which nomination was seconded by Meases. Wade, of Ohio; Arnea, of Missouri, and Davis, Of West Virginia. Linn Bartholomew, of Pennsylvania, named Gen. John f. Hartranft as a candidate for the nomination for the Presidency. The nominations being concluded, a motion was made and carried to adjourn until ten o’clock on the morning of tiffe 10th. THIRD DAT. The Convention re-assembled at 10:85 on the 16th, and was opened wifti prayer. Balloting for a candidate for President was then begun, the first roll call resulting as follows: For Blaine—Alabama, 10; California, 9; Colorado, 6; Delaware, 6; Florida, 1; Georgia, 5; Illinois, 88; lowa, 22; Kansas, 10; Louisiana, 2; Maine, 14; Maryland, 16; Massachusetts, 6; Michigan, 8; Minnesota, 10; Missouri, 14; Nebraska, 6; New Hampshire, 7; New Jersey, 13; North Carolina, 9; Oregon, 6; Rhode Island, 2; Tennessee, 4; Texas, 2; Virginia, 16; Vermont, 1; West Virginia, 8; Wisconsin, 20; Arizona, 2; Dakota, 2; Idaho, 2; Montana, 2; New Mexico, 2; Utah, 2; Washington Territory, 2. Total, 285. ■ • •_ Bristow—Alabama, 7; California, 2; Connecticut, 2; Georgia, 3; Illinois, 8; Kentucky, 24; Massachusetts. 17; Michigan, 9; Mississippi, 3; Missouri, 2; Nevada, 3; New Hampshire, 8; New York, 1; North Carolina, 1; Rhode Island, 6; South Carolina, l; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 6; Vermont, 8; Wyoming Territory, 2. Total, 113. Conkling California, 1; Florida, 3; Georgia, 8; Michigan, 1; Missouri, 1; Nevada, 2; New York, 69; North Carolina, 7; Texas, 3; Virginia, 3. Total, 98. Morton—Arkansas, 12; Florida, 4; Georgia, 6; Indiana, 30; Louisiana, 14; Mississippi, 12; Missouri, 12; North Carolina, 2; South Carolina, 13; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 5; Virginia, 3; District of Columbia, 2. Total, 125. Haves—Alabama, 2; Illinois, 1; Michigan, 4; Missouri, 1; Nevada, 1; New Jersey, 5; Ohio, 44; Vermont, 1; West Virginia, 2. Total, 61. Hartranft—Pennsylvania, 58. Jewell—Alabapaa, 1; Connecticut, 10? Total, 11. Wheeler—Massachusetts, 3. The second ballot resulted as follows: Blaine, 298; Bristow, 114; Conkling, 93; Morton, 120; Hayes, 64; Hartranft, 63; Wheeler, 3; Washburne, 1. Third Ballotr— Blaine, 293; Bristow, 121; Conkling, 90; Morton, 113; Hayes, 67; Hartranft, 68; Wheeler, 2; Washburne, 1. Fourth Ballotr-Blalne, 292; Bristow, 126; Conkling, 84; Morton, 108; Hayes, 68; Hartranft, 71; Washburne, 3; Wheeler, 2. Fifth Ballot—Blaine, 286; Bristow, 114; Conkling, 82; Hartranft,-69; Hayes, 104; Morton, 95; Washburne, 3; Wheeler, 2. Sixth Ballot—Blaine, 308; Bristow, 111; Conkling, 81; Hartranft, 50; Hays, 111, Morton, 85; Washburne, 4; Wheeler, 2. On the seventh ballot, when Indiana was called, Mr. Cumback ascended the platform and made a short speech, withdrawing the name of Mr. Morton and casting twenty-five votes of Indiana for Hayes and five for Bristow. He was followed by Gen. Harlan, of Kentucky, who withdrew the name of Mr. Bristow and- cast the entire vote of his State for Hayes. Great cheering followed this announcement. Mr. Cumback then cast the entire Indiana vote for Hayes. The following is the result of the seventh ballot: Blaine, Ssl; Bristow, 21; Hayes, 384. Necessary for a choice 379. Mr. Hayes was then declared the nominee of the Convention for President of the United States, and his nomination wiu made unanimous. Nominations for the Vice-Presidency were then made as follows: William A. Wheeler, of New York; Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut; Stewart L. Woodford, of New York; Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut; F. T. FrelinghUysen, of New Jersey. During the rollcall it became apparent that Mr. Wheeler would have a majority of the votes cast, when the call was suspended and he was unanimously nominated. The following was unanimously adopted as a portion of the platform:

Resolved , That we present as eur candidates or President and Vice-President of the United States two distinguished statesmen, of eminent ability and character, and conspicuously fitted for those two high offices, and we confidently appeal to the American people to intrust the administration of their public affairs to Kutherford B. Hayes and William A. 'Wheeler. The National Committee was announced aa follows: Jerry Herralson, Selma, Ala.; Powell Clayton, Arkansas; George G. Gorham, California; Marshall Jewell, Connecticut; Samuel M. Harrington, Delaware; William J. Purman, Florida; James G. Detol, Georgia; JamesP. Root, Illinois; Will Cumback, Indiana; John Y. Stone, Iowa; John H. Martin. Kansas; William C. Goodloe, Kentucky; P. B. S. Pinchback, Louisiana; William P. Frye, Maine; Charles C. Fulton, Maryand; George P. Hoar, Massachusetts; Zachariah Chandler, Michigan; John T. Averill, Minnesota.; G. M. Buchanan, Mississippi; Chauncey I. Filley, Missouri; L. W. Osborn, Nebraska; Joti E. Jones, Nevada; Geo. A. Halsey, New Jersey , A. B. Cornell, New York: Thomas B. Keogh, Noith Carolina; A. T. Wikoff, Ohio; H. W. Scott. Oregon; Nelson W. Aldridge, Pennsylvania; John J. Patterson, South Carolina; Wm. Rule, Tennessee; M. S. Colburn, Vermont; J. D, Bener,’Vhjrinia; John W. Mason West Virginia; Elihußnos, Wisconsin; Newton Edmunds, Dakota; Sales J. Bowen, District of Columbia; Thomas Donaldson, Idaho; A. H. Beattie, Montana; Stephen B. Elkins, New Mexico; John R. Mcßride, Utah; Orange Jacobs, Washington; Joseph, M. Cary, Wyoming; William E. Chandler, ’TOrfißipMlMp After the usual resolution of thanks, etc., the Convention adioii*tied a#**#'*,

This is the wav they cook shad in Philadelphia according to a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune: A plank, generally of cedar, two feet long, a foot wide, and two inches thick, is taken, and with it a shad. The fish—properly split through the back and dressed—is laid upon the plank, with the outside but, and secured m place by a lew nails. Then the whole arrangement is placed before the fire, and the shad is cooked by the heat. When he and you are reedy, he is brought to the table and placed before you. A little salt and less pepper, with collaterals ot stewed corn, green peas and tomatoes, bread, butter, and such odd trifles, and your planked shad has gqne where it will do the most good. —An extraordinary incident of a coaloil accident is reported at Newport, Ky. A young lady dropped a lamp, which exploded and burnt her badly. The account says: “After Miss Jones’ injuries had been dressed in oil and cotton, and most of the persons had left, Mr.. Ben Britton picked up what he supposed to be her gloves. As they were very stiff they were and found to be the skin of her hands and wrists, with the nails, whish she had rubbed off in her frantic attempts to quench the flames.” " —A little child residing on Eighth street at Washington was one night recently attacked by rata, which gnawed away the fleshy portion of its left hand, and inflicted many gashes about the neck and chest, severing an important artery. A sensitive girl named Francis Annie Jones hung herself the other day in Liverpool from a bedpost because her mother had reprimanded her for burning a tablecloth with a flat-iron.