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accept the position of Secretary of the Treasury, Judge Matthews was nominated by the Republicans and elected for the unexpired term in the United States Senate, on March 20, 1877. The Democrats carried the next General Assembly, and therefore he was defeated for reelection in January following by George H. Pendleton, who assumed the office on March 4, 1879. Upon the retirement from the bench of Judge Noah H. Swayne, in 1881, President Hayes nominated Senator Matthews as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The appointment was bitterly opposed by the Democrats and by a few Republicans, and was held up until the expiration of the Presidential term. Public sentiment in the West, however, was strong in his behalf that President Garfield again nominated him for the office March 15th.

Personal opposition was again manifest, but on May 12th, after a close vote, the nomination was confirmed. He entered He entered upon his official duties on May 17, 1881, and from that time until his death, March 22, 1889, was recognized as an able, upright jurist.

Dwight Crowell, Clerk of the State Supreme Court, was born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, in 1828. He attended the district school in the township of his nativity and then studied law and was admitted to the bar. He has always been a resident

of the county except when temporarily absent in Columbus while filling the office of Clerk of the Supreme Court from 1881 to 1884, and for which office he had been nominated and defeated in 1877. Previous to his election to that position he was for twelve years Deputy County Auditor. In 1890 he was elected County Auditor and has since been reelected twice, in 1893 and again in 1896, and in all probability will be allowed to serve as long as he desires or until his death.

George K. Nash was born on a farm in Medina County, Ohio, August 14, 1842. His parents were natives of Massachusetts, of English ancestry. In addition to a common-school course he attended Oberlin College, retiring to study law in his sophomore year. In April, 1867, he was admitted to the bar in Columbus and immediately began practice. In 1864 he volunteered as a private in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Regiment, serving with honor. For a time he was chief clerk in the Department of State under General Sherwood. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin County in 1870 and again in 1872, although the county was strongly Democratic. In 1876 he was the Republican nominee for Congress, but was defeated. In 1877 he was defeated for Attorney General, as were the other candidates on the Republican State ticket; but was elected to that office in 1879 and reelected in 1881. In 1880 and 1881 he was Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee. He was appointed on the second Supreme Court Commission, which organized in 1883 and concluded its labors in 1885. In 1895 he was a prominent candidate for nomination for Governor before the Republican State Convention. He was again chosen

Joseph F. Lukens was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, December 11, 1838. In early life his parents emigrated to Ohio, where he has since lived. His present residence is at Lebanon, which has been his home for a quarter of a century. He was educated at the Ohio University, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1866 and A. M. in 1869. In May, 1862, he enlisted in the Eighty-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was discharged for disability the following October. He has followed the profession of teaching all his life, and has been superintendent of the schools of the following cities of the State: Portsmouth, Wooster and Lebanon. When nominated for Commissioner of Common Schools by the Republican State Convention in 1877, he was connected with the schools of Kent. He was not a politician or a can

Kent, Kent,

due to the efforts of friends, and his defeat was not because of lack of merit. He has never sought or held a political office, although friends advocated his renomination at a subsequent State Convention.

Augustus W. Luckey was born March 6, 1817, at Gallipolis, Ohio. In 1823 his father removed the family to a farm sixteen miles from Lower Sandusky, and the son was educated in the common schools and was raised as a farmer, becoming afterward a dealer in real estate. In 1850 he laid out the town of Elmore and was interested in additions to the city of Toledo. On becoming of age he was elected Justice of the Peace, serving nine years. In 1861, Governor Tod appointed him Draft Commissioner for his section of the State. In 1877 he was a candidate for Member of the State Board of Public Works, but shared in the general defeat of the Republican party.

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AVING chosen a large majority of the members of both branches of the General Assembly, of Ohio, all interest in the election for United States Senator centered in the caucus of the Democratic members, in 1878. This was held January 10th in the hall of the House of Representatives and three ballots were required to make a nomination. The candidates were: George H. Pendleton, of Hamilton County; George W. Morgan, of Knox; Thomas Ewing, of Fairfield; Durbin Ward, of Warren; Frank H. Hurd, of Lucas; George L. Converse, of Franklin; and Henry B. Payne, of Cuyahoga. The latter two being "receptive candidates" only. The results of the ballots were as follows:

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Pendleton 40, Morgan 22, Ewing 17, Ward 5, Hurd 5, Converse 1.

2. Pendleton 46, Ewing 20, Morgan 19, Ward 4, Payne 2, Converse I.

3. Pendleton 51, Ewing 19, Morgan 16, Ward 3, Converse 2, Payne 1.

The Republicans also held a caucus but could not agree upon a candidate, and consequently resolved to vote blank. The three Nationalists supported as their candidate Stephen Johnson, of Miami County, their nominee for Governor the year before. The election occurred Wednesday, January 16th, the vote being as follows: Senate:

Pendleton 24, blanks 7-three Republicans and one Democrat absent. House: Pendleton 67, Johnson 3, blanks 36-one Republican and two Democrats absent. Joint ballot: Pendleton 91, Johnson 3, blanks 43.

Richard M. Bishop was inaugurated Governor of Ohio, Monday, January 14th, with, to that time, the greatest display of State and independent militia ever seen in the Commonwealth on a similar occasion, surpassing in numbers those of inaugurations during war times. It was remarked that, "having had a taste of position and power under Governor Allen, there was the hungriest horde of office-seekers present that was ever seen in the City of Columbus;" also that the crowd remained longer than at any The address deprevious inauguration. livered by the Governor was commonplace, and he outlined no plans of reform in any branch of the public service under the control of the Executive.

As usual, this year the Prohibitionists were first to make nominations. All who had voted their ticket the previous election were permitted to act as delegates, consequently, on Wednesday, February 21st, there was a Convention of respectable size with representation from about fifty counties, at the Board of Trade rooms. Candidates were named for all the offices to be filled, the ticket being headed by Jeremiah N. Robin

son, of Medina County, for Secretary of State.

On February 22d, a Convention of delegates from the National, Workingmen's, Greenback and Labor Reform parties was held at Toledo and the "National party of the United States" organized. Delegates were present from twenty-eight States and a platform was adopted and an address issued to the public, giving in detail the objects and aims of the party.

The Republican State Central Committee held a meeting in Columbus, April 18th, to agree upon a date for holding the State Convention. The claims of Columbus and Cincinnati were advocated as suitable places for holding the Convention.

After delibera

tion and upon motion, June 12th was fixed upon as the date and Cincinnati was selected as the place of meeting. In the evening a caucus of the Central and Executive Committees and prominent visiting and local Republicans was held with the Republicans of the General Assembly in the Hall of the House of Representatives where plans were discussed, and prospects for success dilated upon and views exchanged.

The call for the Convention was issued May 1st, and was based on the vote cast for President Hayes in 1876, one delegate being allowed for each 500 votes cast, or a total of 660 delegates, and was signed by James S. Robinson and Jacob C. Donaldson, Chairman and Secretary, respectively, of the Executive Committee.

The Convention met at Exposition Hall, Cincinnati, at eleven o'clock, on the morning of Wednesday, June 12th, and was called to order by William C. Cooper, of Knox County, who introduced Rev. David H. Moore to offer the invocation. The reverend gentleman succeeded in the course of

My Friends:--The country is on the eve of another revolution. I might almost say with Webster "We are in the midst of a revolution." There is as much reason for uttering these startling words now as there was in 1832, or as in the winter of 1860, when the late rebellion was in embryo. I am no alarmist, but I verily believe that a revolution of the Government is now concocting at Washington City, and, if the madcaps there, who are now in the ascendency can have their way, the country is in imminent danger of being again plunged into war. To avert such a catastrophe the country must depend upon the great Republican party, and I deem it the duty of every member of our party, be he young or old, to come forward and contribute his aid. The leading strings of a great party which has more than once proved itself disloyal to the Government, are now in the hands of its fireeaters and reckless members, just as was the case in 1861, and as came near being the case in 1877. The masses of that party and its wise and patriotic men, are unable to stay the tide, or to hold the hands of these reckless leaders. They seem to override all party opposition and to disregard all counsel and warning from their own friends. The venerable Alexander H. Stephens, late Vice President of the Confederacy, as he did in Montgomery at the inauguration of the late rebellion, has warned them of coming disaster, not only to the country, but also to their party, if they persist in their mad designs. He has, as it were, read the "riot act" to them, and ordered them to disperse. He has told them in effect that they are Catalines and that in the end they will receive Cataline's reward. It is truly said that history repeats itself--the turbulent spirits are but repeating the history of 1861, and many, if not most of them, are the

same reckless, hot-headed men who then plotted the destruction of the Union. The same preparations for the coming struggle are seen. They begin by reducing the army to a minimum and diminishing its pay, and then tying up the hands of the President in the way of an Act of Congress, so that he can not use the

troops without their consent. That their appointment

of a so-called Committee of Investigation means revolution, no sane man can doubt and no candid man will deny. Their own best men admit the fact, and denounce the proceedings as ruinous to the best interests of the country. That it means revolution by an ouster of the President from his seat, is shown by the fact that the investigation is persistently confined to the two Southern States on which the Presidential election turned. It is shown by the vote of the party in the House refusing to say there was no attempt to disturb the Presidential title. It is shown by a like vote in the party caucus and of the Committee itself; and it is reluctantly shown by the open letter of the Chairman of the Committee who attempts to apologize for the intended act by saying that the thing will not be effected by force, but in pursuance of law, which means in pursuance of laws which the party hopes hereafter to pass.

The speaker proceeded to demonstrate that the rebels in 1861 acted in exactly the same manner before they fired on Fort Sumter; and how the fearful struggle that followed cost the country hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars of property; and also how it lost the South its slaves and the Democratic party its prestige and power. He claimed that the same rule and ruin policy dominated the Democratic party in Congress in 1878 as controlled it in 1860, and called upon his hearers to awake from their lethargy and help nip the incipient rebellion in the bud. He asserted that the action of the Democracy was greatly solidifying the Republican party of other States, and he, therefore, pleaded for harmony in the work of the Ohio Convention. He closed by prophesying the coming of an era of great prosperity for the country should President Hayes be allowed to conduct his Administration as he had planned

and as the great majority of the people desired him to conduct it. The delivery of this address was freely cheered and approved at its close with prolonged applause.

Five Assistant Secretaries were appointed, namely: Charles H. Booth, of Richland; Dwight Crowell, of Ashtabula; Charles L. Vinty, of Athens; A. E. Crow, of Hamilton; and John R. Malloy, of Franklin.

A telegram was received, signed "Colored Republicans of Columbus," asking the Convention to "reunite the Republican party and beat the O'Conner Democracy."

A call of the districts was made and the following Committees announced:

Credentials: 1. Andrew J. Cunningham, Hamilton. 2. William P. Wiltsee, Hamilton. 3. William H. P. Denny, Warren. 4. William H. West, Logan. 5. George W. Holbrook, Auglaize. 6. Walter Hilton, Lucas. 7. James B. Luckey, Ottawa. 8. L. B. Tyson, Hardin.

9. Nelson J. Turney, Pickaway. 10. Joseph C. McElroy, Meigs. II. William C. Draper, Scioto. 12. George W. Gregg, Pickaway. 13. Jesse R. Foulke, Morgan. 14. John F. Miller, Licking. 15. Horace G. White, Coshocton. 16. H. L. Ellison, Stark. 17. E. S. E. S. Perkins, Medina. 18. Peter C. Young, Columbiana. 19. Joseph R. Johnston, Mahoning. 20. Allen T. Brinsmade, Cuyahoga.

Permanent Organization: 1. Benjamin Eggleston, Hamilton. 2. Henry Kessler, Hamilton. 3. William H. Beckley, Butler. 4. Thomas A. Cowgill, Champaign. 5. Robert Miller, Preble. 6. James H. Foster, Van Wert. 7. J. C. Phelps, Wood. 8. U. F. Cramer, Seneca. 9. H. A. Gregg, Fayette. 10. Samuel H. Bright, Hocking. 11. Orange Edwards, Brown. 12. Charles