3. Robert G. Corwin, Warren. 4. Andrew R. Calderwood, Darke. 5. Samuel Taylor, Allen. 6. Alonzo B. Holcomb, Paulding. 7. Lovell B. Harris, Seneca. 8. Asa S. Bushnell, Clarke. 9. Philander B. Cole, Union. 10. Ralph P. Buckland, Sandusky. 11. Charles E. Kirker, Adams. 12. Edward S. Wilson, Lawrence. 13. Joseph F. Wheeler, Logan. 14. Jesse R. Foulke, Morgan. 15. William A. Bovey, Coshocton. 16. George Adams, Holmes. 17. Rodney M. Stimson, Washington. 18. John S. Roller, Mahoning. 19. Albert W. Stiles, Ashtabula. 20. Ulysses L. Marvin, Summit. 21. William Kaufman, Cuyahoga. The official vote at the November election was:

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Political excitement did not die out immediately with the election, as the result for a few days was in great doubt. earlier returns indicated pretty clearly that, in addition to the Southern States, Cleveland had carried Connecticut, Indiana and New Jersey, and that all the other Northern States, with the possible exception of New York, had been carried for Blaine. The Empire State alone was doubtful, and it was charged by General Butler at the time and his claim was afterward substantially verified that thousands of votes cast for him in the city of New York had been counted for Cleveland. Notwithstanding this, and the suspiciously slow reports from some of the city precincts, the final returns from the State of New York, with 1,

200,000 votes, gave Cleveland a plurality of but 1, 149, less than one per cent., electing a Democratic President the first time since 1856, with 219 electoral votes to only 182 for the Republican candidate.

The popular vote for President, as given by the New York Tribune, was as follows: Blaine, 4,851,981; Cleveland, 4.874,986; Butler, 175.370; St. John, 150,369. Cleveland's plurality, 23,005.

The eighteen States carried by Blaine, with their pluralities, were: California, 13,128; Colorado, 8,567; Illinois, 25, 119; Iowa, 19,773; Kansas, 64,274; Maine, 20,069; Massachusetts, 24,243; Michigan, 42,834; Minnesota, 41,779; Nebraska, 22,521; Nevada, 1,615; New Hampshire, 4,066; Ohio, 31,802; Oregon, 2,256; Pennsylvania, 81,019; Rhode Island, 6,639; Vermont, 22, 183; Wisconsin, 14,698.

Those carried by Cleveland-twenty in all-were: Alabama, 34, 360; Arkansas, 22,032; Connecticut, 1,276; Delaware, 4,013; Florida, 3,735; Georgia, 46,064; Indiana, 6,527; Kentucky, 34,839; Louisiana, 16, 193; Maryland, 11,233; Mississippi, 33,001; Missouri, 33,059; New Jersey, 4,358; New York, 1, 149; North Carolina, 17,884; South Carolina, 48, 157; Tennessee, 9,180; Texas, 132, 168; Virginia, 6, 141; West Virginia, 4,221.

James Sidney Robinson, Secretary of State, was born near Mansfield, Ohio, October 27, 1827. His parents were natives of England. He learned the printer's trade in Mansfield, and then went to Kenton, Hardin County, where he established the Republican, which he conducted for eighteen years. In 1856 he was Secretary of the convention which selected delegates to the first Republican National Convention. He entered the service of his country in

1861 as a private in the Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and his comrades elected him Lieutenant. Shortly afterward he was promoted to Captain. He took part in the operations at Rich Mountain, Virginia, was promoted to Major in October, 1861, served under General Fremont in the Shenandoah Valley and became Lieutenant Colonel in April and Colonel in August, 1862. He was engaged at the second battle of Bull Run, at Cedar Mountain and Chancellorsville, and was severely wounded at Gettysburg, the wound eventually being the cause of his death. He commanded a Brigade under Generals Joseph Hooker and Alpheus Williams in the Atlanta campaign and on the march to the sea. He was commissioned Brigadier General on January 12, 1865, and a Major General, by brevet, March 13, 1865, and was mustered out on the 31st of the following August. He was Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee for several years and Chairman of the State Executive Committee during the campaigns of 1877, 1878 and 1879. He was appointed State Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs January 23, 1880, and again in October, 1882. In 1884 and in 1886 he was elected Secretary of State. His death occurred at Toledo, Ohio, January 14, 1892.

Among the few survivors of the founders of the Republican party in Ohio is William Lawrence, of Bellefontaine, who was born at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, June 26, 1819. He graduated at Franklin College in September, 1838, with the honors of the class, and from the Cincinnati Law School two years later, ranking very high. For several months he served as a reporter on the Ohio State Journal, but in July, 1841, located at Bellefontaine to practice his profession. In 1842 he was appointed United

States Commissioner of Bankruptcy for Logan County; was Prosecuting Attorney of the County in 1846-declining a reappointment; served as a member of the House in the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth, and as a member of the Senate in the Fortyeighth, Forty-ninth and Fifty-first General Assemblies; was a Whig candidate for Presidential elector in 1852; was Judge of the District Court for two terms-1857 to 1865; was a member of the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses; was appointed United States District Judge for Florida by President Lincoln in 1863, but declined to accept; and was First Comptroller of the United States Treasury from 1880 to 1884. In addition he was nominated by the KnowNothings for Congress in 1854, but declined "because he could not adopt their opposition to adopted citizens." In 1862 he was Colonel of the Eighty-fourth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving at Cumberland and New Creek. As a lawyer, he has had a most extensive, lucrative and successful career, and has published several works that are recognized as standard authorities. was the first of the United States Comptrollers to print his decisions and his example has since been followed by his successors in that office. In nearly every political contest in Ohio since 1840 he has taken an active part, first as a Whig and since 1854 as a Republican. His published political speeches would make a large volume. Besides the political offices enumerated, for a number of years he has been president of the Ohio Wool Growers' Association, and also connected with the Ohio State Agricultural Society. He still lives at Bellefontaine and has more the appearance of a hale old gentleman of sixty than one of nearly eighty years of age.

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RESIDENT Arthur, in his annual mes

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sage o 1884, recommended the enactment of a law providing for an adequate pension for General Grant. Though at that time very poor, having been made so by the perfidy of business associates, and suffering from a malignant incurable malady, the ex-President's pride was touched and he announced that under no circumstances would he accept a pension. Knowing that the people joined in his anxiety for the welfare of the brave General, the President, on February 3, 1885, sent a special message to Congress urging the creation of the office of General of the United States Army to enable him in his discretion to appoint Grant. On March 3d, as its last enactment, Congress gratified the President's wish by sending the desired law for his signature. The act was approved and returned to the Senate with the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant. Proceeding to the Senate Chamber to take part in the inauguration of his successor, the President had the pleasure of seeing the nomination unanimously confirmed in open session and of witnessing the demonstrations of approval from the galleries as well as from the floor of the Senate.

In many respects the Administration of Chester A. Arthur was a model one, although doubt and uncertainty had animated

public opinion when President Garfield's death left the country perturbed as to the policies of his successor. All fears that he would prove no exception to the general rule of Vice Presidents who became the Chief Executives through accident, were happily and speedily dispelled. Such was the conservatism of his Administration that it inspired confidence and promoted business activity. His name was presented to the National Convention of 1884 by his admirers, but James G. Blaine was the "party idol," especially of the Republicans of the Western States, and his popularity would not permit the selection of another. Mr. Blaine not been in the race, General Arthur in all probability would have been nominated, and, as an honored citizen of New York, might have carried that State despite all combinations against him. But perhaps, in one sense, it was well that he was not, for he died suddenly on November 16, 1886, and his death, while President of the United States, might have given the country another Tyler or a Johnson.

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Grover Cleveland, twenty-second (and twenty-fourth) President of the United States, was inaugurated Wednesday, March 4, 1885. The count of the electoral vote was made on February 11th, in accordance with the provisions of a joint resolution adopted by both Houses of Congress, with

out any opposition whatever, and was undisturbed by any unusual event. Inauguration day dawned clear and bright, revealing crowded streets and thousands of people congregated in the numerous hotels and boarding houses of Washington City. Says a writer, describing the event: "A quarter of a century had passed since many of the familiar faces prominent among the multitude had assisted in crowning a public leader as Chief Executive of the Nation. Grover Cleveland, whose inauguration brought back to power the Democratic party, was hailed by citizens from New England to the Rocky Mountains, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, delegations being present from almost every State and Territory. The capacity of the city of Washington had never before been so strained in entertaining a large assembly of visitors." The historian might truthfully have added that a great majority of the strangers, not a few of whom were from Ohio, were applicants for positions under the incoming Administration and that a goodly number were subsequently not disappointed in their expectations, except perhaps as to salary and as to immediately securing positions. Quite a percentage of the aspirants were soon provided for, however, their predecessors having been removed because of "offensive partizanship," which was another way of saying they were loyal Republicans, a serious crime, in his opinion, and a violation of the President civil service rules.

On March 5th, President Cleveland sent to the Senate, which promptly confirmed them, the names of his new Cabinet officers, as follows: Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware; Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel Manning, of

New York; Secretary of War, William E. Endicott, of Massachusetts; Secretary of the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New York; Postmaster General, William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin; Attorney General, Augustus H. Garland, of Arkansas; Secretary of the Interior, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi. Mississippi. The subsequent changes during the Administration were: Secretary of the Treasury, Charles S. Fairchild, of New York, December 15, 1887; Secretary of the Interior, William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, and Postmaster General, Don M. Dickinson, of Michigan, January 16, 1888.

The new President's policies in regard to foreign as well as domestic affairs was soon seen to be in direct conflict with those of his predecessor, and he hastened to withdraw all the commercial treaties sent to the Senate for ratification by his predecessor and to express his disapproval of them. The first few months of his Administration were mainly devoted to removing Republican employees and appointing Democrats to the vacancies thus created, although he professed to believe in civil service reform.

The Ohio Republican State Central Committee met at the Neil House on Monday, May 4, 1885, and decided to hold the State Convention at Springfield, on Thursday, June 11th. The location selected came in the nature of a surprise-Springfield, though a small city, being chosen over the more pretentious rivals, Cleveland and Columbus. The call was issued by the Central Committee alone, on the same day, and provision was made for 800 delegates, on a basis of one for each 500 votes cast for James G. Blaine for President.

The Convention met in a "Wigwam," 100 by 160 feet in size, containing a stage, a musician's gallery and seats for delegates

RESIDENT Arthur, in his annual mes

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sage o 1884, recommended the enactment of a law providing for an adequate pension for General Grant. Though at that time very poor, having been made so by the perfidy of business associates, and suffering from a malignant incurable malady, the ex-President's pride was touched and he announced that under no circumstances would he accept a pension. Knowing that the people joined in his anxiety for the welfare of the brave General, the President, on February 3, 1885, sent a special message to Congress urging the creation of the office of General of the United States Army to enable him in his discretion to appoint Grant. On March 3d, as its last enactment, Congress gratified the President's wish by sending the desired law for his signature. The act was approved and returned to the Senate with the nomination of Ulysses S. Grant. Proceeding to the Senate Chamber to take part in the inauguration of his successor, the President had the pleasure of seeing the nomination unanimously confirmed in open session and of witnessing the demonstrations of approval from the galleries as well as from the floor of the Senate.

In many respects the Administration of Chester A. Arthur was a model one, although doubt and uncertainty had animated

public opinion when President Garfield's death left the country perturbed as to the policies of his successor. All fears that he would prove no exception to the general rule of Vice Presidents who became the Chief Executives through accident, were happily and speedily dispelled. Such was the conservatism of his Administration that it inspired confidence and promoted business activity. His name was presented to the National Convention of 1884 by his admirers, but James G. Blaine was the "party idol," especially of the Republicans of the Western States, and his popularity would not permit the selection of another. Mr. Blaine not been in the race, General Arthur in all probability would have been nominated, and, as an honored citizen of New York, might have carried that State despite all combinations against him. But perhaps, in one sense, it was well that he was not, for he died suddenly on November 16, 1886, and his death, while President of the United States, might have given the country another Tyler or a Johnson.

Had

Grover Cleveland, twenty-second (and twenty-fourth) President of the United States, was inaugurated Wednesday, March 4, 1885. The count of the electoral vote was made on February 11th, in accordance with the provisions of a joint resolution adopted by both Houses of Congress, with