be
perpetual.

Hayes, during his two terms as Governor, proposed and carried through
the following measures of the first importance to the welfare of the
State:

He recommended and had completed a comprehensive Geological Survey of
Ohio.

He secured the establishment of a Soldiers' Orphans' Home.

He had the powers of the Board of State Charities restored and enlarged.

He had provision made for the care, by the State, of the chronic
insane.

Under his direction the graded system was adopted in the State Prison
and prison reforms introduced.

Minority representation on Election Boards was secured.

The Agricultural and Mechanical College was founded, trustees appointed,
and the institution organized.

Portraits of the Governors of Ohio were placed in the State collection.

The suffrage amendment to the Constitution of the State was adopted.

The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was
ratified.

The Lincoln Memorial, an admirable work of art, was placed in the
capitol.

The right of soldiers in the National Asylum to vote was restored.

The students' privilege of voting while attending college was given
back.

The odious "visible admixture" law was repealed.

The St. Clair papers were purchased, and letters and manuscripts
relating to pioneer history collected.

A Reform School for Girls was established and made successful.

The State debt was reduced, and all increase of debt opposed.

Can any Governor of any State say that he has done a better business?

CHAPTER IX.

THIRD TIME ELECTED GOVERNOR.

_The Senatorship declined--Army Banquet Speech--Third Time
nominated for Congress--Glendale Speech--Declines a Federal
Office--Making a Home--Nomination for Governor--Platform--Serenade
Speech--Democratic Convention and Platform--Marion Speech of
Hayes--Woodford--Grosvenor--Schurz--Inflation Drivel--Interest in
the Contest--Honest Money Triumphant--Third Inaugural._

Just as Governor Hayes was vacating the office of chief executive of
Ohio, to which he had positively refused to be re-elected, he was
offered and declined the Senatorship from that State. The proofs of this
fact are before us. The circumstances were these: A Senator in Congress
was to be elected by the State Legislature, in January, 1872, to succeed
John Sherman. Mr. Sherman had secured the nomination and election of a
majority of Republicans who were favorable to