ond day's proceedings were the
adoption of the platform and the putting presidential candidates in
nomination. The candidate the convention subsequently selected was
placed in nomination by Ex-Governor Noyes, of Ohio, through the
following eminently appropriate speech:

GENTLEMEN:--On behalf of the forty-four 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 established from the lakes to the Gulf, and from
the river round 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 rarer 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 General 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, is a standing rebuke to the
extravagance--the reckless extravagance--which leads to corruption
in public and in