private places.

Remember now, delegates to the convention, that a responsible duty
rests upon you. You can be governed by no wild impulse. You can run
no fearful risks in this campaign. You must, if you would succeed,
nominate a candidate here who will not only carry the old, strong
Republican States, but who will carry Indiana, Ohio, and New York,
as well as other doubtful States. We care not who the man shall be,
other than our own candidate. Whoever you nominate, men of the
convention, shall receive our heartiest and most earnest efforts
for their success. But we beg to submit that in Governor Hayes you
have those qualities which are calculated best to compromise all
difficulties, and to soften all antagonisms. He has no personal
enemies: His private life is so pure that no man has ever dared to
assail it. His public acts throughout all these years have been
above suspicion even. I ask you, then, if, in the lack of these
antagonisms, and with all of these good qualities, living in a
State which holds its election in October, the result of which will
be decisive, it may be, of the presidential campaign--it is not
worth while to see to it that a candidate is nominated against whom
nothing can be said, and who is sure to succeed in the campaign?

In conclusion, permit me to say that, if the wisdom of this
convention shall decide at last that Governor Hayes' nomination is
safest, and is best, that decision will meet with such responsive
enthusiasm here in Ohio as will insure Republican success at home,
and which will be so far-reaching and wide-spreading as to make
success almost certain from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The nomination was seconded by Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, Colonel J. W.
Davis, of West Virginia, Hon. A. St. Gem, and Hon. J. P. Jones, of
Missouri.

The third and last day of the sitting of the Convention was employed in
balloting and in making the nominations.

At twenty minutes to 11 the balloting for president began:

FIRST
BALLOT.

Bl: Blaine
Mo: Morton
Co: Conkling
Br: Bristow
Hy: Hayes
Hr: Hartranft
Wh: Wheeler
Je: Jewell

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STATES. | Bl | Mo | Co | Br | Hy | Hr | Wh | Je
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Alabama