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A Suitable Candidate

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Parent Issue
Day
25
Month
February
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is no question that in nomimvt ing Godlove 8 Orth tor Governor of Indiana the Republioan Convention bad due regard i'or the fitness ot' things. Mr. Orth is in every way a suitable man for the nomination. Hi record on the ourrency question is "crookud" enough to satist'y all demands. He was a rabid innationist before it was deeuied advisable for the Kopublioans to pretend to bave a policy on the ourrency queation, aud hu was asufncientiy docile partisan to vote for the bill for the rusuniption of specie payments in 1879 as soon as it was made olear to his understanding thtit ita passage depended upon a unión of Kepublioni of all views. It can-not be said of Godlove S. Orth that he ever hesitated to support any measure when it had the partisan label upon it. In the session of 1873-4 when Eepublicans were all " at seii," as it were, ou the ünancial question, the name of Orth was found enrolled on all the test votes with Kelley, Butler and the rank inflationists. At the second session of the Forty-third Congress he did not have the courage to stand by his oonviotions that Kelly and some other Kepublicang in the House had, but voted for the Sherman Besumption bill, though be held his peace as to the motives which prouiptud bim to so vote. Honest hard money men like E. E. Hoar, G. F. Hoar, General Hawley, and Willard, of Vermont, on the Kepublican side, and all of the hard inoney Deuocrats, voted against the measure because it was patent that it was a f raud and a humbug. Courageous iiiiliitiunists, like Keiley, rotad againet it on principie. Orth, however, went with nis party. He gave further illustrations of partisanghip by the untiring zeal with which he supported the extreme measure which it was sought, by forco of the party strength to drive through Congress. A f ter the adjournment of Congress iine die, his occupation having been taken away, the President rewarded him for his partisanship by giving lam the appointment as Minister to Austria. Sume months since, his name being nieutioned in connection with the Kepublican nomination for Goveruor in Indiana, it was announced that if nominated he would resign his diplomatic post and tuke the stump in behalf of Eepublicanism in Indiana. As a man was thought to be ueeded who would sacrifice everything to partisanship, Mr. Orth received the norainatiou. His acceptauoe is a matter of course, and he will likewise - as a good partisan - accept the platform upon which he has been nominated - thereby going back on his record of last year. The facitity with which he changed froni a rabid inflationÍ8t in 1874 to a specie resumptionist in 1875 very plainly ludientes that he can now readily oppose what he tavored in 187o.-

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Michigan Argus