campaign. Without circumlocution, he said:

"If it shall turn out that the party in power are opposed to a
sound, safe, stable currency, I have no doubt that in October the
people will make a change. If it shall turn out that the party in
power were guilty of gross corruption in the legislative
department, and that when that corruption was exposed the majority
shielded those who were implicated, I have no doubt the people will
make a change. If it shall turn out that the party in power yielded
to the dictation of an ecclesiastical sect, and through fear of a
threatened loss of votes and power has suffered itself to be
domineered over in its exercise of the law-making power, there
ought to be, as I doubt not there will be, a great change. If it
shall turn out that the party in power is dangerously allied to any
body of men who are opposed to our free schools, and have
proclaimed undying hostility to our educational system, then I
doubt not the people will make a change in the administration."

The convention which nominated Hayes had adopted some sensible
resolutions. It declared, first, that:

"The United States are one as a Nation, and all citizens are equal
under the laws, and entitled to their fullest protection.

"_Third._ We are in favor of a tariff for revenue with incidental
protection to American industry.

"_Fourth._ We stand by free education, our public school system,
the taxation of all for its support, and no division of the school
fund.

"_Eleventh._ The observance of Washington's example in retiring at
the close of a second presidential term will be in the future, as
it has been in the past, regarded as a fundamental rule in the
unwritten law of the Republic."

The Democratic State Convention met on the 17th of June, and was
presided over by Judge Rufus P. Ranney. It renominated Governor Allen by
acclamation and a rising vote amidst great cheering.

The governor delivered an intemperate speech upon the occasion, in which
his denunciation was about equally divided between the old alien and
sedition laws and Grant's administration. Samuel F. Cary, nominated for
lieutenant-governor, made a loud speech. Pendleton, Ewing, Thurman,
Allen, and Cary spoke at the ratification meeting in the evening.

The platform contained the sound proposition that the president's
services s