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 62 W. C. WOODWARD declaring that good faith and justice demanded that the public debt be paid in like currency as contracted, did not seem to disturb the equanimity of the assembled Democrats. J. S. Smith was unanimously nominated for Congressman. The Republican view of the convention was expressed in the following declaration made by the, Marion County Union- Republicans: "We recognize in the names presented by the Copperhead Convention at Portland a very decided predomi- nance of the rebel element and the exclusion of every so-called 'War Democrat' from a place on their ticket, which reminds us forcibly of the fact that we are again fighting the same old adversary in another campaign and demonstrates the political axiom that a Democrat can no more change his politics than the Ethiopian can his skin or the leopard his spots. "92 The Union-Republican platform, adopted at Salem,, March 24, endorsed the work of Congress as unreservedly as the Democrats had condemned it ; 93 spoke for the preservation, at the ballot box, of the fruits of the war ; favored the admission of the representatives of Southern states in Congress "at the earliest practicable moment when the public safety will per- mit ;" condemned every scheme for the repudiation of the whole or any part of the national debt and denounced the proposition to pay in legal tender notes those debts contracted to be paid in specie, as only a milder term of repudiation ; encouraged foreign immigration and met the Democratic "Irish" plank by expressing sympathy for all people struggling for civil and re- ligious liberty ; acknowledged debt of permanent recognition to American sailors and soldiers for saving the country ; bespoke liberal federal appropriations to aid in the construction of railroads. David Logan was nominated for Congressman, receiving 56 votes as against 51 for P. E. Sullivan of Polk County. Orange Jacobs, A. B. Meacham and Dr. Wilson Bowlby were named for Presidential electors and Josiah Failing, J. L. Parrish, Max- well Ramsby, M. Baker, C. C. Beekman and H. R. Kincaid, as 92 Daily Oregoni?n, March 24. 93 Proceedings, Daily Oregonion, March 27.