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Commissioner, R. B. Smart, of Ross County; 

 tor Presidential Electors at Large, Harry Kel- 

 logg, of Lucas County ; L. T. Foster, of Mahon- 

 ing County. 



The platform endorsed the Chicago resolutions, fa- 

 vored a woman suffrage amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion, called for reduction of the fees of public officials, 

 denounced payment of employees by corporations in 

 scrip or store goods, and demanded a law for its pun- 

 ishment as a crime. The last resolution said that land, 

 light, air, and water are free gifts of Nature, and any 

 law or custom of society that allows any person to 

 monopolize more of these gifts than he has a right to, 

 to the detriment of the rights of others, they condemn 

 and will seek to abolish. A resolution was also adopted 

 denouncing any coalition of Greenbackers with Demo- 

 crats in other States. 



The election was held October 12th, with the 

 following result, the total vote on the State 

 ticket being 718,186 : 



SECRETARY OF STATE. 



C. Townsend, Republican 862,021 



William Lang, Democrat 843,01 6 



Charles A. Lloyd, Greenback 6,786 



William H. Doan, Prohibitionist 2,815 



JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT. 



G. W. Mcllvaine, Republican 864,045 



M. D. Follett, Democrat 840,998 



De Witt C. Louden, Greenback 6,859 



William F. Ross, Prohibitionist 2,853 



CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT. 



D. Crowell, Republican 864,225 



R. J. Fanning, Democrat 840,870 



George Bonsall, Greenback 6,865 



George Calderwood, Prohibitionist 2,875 



MEMBER OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 



Stephen R. Hosmer, Republican 364,053 



William J. Jackson, Democrat 841,001 



Amos Roberts, Greenback 6,844 



John H. Lorimer, Prohibitionist 2,877 



STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. 



D. De Wolf, Republican 863,887 



James J. Burns, Democrat 341,204 



R. B. Smart, Greenback 6,800 



James A. Brush, Prohibitionist 2,816 



The result of the Congressional election was 

 the choice of fifteen Republicans and fi ve Demo- 

 crats. The members chosen and the majority of 

 each over the next highest candidate are as 

 follows: I, Benjamin Butterworth, R., 1,298; 

 II, Thomas L. Young, R., 1.004; III, Henry 

 L. Morey, R., 968 ; IV, Emanuel Schultz, R., 

 328; V, Benjamin Le Fevre, D., 8,110; VI, 

 JamesM. Ritchie, R., 685 ; VII, John P. Lee- 

 dom, D., 1,712 ; VIII, J. Warren Keifer, R., 

 5,918; IX, James S. Robinson, R., 1,139; X, 

 John R. Rice, R., 1,368 ; XI, Henry S. Neal, 

 R., 2,138 ; XII, George L. Converse, D., 4,189 ; 

 XIII, Gibson Atherton, D., 2,475 ; XIV, Geo. 

 W. Geddes, D., 6,467 ; XV, Rufus R. Dawes, 

 R., 502; XVI, Jonathan T. Updegraff, R., 

 2,848; XVII, William McKenley, Jr., R., 

 3,571 ; XVIII, Addison S. McClure, R., 5,096; 

 XIX, Ezra B. Taylor, R., 12,678 ; XX, Amos 

 Townsend. R., 5,327. 



OLD CATHOLICS. No synod of the Old 

 Catholic Church of Germany was held in 1880, 

 as it had been resolved in 1879 that, thereafter, 

 there should be only biennial sessions. In the 

 years in which the Synod does not meet, it is 

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intended to hold a Church Congress, which, 

 like the assemblies of the same name in the 

 Church of England, and the Protestant Episco- 

 pal Church of the United States, is an unoffi- 

 cial gathering of members for the discussion of 

 important questions. The seventh Old Catho- 

 lic Congress was held at Buden-Baden, the fa- 

 mous watering-place, from September 12 to 14, 

 1880. Like its predecessors, the Congresses 

 held at Munich, Cologne, Constance, Freiburg, 

 Breslau, and Mayence, it was well attended, 

 but some of the most prominent representa- 

 tives of the Old Catholic movement, the theo- 

 logical professors of the Universities of Bonn 

 and Munich, still kept aloof from the meetings. 

 A number of bishops of the Church of Eng- 

 land, the Protestant Episcopal Church of the 

 United States, and the Old Catholic (Jansenist) 

 Church of Holland, sent greetings, and assured 

 the German Church of their abiding interest in 

 its prosperity and progress. Bishop Reinkens, 

 who was present, made a favorable report on 

 the progress of the Church during the preced- 

 ing year. The figures showed a slight advance 

 all through the Church, a result which was re- 

 ceived with great satisfaction, because in the 

 years from 1876 to 1878 there had been a con- 

 siderable falling off. The views entertained by 

 the Church at present with regard to its rela- 

 tions to the Papacy found expression in the 

 folio wing resolutions: 1. An actual and effec- 

 tive contradiction between faith in the funda- 

 mental truths of Christianity founded upon 

 the testamentary proof of history, and science 

 founded upon the immediate facts of nature 

 and mind, is not possible. Each protects, car- 

 ries on, and supplements the other. 2. The in- 

 dependent character of national churches is just 

 as much in accordance with the universal char- 

 acter of the Church as are the national pecul- 

 iarities in the state, art, and science, with the 

 general object of culture. 3. It is a mischiev- 

 ous error of many Protestants to regard the 

 Church, which the adherents of the Vatican are 

 bound to recognize as the only rightful one, 

 as the shield of faith, a rallying-point for au- 

 thority in civil and social affairs, and a pro- 

 tection against destructive socialistic tenden- 

 cies, and therefore to adopt it as a conservative 

 ally. 4. History, the task and duty of self- 

 preservation, compels the German Empire to 

 oppose the Vatican system. 5. Negotiations 

 with the infallible Pope or his organs, upon all 

 matters which concern the promulgation of 

 laws and the authority of the state, are objec- 

 tionable. Transactions of this kind lead to the 

 dissolution of the national state. The relations 

 of the Old Catholics of Prussia were, on the 

 whole, less friendly than in former years, be- 

 cause the latter was all the time ^ meditating 

 upon the expediency of making its'peace with 

 Rome. The Minister of Public Worship, Herr 

 von Puttkammer, defended, however, the con- 

 tinuance of the provision made in the Prussian 

 budget for the Old Catholic bishop, as a part of 

 the law of the land, and declared that the Gov- 



