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OHIO. 



Asylums at Newburg, Columbus, and Athens, to 

 accommodate four hundred and fifty additional 

 patients, and so make provision for the chronic 

 insane. 



To so amend the act authorizing railroad companies 

 to increase their capital stock as to permit holders of 

 mortgage bonds issued in pursuance of that act to 

 vote at all meetings of share-holders. 



Providing for minority representation on election 

 boards. 



To repeal the act prescribing penalties against per- 

 sons " not white male citizens of the United States " 

 convicted of voting, and judges of elections for re- 

 ceiving, and all persons who procure such votes. 



To repeal the act to prohibit persons having a 

 visible admixture of African blood Irom voting. 



To create a lien on premises where intoxicating 

 liquors are sold in violation of law. 



To repeal the act to prevent inmates of the Soldiers' 

 Home from voting. 



To provide for the organization and maintenance 

 of an independent militia. 



To require county commissioners to provide night 

 > watchmen for county treasuries. 



To prohibit the expulsion of children from the 

 public schools, except after notice to parents, and a 

 hearing by the Board of Education, and a vote of a 

 majority of the Board. 



The Supreme Court of the State, in the case 

 of John F. Sinks vs. David W. Eeese, made an 

 important decision adverse to the right of in- 

 mates of the National Asylum for Disabled Vol- 

 unteer Soldiers, at Dayton, to vote. The parties 

 to the suit were rival candidates, in October, 

 1869, for the office of clerk of the Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas of Montgomery County, and the point 

 turned upon the legality of counting the votes 

 of the inmates of the National Asylum for Dis- 

 abled Volunteer Soldiers. In the act of the 

 Legislature of Ohio, passed April 13, 1867, 

 'consenting to the establishment of the Asylum, 

 and ceding lands to the General Government, 

 it was stipulated that nothing in the act should 

 be "construed to prevent the officers, employes, 

 and inmates of the Asylum, who are qualified 

 voters of this State, from exercising the right of 

 suffrage at all township, county, and State elec- 

 tions in the township in which the said National 

 Asylum shall be located." Chief-Justice Brin- 

 kerhoff, delivering the unanimous opinion of 

 the Court, said this act " fixes the exclusive 

 jurisdiction of the General Government over 

 this institution, its lands and its inmates, in all 

 cases whatsoever, except as to the execution 

 of processes issued under State authority," an 

 exception which was also made one of the 

 conditions of the cession of the land to the 

 United States. The Court then holds that- 

 By becoming a resident-inmate of the asylum, a 

 person, though up to that time he may have been a 

 citizen and resident of Ohio^ ceases to be such ; lie 

 is relieved from any obligation to contribute to her 

 revenues, and is subject to none of the burdens which 

 she imposes upon her citizens. He becomes subject 

 to the exclusive jurisdiction of another power, as for- 

 eign to Ohio as is the State of Indiana, or Kentucky. 

 or the District of Columbia. The constitution ot 

 Ohio requires that electors shall be residents of the 

 State ; but, under the provisions of the Constitution 

 of the United States, and by the consent and act of 

 cession of the Legislature of this State, the grounds 

 and buildings of this asylum have been detached and 

 set off from the State of Ohio, and ceded to another 



government, and placed under its exclusive jurisdic- 

 tion for an indefinite period. 



The act under which this case came before 

 the court was repealed by the Democratic ma- 

 jority in the Assembly, following that which 

 passed it, and the repealing act was in time re- 

 pealed by the Assembly of 1870. Tinder this 

 decision of the court the inmates of the asylum 

 were not allowed to vote in the election of 

 October, 1870. 



The Kepublican State Convention was held 

 at Columbus, August 10th, and put in nomi- 

 nation the following ticket: For Secretary of 

 State, Isaac S. Sherwood, of Williams County ; 

 for Supreme Judge, George "W. Mcllvaine, of 

 Tuscarawas County ; for Comptroller of the 

 Treasury, William T. Wilson, of Portage 

 County; for member of the Board of Public 

 Works, Philip V. Herzing, of Auglaize County. 

 The following platform was adopted : 



fiesolved. That we adhere with undiminished con- 

 fidence and pride to the party that, by its wisdom and 

 courage, preserved the Union, and by a change in the 

 organic law of the republic established liberty and 

 equality. We believe that, by the continued ascen- 

 dency of the Eepublican party, will be secured the 

 success of free government ; that it is the safeguard 

 of the Constitution, the promoter of education, or- 

 der, industry, thrift, universal freedom, and equal 

 rights. 



Resolved, That we congratulate the country on the 

 success of the present Administration, which has, 

 without increase of taxation, reduced the national 

 debt over $156,000,000 by an -honest and economic 

 collection of the revenue and a large reduction of the 

 expenses of the Government, and we especially con- 

 gratulate the country on the fact that this policy has 

 made it possible to reduce the internal revenue and 

 tariff duties $80,000,000, thus relieving the people of 

 their burdens to that extent without imperilling the 

 national faith and honor. 



Resolved, That a tariff for revenue is indispensable, 

 and should be so adjusted as to be the least prejudi- 

 cial to the industrial and producing interests of every 

 class or section, while securing to the home pro- 

 ducer a fair competition against the foreign pro- 

 ducer. 



Resolved, That a change of our navigation laws, so 

 as to admit of the registration of vessels purchased 

 abroad, is demanded by the best interests of the 

 country, and that such action would largely con- 

 tribute toward the restoration of our plundered com- 

 merce and the supremacy of the seas. 



Resolved, That the policy of granting subsidies of 

 public lands to corporations and monopolies is un- 

 qualifiedly condemned. 



Resolved, That, adhering to our traditional policy 

 of neutrality, the American people look with pro- 

 found indifference upon any European controversy 

 regarding dynastic interests merely, and are con- 

 cerned in the present struggle between Germany and 

 France only so far as the same involves the great 

 principles of liberty ; and while we remember that 

 the great uprising of 1848 failed of success, mainly 

 for want of Germanic union, that during our recent 

 national trial the people of Germany supported our 

 cause with their sympathy and material aid, while 

 the armies of France were endeavoring to subvert a 

 republic on this continent, and establish in its stead 

 an imperial throne, we cannot refrain from declaring 

 our sympathy with the present heroic effort of the 

 Germans to establish, maintain, and defend their na- 

 tional unity. 



The Democratic State Convention was held 

 at Columbus, June 1st, and put in nomination 



