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tho following ticket: For Secretory of State, 

 William llri-K-y, of Cuyuh<>:'a ( '.unity ; t'..r Su- 

 promo Judge, Richard A. Hurrison, of Madison 

 ('unity; for I'oinpt roller of the Treasury, 

 .loliii I!. Heaton, of Belmont County; I'.u- 

 Tiiembor of the Hoard of I'uMi.- Works Wil- 

 liam Spencer, of Licking County. Tho follow- 

 ing platform was adopted : 



Tho Democracy of Ohio, coming together in the 

 spirit of devotion to tho doctrine and faith of free 

 representative government, and relying for success 

 upi'ii discussion and the intelligence of the people, 

 deeui the present convention a fitting occasion to re- 

 assort the following time-honored principles of tho 

 Democratic party : 



Thnt the Federal Government is one of limited 

 power, derived solely from the Constitution; that 

 the grants of power made therein ought to be strictly 

 construed by all the dependants and agents of the 

 Government, and that it is inexpedient and dangerous 

 to exercise doubtful powers ; that the Constitution 

 of the United States is founded on tho fundamental 

 principle of entire and absolute equality of all the 

 States of the Union, and it is not competent for Con- 

 gress to impose upon them any conditions or restric- 

 tions in respect to internal concerns which the Federal 

 Constitution has not imposed. That the liberal prin- 

 ciples embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of 

 Independence, ana sanctioned in the Constitution, 

 which make ours tho land of liberty and the asylum 

 of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been 

 cardinal principles to the Democratic faith, and every 

 attempt to abridge the privileges of becoming citizens 

 and the owners of soil among us ought to be resisted 

 with the same spirit which swept the alien and se- 

 dition laws from our statute-books ; and, in order that 

 we may more distinctly declare our views of the 

 measures and policy of the present Administration, 



Resolved, That we denounce the present tariff, as 

 well as the substitute lately introduced in the House 

 of Representatives from the Committee on Ways and 

 Moans, as a gigantic robbery of the labor and industry 

 of the country; that they are solely designed to ad- 

 vance the interest of the few thousand monopolies ; 

 that this should no longer be submitted to ; tnat no 

 candidate for Congress^ or for any other office, is 

 worthy of support who is not in favor of a low tariff, 

 which closely approximates to free trade ; and that 

 in the arrangement of any revenue tariff all the 

 necessaries of life should be absolutely free of duty. 



Resolved, That the internal revenue system of the 

 United States is unbearable in its oppressive exac- 

 tion ; that it should be immediately remedied ; that 

 its annoyances of stamps and licenses, and taxes 

 upon sales and incomes, should be abolished ; that 

 taxes should be collected by the State and county 

 officers ; that the multiplication of officers is unneces- 

 sary, except to eat out the resources of the tax-payer ; 

 ana that we pledge ourselves to effect a thorough re- 

 form in this Particular. 



Resolved. That we denounce the profligacy in tho 

 present Administration of the Federal Government, 

 the corruption which has entered all its official sta- 

 tions, the favoritism which ? overlooking fitness for 

 office, has appointed to positions of public trust the 

 friends or tools of those who control tho public pat- 

 ronage, and tho imbecility which directs the desti- 

 nies of the republic without apparent purpose, and 

 manages its affairs with such embarrassment and 

 disaster to the national interest of its people at 

 home, and with such disregard of the riglits of its 

 citizens abroad. 



Rtsolved, That land monopolies are one of the great 

 evils of our country, and against the spirit ot our 

 institutions, and that the whole of our public lands 

 ought to be held as a sacred trust to secure homes 

 for actual settlers. We therefore denounce the recent 

 action of Congress making grants to mammoth rail- 



road corporations, which arc already too powerful, 

 and may become dangerous to a fr** people. 



Refolded, That wo regard the act recently passed 

 by Congress, to enforce tho fifteenth amendment, as 

 inn'' institutional, unjiwt, and oppressive, an invasion 

 of the rights of the States, subversive of the best 

 -is of the people, and therefore demand its un- 

 conditional rct'cul. 



Rttolved, Tnat tho power of the Federal Govern- 

 ment to assess and collect taxes on the bonds of the 

 United States is clear and unquestioned, UIK! we de- 

 mand of Congress that a rate of taxation equal to the 

 fair average amount levied in each State on i 

 loaned shall be assessed and collected front all in- 

 vestments in bonds. 



Resolved, That we arc opposed to the pystt-m of 

 national banks, and demand the repeal of the law 

 creating them, and that, in place of the notes of such 

 banks, Treasury notes of tho United States shall be 

 substituted. 



Jfaolved.Tb&t tho Democrats of Ohio sympathize 

 with the efforts of all people struggling for self-gov- 

 ernment, and we denounce the truckling of the 

 Federal Administration to Great Britain and Spain, 

 and tho efforts of -the party in power to reduce the 

 whole of the States in our Union to a condition of 

 vassalage to the General Government. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Democracy of 

 Ohio are extended to our Senator, Allen G. Thur- 

 man, and Democratic Representatives in Congress, 

 who, though in a small minority, have bravely con- 

 tended for the principles of Democracy and the in- 

 terests of tho people. 



Resolved, That upon the foregoing platform we 

 cordially invite all the electors ot Ohio, without re- 

 gard to past differences, to vote for the ticket this 

 day nominated. 



The Prohibition State Convention was held 

 at Columbus, June 1st, and nominated a ticket 

 as follows : For Secretary of State, Jay Odell, 

 of Cuyahoga County ; for Supreme Judge, G. 

 T. Stewart, of Huron County ; for Comptroller 

 of the Treasury, Thomas Edmondson, of Clarke 

 County ; for member of the Board of Public 

 Works, Enoch G. Collins, of Hocking County. 

 Resolutions were adopted declaring indepen- 

 dence as a party; their right to the position 

 taken by them ; the right and duty of the 

 people to abolish and forever prohibit the 

 manufacture or importation of liquors for use 

 as a beverage ; that it is the duty of the gov- 

 ernment to repress such traffic ; that total pro- 

 hibition is the only satisfactory way of dispos- 

 ing of the liquor question, and that laws to 

 license or sanction it are insane and infamous; 

 that the policy of the government in attempt- 

 ing to supress crime in detail, instead of strik- 

 ing at its most prolific source, the liquor 

 traffic, is absurd in the extreme, and should be 

 corrected at once. 



The platform adopted by the National Tem- 

 perance Convention held at Chicago in Septem- 

 ber, 1869, was approved and adopted. A reso- 

 lution favoring female suffrage was discussed, 

 but not agreed to. 



Tho election was held Tuesday, October 

 llth, and resulted in the success of all the Re- 

 publican candidates. The total vote was as 

 follows: Secretary of State Sherwood, 221,- 

 709 ; Heisley, 205,015 ; Odell, 2,868 ; Supreme 

 Judge Mcllvaine, 221,629 ; Harrison, 204,771 ; 

 Stewart, 2,810; Comptroller Wilson, 221,712; 



