OHIO. 



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ma.-ses of the American people, irrespective of 

 party, than at any previous period in cur national 

 history. It is everywhere recognized ami indorsed 



as the'grcat, masterful, triumphant American prin- 

 ciple 'the key to our prosperity in business, the 



prop to the Treasury of the United S' 

 anil the bulwark of our national independence and 

 financial honor. 



"We denounce the present tariff law as the sub- 

 limest product of Democratic ignorance and incom- 

 petency. bringing, as it has. to a prosperous and 

 happy people, a period of unprecedented adversity 

 and distress from which nothing but a return to 

 the policy of protection can relieve it. 



We denounce, the free-wool provision of the pres- 

 ent tariff law as an unjust discrimination against 

 an important industry and against a large part of 

 our people, and demand such protection for sheep 

 husbandry as will secure fair prices for American 

 wool. 



' The Republican party stands for a reciprocity 

 that reciprocates, and which does not yield up to 

 another country a single day's labor that belongs to 

 the American workingman. It stands for interna- 

 tional agreements which get as much as they give, 

 upon terms of mutual advantage. 



" It stands for a fiscal policy opposed to debts 

 and deficits in time of peace and favors the return 

 of the Government to a debt-paying policy and op- 

 poses the continuance of the debt-making policy. 



We contend for honest money : for a currency 

 of gold, silver, and paper with which to measure our 

 exchanges that shall be as sound as the Govern- 

 ment and as untarnished as its honor : and to that 

 end we favor bimetallism and demand the use of 

 both gold and silver as standard money, either in 

 accordance with a ratio to be fixed by an interna- 

 tional agreement, if that can be obtained, or under 

 such restrictions and such provisions, to be deter- 

 mined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance 

 of the parities of values of the two metals, so that 

 the purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, 

 whether of silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all times 

 equal. 



We denounce the present administration of the 

 Pension Bureau for its betrayal of the interests of 

 the Union soldiers, and we pledge anew to the vet- 

 erans of the republic a watchful care and recog- 

 nition of their just claims upon a grateful people." 



For Secretary of State Charles Kinney was nom- 

 inated, for Judge of the Supreme Court Marshall J. 

 Williams was renominated, Joseph E. Blackburn 

 was nominated for Dairy and Food Commissioner, 

 and Frank A. Huffman for member of Board of 

 Public \Vorks. 



The Democratic State Convention was held in 

 Columbus. June 23 and 24. The interest centered 

 in the attitude to be taken on the money question, 

 there having been sharp contests in the election of 

 delegates in the several counties. Majority and 

 minority reports were presented by the Committee 

 on Resolutions. The majority report was as fol- 

 lows : 



- We. the Democrats of Ohio, in convention as- 

 sembled, hold that the money question is the vital 

 and paramount issue now before the people of this 

 country, and that its early and correct settlement 

 is necessary to the revival of business and the return 

 of prosperity : therefore 



"Regolved, That we are unalterably opposed to the 

 single gold standard, and demand an immediate re- 

 turn to the constitutional money of gold and silver 

 by the restoration by this Government, independ- 

 ent of other nations, of the unrestricted coin;., 

 both silver and gold into standard money at the 

 ratio of 16 to 1, and upon the terms of exact 

 equality existing prior to 1873 ; such silver coin to 



lie a full legal tender, equally with gold coin, for all 

 debts and due>. public and pn\ 



If, xnlr.ii. That the delegates at large, this day 

 chosen by this convention, and the d the 



national convention from the several congressional 

 districts be and they are hereby in>truc' 

 all honorable means 'to M-CUIV the adoption of the 

 principles contained in the foregoing resolution by 

 the National Democratic Convention, to be held at 

 Chicago. July 7. and to vote only for candidat' 

 President and V ice-President who are known 

 in full accord therewith ; and to accomplish I 

 ends to ( -a>t the votes from the State of Ohio as a 

 unit as a majority may determine." 



This report was signed by 16 members of the 

 committee. The minority report, .-igned by 4 mem- 

 bers, was much longer, covering the Monroe doc- 

 trine, election of Senators by the people, the Cuban 

 question, tariff reform, personal liberty, and all the 

 usual declarations of Democratic conventions, in- 

 cluding the reaffirmation of the national platform 

 of 1892. The Republican Legislature and State ad- 

 ministration were strongly denounced. No refer- 

 ence to the financial question was made, the mem- 

 ber who presented the report explaining that it 

 was omitted in the interests of harmony. The 

 minority report was promptly defeated, as was a 

 motion to strike out the unit-rule resolution of the 

 majority report. The majority report was then 

 adopted as the platform by a vote of 542 to 128. 



The State ticket nominated was: For Secretary 

 of State. Chilton A. White : E. J. Blandin for Judge 

 of the Supreme Court: Patrick McKeown for Dairy 

 and Food Commissioner: William Beaumont for 

 Member of Board of Public Works. 



Negotiations were subsequently had with the 

 People's Party State Committee for a fusion on 

 presidential and State tickets, resulting in the ac- 

 c^ptance by the People's party of the Democratic 

 tickets, after the withdrawal of E. J. Blandin as 

 candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court and the 

 substitution of Everett I). Stark, and the substitu- 

 tion of Thomas J. Creager for Patrick McKeown as 

 candidate for Dairy and Food Commissioner. 



The Prohibition party put a full ticket in nomina- 

 tion, the candidates for State offices being : For 

 tary of State. Samuel H. Rockhill : for Judge 

 of the Supreme Court. Gideon T. Stewart : for mem- 

 ber of Board of Public Works, Charles E. Iliff ; for 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner. Arza Alderman. 



The National party had a State ticket : For Sec- 

 retary of State. Wesley C. Bates; for Judge of the 

 Supreme Court. Marcus B. Chase: for Member of 

 Board of Public Works. Winfield S. Maynard ; for 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner. Enos II. Brosius. 



The Socialist-Labor party nominated a partial 

 ticket : For Secretary of State. Daniel W. Wallace; 

 for Member of Board "of Public Works. J< <\m Schuch ; 

 for Dairy and Food Commissioner, James Rugg. 



The National Democratic ticket (Gold Democrats) 

 had a full list of presidential electors, but only two 

 nominations for State offices: For Judge of the 

 Supreme Court. Thomas Beer : for Dairy and Food 

 Commissioner. Samuel D. Poland. 



The official declaration of the result on presi- 

 dential electors is as follows: McKinley. Repub- 

 lican. 52"). (till : Bryan. Democrat. 474. .^ : 2 : Lever- 

 ing. Prohibitionist, 5.nf"i8: Bently. National. 2.716 : 

 Matehett. Socialist-Labor, 1.167 :' Palmer. National 

 Democrat. l.^.">7. 



The vote on Secretary of State was: Charles 

 Kinney. Republican. 525,020; Chilton A. White, 

 Democrat. 47:!.471 : Samuel II. Rockhill. Prohibi- 

 tionist. 5.4IV.I : W. C. Bates. National. 3.382 : D. W. 

 Wallace. Socialist-Labor. 1.234. 



Tl: -ional elections resulted in the elec- 



tion of 15 Republicans and 6 Democrats. 



