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OHIO. 



Resolved, That we hail with profound satisfaction 

 the patriotic and consistent declaration of President 

 Grant in his Inaugural Address, that, while he will on 

 all subjects have a policy to recommend to Congress, 

 he will have none to enforce against the will of the 

 people a sentiment which assures the country of an 

 executive Administration founded on the model of the 

 Administrations of Washington and Madison and that 

 will insure to Congress the unrestricted exercise of 

 its constitutional functions, to the people their right- 

 ful control of the Government. 



Resolved, That the abolishment of slavery was a 

 national and necessary consequence of the war of the 

 rebellion, and that the reconstruction measures of 

 Congress were measures well adapted to effect the re- 

 construction of the Southern States, and secure the 

 "blessings of liberty and free government ; and, as a 

 completion of these measures, and firmly believing 

 in its essential justice, we are in favor of the adoption 

 of the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution. 



Resolved, That the late Democratic General Assem- 

 bly, in its reckless expenditure of public money, its 

 utter neglect of the business interests of the State by 

 failing to enact the wise and much-needed financial 

 measures providing for the assessment and equaliza- 

 tion of taxation prepared by the commission appoint- 

 ed by the preceding General Assembly ; its hostility 

 to our benevolent and literary institutions ; its failure 

 to carry out the reported pledges of the Democratic 

 party to secure economy in the State ; its extraordi- 

 nary length of session in time of peace, resulting in 

 an expense to the State, amounting, for the pay ot its 

 members, to more than double that of the previous 

 General Assembly ; the malignant attempts to dis- 

 franchise disabled soldiers and other citizens of the 

 State ; its attempt to take from the General Govern- 

 ment the right to pursue, arrest, and punish, those 

 who violate the laws made in pursuance of the Con- 

 stitution of the United States ; and the vicious acts 

 intended to destroy the power of the nation to pro- 

 tect and preserve the liberty and safety of its citi- 

 zens, has shown the Democratic party unworthy of 

 the trust, confidence, and support, of our honest and 



patriotic people. 

 Resolved, Th 



Chat the Eepublican party of Ohio is in 

 favor of a' speedy establishment of a Soldiers' Or- 

 phans' Home in Ohio, not only as an act of justice to 

 the many poor and helpless orphans of deceased sol- 

 diers, but as a recognition of the patriotic services of 

 their fathers in the late war, and for the purpose of 

 redeeming the pledges made by all loyal people to 

 protect the families of those who fell in the cause of 

 human liberty and right. 



The Democratic State Convention was held 

 at Columbus, July 7th, when the following 

 ticket was nominated: for Governor, W. S. 

 Eosecrans; Lieutenant-Governor, T. J. God- 

 frey; State Treasurer, S. Buhrer; Judge of 

 Supreme Court, W. J. Gilmore; Attorney- 

 General, J. M. Connell ; member of Board of 

 Public Works, B. P. Churchill. The platform 

 adopted was as follows : 



Resolved, That exemption from tax of over $2,500,- 

 000,000 in Government bonds and securities is unjust 

 to the people, and ought not to be tolerated, and that 

 we are opposed to any appropriation for payment 

 of interest on public bonds until they are made sub- 

 ject to taxation. 



Resolved, That the claims of bondholders that the 

 bonds which were bought with greenbacks, and the 

 principal of which is oy law payable in currency, 

 should, nevertheless, be paid in gold, is unjust and 

 extortionate, and if persisted in will inevitably force 

 upon the people the question of repudiation. 



Resolved, That we denounce the high protective 

 tariff which was designed 'to aid the interests of the 

 -N ew England manufacturers. The said tariff is also, 



by its enormous impositions on salt, sugar, tea, cof- 

 fee, and necessaries, unendurable and oppressive, 

 especially upon the people of the West, and that we 

 demand its repeal, and the substitution of another 

 hased upon revenue principles alone upon the closest 

 possible approximation to absolute free trade. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party of the United 

 States have always been permanently friendly to the 

 rights and interests of the laboring-man, that they 

 are in favor of a limited number of hours in all manu- 

 facturing workshopSj hours dictated by the physical 

 and mental well-being of the laborer; that they 

 favor the most liberal laws in regard to household 

 and homestead exemption from sale and execution : 

 that they are also in favor of liberal grants of land 

 from the public domain to the actual settler, and are 

 opposed to the donation of them to swindling rail- 

 road corporationSj and that they are generally friendly 

 to the system ot measures advocated by the labor 

 and industrial congresses ; and we pledge the Demo- 

 cratic party, if restored to power, to exercise them in 

 giving them practical application. 



Resolved, That the attacks of Governors Hayes and 

 Lee upon the doings of the late General Assembly are 

 false in fact, malicious in spirit, and unworthy of 

 gentlemen occupying their elevated positions. 



Resolved, That the late General Assembly were 

 called upon to make large and extraordinary appro- 

 priations ; to rebuild the ourned Lunatic Asylum, to 

 provide a Eeform School for Girls, construct a new 

 Blind Asylum, to make appropriations to pay over 

 $80,000 of a judgment obtained in the Supreme Court 

 of the State in favor of the Life Insurance and Trust 

 Company, and to meet a deficiency of over $500,000 

 of the preceding Eepublican Legislature, all of which, 

 together with the extra compensation paid to mem- 

 bers under a law passed by a Eepublican Legislature, 

 were provided for without an increase of the State 

 levy, and the appropriations in the aggregate are 

 much less than that of the preceding Eepublican 

 Legislature, without subtracting $800,000 from the re- 

 lief fund for the maimed and disabled soldiers and 

 their families. 



Resolved, That we hereby return our thanks to the 

 fifty-eighth General Assembly for their economical ex- 

 penditures in the administration of the State govern- 

 ment, and the exposal of the wholesale frauds in the 

 erection of State buildings, whereby the people were 

 swindled out of $500,000 by the negligence of Eepub- 

 lican State officials and the dishonesty of contractors. 



Resolved, That it is the right of each State to de- 

 cide for itself who shall possess the elective franchise 

 within it; that the attempt to regulate suffrage in 

 Ohio by means of the so-called fifteenth constitutional 

 amendment is subversive of the principles of the 

 Federal Constitution. 



Resolved, That the policy and legislation of the 

 radical party directly tend to destroy all the reserved 

 rights of the States, and convert the republic into a 

 consolidated despotism ; that, whether such despot- 

 ism be exercised by an emperor, a President, or a 

 Congress, the result would be fatal to liberty and 

 good government ; that consolidation in this country 

 means the absolute dominion of monopoly and an 

 aggregate capital over the lives, the liberty, and the 

 property, of the toiling masses. 



Resolved, That we denounce the national banking 

 system as one of the worst outgrowths of the bonded 

 dfebt, which unnecessarily increases the burderi'of the 

 people $30,000,000 annually, and that we demand its 

 immediate repeal. 



Resolved, That the trial and sentence to death by a 

 military commissioner of a citizen of Texas, not in 

 the military or naval service, when the civil courts 

 were in the unobstructed exercise of their functions 

 in that State, and in the time of profound peace, and 

 the approval of that sentence by Accident Grant, are 

 violations of the most sacred rights of American citi- 

 zens, guaranteed by their constitutions, State and 

 Federal, and deserve and should receive the severest 



