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OHIO. 



1. The Republican party of the United States may 

 well challenge the admiration and confidence of the 

 country for its patriotism, courage, and wisdom in 

 preserving the Union of the States; for its justice, 

 firmness, and magnanimity in establishing, for all the 

 people, liberty and equality before the law ; for its 

 gratitude and generous provision for the national de- 

 fenders and pensioners ; for its inviolate honor and 

 good faith toward the national creditors ; and, gen- 

 erally, for its successful administration of public af- 

 fairs in peace as well as in war. 



2. We not only recognize the thirteenth, four- 

 teenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution 

 of the United States as accomplished facts, but also 

 as just, wise, and valid articles of organic law, to be 

 jealously defended and enforced as parts of the Con- 

 stitution, now, henceforth, and forever. 



3. As it will be necessary and desirable to obtain 

 from duties on imports a large portion of the reve- 

 nues needed to defray the expenses of the Govern- 

 ment, to pay the interest on the national debt, and 

 the principal as it matures, such duties should be so 

 adjusted as not to prejudice, but to promote the inter- 

 ests of every section and branch of industry, as far 

 as may be possible. 



4. The present Administration of the national Gov- 

 ernment has vindicated its right to the continued 

 confidence of the people. Its success has been illus- 

 trated in the impartial execution of the laws ; in its 

 faithfulness, honesty, and economy in the collection 

 of public revenues, and in the expenses of the Govern- 

 ment ; so that, while taxation has been reduced to the 

 extent of one hundred millions of dollars per year, 

 the national debt has been liquidated to the amount 

 of over two hundred and thirty millions a reduction 

 unparalleled in history. The Administration has been 

 equally successful in the management of our foreign 

 relations, and has achieved imperishable honor in the 

 settlement of our differences with Great Britainj upon 

 terms creditable to both countries, as embodied in 

 the Treaty of Washington. The head of an Admin- 

 istration thus distinguished by success and states- 

 manship is justly entitled to be regarded as a wise 

 and careful civil magistrate, and his uniform defer- 

 ence to public sentiment shows him to be one whom 

 the country may trust, having fully redeemed the 



Sledge he made before entering upon the duties of 

 hief Magistrate, that he would have no policy of 

 his own to enforce against the will of the people. 



5. We repeat our condemnation of the policy of 

 granting subsidies of public lands to corporations 

 and monopolies ; and, having originated the policy 

 of granting homesteads to actual settlers, we declare 

 that the public domain should be kept for our labor- 

 ing population. 



6. We are in favor of the adoption of a thorough 

 system of civil-service reform, and we indorse heart- 

 ily the action of President Grant in selecting the 

 commissioners under the recent so-called civil-ser- 

 vice act. 



7. We unite with our fellow-citizens in every por- 

 tion of the Union in the hope that the enmities and 

 resentments of the war may be speedily ended, and 

 that the day may soon come when in every State 

 every citizen may be safe in life, person, property, 

 and civil rights, and may have the equal protection 

 of the laws, so that no man, who was loyal to the 

 Union during the great struggle, may for that reason 

 be the victim of persecution, outrage, and assassina- 

 tion, and so that some encouragement may be offered 

 for the removal in all proper cases of political disa- 

 bilities imposed for participation in the rebellion. 



8. We recommend the calling of a convention to 

 amend the constitution of the State. 



The prohibitionists also put a full ticket in 

 the field, their candidates being as follows: 

 For Governor, Gideon T. Stewart ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, P. M. Weddell ; Auditor of State, 

 W". B. Chadwick; Treasurer of State, Thomas 



Evans, Jr. ; Attorney-General, J. W. Stench- 

 comb ; member of the Board of Public Works, 

 L. B. Silver ; Judge of the Supreme Court, 

 Samuel E. Adams; Olerk of the Supreme 

 Court, Arza Aldermann. 



The election was held October 10th, and re- 

 sulted in the complete success of the Republican 

 candidates, the majority of the Eepublican can- 

 didate for Governor over his Democratic com- 

 petitor being 20,168, and over all 16,084. The 

 following is the total vote on each candidate : 



Governor. E. F. Noyes, 238,273; G. W. 

 McCook, 218,105 ; G. T. Stewart, 4,084. 



Lieutenant- Governor. J. Mueller, 238,832; 

 S. F. Hunt, 217,489 ; P. M. Weddell, 4,491. 



State Auditor. J. Williams, 237,810 ; J. R. 

 Cockerill, 217,882 ; W. B. Chadwick, 4,114. 



State Treasurer. J. Welch, 237,428; G. 

 Bruehl, 218,394 ; T. Evans, Jr., 4,137. 



Attorney- General F. B.Pond, 237,940; E. 

 S. Wallace, 218,076 ; J. W. Stenchcomb, 4,119. 



Member of Board of Public Worlcs S. R. 

 Hosmer, 238,057 ; A. Hughes, 218,011 ; L. B. 

 Silver, 4,194. 



Judge of Supreme Court. W. H. West, 237,- 

 472; G. W. Geddes, 217,374; S. E. Adams, 

 4,041. 



Cleric of Supreme Court. R. Foos, 238,117; 

 C. Patterson, 218,045 ; A. Aldermann, 4,156. 



School Commissioner. T. W. Harvey, 238,- 

 094 ; W. W. Ross, 217,958 ; S. Howard, 4,144. 



At the same election the question of a con- 

 stitutional convention was submitted to the 

 people, the terms of the law requiring that a 

 majority of all the votes cast at the election 

 should vote " yes," or the convention could 

 not be held, the vote stood, "yes," 267,618, 

 in an aggregate vote for Governor of 460,462 ; 

 thus securing the holding of the convention. 



The contest for members of the General As- 

 sembly resulted in the Republicans obtaining 

 a very small majority on joint ballot, the re- 

 turns showing 18 Republicans and 18 Demo- 

 crats in the Senate, and 56 Republicans and 48 

 Democrats in the House, with a tie on the 

 Representative from Noble County. 



The fifty-ninth General Assembly began its 

 second session January 2d, and adjourned May 

 2d. During the session one hundred and 

 twenty-four general laws were passed, besides 

 sixty-seven local and special acts, and fifty- 

 seven joint resolutions. Among the general 

 laws were the following: 



To provide for the appointment of guardians 

 of habitual drunkards, and prescribing the du- 

 ties of such guardians. Any Court of Common 

 Pleas, or any judge thereof, in vacation, upon 

 satisfactory proof that any person, resident 

 of the county, is incapable of taking care of 

 and preserving his or her property, by reason 

 of intemperance or habitual drunkenness, shall 

 appoint a guardian of the property of such 

 person, and of the minor child or children. 

 Notice of the proceeding for guardianship shall 

 be given the person interested at least five, 

 but not more than ten days, before the hear- 



