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department of the Government, Federal or State, 

 county or municipal. 



9. We are opposed to grants of the public domain 

 to railroad corporations, and we rejoice at the fact 

 that the determined opposition of Democratic Sena- 

 tors and Kepresentatives in Congress, and the un- 

 equivocal condemnation of the people, have put a 

 stop to a scheme of legislation that but lately threat- 

 ened to bestow upon great corporations, compara- 

 tively few in number, the whole body of the public 

 lands. We favor the policy that looks to the owner- 

 tfhip of these lands by actual settlers, and therefore 

 approve the principle of the homestead settlement 

 law. 



10. That freedom of the press is essential to the 

 preservation of the public liberty, and we denounce 

 the attempts made by the radicals at the last ses- 

 sion of Congress, to subject the proprietors of the 

 principal newspapers of the United States to indict- 

 ment and trial in Washington City for alleged libel, 

 as efforts to revive and embody in legislation the 

 spirit of the gag and sedition laws of the elder Ad- 

 ams's Administration, which were overthrown, as it 

 is hoped, forever, by the election of Thomas Jefferson. 



11. That, while we admit the equality of all per- 

 sons before the law, we protest against the attempt 

 being made by the radicals in Congress to enforce 

 social equality by unconstitutional pains and penal- 

 ties, and we call the attention of the voters of Ohio to 

 the fact that, although our Supreme Court unanimous- 

 ly decided that our statute, which provides for sepa- 

 rate schools for white and colored children, is a con- 

 stitutional law, and this judgment is supported by 

 recent judgments of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, yet the civil-rights bill, so called, which 

 passed the Senate at its last session ? and i^ now 

 pending in the House of Representatives, seeks to 

 overthrow our statute, and in disregard and defiance 

 of it to compel mixed schools in Ohio, by the inflic- 

 tion of severe criminal punishment and civil penal- 

 ties upon all who resist that unconstitutional at- 

 tempt. 



12. That we have seen with alarm and regret the 

 advocacy in influential quarters of the election of 

 the President of the United States for a period be- 

 yond that to which the traditions and usages of the 

 country have almost given the sanction of a funda- 

 mental law ; that such election would be a long stride 

 on the road to practical monarchy and personal des- 

 potism, and we are decidedly in favor of establish- 

 ing the one-term principle by an amendment of the 

 Constitution. 



13. We favor the submission to the people, by the 

 General Assembly, of an amendment to the Consti- 

 tution authorizing the passage of a license law. 



14. That with this declaration of our principles 

 and policy, we arraign the leaders of the Republican 

 party for their extravagant expenditures and profli- 

 gate waste of the people's money ; for their oppres- 

 sive, unjust, and defective system of taxation, finance, 

 and currency ; for their continued tyranny and cru- 

 elty to the Southern States of the Union j for their 

 squandering of the public funds ; for their continu- 

 ance of incompetent and corrupt men in office, at 

 home and abroad ; and for their general mismanage- 

 ment of the Government ; and we cordially invite all 

 men, without regard to past party associations, to 

 cooperate with us in expelling them from power, 

 and in securing such an administration of public 

 affairs as characterized the purer and better days of 

 the republic. 



The Republican State Convention was held 

 at Columbus, September 2d, the presiding offi- 

 cer being U. S. Senator John Sherman. The 

 following ticket was placed in nomination: 

 For Secretary of State, A. T. Wikoff, of 

 Adams County; Supreme Judge, long term, 

 Luther Day, of Portage County ; Supreme 



Judge, short term, in place of Judge "Walter 

 F. Stone, resigned, W. W. Johnson, of Law- 

 rence County ; School Commissioner, Thomas 

 W. Harvey, of Lake County ; Clerk of Su- 

 preme Court, Rodney Foos, of Clinton County ; 

 member of Board of Public Works, Stephen 

 R. Hosmer, of Muskingum County. The fol- 

 lowing platform of principles was adopted : 



JResolved, 1. That we reaffirm the principles and 

 policy of the Republican party, as announced_ by its 

 National Conventions. That we are proud of its his- 

 tory and great services, and we especially commend 

 the vigor and force by which it maintained the Union, 

 abolished slavery, and secured equal civil and po- 

 litical rights to all citizens. We demand that these 

 rights be enforced by appropriate legislation, so thut 

 all citizens shall have the equal protection of the law, 

 and be secure in the equal enjoyment of their rights. 

 We demand of our public agents fidelity to their 

 principles, the honest execution of the pledges made 

 to the people, purity, integrity, and economy in the 

 discharge of their official duties, and the prompt and 

 fearless examination and punishment of those who 

 violate any of their obligations. 



2. That we favor a tariff for revenue, with such in- 

 cidental protection as may foster and encourage 

 American industry. 



3. That we denounce all forms of open or covert 

 repudiation, and declare that justice and the public 

 faith alike demand that the debt of the United 

 States be paid in accordance with the letter and spirit 

 of the laws under which it was created, as declared 

 in the act of Congress of March 18, 1869 ; and it is 

 the duty of the National Government to adopt such 

 measures as shall gradually but certainly restore our 

 paper money to a specie standard without shock to 

 the business interests of the country. 



4. That, when the currency shall have been restored 

 to a specie value, banking should be made free, so 

 that the circulating medium may expand or contract, 

 according to the demands of commerce and trade. 



5. That the Democratic party, by its uniform oppo- 

 sition to the improvement of our harbors, and our 

 great national water-courses, has shown itself incom- 

 petent to deal with the vitally important question of 

 cheap transportation and all internal improvements ; 

 that the cheap and prompt transportation of the 

 products of industry should be promoted by the na- 

 tional and State Governments by appropriate legisla- 

 tion. 



6. That we heartily indorse the present Republi- 

 can Congress in repealing the law increasing official 

 salaries; in reducing expenses by more than $20,- 

 000,000 ; in successfully resisting all "jobs ; " in abol- 

 ishing the extravagant government of the District 

 of Columbia, and in reforming abuses generally; 

 whereby the Republican party is proved to be worthy 

 of the continued support of the people. 



7. That the recent outrages and murders in the. 

 South, of which unoffending colored citizens have 

 been the victims, committed in pursuance of the 

 avowed purpose of maintaining an exclusive " white 

 man's government," demand and hereby receive the 

 indignant condemnation of the Republicans of Ohio. 



8. That the restraint of intemperance and _its 

 causes, to the full extent of the legislative, judicial, 

 and police powers of the State, and the forfeiture of 

 public trust for intoxication, are demanded by the 

 moral and material welfare of society and the State. 



9. We deprecate the action of the present General 

 Assembly in reorganizing the punitive and benevo- 

 lent institutions of the State for merely partisan and 

 political purposes, as tending inevitably to the im- 

 pairment of their efficiency and usefulness. 



The Prohibitionists also placed a ticket in 

 the field, as follows : For Secretary of State, 

 John R. Buchtel; Judge of Supreme Court, 



