OHIO. 



607 



General, Thomas E. Powell, of Delaware 

 County ; for Judge of Supreme Court, Thomas 

 Q. Ashburn, of Clermont County; for Mem- 

 ber of Board of Public Works, H. E. O'Hagan, 

 of Erie County. 

 The following platform was adopted : 



The Democratic party of Ohio, in State Con- 

 vention assembled, proclaim the following proposi- 

 tions of political faith and action : 



1. A sacred adherence to the principles of govern- 

 ment declared and put in practical operation by the 

 fathers of the republic. 



2. Opposition to aggressions, by either department 

 of the Government upon the functions of the others, 

 and to the exercise by Federal authority of any of 

 the powers reserved by the Constitution to the 

 States respectively, or to the people. 



3. The protection of the Government to all citi- 

 zens, without regard to race, color, or previous con- 

 dition of servitude. 



4. The President's service should be limited to 

 one term, at a salary of $25,000 a year. 



5. [Retrenchment and reform in every department 

 of Government Federal, State, and local. 



6. No grants of land or money by the Govern- 

 ment, or use of its credit to railroad, steamship, or 

 other companies. 



7. The preservation of the remnant of public lands 

 for the benefit of citizens of the United States, and 

 foreign immigrants who have declared their intention 

 to become such, who will occupy and cultivate the 

 same. 



8. That the contraction of the currency heretofore 

 made by the Republican party, and the further con- 

 traction proposed by it, with a view to the forced 

 resumption of specie payment, has already brought 

 disaster to the business of the country, and threat- 

 ens it with general bankruptcy and ruin. We de- 

 mand that this policy be abandoned, and that the 

 volume of currency be made and kept equal to the 

 wants of trade, leaving the restoration of legal ten- 

 ders to par with gold to be brought about by pro- 

 moting the industries of the people, and not by de- 

 stroying them. 



9. That the policy already initiated by the Eepub- 

 lican party, of abolishing legal tenders and giving 

 national banks the power to furnish all the currency, 

 will increase the power of an already dangerous mo- 

 nopoly, and the enormous burdens now oppressing 

 the people, without any compensating advantage. 

 And that we oppose to this policy the demand that 

 all the national-bank circulation be promptly and 

 permanently retired, and legal tenders issued in 

 its place. 



10. That public interest demands that the Gov- 

 ernment should cease to discredit its own currency, 

 and should make its legal tenders receivable for 

 public dues, except where respect for the obligation 

 of contracts requires payment in coin ; and that we 

 favor the payment of at least one-half of the customs 

 in legal tenders. 



11. The extinction of the present national banks, 

 and the establishment in their stead of a system or 

 free banks of discount arid deposit, only under such 

 regulations as the States may respectively prescribe. 

 And no paper currency except such as maybe issued 

 directly by and upon the faith of the General Gov- 

 ernment. 



12. A tariff for the sole purpose of revenue. 



13. We favor the complete separation of Church 

 and state; religious independence and absolute 

 freedom of opinion ; equal and exact justice to all 

 religious societies ; and purely secular education at 

 the expense of the tax-payer, without division among 

 or control by any sect, directly or indirectly, of any 

 portion of the public-school fund. 



In view of the admirable provisions of our State 

 constitution upon these subjects, which are due to 



the energy and wisdom of the Democratic party, we 

 denounce the Eepublican platform as an insult to 

 the intelligence of the people of Ohio, and a baso 

 appeal to sectarian prejudices. 



14. That we are opposed to the passage of what 

 are called ^umptuary laws, or any interference with 

 social habits or customs, not in themselves criminal, 

 and we reprobate any espionage by one class of citi- 

 zens upon another, under any pretense whatever. 



With this declaration of principles and policy, we 

 arraign the leaders of the Eepublican party for their 

 extravagant expenditure and profligate waste of the 

 people's money ; for their oppressive, unjust, and 

 defective system of taxation and finance ; for their 

 continued tyranny and cruelty to the Southern States 

 of the Union ; for their squandering of the public 

 lands ; for their continuance of incompetent and 

 corrupt men in office, at home and abroad; and 

 for their general mismanagement of the Govern- 

 ment. 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 character- 

 ized the purer and better days of the republic. 



The political campaign was an exceedingly 

 hot and bitter one, and the active work cov- 

 ered a much longer period than is ordinary in 

 a State election. The result was as follows: 



GOVERXOR. 



Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican 29T,817 



William ADen, Democrat 292,278 



Jay Odell, Prohibition 2,593 



LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



Thomas L. Young, Eepublican 297,981 



Samuel F. Cary, Democrat 287,990 



H. A. Thompson, Prohibition 8,680 



AUDITOR OP STATE. 



James "Williams, Eepublican 295,505 



Edward M. Green, Democrat 292,271 



Delmont Locke, Prohibition 8,882 



TREASURER OF STATE. 



John M. Millikin, Eepublican 296,677 



John Schreiner, Democrat 292,714 



Edward C. Young, Prohibition 8,19(i 



ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



John Little, Eepublican 296,858 



Thomas E. Powell, Democrat 292,487 



Samuel E. Adams, Prohibition 8,157 



JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. 



George W. Mcllvaine, Eepublican 296,944 



Thomas Q. Ashburn, Democrat 292,823 



David C. Montgomery, Prohibition 8,118 



BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 



Peter Thatcher, Eepublican 296,901 



Henry E. O'Hagan, Democrat 292,067 



John E. Buchtel, Prohibition 8,252 



At the same election two additions to the 

 constitution were voted upon. One authorized 

 the creation of a commission " to dispose of 

 such part of the dockets of the Supreme Court 

 as shall, by arrangement between said commis- 

 sioners and said court, be transferred to such 

 commission." This was adopted by a vote of 

 339,076 for the commission to 98,561 against. 

 The other proposed addition was to authorize 

 a tax on dogs. This failed of adoption, not 

 receiving a majority of all the votes cast at the 

 election. The vote stood : for the tax, 278,005 ; 

 against, 73,801. The total vote cast at the 

 election was 595,248. 



