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OHIO. 



at Columbus, May 17th. The meeting was 

 stormy, and the contest over the platform and 

 the selection of delegates was sharp. The 

 State ticket put in nomination was as follows : 

 Secretary of State, William Bell, of Licking 

 County ; Judge of Supreme Court, William E. 

 Finck, of Perry County ; memher of Board of 

 Public Works, H. P. Clough, of Butler County. 



TTLEB DAVIDSON FOUNTAIN, CINCINNATI. 



The minority report, signed by eight of the 

 twenty members of the committee, was adopted, 

 and made the platform of the party, by a vote 

 of 366^ yeas to 308 nays. It was as follows: 



Resolved, That, recognizing the duty of the Demo- 

 cratic party as the time-honored champion of the 

 rights of the many against tlie aggressions of the 

 few, to express its purposes in the pending currency 

 conflict without reserve or equivocation, we declare 

 that we shall urge against all opposition, come from 

 what quarter it may, measures to effect the following 

 objects : 



1. The immediate and unconditional repeal of the 

 Republican resumption law. 



2. The defeat of all schemes for resumption which 

 involve either contraction of the currency, perpetu- 

 ation of bank issues, or increase of the interest-bur- 

 den of the debt. 



3. The gradual but early substitution of legal ten- 

 ders for national-hank notes. 



4. The issue by the General Government alone of all 

 the circulating medium, whether paper or metallic. 



5. No forced inflation, no forced contraction, but 

 a sound currency equal to the wants of trade and 

 industry, to be regulated in volume and gradually 

 equalized with gold by means of appropriate legis- 

 lation, such as making it receivable for customs, and 

 interconvertible, at the pleasure of the holder, with 

 a bond bearing an interest not to exceed 3.65 per 

 cent., payable in gold, so that the volume of curren- 

 cy shall not be determined by the pleasure or caprice 

 of either Congress or the banks. 



6. A graduated income-tax, to meet at least the 

 premium on gold needed to pay interest on the pub- 

 lic debt. 



7. That public policy and a sense of common jus- 



tice require that the silver issued by the Government 

 should be legal tender in payment of all debts, pub- 

 lic and private, and that we demand the uncondi- 

 tional repeal of the so-called silver act, so far as the 

 same limits the amount for which silver currency 

 shall be a legal tender. 



8. That we are in favor of a tariff for revenue only. 

 And we denounce the Eepublican scheme of resump- 

 tion, as intended and operating, through a large in- 

 crease of the bonded debt and a sudden and enor- 

 mous contraction of the currency, to double the 

 burdens of taxation, rob debtors of their property, 

 paralyze productive and commercial industries, cast 

 laborers out of employment, and fill the laid with 

 want and misery, for the wicked purpose of doubling 

 the values of money securities, and subjugating the 

 mass of the people to the imperious swsiy of a money- 

 oligarchy. 



9. That the Democracy of Ohio present to the 

 Democracy of the thirty-seven other sovereign States 

 of the Republic the name ol "William Allen as the 

 choice of Ohio for the presidency. 



10. That the delegates at large of the St. Louis 

 Convention, and the delegates appointed by the 

 congressional districts, are hereby requested to vote 

 in the National Convention in favor of "William Al- 

 len for President, and to use all honorable means to 

 secure his success. 



The election was held October 10th. Great 

 interest was taken in it, as being an indication 

 of the probable result of the presidential elec- 

 tion to take place a month later. The Repub- 

 lican ticket was elected, but by so close a vote 

 that little effect was made on the national 

 struggle. The vote stood thus : 



SECRETARY OF STATE. 



Barnes, Eepublican 317,856 



Bell, Democrat 311,220 



Chapman, Prohibition 1,663 



Barnes over Bell 6,636 



Barnes over all 4,778 



JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. 



Boynton, Eepublican 818,772 



Finck. Democrat 809.933 



Gape, Prohibition 2.065 



Boynton over Finck 8.539 



Boynton over all 6,774 



MEMBER OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 



Evans. Eepublican 818.378 



Clough, Democrat 810.348 



Schumacher. Prohibition 2.101 



Evans over Clough 8.1*25 



Evans over all 5,924 



Twelve Republicans were elected to Con- 

 gress and eight Democrats, nearly reversing 

 the figures of the preceding congressional elec- 

 tion, when thirteen Democrats and seven Re- 

 publicans were chosen. The figures of the 

 election for Congressmen were as follows : 



20. Townsend, E.. 17,894 Payne, D 14,521 8,873 E. 



