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OHIO. 



the value of all other property, and especially of cap- 

 ital designed for productive use, and required for 

 the employment of labor, thus repressing instead of 

 fostering industry, compelling idleness instead of 

 sustaining trude and commerce ; and now this party 

 iu Ohio puts forward in its platform the declaration 

 thut the financial question has been settled. We 

 deny this declaration, and while we congratulate 

 the country that the down ward course of bankruptcy 

 and ruin involved in the Eepublican party has been 

 partially averted by the Democratic measures passed 

 lit the late session of Congress restoring the debt- 

 paying power to silver dollars, made a law in spite 

 of a Presidential veto, and stopping the further de- 

 struction of greenbacks, we demand, as further acts 

 of justice as well as measures of relief, the repeal of 

 the resumption act and the lawful liberation of the 

 coin hoarded in the Treasury ; the removal of all re- 

 strictions to the coinage of silver and the reestab- 

 lishment of silver as a money metal the same as 

 gold, as it was before its fraudulent demonetization ; 

 the gradual substitution of United States legal-tender 

 paper for national-bank notes and its permanent es- 

 tablishment as the sole paper money of the country, 

 made receivable for all dues to the Government and 

 of equal tender with coin, the amount of such issues 

 to be so regulated by legislation or organic law as to 

 give the people assurance of stability in volume of 

 currency and consequent stability of value ; no fur- 

 ther increase in the bonded debt, and no further 

 sale of bonds for the purchase of coin for resumption 

 purposes, but the gradual extinction of the public 

 debt, rigid economy in the reduction of expenditures 

 in all brunches of the public service, and a tariff for 

 revenue only. 



Resolved, That the interests of the industrial, 

 wealth-producing classes is the paramount interest 

 of the people of the United States. Those whose 

 labor and enterprise produce wealth should be secure 

 in its enjoyment. Our warmest sympathy is extended 

 to the laboring classes who have been thrown out of 

 employment by the ruinous financial policy and un- 

 just legislation of the Eepublican party, and we 

 pledge the Democratic party to the reversal of that 

 policy and a restoration of all the rights they are 

 entitled to upon its ascendancy to power. 



Resolved, That there can be no legitimate employ- 

 ment of organized force in this country except to 

 execute the law and to maintain public peace ; that 

 no violence should be countenanced to obtain redress 

 for any alleged grievance, but should be repressed 

 at every cost until relief can be secured by legal 

 methods. 



We congratulate the country upon the adoption 

 of the constitutional and pacific policy of local self- 

 government in the States of the South, so long advo- 

 cated by the Democratic party, and which has brought 

 peace and harmony to that section of the Union. 



The State Convention of the National Green- 

 back Labor party met in Columbus, July 23d. 

 The ticket nominated was: Andrew Roy, of 

 Jackson County, for Secretary of State ; 0. A. 

 White, of Brown County, for Judge of the 

 Supreme Court; J. R. Fallis, of Lucas Coun- 

 ty, for Member of Board of Public Works. 

 The resolutions adopted were as follows : 



.. We endorse nnd reaffirm the declaration of 

 principles of the National party adopted at Toledo, 

 February 22d, 1878. 



2. Want of harmony of sentiment on the financial 

 question in both the Republican and Democratic 



(irties renders it absolutely necessary that those 

 Hio demand financial reform should abandon the 

 old organizations and unite together in the National 

 Greenback Labor party, to save business men from 

 bankruptcy, working classes from starvation, the 

 lo country from revolution, and the nation from 

 repudiation. 



3. We denounce as crimes against the people the 

 law making the greenback only a partial legal ten- 

 der, the act creating the national banking scheme, 

 the act changing currency bonds into coin bonds, the 

 act exempting bonds from taxation, the act repealing 

 the income tax, the act demonetizing silver, the act 

 for issuing interest-bearing bonds for the purchase 

 of silver bullion to be converted into subsidiary coin, 

 the act for the forced resumption of specie payments, 

 the act for the indefinite increase of the national 

 bank circulation, and the enormous contraction of 

 the volume of the circulating medium. We recog- 

 nize the financial legislation of the Government from 

 the commencement of the civil war as the arbitrary 

 dictation of the syndicate of bankers and usurers, 

 with the single and settled purpose of robbing the 

 many to enrich the few. 



4. To remedy and counteract the evils complained 

 of, we demand that the Government shall issue a 

 full legal-tender paper money adequate in volume 

 for the employment of labor, the distribution of its 

 products, the requirements of business, and for the 

 payment of all interest-bearing bonds as fast as re- 

 deemable ; the withdrawal and cancellation of all 

 bank notes designed to circulate as currency, the 

 non-exemption from taxation of all private property, 

 the passage of a graduated income tax, the unlimited 

 coinage of gold and silver, and the repeal of the spe- 

 cie resumption act, and that all legalized monopolies 

 be abolished and their establishment in the future 

 prohibited. 



5. We recognize the mutual dependence of capital 

 and labor and deprecate all attempts to antagonize 

 them. Combinations of capital to rob, and strikes 

 of labor to resist robbery, are destructive of the true 

 interests of labor. We denounce alike the Commu- 

 nism which demands an equal division of property 

 and the infamous financial legislation which takes all 

 from the many to enrich the few. We demand cheap 

 capital and well-paid labor in the place of dear capi- 

 tal and cheap labor. 



6. To secure the rights and protect the interests of 

 employer and employed, bureaus of statistics should 

 be established and competent persons appointed to 

 inquire into and report the condition and wages of 

 the working classes in all departments of industry, 

 that wise, judicious, and equitable laws may be en- 

 acted in regard to the hours of labor and the em- 

 ployment of minors in manufacturing establish- 

 ments. 



7. Public lands should be sacredly set apart for 

 the homesteads of actual settlers, and such legisla- 

 tion should be had as will encourage and aid the 

 landless in securing homes. 



8. The contract system of employing the inmates 

 of our prisons works great injustice to mechanics 

 and manufacturerSj and should be abolished. 



9. The importation of servile labor from other 

 countries should be prohibited under the severest 

 penalties, while the immigration of liberty -loving 

 people should be encouraged. 



10. We deprecate and denounce all seditions and 

 violent measures, and appeal only to the good sense, 

 love of justice, and patriotism of the people, and in- 

 voke them to redress their cruel and outrageous 

 wrongs only through the ballot-box. 



11. We demand proper sanitary safeguards and 

 regulations for workshops, mines, and factories. 



12.^ We favor the enactment of laws giving me- 

 chanics and laborers a first lien for their full wages. 



13. We are opposed to any further issue of inter- 

 est-bearing bonds of the United States for any pur- 

 pose whatever. 



The total vote cast for Secretary of State 

 was 589,092, being an increase of 34,032 over 

 the vote of 1877. The official declaration of 

 the result was as follows : 



Secretary of State Barnes, Repub., 274,- 



