OHIO. 



The General Assembly, at its adjourned ses- 

 sion, adopted a codification of the statutes, 

 passed a very stringent law to prevent bribery 

 or intimidation at elections, and submitted to 

 the vote of the people proposed amendments 

 to the Constitution as follows: 



ABTICLE II. 



SECTION 2. Senators and Representatives shall bo 

 elected biennially by the electors in the respective 

 counties or districts, at a time prescribed by law; 

 their terms of office shall commence on the Tuesday 

 next after the first Monday of January thereafter, 

 and continue two years. 



ABTIOLE III. 



SECTION 1. The Executive Department shall con- 

 sist of a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary 

 of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and Attorney-General, 

 who shall be chosen by the electors of the State, at 

 the place of voting for members of the General As- 

 sembly, and at a time prescribed by law. 



ARTICLE x. 



SECTION 4. Township officers shall be elected on the 

 first Monday of April, annually, by the qualified elec- 

 tors of their respective townships, and shall hold their 

 offices for one year from the Monday next succeeding 

 their election, and until their successors are qualified ; 

 except township trustees, who shall be elected by the 

 qualified electors in the several townships of the State 

 on the first Monday of April, A. D. 1880, one to serve 

 for the term of one year, one for two years, and one 

 for three years ; and on the first Monday of April in 

 each year thereafter, one trustee shall be elected to 

 hold the office for three years from the Monday next 

 succeeding his election, and until his successor ia 

 qualified. 



JUDICIAL ABTICLE. 



SECTION 3. The State shall be divided into nine 

 common pleas districts, of which the county of Ham- 

 ilton shall constitute one, which districts shall be of 

 compact territory, bounded by county lines, and said 

 districts, other than asid county of Hamilton, shall, 

 without division of counties, be* further divided into 

 subdivisions, in each of which, and in said county of 

 Hamilton, there shall be elected by the electors there- 

 of, respectively, at least one judge of the court of com- 

 mon pleas for the district, and residing therein. Courts 

 of common pleas shall bo held by one or more of these 

 judges in every county of the district, as often as may 

 be provided by law, and more than one court or sit- 

 ting thereof may bo held at the same time in each dis- 

 trict. 



SEC. 5. In each district there shall be elected, by 

 the electors at largo of such district,, one judge of the 

 district court, by whom the district courts in such 

 district shall be neld, and he shall receive such com- 

 pensation as may be provided by law. District courts 

 shall be held in each county at least once every year. 

 The General Assembly may increase the number of 

 district court judges to three in any district or dis- 

 tricts, and may provide for having a judge pro tem- 

 pore, to hold any court whenever necessary by reason 

 of the failure, disqualification, absence, or sickness of 

 any judge ; and the amount of pay allowed a judge 

 fro lempore may be deducted from the salary of any 

 judge whoso default causes the necessity or having 

 the pro temport judge. The times of holding com- 



mon pleas and district courts shall bo fixed by law, 

 but the General Assembly may authorize the judge* 

 of said courts, respectively, to fix the timee of the hold- 

 ing of said courts. 



All the proposed amendments were over- 

 whelmingly rejected at the October election. 



The Republican State Convention was held 

 nt Cincinnati, May 28th. The following ticket 

 was nominated : For Governor, Charles Foster ; 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, Andrew II. Hicken- 

 looper ; for Auditor of State, John H. Oglevee ; 

 for Treasurer of State, Joseph Turney; for 

 Judge of Supreme Court, W. W. Johnson ; for 

 Attorney-General, George K. Nash ; for mem- 

 ber of Board of Public Works, James Fulling- 

 ton. The platform adopted was as follows : 



Resolved, That the Republican party of Ohio, re- 

 affirming the cardinal doctrines of its adopted faith as 

 heretofore proclaimed, especially pledges itself anew 

 to the maintenance of free suffrage, equal rights^ the 

 unity of the nation, and the supremacy of the national 

 Government in all matters placed by the Constitution 

 under ite control. 



Resolved, That we earnestly appeal to the people in 

 the exercise of their power through the ballot-box to 

 arrest the mad career of the party now controlling both 

 branches of Congress, under the domination of a ma- 

 jority of men lately in arms against the Government, 

 and now plotting to regain through the power of legis- 

 lation the cause which they lost in the field, namely, 

 the establishment of State sovereignty by the over- 

 throw of national supremacy. 



Resolved, That the Democratic party, having com- 

 mitted itself to an attempt to break up the Govern- 

 ment by refusing to appropriate to their legitimate 

 objects the public moneys already collected from the 

 people unless the Executive shall give his official sig- 

 nature to measures which he conscientiously disap- 

 proves measures plainly intended to allow a free 

 course to fraud, violence, and corruption in the na- 

 tional elections, and to impair the constitutional su- 

 premacy of the nation deserves the condemnation of 

 every honest and law-abiding citizen. 



Resolved, That the present extra session of Congress, 

 thus compelled by Democratic conspirators, has been 

 prolonged beyond all possible excuse, not only to the 

 depletion of the Treasury, but also to the grave detri- 

 ment of every industrial and commercial interest of 

 the country, by uncalled-for agitation of the several 

 questions, bV persistent efforts hi hostility to the re- 

 sumption or specie payments already happily accom- 

 plished, by constantly tampering with a currency sys- 

 tem unsurpassed in tne world, by reopening and stim- 

 ulating sectional controversy, especially through the 

 avowed determination to repeal all war legislation, and 

 by seeking to inaugurate a reactionary revolution de- 

 siumcd to restore full power to a solid South in the 

 affairs of the Government. 



Resolved, That the financial administration of the 

 Government by the Republican party, in accomplish- 

 ing the great work of the resumption of specie pay- 

 ments, in restoring our currency to par value, in great- 

 ly reducing the burden of the national debt, hi refund- 

 ing a large proportion of the same at a rate of interest 

 one third less than the former rate, thereby alone sav- 

 ing to the Treasury $13,000,000 a year, ana in enhanc- 

 ing the national credit to a standing never before at- 

 tained, is a source of just pride to the Republicans of 

 Ohio, and deserves the warm approbation of the 

 American people. 



Resolved, That this perpetual disturbance of the 

 country in response to the conciliatory course of tho 

 Administration should by the judgment of the people 

 be thoroughly condemned. 



Resolved. That the Democratic Legislature of Ohio, 

 going on 1mm bad to worse, from O'Connor reforms 

 of our public institutions resulting in scandals un- 



