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OHIO. 



numbered and mischiefs unmeasured, to outrageous 

 attempts to reverse the will of the people as declared 

 by their suffrages, and foisting upon them legislative 

 usurpation, defeated candidates for local offices in 

 place of those duly elected by the lawful and unques- 

 tioned ballots cast in the interest of honest and decent 

 home government, merits the most indignant rebuke 

 of every intelligent voter of the State. 



Resolved, That the memories of our dead heroes who 

 gave their lives to save the nation from destruction 

 protest against the expulsion of their living comrades 

 from public offices to gratify the partisan purposes of 

 the dominant party in Congress. 



Resolved. That we send greeting^ to the President of 

 the United States and our Republican members of 

 Congress, and we cordially thank and honor them for 

 the firm and patriotic stand they have taken in oppo- 

 sition to the designs of the majority of the present 

 Congress, and we nereby pledge them our earnest and 

 undivided support. 



The Democratic State Convention met at 

 Columbus, June 4th, and nominated the fol- 

 lowing ticket: For Governor, Thomas Ewing; 

 for Lieutenant-Governor, A. V. Rice ; for Trea- 

 surer, Anthony Howells ; for Auditor, Charles 

 Reemelin; for Judge of Supreme Court, W. 

 J. Gilmore ; for Attorney-General, Isaiah Pil- 

 lars ; for member of Board of Public Works, 

 Patrick O'Marah. The following platform was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio demand free 

 and fair elections, and to that end denounce all inter- 

 ference with elections by the military power ; that the 

 experience of this and other countries nas abundantly 

 proved that the presence of troops at the polls is de- 

 structive of the freedom of the elections, and is incom- 

 patible with the existence of free institutions ; that the 

 laws enacted by Congress which, under the pretense of 

 regulating the manner of Congressional elections, inter- 

 fere with the election of State officers and overthrow the 

 laws of the State governing the choice of such officers, 

 are unconstitutional, and for that reason ought to be 

 repealed ; that they are instrumentalities of fraud, force, 

 and corruption, by which the party in power uses the 

 money of the people to corrupt, and thousands of irre- 

 sponsible officers to harass and coerce the voters, and 

 especially by force and fraud to deprive our naturalized 

 citizens of the right to vote ; and for these reasons also, 

 said laws ought to be immediately repealed. 



Resolved, That impartial juries are essential to the 

 administration of justice, and thereby to the preserva- 

 tion of liberty ; that no man can be secure in his per- 

 son or property when the juries are " packed " and con- 

 trolled by the Government for despotic and partisan 

 purposes ; that under the Federal jury laws, now in 

 existence, juries have been so "packed" and con- 

 trolled, and that the highest interests of justice and 

 free government require that these laws be changed so 

 as to secure fair, impartial, and independent juries in 

 the Federal courts. 



Resolved, That the Republican minority in Con- 

 gress, by refusing to vote supplies to maintain the 

 Government unless the majority would agree to the 

 use of troops at the polls, and also to the maintenance 

 of the unconstitutional, corrupting, violent, and un- 

 just election laws aforesaid ; and the President of the 

 United States, by his unprecedented use of the veto 

 power, in order to perpetuate said laws and the use of 

 armed men at the polls, have shown a spirit of faction 

 and a devotion to party success instead of the welfare 

 of the country and the preservation of its Constitution 

 and liberties, that demand the condemnation of the 

 whole American people. 



Resolved, That President Hayes, by his frequent in- 

 terposition of the veto in order to defeat legislation that 

 was plainly constitutional, that in no way interfered 

 with the independence of any other department of the 

 Government, and had received the most mature con- 



sideration of Congress, has shown an utter disregard 

 of the considerations and principles that induced the 

 insertion of the veto power in the Constitution, and a 

 like disregard of the wishes and welfare of the people. 



Resolved, That we declare it as the sense of the De- 

 mocracy of Ohio that not a dollar should be appropri- 

 ated by Congress to pay soldiers, marshals, deputy 

 marshals, or supervisors of election, to interfere witn 

 or control the elections. 



Resolved, That the efforts of the Republican party to 

 open and keep alive the war feeling between the North 

 and South are to be condemned by every lover of his 

 country. 



Resolved, That we reaffirm the financial principles 

 heretofore advocated by the Democratic party of Ohio, 

 that the issue of money in any form, and the regula- 

 tion thereof, belong to the General Government alone, 

 and ought not to be delegated or intrusted to individu- 

 als or corporations ; that we therefore oppose the per- 

 petuation of the present national banking system, as a 

 means of control over the currency of the country, and 

 demand the gradual substitution of Treasury notes for 

 national-bank currency, to be made receivable for all 

 dues and a legal tender equally with coin, such Gov- 

 ernment issues to be regulated upon principles estab- 

 lished by legislation or organic law, so as to secure the 

 greatest possible stability of value. 



Resolved, That after changing the valuation of all 

 property from the scale of paper money, by which the 

 heavy burdens of debt now resting upon the people 

 were created, to the former level of gold and silver, the 

 change then made in the metallic standard itself, by the 

 demonetization of silver, was a monstrous fraud upon 

 the people, cunningly devised in the interests of the 

 holders of bonds, that should be condemned as in vio- 

 lation of every principle of honest dealing, and a covert 

 assault upon the fundamental rights of property ; and 

 we therefore demand the full restoration of silver to its 

 original place as a money metal, the same as gold. 



Resolved, That the rapid increase of the interest- 

 bearing debt of the Government under the present Ad- 

 ministration ought to excite the serious apprehension 

 of the people. We demand that the further increase 

 of the bonded debt in time of peace be stopped, and it 

 be put in process of extinction. 



Resolved, That the attack made upon the State Legis- 

 lature in the Republican platform is wholly undeserved, 

 and that the Legislature, in its arduous work of codi- 

 fying the laws of the State, in the reduction of fees and 

 salaries of county officers, and the passage of a la_w to 

 protect the ballot-box and prevent bribery at elections, 

 deserves the commendation of the people of the State. 



Resolved, That it is the duty of our Government to 

 maintain to its fullest extent the doctrine that a man 

 may. in good faith, change his habitation and become 

 a citizen of any other countiy. We should protect in 

 every part of the world all our naturalized citizens as 

 we would our native-born, and should resist all im- 

 proper claims upon them by the governments to which 

 they no longer owe allegiance. We demand that ex- 

 isting treaties with all foreign governments be rigidly 

 enforced, and that early steps be taken to obtain from 

 the German Empire a fuller recognition of the right 

 of expatriation, and of the right of our naturalized citi- 

 zens returning or having property there, by a modifi- 

 cation of the treaty existing between us. 



The minority of the Committee on Resolu- 

 tions submitted the following additional reso- 

 lution : 



Resolved, That we request the Democratic members 

 of Congress not to vote any appropriation to any army 

 until a provision shall have been made that such army 

 shall not be employed to influence or intimidate peo- 

 ple at the polls. 



This resolution was defeated by a heavy vote. 



The National (Greenback- Labor) State Con- 

 vention was held at Columbus June 4th, while 

 the Democratic State Convention was in ses- 



