OIIIO. 



OLD CATHOLICS. 



705 



suited in the election of all tbo Republican can- 

 didates, the vote being as follows : 



FOB GOVERNOR. 



aion. The proceedings were inharmonious, but 

 the following ticket was finally nominated : 

 For Governor, General A. Saunders Piatt ; for 



Lieutenant-Governor, Hugo Preyer; for Au- chariei Foster, Republican 886,ai 



ditor, Andrew Roy; for Treasurer, Charles Thomas Ewing. Democrat 8U,i3J 



Tonkins- for Snnrnma lu<l"v A M Jackson A. S. Piatt, Greenback V,l'2 



Jenkins, lor auprc ,e Juuge, A. M. j o. T. Stewart, Prohibition 4,143 



for Attorney-General, James R. Grognan ; for 



member of Board ot Public Works, George A. FOB LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



Platt. The folio wing platform was adopted : ifv^Sfi SS^S^:^ 1 ^: '.'.'.'.'.'. sKl 



The Nationol-Qrocn back- Labor party of Ohio, in Hugo Preyer, Greenback v.'fxw 



convention assembled, adopt the following declaration J. W. Sharp, Prohibition 4,884 



of principles as our platform, and go before the people AUDITOR 



thereon with the consciousness of thereby performing 



a sacred duty to our fellow American citizens, as sov- J- H. Oglcvee Republican %&\** 



fimi^n-i of n froo ronublic C - Kcemelin . Democrat 811,4-fcJ 



"Hlto liSiSTSS dbtributton of civil and po- 



litical rights andpnvueges there should be no tavont- 



ism on account or birth, color, creed, or financial con- FOR TREASURER. 



dit'mn. Joseph Tnrney, Republican 885,670 



The General Government should issue an amplo A. Howells, Democrat 817,1&1 



volume of full legal-tender currency to meet the needs C. Jenkins, Oreenback 11,222 



of the country and to promptly pay all of its debts. Ellas Blair, Prohibition 4,848 



Wo recognize the deplorable commercial and Indus- , GK OF SCPREME COURT . 



trial condition of our country as something appalling 



to contemplate, and wo unhesitatingly hold the old W. W. Johnson Republican 886,009 



parties resUsi'ble for the nefarious tnd ruinous pol- ^.J ^7^e = ra, 



icy pursued, and point to their record as full and com- j n^ing Prohibition 



plete evidence to the people that it is folly to hope for 



relief from either ; and we unhesitatingly charge this FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL. 



suffering and degradation as the result of the legis- G K NagQ( Republican 886,100 



lation of the last quarter of a century, being solely in Isaiah Pillars, Democrat 816,773 



the interest of the moneyed aristocracy and corrupt J. R. Groghan, Greenback. 11,165 



corporations. 8. B. Foster, Prohibition 4,819 



The funding of the national debt into long-tune BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKg 



bonds, to be paid over and over in the form of interest, 



absorbing the wealth of the nation , making business E?" in * t n ,\ Re P ub ' lcan !f KXI 



prosperity an impossibility, reducing the laborer to , %"&&&%*:.:: \ "n'm 



condition of semi-slavery, and rendering the welfare j H B Horton petition i;*SO 



of the nation subservient to the interests ot the bond- 



Sr;^ , S^S^nSSu 1 Germany t and 



of intelligent and honest men. We are Inflexibly op- Switzerland the Old Catholic movement ap- 



posed to the issue by the Government of interest-Dear- pears to have lost ground during the year 



ing bonds of any description for any purpose what- 1879, while in Austria some progress was made 



evo _ r - in the organization of the Church by the con- 



abSfahS "* 9y immediately vocation * o the first Synod- 



A tariff aiaplT sufficient for the protection of Ameri- In Germany, the Synod was held as in for- 



can in Justries should bo maintained till a free financial mer, years at Bonn, where the Bishop of the 



system may have shown it to bo unnecessary to tax Church, Dr. Reinkens, resides. It was less 



^ AU inar^n rt ueSSould be dispensed with, att , en ^ d than any of the five previous Synods, 



and a graduated income tax substituted. onI 7 16 priests and 42 laymen being present. 



We demand the immediate calling in and payment The usual statistical report on the condition of 



of all United States bonds in full legal-tender money, the Church was not presented this year. The 



Wo demand an equalization of bounties for soldiers. Bishop in his opening address admitted that 



J&t^l:^T^$^& ^ere had been'durifg the past year no in- 



wholly inconsistent with the principles of free govern- crease of number, but stated that there had 



ment, and antagonistic to the restoration of the old not been either a retrogression. He was still 



motto: " United wo stand, divided we fall." very hopeful respecting the future prospects 



A platform reported by the minority of the of the Church. It was resolved to establish a 



Committee on Resolutions called out bitter dis- pension fund for invalided priests. Next year 



cussion, and when it was voted down a num- no Synod will be held, but a Church Congress, 



her of delegates left the Convention. They either at Heidelberg or Mannheim. The Syno- 



issued a circular repudiating its action, and dal Council, which remains in power until the 



calling a meeting for conference in Toledo on meeting of the next Synod, will consist of the 



the 24th of June. At that meeting the action Bishop, Professor Schulte (Vice-President), 



of the Columbus Convention was repudiated, Professors Knoodl, "Weber, and Michelis, one 



and a number of resolutions were adopted, but parish priest, and four other laymen. The 



no attempt to nominate a State ticket was Church suffers considerably from want of 



made. funds, and the Bishop stated that several offers 



The Prohibitionists had a full ticket in the from excellent priests had therefore to be de- 

 field, clined. Two students were studying theology 



The election was held October 14th, and re- in the theological faculty of Bonn. The three 

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