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Morrison, of Ashtabula County. The platform 

 declared : 



1. That the right to make or issue money is a sov- 

 ereign power to be maintained by the people for the 

 common benefit. The delegation of this right to cor- 

 porations is a surrender of the central attribute of sov- 

 ereignty, void of constitutional sanction, conferring 

 upon a subordinate irresponsible power absolute do- 

 minion over industry and commerce. All money, 

 whether metallic or paper, should be issued and its 

 volume controlled by the Government, and not by or 

 through banking corporations ; and, when so issued, 

 should be a full legal tender for all debts, public and 

 private. 



2. That the bonds of the United States should bo 

 paid as rapidly as is practicable. To enable the Gov- 

 ernment to meet these obligations, legal-tender cur- 

 rency should be substituted for the notes of the na- 

 tional banks, the national banking system abolished, 

 and the unlimited coinage of silver as well as gold es- 

 tablished by law. 



3. We demand the equal protection of labor and 

 capital by law. 



4. We are opposed to all subsidies by Government. 



5. All lines of communication and transportation 

 should be brought under such legislative control as 

 shall secure moderate, fair, and equitable rates for pas- 

 senger and freight traffic. 



6. We condemn the cruel class legislation of the 

 Republican party, which, while professing great grati- 

 tude to the soldier, has most unjustly discriminated 

 against him and in favor of the bondholder. 



7. All property should bear its just proportion of 

 taxation, and we demand a graduated income-tax. 



8. We denounce as most dangerous the efforts, 

 wherever manifest, to restrict the right of suffrage. 



9. We are opposed to an increase of the standing 

 army in time of peace, and the insidious scheme to es- 

 tablish an enormous military power under the guise of 

 a militia law. 



10. That the practice of railroads of this State in is- 

 suing free passes over their lines of roads to the mem- 

 bers of the Legislature and all other officers of the 

 StatOj is vicious and corrupting, and ought not to be 

 sanctioned or tolerated, but should be prohibited by 

 stringent laws. 



11. That the practice of turning out faithful officers 

 connected with the supervision and management of 

 the different institutions of the State upon mere party 

 ground, is prejudicial to the best interests of the State, 

 and ought not longer to bo sanctioned by any party. 



12. Prison convict-labor should be utilized by the 

 State alone. 



13. That we favor the submission by the Legisla- 

 ture to a vote of the people of an amendment to the 

 Constitution prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or use 

 of intoxicating drinks as a beverage. 



The Democratic State Convention assembled 

 at Columbus, July 13tb, and put in the field 

 the following candidates : For Governor, John 

 W. Bookwalter, of Clarke County ; for Lieu- 

 tenant-Govern or, Edgar M.Johnson, of Hamil- 

 ton County ; for Supreme Judge, Edward F. 

 Bingham, of Franklin County ; for Attorney- 

 General, Frank C. Dougherty, of Hardin Coun- 

 ty ; for State Treasurer, Alonzo P. Winslow, 

 of Cuyahoga County ; for member of the Board 

 of Public Works, John Crowe, of Defiance 

 County. The platform was as follows : 



The Democrats of Ohio, proud of their citizenship 

 in this great State, for the purpose of maintaining the 

 prosperity of the Commonwealth and to promote the 

 welfare and happiness of the whole people, submit 

 the following declaration of principles upon which 

 they ask the suffrages of the people : The equality of 



all people before the law, equal taxation, non-political 

 legislation, and a free and pure ballot as the corner- 

 stone of free institutions ; opposition to monopolies 

 and subsidies of all kinds ; the strictest economy in 

 national. State, and local administrations, that labor 

 may be lightly burdened ; the maintenance and ad- 

 vancement of the common-school system. 



Resolved, That the abuses of the present contract 

 system in our State Prison, by which the product* of 

 criminal labor are brought into competition with the 

 products of honest labor, to the great injury of the 

 latter, are vicious and unwise, and should bo cor- 

 rected. 



Resolved, That the course of the last Republican 

 Legislature deserves the condemnation of the people 

 for its incompetency, hypocrisy, its unnecessary and 

 heavy increase in th'e burdens of taxation, and lor the 

 passage of unconstitutional acts, and for its reorgani- 

 zation of the benevolent institutions of the State solely 

 for the purpose and as a medium for the distribution 

 of spoils. 



Jtefolred, That as the humanities are non-partisan, 

 and as the treatment of criminals should be non-polit- 

 ical, the management of the charitable punitive insti- 

 tutions of the State should be free from partisan 

 change or appointments. 



Resolved, That we are in favor of a civil-service re- 

 form whereby offices sliall be held to be public trut>t 

 to be administered for the public good, not spoils to be 

 enjoyed as the reward of partisan zeal or service. 



Resolved, That the Democrats of Ohio, in this year. 

 as in all years, are in favor of the largest individual 

 liberty consistent with public order, and are opposed 

 to legislation merely sumptuary. 



Resolved, That the recent discovery of enormous 

 peculations in high Federal places, and the Republican 

 attempt to purchase votes by corruption, should con- 

 vince the country that the Republican organization is 

 not worthy of public confidence. 



Resolved, That the power delegated to the General 

 Government " to regulate commerce among the 

 States," as well as the power reserved to the States to 

 regulate commerce within their own borders, should 

 both be exercised to prevent unjust discrimination and 

 unreasonable charges by our railroads, and to secure a 

 tariff for revenue levied and adjusted in its details with 

 a view to equity in the public burdens and the en- 

 couragement of productive industries without creating 

 monopolies ; and we favor the appointment of a com- 

 mission to suggest a method of revision which shall 

 accomplish this result. 



A Temperance Reform Convention was held 

 at Loveland, July 20th, and after considerable 

 discussion on the propriety of a separate polit- 

 ical organization, placed a ticket in the field as 

 follows : Governor, Abram R. Ludlow, of 

 Springfield ; Lieutenant-Governor, Jason Mc- 

 Vay, of Columbus; Judge of the Supreme Court, 

 Gideon T. Stewart, of Norwalk ; Attorney -Gen- 

 eral, Levi Mills, of Wilmington ; Treasurer, Fer- 

 dinand Schumacher, of Akron ; Board of Pub- 

 lic Works, Abner Davis, of Mercer County. 

 The following platform was adopted : 



Whtreas* The liquor-traffic ix going forward in the 

 State of Ohio with increasing power, devastating our 

 homes, corrupting public moral.*, and controlling legis- 

 lation; and, 



Wberta*, The two great political parties of Ohio 

 have put into their pl:itt<>riii.< principle.* which, if car- 

 ried out, will result in a still greater increase of the 

 liquor-traffic and of its dreadful consequences : there- 

 fore. 



lietolved, That the time has fully come when tem- 

 perance men should unite in a political organization 

 whose leading object shall be the Bupprwwion of the 

 liquor-traffic, and therefore wo are in favor of nomi- 

 nating a State temperance reform ticket. 



