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OHIO. 



that their management of local affairs has been true 

 to the moral and industrial interests of the people, 

 and therefore they confidently point to their past as 

 the best evidence of their intentions for the future. 



On the national questions the Republicans of Ohio 

 claim the same fidelity to right principles and prac- 

 tices that they have exhibited in local and State 

 affairs. 



Appealing to the determination of the people to 

 maintain republican principles and practices, they 

 offer for the candid consideration of the voters of 

 Ohio the following platform of principles : 



Resolved, That we reaffirm and adopt the platform 

 and resolutions of the National Convention of the 

 Republican party adopted in the Convention at Cin- 

 cinnati in June, 1876. 



Jiesolved, That the Republicans of Ohio reaffirm 

 their unfaltering confidence in Rutherford B. Hayes 

 as a statesman, patriot, and Republican, and cordial- 

 ly approve and support his efforts for the pacification 

 of the country and the establishment of its civil ser- 

 vice upon a basis of purity and efficiency. 



Jiesolved, That we reaffirm it as the unalterable 

 purpose of the Republican party to maintain and en- 

 force the provisions of the recent amendments to the 

 Federal Constitution, guaranteeing the equal rights 

 of all citizens before the law, irrespective of race or 

 color, and to insist upon the full and effectual per- 

 formance by the Federal Government, in the execu- 

 tion of all its powers, of its Constitutional obligations 

 in that behalf. 



Resolved, That we are in favor of both silver and 

 gold as money, that both shall be a legal tender for 

 the payment of all debts except where otherwise 

 specially provided by law, with coining and valua- 

 tion so regulated that our people shall not be placed 

 at a disadvantage in our trade with foreign nations, 

 and that both metals shall be kept in circulation as 

 the money of the nation, as contemplated by the 

 Constitution, and we therefore demand the remone- 

 tization of silver. 



Jiesolved, That we are oppoed to any further grants 

 of public lands, or money subsidies, or the extension 

 of the public credit of the General Government, to 

 aid in the construction of railroads. 



Rtsolved, That we' are opposed to the renewal of 

 patents by acts of Congress which are burdensome 

 and oppressive to the masses of the people, and espe- 

 cially to the laboring classes. 



Resolved, That we view with alarm the present 

 disturbed condition of the country as evidenced by 

 the extensive strikes of workingmen, and followed 

 by destruction of life and property in different parts 

 of the country ; and while we deprecate each and 

 every resort to violence and disorder, and cordially 

 approve the action of our National and State author- 

 ities in their efforts to enforce the supremacy of the 

 law, yet we do most heartily sympathize with the 

 condition of the honest and industrious laborers who 

 are willing to work, but remain unemployed, or are 

 employed at wages inadequate to comfort and inde- 

 pendence, and as an earnest of our desire to find a 

 remedy for their condition, we recommend : 



1. That Congress establish a National Bureau of 

 Industry. 



2. That Congress exert its authority over all na- 

 tional highways of trade by prescribing and enforcing 

 such reasonable regulations as will tend to promote 

 safety of travel, secure fair returns for capital in- 

 vested and fair wages to the employes, preventing 

 mismanagement, improper discriminations, and the 

 aggrandizement of officials at the expense of stock- 

 holders, shippers, and employe's. 



3. That provision be made for statutory arbitra- 

 tions between employers and employes, to adjust 

 controversies, reconcile interests, and establish jus- 

 tice and equity between them. 



At a meeting of the representatives of the 

 labor interests, held in Cincinnati, a partial State 



ticket, designated the "Workingmen's ticket, 

 was put in nomination and resolutions adopt- 

 ed, repudiating the older political organiza- 

 tions, as not properly caring for the interests 

 of labor. The meeting was not one of dele- 

 gates chosen from the several counties, but 

 rather of the nature of a mass meeting. 

 Changes were afterward made in the ticket, 

 which finally stood thus : For Governor, Lewis 

 H. Bond; for Lieutenant-Governor, Frank 

 Skarda; for Clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 Henry Arnsperger ; for Treasurer of State, 

 Lucius A. fline; for State School Commis- 

 sioner, Peter H. Clark ; for Member of the 

 Board of Public Works, Peter J. McGeeney. 



A Greenback Convention was also held, and 

 a full State ticket nominated ; but a split hav- 

 ing occurred in the ranks of the Workingmen, 

 a large part of that organization repudiating 

 the action of the Cincinnati gathering, a meet- 

 ing was held in Columbus, September 13th, be- 

 tween the representatives of the disaffected 

 faction of the Workingmen's party and the 

 Greenback Executive Committee, at which the 

 latter consented to withdraw their State ticket 

 and unite with the new movement, if their 

 ideas of currency reform were heartily acqui- 

 esced in, which was agreed in open conven- 

 tion. A platform was adopted without discus- 

 sion, demanding the payment of bonds at or 

 before maturity, according to the laws under 

 which they were issued, the remonetization of 

 silver coin, the immediate repeal of the resump- 

 tion act, non-sectarian schools, wholesome 

 control by the Government over all corporate 

 bodies, and the fostering of the resources of 

 the country to the end that labor may be fully 

 and profitably employed. It declared in favor 

 of graduated income tax; that Government 

 land should be reserved for actual settlers ; 

 deprecated all efforts to redress wrongs by vio- 

 lence, and denounced the payment of store 

 scrip for labor, and called for laws to prevent 

 this swindle. The financial plank declared it 

 to be the prerogative of the Government to issue 

 and provide money, both metallic ai*d paper, 

 for the convenience of trade, and that this pow- 

 er should not be delegated to corporations or 

 individuals. It also demanded that legal ten- 

 der currency be fully restored and made legal 

 tender, and continued without contraction, and 

 that the national bank law shall be repealed. 

 The following ticket was nominated : For 

 Governor, Stephen Johnson, of Miami ; Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, Christopher Lewis, of Frank- 

 lin ; Supreme Judge, Milton L. Clark, of Ross ; 

 Treasurer, Joseph Jenkins, of Tuscarawas; 

 Clerk of the Supreme Court, E. P. Pitkin, of 

 Clark ; Attorney-General, George A. Duncan, 

 of Huron ; School Commissioner, John 0. 

 Logan, of Mahoning ; Board of Public Works, 

 C. C. Strong, of Defiance. 



Thus there were five regular tickets in the 

 field. At the election, October 9th, the total 

 number of votes for Governor was 555,060, 

 which is a falling off from the total vote for 



