The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-07-09
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

This body assembled at Columbus
last Wednesday, and got up a ticke
for the October election. The pill
' which our Democratic friends ar
: expected to swallow this time il
d rather mixed affair, and to stom
= ach that is used to straight fiuidl
. it may prove somewhat nauseating
q Here it is:
Gocernor-Gen. W. S. Rosecrans
Lie1t.-Goc.-T. j. Godfrey, o
Mercer county.
e .Supreme Judge-W. J. Gilman, o
e Preble county.
i State Treasmrer--Stephen Buhrer
. of Cuyahoga county.
r attorney General-Col. j. NJ. Con
t nell, of Fairfield county.
Board of Public JVorks--Benjamir
Churchill, of Hamilton county.
> Our neighbor of the Toledo Blad'
asks the especial attention of Val
landigham Democrats to Gen. Rose
, crans' proclamation to the Army ol
the Cumberland, in 1868. Would
not the address to the voters Of
Ohio, by the Army of the Cumber-
! land, signed, if not written, by Col
John NJ. Connell, be an interesting
document to Peace Democrats of the
present day. But here is the plat
form of the Convention, which, like
that of last fall, means call things
TO all men,
lst. Resolued, That exemption
from tax of over two thousand five
hundred million dollars in Govern
ment bonds and securities is unjust
to the people and ought not to be
tolerated and that we are opposed
TO any appropriation for the payment
of interest Oh public bonds till they
are made subject to taxation.
Resolved, That the claims of the
bondholders that the bonds, which
were bought with greenbacks, and
the principal of which is by law pay
able In currency, should, nevertie-
less, be paid in gold, is unjust and
cxtortionate, and if persisted in, will
inevitably force upon the people the
question of reputation.
Resolpsd, That we denounce the
high protective tariff which was de-
signed only in the interests of the
New England manufacturer that
said tariff is also by its enormous
impositiOns on tea, coffee, salt, sugar
and necessaries, uncomfortable and OPP
pressive, especially upon the people
of the west, and that we demand its
repeal, and the substitution of anoth-
er, based upon revenue principles
alone, and upon the closest possible
approximation to absolute free trade
Resolved, That the Democratic
party of the United States, have
always been permanently friendly to
the rights and interests Of the labor
ing man, and that they are in favor
of a limited number of hours in all
manufacturing workshops; hours die
tated by the physical and mental
well-being Of the laborer. That they
favor the most liberal laws in regard
to household and homestead exemp-
tion from sale and execution. That
they are also in favor of liberal
grants of land from the public do
main to the actual settler, without
any cost, and are opposed to the
donation of them to swindling rail
road corporations, and that they are
generally friendly to the system of
measures advocated by the Labor
and Industrial Congresses, and we
pledge the Democratic party, if re-
stored to power, to exercise their
influence in giving them practical
application.
Resolved, That the attacks of Gov.
ernors Hayes and Lee upon the do
ings of the late general assembly,
are false, and in fact malicious in
spirit, and unworthy of gentlemen
occupying their elevated positions.
Resolced, That the late general as.
sembly were called upon to make
large an extraordinary appropriations
to rebuild the Female Lunatic Asy-
lum, to provide Reform School for
girls, construct new Blind Asylum,
to make appropriation to pay over
$50, 900 of a judgment obtained in
the Supreme Court of the State in
favor of the Life Insurance and Trust
Company, and to meet a deficiency
of over 100000 of the preceding
Republican Legislature, all OF which,
together with the extra compensation
to members, under law passed by a
Republican Legislature, were provi-
ded for without an increase of the
State levy, and appropriations in the
aggregate are much less than that of
the preceding Republican Legislature,
without abstracting 100000 from
the relief fund for the MANNED and
disabled soldiers and their families.
ResOlued. That we hereby return
our thanks to the 5Sth General As
sembly for their economical expen-
ditures in the administration of the
State government, and for their ex-
posal of the wholesale frauds in the
erection of State buildings, whereby
the people were swindled out of half
a million of dollars by the negligence
and dishonesty of Republican State
officials.
Resolced, That it is the right of
each State to decide for itself who
shall possess the elective franchise
within it; that by the attempt to
regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of the so-called fifteenth constitu-
tional amendment is subversive of
The principles of the Federal Consti
tuition. t-r-..-
Resolced, That the policy and leg
islation of the Radical party directly
tends to destroy all the reserved
rights of the States and convert the
republic into consolidated despot
sm. That whether such despotism
be exercised by an Emperor, a Pres
dent, or Congress, the result would
DC fatal to liberty and good govern
nent. That consolidation in this
country means the absolute dominion
'f monopoly and aggregate capital
over the lives, the liberty and the
)r operty of the toiling masses.
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