The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-08-02
THE OHIO DEMOCRACY.

The Democrats of Ohio have nomina-
ted Hon. R. M. Bishop, Of Cincinnati,
for Governor. He has never been very
prominent politician, only having been
Mayor and member of the Legislature
but in the election of the members to
the Constitutional Convention he had a
majority of six hundred more than any
other candidate. 1t is thought his NOM
ination is a very popular one, and that
his election to the Governorship is pretty
sure. The following is the concise plat
form of principles set forth by the party
THE PLATFORM.
The Democratic party of Ohio, in State
Convention assembled, renews its pledges
of devotion to the Union and the consti-
tuition. with the amendments. Itdeclares
as essential to the preservation of free
government faithful adherence to the
following principles: Strict construc-
tion; home rule; the supremacy of the
civil over the military power; the sepa-
ration of church and State; the equality
of all citizens before the law; liberty of
individual action, unvexed by sumptuary
laws; absolute acguiescence in the law
fully expressed will of the majority; op-
position to all subsidies the preservation
of the public lands to the use of actual
settlers; and the maintenance and per-
fecting of the common school system.
Pertinent to the issues now pending be-
fore the people
l. Resozved, That we look upon the in
auguration of r. B: Hayes to the high
Office of President of the United States,
in spite of majority of the electoral and
popular vote given by the people to Sam
uef J. Tilden, as the most dangerous en-
croachment upon popular rights that has
ever been attempted in this or any other
free country. A repetition of the fraud
will not be tolerated.
2. The destruction of the industry OF
the country and the pauperism of labor
are the inevitable fruits of vicious laws
enacted by the Republican party.
3. That, as means of relieving the
distressed portions of the community, and
removing the great stringency complained
of in business circles, we demand the i'm
mediate repeal of the resumption act.
4. That we denounce as an outrage
upon the rights of the people the enact
ment of the Republican measure demon
etizing silver, and demand the passage OF
q law which shall restore to silver its
monetary power.
4. That we favor the retention OF
greenback currency as the best paper
money we have ever had, and declare
against any further contraction.
6. We congratulate the country upon
the acceptance by the present admins
tration Of the constitutional and pacific
policy of local self-government in the
States of the South, so long advocated by
the Democratic party, and which has
brought peace and harmony to that Sec
tion of the Union.
7. The registry law framed by the last
Legislature is burdensome and expensive,
and discriminates unjustly against the
poorer class of voters, and we therefore
demand its immediate repeal.
8. We favor tariff for revenue only.
9. We favor the issue by the general
government alone of all circulating me-
dium, whether paper or metallic, to be
always of equal tender, and interconvert-
ible.
10. That we condemn the acts of the
Federal administration in using the reg
ular troops of the United States to inter
fere with elections and other political af-
fairs of the States, as unconstitutional,
unlawful and unjusti6able, destructive OF
the rights of the people and the States.