Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-08-23
NEW POLITICAL PARTY IN OHIO.

The State Convention of the Working
mems party of Ohio, was held last week in
Cincinnati. 1t was small but very earnest
affair, and has been dubbed communistic
gathering. Col. L. H. Bond, of Cincinnati,
was nominated for Governor. The following
is the platform adopted:
Resolved, Thatin the coming political cam
paign, we invite the cooperation of all voters
who believe that to the laborer justly and of
right belongs the result of his labors, in the
following demands: First, the payment of
wages to the laborer in the lawful money of
the country, and at intervals of time not
greater than one week, and that suitable pen
alties be provided for failures to do so; sec.
ond, eight hours for the present as normal
working day, and legal punishment to all vio-
ations third, strict laws making employers
liable for all accidents to the injury Of their
employees fourth, prohibitory laws against
the employment of children under fourteen
wears of age in industrial establishments
fifth, prohibition the use of prison labor by
private employers sixth, abolition of all con.
spiracy laws seventh, sanitary inspection of
all conditions of labor, means of subsistence
and dwellings included; eighth, gratuitous
instruction in all educational institutions
ninth, labor statistics in all States as we'll rs
by the National government-the officers OF
these bureaux to be taken from the ranks OF
the labor organizations and elected by them !;
tenth, the repeal Of the patent and all other
aws or charters giving special privileges to
individuals or companies to the detrlment OF
labor; eleventh, the repeal of all tariff and
other acts which provide for the collection OF
the public revenue by indirect methods, and
the substitution thereof of system of direct
taxation graduated in proportion to the
amount of property or income to be taxed ;
thirteenth, railroads, telegraphs, and all means
of transportation to be controlled ny the gov
ernment fourteenth, for the purposes of abol-
ishing the wages system, all industrial enter
prises to be placed under the control of the
government as fast as practicable, and opera.
ted by free co operative unions for the good
of the whole people; fifteenth, that the Con.
stitution be 40 amended as to require that all
officers of the general and State governments
shall be elected by direct vote of the people.
The Grangers of the central and northern
part of the State, and the real and only great
strength Of the working mems party OF
Ohio, have taken decided stand against the
Cincinnati nominees and platform. The NOM
inees, they say, are not working men as that
term is generally understood, but all of them
professional gentlemen, and, as to the platform,
the rabid communistic sentiments expressed IN
it do not find any favor with them.
A convention has been called to meet in
Columbus, on the 18th of September, when it
is desired to put some active farmer at the
head of the ticket A man of this occupation,
they claim, being real working man. repre-
sentative of this faction, has waited upon the
nominees of the present State ticket and re-
uuested them to resign, and join in with the
Columbus movement. They all refused, and
the candidate for Governor, Col. Bond, in
tends to open the canpai IN Immediately, fear
ing further disafections, unless herculean ef'
forts are made to stop it. If this split be not
healed, it ruins the slight chance the working
men g party had for success.
A dispatch dated Columbus. last Monday
saws that the Central Ohio Executive Com
mittee of the Working Mems Industrial
Union, has issued an address setting forth a
platform of principles, and recommending
that conventions be held in the several coun-
ties to nominate county officers and establish
industrial union clubs in every township
and voting precinct, and that they select one
delegate to the State convention to be held in
Cincinnati September 13, to adopt platform
and nominate State officers.
Ha% The Ohio Democrats will open the State
campaign, at Cleveland, on the 25th instant,
Hon. Henry B. Payne having been selected to
give the keynote at that point. At meet
ing at Putin. Bay, on Friday, of leading Ohio
Democrats, it was resolved to make the cam
paign an aggressive one, and it is understood
that Senator Thurman, Hon. George H. Pen
lleton, Gen. Ewing, and other leading Demo
Gratis, will start out on the hustingS as soon as
Mr.. Payne shall have fired off the opening
gun.
The comfort of its possession is very fire.
quently Offset by the annoyance occasioned
by the continual crying of the Baby. Crying,
however, is the childs only method of sug'
gesting that it suffers with discomfort and
pain, and at once ceases when the cause is
(as it should be) promptly removed by using
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup. Sold everywhere
25 cents per bottle.