The New York herald., 1877-09-14
OHIO WORkNGMEN.
Meeting of the Leaders in Conven-
tion at Columbus.
A WIDE PLATFORM.
Demand for the Repeal Of the Re-
sumption Act.
THEIR NOMINATIONS.
General Opinions Concerning the
New Party.
A WIDE PLATFORM.
THEIR NOMINATIONS
CoIuMRrs Ohio Sent L.

New Party.
COLUMBUS Ohio, Sept 13, 1877
The Workingmen's Convention met hero o-day,
about hundred and nfty persons from thirty coun
ties beng present. The morning was spent IN secret
session, trying to agree plan TO unite working
mon opposed to the Cincinnati tckct with the green
back men. The Greenback Executive Committee was
present and consented withdraw their State ticket
and unite with the new movement ir their ideas
currency reform were heartily acquesced In, which
offer was accepted.
PLATFORM
In open convention platform adopted without
discussion demanding payment of bonds at or before
maturity, according to the laws under which they
were issued; the reconciliation Of silver com; imme
diae repeal of the Resumption act non -sectarian
schools; wholesome control by tho government over
corporate bodies and fostering OF the OF
the country to the end that labor may bo fully and
probably employed declares In favor OF graduated
tor actual Settlers deprecsles all efforts to re-
dress wrongs by violence and denounces the sysm OF
paying store scrip for labor and calls Tor laws to pre-
vent this swndle on laboring men.
Their financial plank declares IL the preroRatkvo OF
the government to issue coin and provide money. ooln
that this power should not be delegated to corporations
indviduals demands that the legal tender currency
be fully restored aud made legal tender and be ccn
tinued without contraction and that the National
Banking law shall DO repealed.
The following ticket was nominated -
For Gorernor-Stephcn Johnson, of Manu. who
until to-day headed the greenbacK ticket
Lieutenant Govsrnor-Christopher Lewis, Of Frank
lin.
S.preme Jadge-Lintoa L. Clark, OF Ross.
Treasurer--Joseph jenkins OF Tuscarawas.
Clerk Supreme Coart-E. z. Pitkin, OF Clark.
Attorney Generaf-Georgc A. Duncan, of Huron.
School Commissioner-John G. Logan, of Mahoning.
Board of Pubic Vorks-C. G. Strong, of Defiance.
A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE OHIO WORKING
MEMS MovEMENT--op1NIoNs OF DEMOCRATS
AND REPUBLICANS.
COLUMBUS, Ohio Sept. ~, 1877
The Buckeye State has fairly for herself repu-
taton for indulgng politics which ieariuly and
wonderfully Mixed and nothing SO iorcbly illustrates
tho various hued and badly conglomerated condition
the body polite here rich piecc of the old time
Dolly Warden calico Any ordinary State is content
with two, at the outside three political organza-
tons, but in ONO this year thero are five distinct
parties aud four State tickets to annoy and confuse
the average voter With the republican, democratic,
prohibition, workingmsn's and ant-Hayes parties
all at work within the radius OF one State IL Is not
to be wondered at that unatic asylums increase
and that the boxes In rural homes mre cor
pulont with campaign literature workingmen spart,es
have never been specially popular effective In Ohio,
no doubt because the party consisted OF few sfap
pointed persons who did not have the confidence OF
the masses and also because the legitimate working
men preferred to remain loyal to partisan orgarza.
tions Upon several occasions workiDgmen's organta
tions hsve been accouched good style and promised
| we'll early in the campaign, but as party lines wcro
drawn tighter and partisan feeling grew warmer tho
workingmen let their organization to return to
or tho other great organizations to which they
| originally yielded an allegiance.
woRKINGMES.
This year different state Of affairs exists ana the
result may be different from former experiments in
this lne but from present indications this organlza
ton will simply rtter away Its strength and accom-
plish little or nothing. The present workingmen's
party built upon the ruins of the late great strike
the railroad employees but the builders startod badly
Tho Convention which held at Cincinnati, either
for Of proper time or Advertising was not an
Imposing affair, being largely purely local product OF
Cincinnati, and tho ticket nominated not
taking one The first great mistake was made ia
nominating as y candidate for Governor man who
certainly could not be called workaDgman unless.
indeed because as a lawyer no has eakned his bread
BY the sweat of his Jaw. Parties. who knew Colonel
Bond, the nominee for Governor, during his young
manhood. solemniy aver that he has never known
what manual labor was and consequently, his
nomination alone has tended to bang ridiculo
upon tho party which nominated him. This
was but the beginning OF the trouble, for the
labering residing in this section Of the State
speedily repniiated the Cincinnati ticket, and after
many protests issued call for another State Con-
vcntion to be held this city September 1G for the
purpose Of placing In nomination ticket composed OF
bond Jfde workingmm VINO have to sweat for their
broad in shops and factories This quito naturally
excited tine ire of theparies who composed the Gin
cinnat gathering and since the meeting In TINS
city pickering and strife among those who pv-
ticpated In these meetings have becn abundant. The
Cincinnati parties charge that their opponents
are simply seeking sell out tho work. to one
other OF the great parties ana hence should DO
treated swinders; while tho discontinued ones
turn assert that the Cincinnati Convention packed
in the interest Of hecandydates nominated and honcs
is unworthy tho supporter sympathy of the working
men of ohio The grcac weakness Of this organization
Is the absence OF IeatSr organizer. During the
pastfew years Ohio lsas,made rapid strides as "a manu-
featuring State, and this has brought to her much
skilled and which, If properly handled
would be apower in pfltics has been shown In
other States; but until such leader Is found this
great element, filed as'it il with ignorance jealousy
and dscontent win amount to little as separate po
litical organization.
THREATENED sBALAScR op POWER.
In the larger cities andap centres Of tho
State this party better orgaEzed for In such places
tho workngmen know esch other personally and have
confidence in their leaders. In Cincinnati, Toledo.
Columbus Newark and smilar places this is specially
truo and II is unlikely that ther influence will DO
considerably felt local strfes and for members Of
tho General Assembly. That these organizations in
tho various counties giving much anxiety TO lead
Of both demo and republican parties is
beyond question: ana If properly handled 1t is not at
all improbable that teireemcnt Will hold the balance
of power in tho ,noxt Assembly and dictate the
nomination OF Senator in place of Stanley Matthews.
Those triumpbs Will be won In counties containing
cities and where ose or the other prominent party
is very strong, o such places tho outs and discon