Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-07-05
POLITICAL.


| The Chairman Of the Republican State Cen
trail Committee, Gen. Eli II. Murray, issued
an address on the 25th to the Republicans of
Kentucky, urging them to make an active and
aggressive fight in the coming election.
The Illinois Republican Convention met in
| Springfield on the 26th G. f. Lippincott pre-
sided. Gen. j. G.. Smith was nominated for
State Treasurer, and VIM. Slade, for Superin-
tendent OF Public Instruction. The platform,
among other things, says that the Democratic
party, being largely composed of recent rebels
and their sympathizers, cannot be safely en-
trusted with the affairs of the Government.
For the financial system created by the
Republican party during the war, and in
spite of the violent opposition of the Demo
cratic party we express our unqualified ad.
miration. BY its provisions the people have
been supplied with a large amount of paper
currency, safer and more uniform in value
than they have ever before enjoyed. The
credit of the nation has steadily improved,
while both principal and interest of the pub
lie debt, as well as the burdens of national
taxation, has been steadily diminished. We
are opposed to any further contraction of the
greenback currency and are in favor of such
currency as can be maintained at par with
and convertible into coin at the will of the
holder The permanent pacitication of the
Southern section of the Union and complete
protection of all its citizens in all their
civil, political, personal and property rights
is duty to which the party stands sacredly
pledged. In order to redeem this pledge 1t
placed the recent amendments in the Consti-
tuition of the United States, and upon the
righteous base of said amendments it will go
forward in the work of paciication until
peace shall come through right-doing and con-
tentment through justice. And finally be it
resolved that those who preserved the coun-
try should govern it instead of those who at
tempted to destroy it.
Hon. j. T. UpdegrafT was nominated on the
2Sth ult. for mem1er of Congress from the
Eighteenth Ohio District.
The National Greenbaek party Of the Six
teenth Ohio District, in convention on the
2Sth ult., nominated A. NJ. Hunter, of Wayne
County, for Congress.
The Kansas Republican State Central Com
mittee met at Topeka on the 2Sth ult. and
named Aug. % as the day for holding the
State Convention.
The Ohio Democratic Convention was held
in Columbus on the 26th. Gen. Durbin Ward
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Secretary of State, Alexander s. Hume for
Supreme Judge, and Rush r. Fields for MEM
Der of the Board of Public Works. The plat
form reaffirms the principles of the party as
set forth in their platform of July 25th, 1877,
which was indorsed by majority of more
than q, 900 last fall by the people of Ohio;
applauds the investigation of the Florida and
Louisiana frauds by Congress, and denounces
the action of the Electoral Commission in not
looking into these frauds before making de-
cision; drraigns the Republican party for the
commercial and industrial stagnation that
has so long prevailed throughout the country
caused by the pernicious financial legislation
of that party; demands the repeal of the re-
sumption act; the removal of all restrictions
to the coinage of silver; the gradual substitu-
tion of U. S. legal tender notes for National
bank notes no further increase in the bonded
debt; extends the warmest sympathy to the
laboring classes who have been thown out of
employment by the ruinous financial policy of
the Republican party; denounces mob law for
the redress of any alleged grievances, and
congratulates the country upon the adoption
of the constitutional and pacific policy of To-
cal self government in the States of the South,
so long advocated by the Democratic party,
and which has brought peace and harmony to
| that section of the Union.