Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13
The Ohio National State Convention.

About 400 delegates attended the
National State Convention held at
Columbus on the 4th. Resolutions
were adopted declaring against coali-
ton, and the Convention then nomi-
mated the following ticket: For Gov
ernor, General A. Saunders Piatt, of
Logan; Lieutenant-Governor, Hugo
Preyer, of Stark; Auditor, Andrew
Roy, of jackson; Treasurer, Charles
jenkins, of Mahoning; Supreme Judge,
A. NJ. Jackson, of Cuyahoga; Attorney
General, James G. Crogan, of Hook
ing; member of the Board of Public
Works, George w. Platt, of Hamilton.
All but two of the candidates were
elected by acclamation. The follow
ing is the
PLATFORM:
The National Greenback-L Labor party of
Ohio, in convention assembled, adopt the fol-
| lowing declaration of principles as our plat
form, and go before the people thereon with
the consciousness of thereby performing a
sacred duty to our fellow American citizens as
sOvereigns of a free Republic. In the recog-
milton and distribution of civil and political
rights and privileges there should be no favor
itism on account of birth, color, creed or hnan-
cial condition.
The General Government should issue an
| ample volume of full legal tender currency to
meet the business needs of the country and
to promptly pay all of its debts. We recog-
nize the deplorable commercial and Industrial
condition of our country as something appall-
ing to contemplate, and we unhesitatingly
hold the old parties responsible for the ne
farious and ruinous policy pursued, and point
to their record as full and complete evidence
to the people that it is folly to hope for relief
from either, and we unhesitatingly charge
this suffering and degradation as the result
OF the Legislation or the last quarter of cen-
tury, being solely in the interest of the monied
aristocracy and corrupt corporations.
The funding of the National debt into long
time bonds, to be paid over and over in the
form of interest," absorbing the wealth Of the
Nation, making business prosperity an i'm
possibility, reducing the laborer to condi-
tion of semi slavery, and rendering the well
fare of the Nation subservient to the interests
of the bond-holding class, is an outrage so
monstrous that any political party that sane
tions it is unworthy the support OF intelligent
and honest men.
We are inAeXibly opposed to the issue by
the Government of interest bearing bonds of
any description, for any purpose whatever
The National banking system should be i'm
mediately abolished.
tariff amply sufficient for the protection
of American industries should be maintained
till full financial system may have shown it
to be unnecessary to tax labor for the support
of capital.
Ali internal revenue taxes should be dis
pensed with and graduated income tax sub
stituted.
We demand the immediate calling in and
payment of all United States bonds in full
| legal-tender money.
We demand an equalization of bounties for
| soldiers.
| We denounce all references to our late civil
war of a malicious and insulting nature, as
revolutionary and wholly inconsistent with
| the DrinCiDles of free government and antap.
onistic to the restoration of the old motto
"United we stand, divided we fall"
Subsequently the following resolu-
tions were also adopted:
Res0l,ed, That eight hours be days work,
| RcSOlyed That convict labor in our penal in
situations be abolished, or so arranged by law
as to not interfere with mechanical labor, and
that prison labor be utilized by the State, with
no intermeddling with contractors.