Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-07-30

tee on Credentials submitted a report stating
that all the counties were represented and that
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The committee on permanent organization re-
ported the following list of officers:
President-Iheodore Cook Hamilton.
vICE-PREsIDENTs.
First District, Charles Doll. Hamilton County:
Second, Thomas b. Paxton, Hamilton; Third,
3. P. Perry. Butler Fourth DIR. w. Egry, Mont
gomery; Fifth Hon. w. ID. Hill. Defiance; Sixth,
John Newcomer, Fulton; Seventh, DR.. ]. b. Nc
Ninth, II. W. Seney. Hardin: Tenth, A. d. Skill
lenger, Huron; Eleventh. Valentine Yeoman,
Lawrence; Twelfth, Joseph p Smith, Pickaway
teenth, f. Y; McCrea, Richland; Fifteenth.
George DOnahue. Morgan; Sixteenth, j. W.
Jones' Belmont; Seventeenth, Q. Nj, Athen. Col
umbiana; Eighteenth, James q. johnson, Medi-
ma; Nineteenth. Oliver Andrew, Lake; Twen-
tieth, Robert Carran. Cuyahoga.
Secretary, Henry Bohl,, Marietta; Assistant
Charles 2. Davis, Auglaize; John Coons, Law
renee; w. G. Beebe, Morrow; John NJ. Amos, No
BILE.
The committee also reported the following for
rules and order of business:
The committee recommends that the conven-
ton adopt the rules used by the last State Con-
vention.
Order of business, first that they proceed to
nominate a candidate for Secretary of State;
second Judge of Supreme Court; third, Clerk of
| Supreme Court; fourth Member Board of Pub
| lie Works; fifth, State School Commissioner;
sixth, two Presidential Electors at Large
Inc report was duODttu DN aCClhInhIlOn.
On motion a committee of two, consisting of
! Messrs w. ID. Hill, of Defiance and j. j, Hall OF
Summit, was appointed to wait on the perma,
nent Chairman, inform him of his selection and
| escort him to the chair.
On taking the chair Mr.. Cook thanked the con.
vention for the honor and closed by predicting
! success for the State and National tickets.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Cooks speech he
| called for the report of the Committee on Rcso-
| lutions but as the committee chairman was not
| present just then, on motion the reading was de-
| ferred and the convention proceeded to the nom.
| inution of n candidate for Secretary of State.
The following nominations were made: Hon
Gus V. Rice; Judge William Lang. of Seneca
| County; Colonel William Il. Cessna, of Hardin
County. The names of Hon. Samuel f. Hunt
and General Americus v Rice were Withdrawn
| ballot was then ordered. but when Cuyahog1
/ County was reached the chairman of the del
/ egation withdrew Colonel Cosmos name, and or
motion Judge Lang was nominated by acclama-
| ton. On being introduced by the chair Judge
| Lang made short speech of acceptance. Al
this point the chair called upon the Committee
on Resolutions for the report of that committee
and the committee, through its chairman, re
ported the following
| Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio
heartily indorse the candidates of the National
! Democratic Convention and that we will zeal
Onsly labor for the election OF Hancock and I'm
glsh and of the candidates for State offices thii
| dAY nominated.
HesoiUed, That the Democracy of Ohio adopt
Us their own National Democratic platform al
First-We pledge ourselves anew to the oonsti
tutional doctrines and traditions of the Demo
cratic party as illustrated by the teachings anC
example of long line of Democratic statesmen
| and patriots and embodied in the platform oi
| the last National Convention.
! Seoond-Opposition to Capitalization and Il
| that dangerous spirit of encroaohment which
tends to consolidate in one and thus to create
whatever the form of government, real despot
| ism; no sumptuary laws; separation of churcl
and State for the good of each; common schools
fOstered and protected.
ThiTd-BOme rule, honest money, the strio
maintenance of the public faith. consisting OF
| gold and silver and paper convertible into coiI
| on demand, the strict maintenance of the publ,
faith, state and National and tariff for rev
| enue only.
Fourth-The subordination of the military t,
the civil power and "A genuine and thorough re
| form ot the civil service.
Fifth-The right 10 free ballot is a righ
! preservative of all rights and must and shall b,
maintained in every part OF the United States.
| SiXth-Ihe existing administration is the re
suit of conspiracy only and its claim of right L
surround the ballot box with troops and deput,
marshals to intimidate and obstruot the election
| and the unprecedented use of the veto to main
tain its corrupt and despotio power insults tn
people and imperils their institutions.
Seyenth-We exeorate the course of this ad
ministration IN making places In the civil serv
| ice reward for political crime and demand
reform by statute which shall make it foreYe
| impossible for defeated candidate to bribe hi
way to the seat OF a usurper by billeting villain
| upon the people.
Eighth-The great fraud of 1867, by which
upon a false count of the electoral votes of tw
States, the candidate defeated at the polls wa
declared TO be President and for the first tim
in the American history the will of the peopl
was set aside under threat of military via
lenoe, struck deadly blow at our system 0
representative government. The Democrat
party. TO preserve the country from the horror
of a civil war. submitted for the time in tn
firm and patriotic belief that the people woul,
punish this crime in 1880, This duty preoede
cred duty upon the people of the Union thai
ever addressed the oonsciences of a patton o
/ frcemen.
NlnihIIhe resolution OF y. J; I5lden no