The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-01
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
General Robinson Nominated for secrefa-
ry yofStatc.-Ch .ef JuAtice w. W.Johns0n
for Supreme Judse-O. A. FlickinEer, for
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CLEVELAND, April 24.-The convention
was called to order by the temporary Chair
man, General Grosvenor, of Athens, at 9:45
O'Clock. When the delegates had seated
themselves, Rev. Norcross, of the Central
A. H. Church, of Cleveland, led in prayer.
Mr.. Williamson, of Huron, Chairman of
the Committee on Permanent Organization,
reported the following permanent officerss
acknowledgements Mckinley.
Secretary, A. B. Stoms, Cuyahoga.
General Grosvenor introduced the per-
manent Chairman, who said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CoNvENTIoN.-I am
profoundly grateful to you for the honor you
have conferred on me in selecting me to pre-
side at your deliberations in this great con-
have assembled here to-day to put in nomina-
Gon ticket for our suffrages next October,
and then to select from the able men of our
State four representatives to voice the sentt-
meRt of the Republican party of Ohio at the
National Convention in Chicago. We have
Fnotnifng F f gentlemen 9th OF the % convention, 70
There Is no danger from the old enemy; he fs
already on the run. Laughter and applause.
ranks, and with that high courage that has
always characterized the Republican party.
We have only to pursue him with that courage
to bring victory to us in November equal to
that magnificent victory we achieved four
years ago for that great statesman Garfield
[great applausel, and we have nothing, gen.
of In the record of our great party. There is
not a line of it we would blot out if we could,
that has taken twenty-five years to make
up, that we would wipe out If we could do it
vention that was ever held by the Republican
party was held in the city of Philadelphia in
1856. That convention announced platform
of principle which, to-day, as we read it in
subsequent seems
like an inspired prophecy than the political
Of great politely 1 party tty tSe We
Nation. We said that this Nation was one and
indissoluble and we have demonstrated by
was true. We said then that slavery and
polygamy were twin relics of barbarism, that
both Of them must go. Slavery has
! ing glories of the great civil war lappiause],
and polygamy must go next. [Great applause.I
waS from the to the
| and we have done it, and New York is within
six days of San Francisco, evidencing the
promises to the people. We said another
thing in that platform. We said that this
secession was Unconstitutional; that this was
an indestuctible Nation. We kept our word
| 1t cost a good deal to do it. 1t cost a half mil
It cost billions of the Public Treasury.
But we kept the promise OF the
nation 91aa1 hIt afty IS eca
only at home, but respected abroad. [Great
applause.l The difference between the Re-
that the Republican party never made prom
Use which it has not kept, and the Democratic
party never made promise that it has kept.
history. commencing from 1855, down to the
| present hour, there is not single promise
By that has great party fatSas to hs people Haps
gard party. If there is any one thing the PEG,
laggards, nor do they like shams, and the
IApplausel Why, do you know that the
tion, is always five or six years behind the Re.
pulicans, and sometimes good deal longer?
s h ssate ParS S Ro 10Y
first time that it was opposed to the doctrine
of secession; eight years after secession. had
Union guns, it was then that the Democratic
party declared that it was opposed to the doc
Congress undertaking to re-enact the Morrill,
tariff of 1860, an act that we passed twenty.
four years ago; an act that was then neces;
condition of the country, that they are trying
to re-enact to day. l tell you, they have
.n made Fa1 promise they have kept
Law. Have they done it? They said lost
fall they would restore the duty on wool, as
done it? They have failed in both cases te
keep their pledges with the people
and so with their entire record from the be
ginning.
THE TICKET.
Secretary of State-General ]. s. Robin
son, of Hardin County.
Judge of Supreme Court-Chief Justice
w. NJ. johnson, of Lawrence County.
5 Member of the Board of Public Works
: G. A. Flickinger, of Defiance County.
e Delegates -at-large to Chicago-Hon. ]. B
Foraker, of Hamilton County; Hon. VIM
: Mckinley, of Stark County; Mack A
Hanna, of Cuyahoga County; Judge VIM
! Alternates-Rev. Jas. Poindexter, o
. Franklin County; Robt. Harlan, of Hamil
f ton County; John P. Green, of Cuyahoga
and Graham Dewall, of Clarke County.
e Electors-at-largc-G Jas. NJ. Com
OF Franklin County.
l. THE PLATFORM.
The Republican party approves the pol1c.
. it favors its application without discrimins
s ton to American industries, thereby securin
s employment at renumerative wages to Amel
/ lean labor.
J. THAT it is in favor of collecting an adcquat
v revenue to defray the proper and economics
d expenses of the Government from duties upo
:. and that it condemnsthe Democratic tariff fO
n revenue only as destructive to the bushes
: interests INT OF the country; that the doctrines
h what is improperly called raw material-suc
IS as ore pig iron, wool, ctc.-on the free list
tive of the best interests of the Nation; ths
the reduction of duties on imported wool
made by the act of 1883, has seriously injure
Y the prosperity of an important agriculture
;, pursuit, in which more than million of OIL
citizens are engaged, and unless this legisl'
} ton be amended the business of wool grol
5, ing will be paralyzed, if it be not transferre
n to foreign Nations; therefore, we demand II
~ restoration of the wool tariff of 1867, whic
~ gave the first and only substantial protecti6
s. ever offered to sheep husbandry in tt
,e United States.
tie "That the Republican party, having aidc
ID labor, liberating it when oppressed, giving
n it homesteads in the public domain, and sl
N | porting schools at public expense Tor II
- children of all classes, recognizes now mo
~ fully than ever the great interests of Amel
'l can labor, its claim upon the care of the 60
s. ernment, and its right to an equal consider
n. .aThe position of the Republican par
he touching the civil service, as repeatedly G
.. pressed through its convictions, and exemp
a iied by its legislation. faithfully administers
Il "That the Republican party is in favor
ne maintaining the equal civil rights OF
is classes of citizens, under the guarantees
law and the Constitution, In all parts OF t
United States. and it also demands that t
elective franchise shall be respected, TO I
end that every voter shall have free ball
an which shall be honestly counted:
al THAT we heartily approve and ,i indorse r,,,
e. his foreign and domestic policy.
THE body of young man named Stro
was found in a clearing near Portervil
,e Perry County, a few days since. 1t W
In | supposed to be an accidental case of bul
j. ing through carelessness in firing bru
N piles, but post-mortem discovers the fl
.r that bullet had penetrated the left 81
m near the heart. A pistol and some ca
IS ridges were near by. He was OF
ia eighteen years old. The clothing W
- nearly all burned off the body. Opin
a. is divided between suicide and murder.
lie WM. L. KEMs was crushed to death
L, der mass of slate in coal mine
- Selinevile the other day.
y ksMEMBERs of the One Hundred and Thir
De seventh o. V. /. have organized into r
manent society.
A Few mornings ago the jewelry store
es H. i. Foller, at Cumberland, was brol
u into, the safe blown open and S2lO
a money taken and some S4oO worth