The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-08-25
OHIO DEMOCRATS
Nominate q State Ticket at To-
lodo.
John Mcbride Nominatcd for Secretary of
State-The Platform, Etc.

State-The Platform, Etc.
TOLEDO. o., Aug. 1s-1t was after 10 O'Clock
when tho delegates began to come into Me-
mortal Hail, in which the convention was
held, and which was handsomely and appro-
priately decorated. 1t was exactly II o'clock
when Tom Cogan, as Chairman of the State
Central Committee, called the convention to
order and announced the permanent organi.
zation, with General E. b. Finley as Char
man and @. A. Layton, of Augaize,
as Secretary. General Finley was
brought in and made q speech. He
approved of the work of the Democratic
Congress, indorsed Cleveland in glowing
terms, denounced the unseating of the Ham
flton County delegation and the course of the
Legislature In the contest cases. paying spec
ial attention to Kennedy, and paying his re-
spects to the Supreme Court He denounced
IN unmeasured terms the action Of Governor
Foraker in pardoning Fred Hermann, and
The Committee on Rules then made their
report end were followed by the Committee
on Credentials, which reported no contests
mitting the delegates chosen by the County
The report Of the Committee on Rcsolu.
tions was then called for, and Hon. John Nc
Sweeney read the platform. He was greeted
with enthusiastic cheers: He was interrupt
mentioned. The names Of Durbtn Ward,
Tilden, Hendricks, Mcclellan, Seymour and
Hancock were cheered, and the plank adopt.
ed Powe an
tended eulogy on Durbin Ward, as authorized
by the State Committee. 1t was adopted as
The home rule resolution was given the
greatest cheering of any, and delegate
%oon of sSc
platform was adopted as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
1.-THE Democracy of Ohio, in convention as
eembled, congratuates the country upon the
restored to power, and with It the promises pro
its leaders eT. m and hopes of its followers are
1--WE cordially indorse the Administration of
President Cleveland. as we believe tho people
of all parties are convinced that his Official
conduct has been marked by great courage
"The Deinocratsof Ohio express their sin
cere sorrow and acknowledge the great loss
soldier, orator and statesman General Durbin
Ward. We bear testimony to his courage, in
tegrity and patriotism, and realize that we
less advocacy of our cause in all our cam
paigns for many years.
in mourning over the still more recent loss of
that illustriOus man Samuel J. TildeD, who
by common consent was for many years the
leader of the Democracy of America, and
who was honestly and fairly elected the niue
teenth President of the United States.
ave also deeply lament the death within a
gushed Democrats, Thomas A. Hendricks,
the idol and trusted leader for many years of
the Of and a. the
mour and winfield Scott Hancock, who have
est office within the gift of our people, and
whose courage, wisdom and patriotism have
made them dear to every true American.
nd ~anNc nf ftxacra MN v4r-
mind us that SO lorg as we follow their exam
pies and initiate their virtues so long shall
We have brilliant leadership and our cause
Taxes should not be collected beyond the
needs Of government economically admins.
laid down in our last State and National plat.
thorough and just revision OF existing tariff
I'VE heartily approve the policy Of paying
out the surplus revenue heretofore acoumu-
lated in the treasury on the intercst-bearing
EVERY dollar of unnecessary taxation,
State or National. is robbery, and in deroga-
sary surplus In the treasury Is an incentive
to corruption and Congressional jobbery, and
an oppression Of the people, whose money is
measure of values in the face Of the world 8
of sGd anS
that both gold and silver as established by the
Constitution, shall be maintained as the basis
Of the House Of IN fo
esnS and restoring to the
100000 acres Of unearned lands heretofore
granted by Republican Congresses TO rail-
road corporations. and we also approve the
Of Of pubic lands th in the United States. s. ~ Travis
action of the stSse bepartmena and he pres.
ent Democratic Administration in the pro-
tection Of American citizens in foreign coun.
tries.
land ana her great strHggls for homo rule
IN : Ss
selves. to the ions.sSierins and greatly ,Si,
the struggle & fl Ireland f for ri her % Just rights @
shall be crowned with complete success.
1--WE denounce the usurpations of the Re-
quorum of Republican Senators of the State
Senate as an act OF revolution and n grave
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pass uncondemned By the people Of the
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tho people shall he honestly castand honestly
ana fnS Ss bs sgnss The
and ,igess Vigorously punished By whomsoever
I'VE 0enOunC0 ana condemn tn0 partisan
reorganization OF the penal and benevolent
institutions of the State not made with o view
to increase the efficiency Of their manage
ment, bat for the purpose OF cont rolling their
revenue and incidental powers for partisan
purposes, thus dragging down to the basest
uses tho willing gifts of the people for the
amelioration OF the unfortunate.
I'VE hereby express our unbounded conf
dence in the integrity and democracy of the
Democratic members of the Senate of the
Sixty-seventh General Assembly OF Ohio.
''Believing that the OWLS growing out of the
traffic In intoxicating liquors can best be pro-
vided against by we'll regulated license sys.
amendment to the constitution that will per.
init judlcious regulation of the traffic, and re-
press the abuses growing out of 1t, without
destroying the principles of personal liberty
or the right OF private Judgment. Nt
I'VE heartily indorse tho course % .Ss Ct Ct Hon II:
Senate Of the United States. The purity and
integrity Of his character are we'll known to
the people Of Ohio, and we rejoice that the
Republican Senate OF the United States re-
fused TO become the medium through which
the bsffied and malicious. Republican poll
man whose life is honorably interviewer with
the history Of the State tor more than half .
century. NJ.
THE prosperity of country must necess-
arly depend largely upon the harmonious re-
lations between labor and capital, and we
Element Of all differences between these great
MAKING THE NOMINATIONS.
When every thing had thus been cleared
for nominations q. 8. Darrow named Henry
named Wiilism Bel, Of Ohio; 'JIs Judge ss MOTIFS
nominated Boston Young. Wallace Phelps