The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1888-04-26
Republican State Convention !!

The Convention which met at Day.
ton last week was gathering of re-
preventative Republicans. Many Of
the old-timers were there, with the
younger and more active element OF
the party. The best Of feeling pre-
vailed during the entire proceedings
Gov. Foraker addressed the Conven-
tion, taking his stand squarely fol-
Sherman. He was enthusiastically
received. For Secretary of State,
Hon. Daniel j. Ryan of Scioto Coun-
ty was nominated, by acclamation.
For Judge of Supreme Court, Judge
J. P. Bradbury, of Meigs county was
nominated. For Member of Board of
Public Works, Gen. Wells S. Jones,
Of Pike County, was nominated. For
delegates at large to the National
Convention, Messrs. Foraker, McKin-
ley, Foster and Butterworth. For
electors at large, A. FL. Mattox, of
Cincinnati, and I. P. Lampson, of
Cleveland.
RESOLUTIONS.
The Republican party Of Ohio, in
Convention assembled, reaffrming the
platform Of 1887 adopted at Toledo,
present the following additional dec
larations:
First-Free and untrammeled suf-
frage lies at the foundation of the
Republic, and its restoration by every
constitutional means in States where
it has been overthrown or impaired,
and its maintenance everywhere, is
our settled and determined purpose.
We denounce the Democratic party
for its notification of the war amend
ments to the constitution, whereby
the Republicans of the South are
practically denied voice in the gov
ernment Of the Nation, and the pow
er Of the Democrats Of that section is
unlawfully augmented. We charge
that the Democratic party is now in
the enjoyment Of power confessedly
procured by the unlawful suppression
of the franchise in the Southern
States. We affirm that the accept
ance of power thus secured, the ap-
parent purpose of the party to con-
tinue the methods mentioned, and its
shameless defense of the criminals
who in the States cf Maine, Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio, have sought to
stife the popular will by frauds and
forgeries, justify us in charging that
it has practically become, in natiop-
al sense, an organized conspiracy
against free and fair elections. In
view Of these facts, and believing that
to deprive the legally qualified voter
of his franchise, or to impair the pub
lie confidence in the fairness of the
count, is to weaken and ultimately
destroy free institutions, we call upon
the patriotic citizens Of Ohio to re-
rebuke the party responsible for these
crimes against suffrage, and we de-
mand Of Congress that, in the exer-
else of its constitutional authority, it
enact such laws as will insure free
dom and fairness in the elections of
Representatives to Congress.
Second-We favor such economic
legislation as will protect all Ameri-
can industries that can be proftably
pursued by American citizens. We
insist that our producers are entitled
to the control of their own markets
to the extent Of their ability to sup
ply them; we denounce all efforts to
open those markets to competition
with the cheap labor and abundant
capital of foreign nations as hostile to
the interests Of labor and destructive
to national and individual prosperity.
We regard the last annual message Of
the President, and the recent action
of the majority Of the Ways and
Means Committee, as direct and
open assault upon these industries
which will, if unresisted, result in in
PRODUCING policy Of free trade that
in the near future will paralyze or de-
stroy our own industries, reduce COM
pensation for labor and impoverish
the nation.
Third-It is the duty Of Congress
to pass, and Of the President to ap-
prove, wise, just and comprehensive
pension bill, giving relief to disabled
veteran soldiers and subsistence to the
helpless widows and orphans of de-
ceased soldiers, without regard to the
time when disability was incurred or
to the cause of death.
Fourth-The people of Ohio un-
qualifedly condemn the refusal of the
Democratic majority Of the House of
Representatives TO permit the passage
of the direct tax refunding bill passed
by the Republican Senate, which was
a proposition to repay the loyal States,
without interest, the money paid by
them at the beginning of the war to