Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-06-23
DEMOCRATS OF OHIO
In COUNCIL.
A STRONG TICKET NOMINATED
And a Sound Platform
Adopted !


the temporary chairman of the con-
vention who made rousing speech,
which was replete with Democratic
thunder.
After the necessary preliminary
work was completed at IL o'clock a
recess of 80 minutes was taken, but an
hour passed before the convention
was again called to order.
On reassembling the temporary or
0aniEation was made permanent and
nominations were declared in order.
DIR. Norton nominated for Secretary
of State, Col. w. A. Taylor, clerk OF
the late Democratic Senate, and one OF
the Enquirer's leading writers, declar-
ing him to be "a notorious and semi
prophetic prognosticator in matters
politically Mel r. Hysell was also
placed in nomination, but Prognostic-
ator Taylor got there on the first ballot
and the nomination was made
unanimous.
John B. briggs, of NJ Nnroe county,
was nominated for Supreme Judge long
term, and Thomas Beers, of Crawford
county, for short term.
w. H. Wolfe, of Fairfield county,
was nominated for clerk of Supreme
Court.
r, A. Jones (colored), of Cleveland,
and J. X. Myers, of Cincinnati, were
named for member of Board of Public
Works. Myers received 4S9 and Jones
27O votes. On Motion of Mr.. Jones
the nomination of Mr.. Myers was
made unanimous.
Jas. P. Seward, of Richland, and
H. H. Sternberger. of Miami, were
nominated for Presidential Electors Al
Large.
The election of four Delegates to the
Chicago Convention were next in or
der.
Congressman Outwaite named Allen
w. Thurman; E. B. Finely nominated
Lawrence IT. Neal; Thomas E. Powell
nominated Senator Brice; Elmer White
nominated Frank H. Hurd; J. ]. Sui
livan nominated Robert Blee; R. D.
Marshall nominated John A. McMa-
hon; and L. G. Cole nominated ex-Gov.
Campbell.
1t was proposed that senator Brice
and ex-Gov. Campbell be elected by
acclamation but there was opposition
and ballot was taken for all.
Necessary to a choice 3S6 votes. The
first ballot gave: Brice 705, Campbell
663, Neal 452, and elected them. Hurd
had 1853, Blee 1888, Nc. Mahon 30l,
Thurman 2l7.
Mcmahon and Thurman withdrew,
and the second ballot gave Blee 1893,
electing him; Hurd 349.
w. D. Shaw, w. G. Gear, John NJ.
Filler and Thomas J. Cogan were elect
ed alternates-at-large and the cOnven-
tion adjourned.
THE TICKET.
Secretary of State-Col. w. A. Tay-
lor.
Judges of Supreme Court-John B
briggs (long term); Thomas Beers
(short term.)
Clerk of Supreme Court-Wm. H
Wolfe.
Member of Board of Public Works
J. X. Myers.
Presidential Electors-at-Large-Jas
P. Seward, H. H. Sternberger.
THE PLATFORM.
The Democracy of Ohio in convention
assembled declares:
First--That confirding in the care
fuljudgment of the national democrat.
ic convention about to assemble in
Chicago, we hereby pledge our earnest
and cordial support of its nominee fol
president and vice president, hoping
to see glorious and lasting victory as
the result of its intelligent action. We
are opposed to all class legislation, and
believe in tariff levied for the sole
purpose of producing a revenue suf-
ficient to defray the legitimate expens.
es of the government economically ad
ministered, and we protest against the
policy of so called protection illustrat.
ed by the Mckinley bill as championed
by the Republican party, and in the
interest of agricultural and labor we
demand reform of the present tariff
and a reduction of unnecessary anC
burdensome taxation.
That in the high tariff recently i'm.
posed by certain European nations or
American grain and American meat
we recognize an effort on the part O.
these governments to strike destruc
tive blow at American agriculture il
retaliation for the high duties imposed
by theMcKinleylaw, and that on behal
of American agriculture we demand O
congress an immediate modification O
our tariff law, such as will secure the
admission of these agricultural pro
ducts into the markets of these coun
tries free from duty. The Democratic
party has always favored the use Of
gold and silver as money, and restored
to the people the silver dollar of oul
fathers which a Republican congress
demonized in 1873. Denouncing the
Sherman act of 1890 as false in prin
ciple and dangerous in practice, anC
dangerous in practice, and believeine
that both gold and silver should circu'
late as money parity maintained anG
with equal rights and equal value, we
submit to the wisdom of the Democrat
ic partabout to assemble in national
convention to declare the method by
which that end may be reached.
The hypocrisy of the Republican
party in the demand in the recent
national convention for the right OF
every citizen of the United States to
cast one free and unrestricted ballot
and to have it counted is made most
manifest by its almost uniform opro.
sition to the Australian method of
voting recently adopted in Ohio and
most of the northern states, and on the
other hand its advocacy, as an admin
istrative measure of the Infamous force
bill designed to Suppress by violence
the elective franchise in nearly one
half the country.
We call the attention of the country
to the deplorable fact lately ascertain.
ed from Republican official sources of
undoubted authority that the success
of that party at the last presidential
election was due to the expendi-