Year: 1879

profitable stewardship.


THE ONO PLATFORM.


We had neither time nor space yesterday
morning to devote to anything like a proper
consideration of the Ohio Republican State
Convention beyond brief remark upon the
ticket, its character and prospects While
we have only words of commentator for
the nominations made, we find no language
at our command that will fully express our
admiration for the platform laid down upon
which to do battle for success in the cleo
tion. The assertion Of principle made by
the convention is plain, explicit, frank, and
stalwart throughout. Not Il word too little
or too much is used in presenting the Re
publican cause to the people. 1t is purely
and simply Republican. 1t presents the
doctrine of the saints with remarkable
clcarncss and force, leaving no room for
doubt cavil, or criticism on account of any
wait of distinctneSs in its uttcrances. In
deed it is the sincere milk of the word, so
to speak. 1t declares u bold and unhesitat-
ing affirmation of the cardinal doctrines Of
the party under its traditions and insists
upon the maintenance of free suffrage, equal
rights, the unity Of the nation, aud the SUI
premacy of the Federal authority in all
matters within the purvicw of the Consti-
tuition. 1t appeals earnestly to the people
to exercise their full power in the ballot
box to control and overcome the spirit of
revolution that has been manifested on the
part of those who were recently in arms
against the National Government, and
which now boldly asserts the doctrine of
State Sovereignty by the overthrow of ma
tional supremacy, thus insisting upon the
pernicious and wicked right Of secession. II
characterizes the Democratic party very
justly as the party which has attempted
during the present session of Congress to in
augurate bloodless revolution in the Gov
ernment under the process of starvation, by
Withholding the needed appropriations TO
operate its machinery, thus attempting TO
bring to its door that ruin which it failed to
secure through armed rebellion, MS well rs
its tampering with the currency, and its
wicked assaults upon the national in
tegrity and credit, and its further
nefarious attempt to array Il solid South"
against the rest or the nation through fresh
alterations and strifes 1t very wisely and
properly commcnds the financial admins
tration of the Government, under which
the country has been brought back TO specie
payments, and elevatcs the national credit
far above that of any nation on the earth.
1t condemns in fitting terms the base in
gratitude shown by the South in return for
the concilatory measures of President
HAYES, and calls upon the people Of the
State to voice that condemnation cmphati-
cally at the ballot-box.


In conclusion the declaration of principles
memorializes the dead heroes of the war to
crush rebellion. 1t protests against the
expulsion of their living comrades from
public place to make room for those en-
gagged in the war to destroy the Republic
and their sympatllizers in that bloody con-
test. 1t then sends greeting to the Presi-
dent and the Republican members of Con-
gress who have stood heroically and faith
fully by the Government, us against the
revolutionary schemes Of this era, and ten
ders them hearty thanks for the firm and
patriotic stand they have taken, and pledges
to them the earnest and undivided support
of the Republicans of Ohio.


This is the platform and these the issues
that the Republicans present, and upon
which they go before the people of Ohio in
the opening contest. They have no con-
cealments; they present the issues fully and
plainly to the public mind, and challenge
revolution covert or open, TO the field of
battle, 1t is a question of life and death to
the nation as much now as it was at any
time during the armed rebellion, whether
or not the Democrats triumph. The enemy
has changed his tactics, but not his pur-
poses 1t is now rule or ruin; the suprem-
acy of State Rights over national authority F.;
the preservation of the Union or the asser-
tion of State Sovereignty, which is the inev-
table death Of the Union. These are the
issues in Ohio, and it affords us unalloyed
satisfaction to believe confidently that the
loyal people of that noble State are ready
for the contest determined to triumph at
all hazards.