Year: 1878

The Democratic party of Ohio, in convention
assembled, hereby reaffirm the following
clauses in the platform of the convention of
July 25th, 1877. Endorsed by majority of
more than q, 600 last fall by the people of
Ohio: We renew its pledges OF devotion to
the Union and the constitution. with the
amendments. 1t declares as essential to the
preservation of the government a faithful ad-
herence to the following principles: Strict
construction of home rule; supremacy of the
civil over the military power; separation of
church and state; equality OF all citizens be
lore the law; liberty of all individual action
unvexed by sumptuary laws; absolute acqui-
escence in the lawfully expressed will of the
people; opposition to all subsidies; preserva-
tion of public lands to the use Of actual
settlers. aud the maintenance and protection
of the school system, as pertinent to the Issues
now pending before the people,


ResOlved, That the investigation of frauds
committed at the last Presidential election in
Florida or Louisiana ought to have been made
by the electoral commission. Its refusal to do
so was violation of the spirit of the law un-
der which it was organized, and gross insult
to the people of the United Ssates, and whilst
the decision, as made by the forty-fourth Con-
gress. of the question as to who should be ce-
clared President of the United States for the
present Presidential term was, in our judg-
ment. final, that decision ought not to preclude
authentic investigation and exposure of all
frauds connected with that election and the
due accountability of all who were guilty, con-
nected with them.


lcesOtved, The commercial and industrial
stagnation that has SO long prevailed through
out the country, and the consequent wide
| spread want and suffering, Ia due directly to
the pernicious financial legislation of the Re-
publican party, which we hereby arraign for
its acts and charge, first that at time when
the country was weighed down with debt, Gre
ated on the basis of full value of paper, ad-
ded to both the pernicious metals as money, it
enacted a sweeping change in the measure Of
value, wholly in the interest of moneyed capi-
destruction of legal tender paper, and thereby
wrongfully added, in effect, hundreds of mill
ions to sthe burden of debt and
taxes upon the people. Second, by
pursuing its merciless policy of contracting
the paper currency and boarding gold it has
increased continuously the value of money and
securities that that partake of the enhance
other property, and especially of capital de-
signed for productive use, required for the en-
ployment of labor, thus repressing instead of
fostering industry, compelling idleness instead
Of sustaining trade and commerce. and now
| this party in Ohio puts forward in it's platform
the declaration that the financial question has
been settled We deny this declaration, and
while we congratulate the country that tho
downward course of bankruptcy and ruin in
volved in the Republican policy has been par
TALLY averted by the Democratic measures
passed at the late session of Congress,
sstornE tsa silver the dor gaaa poTsg sT ito
spite of the Presidential veto, and stopping the
further destruction of greenbacks we demand
as further acts of justice as well as measures
of relief, the repeal of the resumption act and
the lawful liberrtion Of coin boarded in the
treasury; the removal of all restrictions to the
coinage of silver and the re-establishment of
silver as a money metal, the same as gold, as it
was before it's fraudulent demonetization; the
gradual substitution of United States legal ten
der paper for national bank notes, and its per-
manent establishment as the sole paper money
obo oh 'he for country a1 dnea made reee,v-
ernmcnt and legal tender with coin, tas9 tbs
amount of such issues to be as regulated by
legislation or organic law, to give the people
the assurance Of stability in the volume of
currency and consequent stability of values; no
further increase in the bonded debt and no
further sale of bonds for the purchase of coin
for resumption purposes, but a gradual extinc-
ton of the public debt and rigid economy, re-
duction of expenditures in all branches of the
public service and tariff for revenue only.


Resolued, The interests of the industrial
wealth-the producing classes-is the para
mount interest of the people of the United
States. Those whose labor and enterprise pro-
duce wealth should be secured in its employ
ment. Our warmest sympathy is extended to
the laboring classes, who have been thrown out
of employment by the ruinous financial policy
and unjust legislation of the Republican party,
and all pledges of the Democratic party are to
the revisal of that policy, and restoration of
all rights they entitled to upon its ascend
ency to power.


Resolued, There can be no legitimate employ
ment of organized force in the country except
to execute the law and tn maintain public
peace; that violence should be counten-
anced to obtain redress for any alleged griev-
ance, but should be repressed ar every cost till
relief can be secured by legal methods. We
congratulate the country upon the adoption
of the constitutional and pacific policy Of To-
cal self-government in the States of the South,
| SO long advocated by the Democratic party,
and which has brought peace and harmony to
that section of the Union.