Year: 1879

The Democrats Of ONO O!u SOou uay
work on Wednesday. The ticket nominated
is unexceptional. Both of the Leading can
C,idates are known personally or by reputa-
ton to every voter in the State; both pos
Sass an honorable record as soldiers and |
statesmen both are in hearty accord with |
the spirit that animates the Democratic |
party and the whole nation. If they de- |
pended upon their personal popularity
alone, without reference to the principles
they represent, they would be elected by
large majority, but when we take into con-
sideraton that they are the exponents of the
policy that has governed the party of the
people for many years, that majority Will
loom up into the tens of thousands.


The platform of the party is, perhaps,
needlessly long, yet it asserts a line of pol
icy in national affairs that will meet hearty
approval everywhere. It declares in favor
of free and fair elections, asserting the self
evident fact that the presence Of troops at
the polls is destructive of the freedom of
elections and incompatible with the exist
encs of free institutions that tho laws on
acted by Congress under the pretenso of
re salating the manner of Congressional
elections, are an interference with the elec-


ton Of State officers and an overthrow


of the laws of the States gov.


erning the election of such off


GERS, are unconstitutional, and for that rea-


son ought to be repealed; that they are also


instrumentalit'e Of fraud, force and cor


ruption, by which the party in power uses


the money of the people to corrupt, and


thousands of irresponsible officers to harrass


and coerce the voters. This is simply a re-


assertion of the policy of the party in Con-


gress, and has been approved not only by the


leading members of that party throughout


the country, but by the entire Democratic


press and public. There is no doubt bu!


the people of Ohio will stand by their con


v!ctions and maintain the principles here
laid down.


The third resolution is to the point. 1t


places the responsibility for the stoppage OF


supplies where it properly belongs-on thu


Republican party. It is the Republican


minority that refuses to vote supplies to


maintain the government unless the ma jority


will agree to porversion of the constitution
so as to allow the use Of troops at the polls,
and upon that minority the responsibility fol
, failure of the appropriation bills viii
, rest. Mr.. Hayes unprecedented use of tn.
7 veto power, coupled with tho action of tht
, minority in Congress, is denounced as show
! ing spirit of faction and want Of devotion


to the welfare of the country and the preser


vation of the constitution and liberty, tha
7 demand tho condemnation of the who'll
} American people. With this condemnation
r no well-wisher in the country can find fault
l for that it is merited mono can deny.


3 The declaration in favor of refusing to pa,


soldiers, supervisors and marshals employed
: at elections will serve to stiffen the backbone
of any Democrats in Congress who may re
\ quire it in support of the pending measures


The censure of the Republican party for it,


policy in seeking to revive dead issues is alst
= timely.


On the question of the finances tho con.
. vention was conservative. 1t was content will
0 reaffirming the principle that the govern
ment should issue all the currency in use b.
the people and honor each of its various is
Q sues alike, and that silver should be restored
to its proper estate as a metal currency. It.
demonetization was denounced as "a mon


strous fraud upon the people, cunningly de


vised in tho interest of the holders of bonds
that should be condemned as in violation o
every principle of honest dealing and
~ covert assault on the fundamental rights O.
property"


With such candidates and such platform
We cannot see how the Democracy of Ohi
can fail in carrying the State. The persona
popularity of the candidates will attract sup
port while the principles they represen
will draw to the ticket all the thinking ant
patriotic portion of the community. b


proper effort, thorough organization and har'
, | work success is within reach