Ohio Democratic Convention

The Ohio State Democratie Couvention, says a Columbus correspondent, was a vi-ry large one, huviug (J30 delogates in attcnJancc. Every county was fully represente, and unuKual harmony and much enthusiasm pfovaïled (rom first to last. ïhë ticïefc nominated can' not íail lo be a popuier one. TLe conve-ntion was siugularly orderly, and yet was enthusiastio on the slightest provocation. The speech of Gen. Ward, permanent Chairnian, aud a few words by Senator Thurman aud Gov. Bishop were fnll of hope. Thurman oomtuended the ticket, aud declared that he was aiiüsfiod that the work done would t -Mid to makc Ohio a permanent and reliable Democratie S'ate. Ho promised to devote his personal attention to the campaign. D uring Gen. Ward's speech he faid : " Let ua congratúlate ourselves that we been gaining ground for our entiro polioy. We have ilriven back the haughly monoye:! powor that sought to subiiuo the nation. Silver has been reïnonetized. The greonbaeks haye been preserve. Contraction has been stopped, and ero long the pcoplc's dollar, the peoplo's mouey, will bc received for public dues and be equal with gold. Now, my fellow-citizens, I may rcally congratulóte yon upon your past succeea and look hopefully with you upon the future. We elected our President two years ago, but our victory was snatched Irom us by the i,tealthy hand of fraud. Bixt the same hands that snatcheü away our victory poured into the cup of the Kepublican party the slow poison which is proving its destrnctiou. Two years from now we will elect our candidato by a majorily so apparent and by Buch a triumph that no l'eturning Boards yáll daie to steal away our victory. Be then of good clicer. " The above extract will probably, as well as anything else, show tho tenor of the couvention. It was aggressive and confident frotn örst to last. The fcllowing platform was ndopted : ïhe Democratie party of Ohio in convention assembied hereby rcaitirin the followiug clauses in thé platfoim of tho couvention of July 25, 1877, indorsed by amajority of more than 22,000 Jast f all by the peopleof Ohio. We renew its pledgee of devotion to the Union and the constitvitiou with its amendments. it declares au essenttal to the preservation of the Government a íaiUiful odherenoe to the followin;; principien : Home rulo : supreniacy of the civil over tho military power ; separation of church aud state ; equality of !.ll citizenu before the law ; libeity of all individual action, unvexed by sumptuary laws ; absoluto acqiiiescenoo in the lawfuHy-exprosted will of tho majority ; opposition to all subsidies ; presorvatiou of the public lands to the uae of actual Bettlers, aud tho maintonance and protection of tho common-Hchool system. Resolved, Tkat the investigation of tho fraudn committed at the last Presidodtial eleotion in Florida or Louisiana ought to have been mude by the Electoral Coinmission ; lts refusal to do 80 was a vioiation of the spirit of the law under which it was organized, and a gros insult to tho people of the United SUtes. and whilatthe decisión au made by theForty-fourth ConfjresB of the question as to vho süöuld be declarcd President of the Uuitod States for the present Presidential term was, in our judgment, final, that decisión ooght not to precludo an authentic investigation and expoture of all frauds eonnected with that election, aud the duo aecount&bility of all who werc guiltr eonnected with them. Resolved, That the commercial andiudnstri&l stagnation that has long prevailcd throughout the country, and the consequent widespread want and uffering, is due direotly to tho ptrnicious finaucial legiKlation of the Kepublican party, which we hereby arraign for ite acts, aud charge, 1. That at a time when the country was weighed down With debt, created on tho basis of the full volume of pa]er, adJed to boththe procious mctals as money, it euacted a eweeping change in tho moasurt; of value, wholly in tho interest of moueyod ca])ital, by demouetizing pilver, and directing the destruction of leRal-teiwler paper, and thcreby wrongfally added, in effect, himdredri of millions to the burdon of debt and toxes upon the people. 2. By pursuing its mercilees policy of coutracthig the paper currenoy and hoarding gold, it has iucreascd continunlly the value of many securitiea that partaKe of tho onl.ancement of money, and decreased tho valuo of all other property, and enpecmllyof capital designed for productive use, and required for tho omployment of labor, thns repreeting, instead of fottering, industry, compclling ialeness instead of sustaming trade and commorce, aud now tuis party in Ohio puts forward in its platform the declaration that the financial quettionhaebeen settled. Wo deny this declaration, and, while we congratúlate the country that the downward course to bankiHptcy and ruin iuvolved in the Bepublican poliey has been partially averted by t)'e Democratie measures passed at the late session of Cougress, restoring the debt-paying power to the silver dollar, made a law in spito of tho Preaident's veto, and stopping the furtLer dostruction of greenbacka, we demand as f nrther acts of j ustiee, as well as ruea-ures of relief, tlie repeal of tho Eesumption act and the Jawful liberation of the coin hoaijcd in thu treasury, the removal of al: restrictioDB to tho coinage of silver as a money xuet al tho same as gold, as it was before its fraudulent demouetization, the gradual substituí ion of United States legal-tender paper for natioua!-bank notos ñud itH permanent re-ostabhshment as the sole paper money of the couutry made teoeivable for all dues to the Government and of equal tender with coin, the ainouut of buch istues to be bo regnlated by legislation or organic law as to give the people aseuranco of stability in the volumo of currency and consequent stability of value; no further mercase in the bondcd debt, and no further sale of bouds for the purchftse of coin ior rebumptiou purpoBes, but a gradual extiuelion of the public dfcbt and rigkl economy in tho rcductiou of exponditures in all branches of the public service, and tariff for reveuue ooly. Resolved, Thai the interest of the industrial wealth-pruducing claBses is the paramouut interest of tho peoplo of the Üuited States. Those whoso labor and entenirise produce wealth fhould bo secure iu its enjoyment. Onr warmost sympathy is extended to the laboring clasHes who have been throwu out of employment by the rntnousfln&ncial policy aud tuijóst legislation of tho licpublictii party, and we ' [ledge the Dcniocratic party to a revrsal of that policy aud a reatoratiou of all the right they are entitled to upou lts asecudency ;o ]ower. Hrs.-iinrl, That there can be r.o legitímate einploymeut of organizüd (oroe iu this counry, except to execute law and to maintain sublic peace ; that no violence xhonld be con;enanccd to obtain redress for any alleged ;nevance, but fhould be repro; sed at any coat UI relii f can be seoured by legal methods. We congratúlate the country upou the adopion of the constitutional and pacinc policy of ocsl Belf-government in the States of the South, so long advocated by the Democratie arty, and which has broupht peace and harmony to that section of the Union.