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Show The Oliio I'onvcuifou. Columbus, 0., 6. The Democratic convention met to-day. Judge Saml. Hunt acted as temporary chairman. The attendance was very large, and included many old and well-known Democrats who have held aloof from politics for years. The afternoon session ses-sion opened at two o'clock. Wm.U. Ball was elected president. Resolutions Resolu-tions were adopted declaring that tlie Democratic party do not seek to revive dead issues, hut stands by its princi ptcs which are suited to all times and circumstances. It supports the constitutional con-stitutional authority of the Federal government, opposes nullification and secession .defends the reserved rights of the ti tales and people, and opposes .centralization. It insi.-ts upon a strict construction of Hit; Constitution, 'resists attempts of one department j of government to usurp the functions : or rights of the others, opposes all in-' in-' terferenec with the af lairs uf the peo-! peo-! pie not required by public peace or gaiety, and advocates the utmost individual in-dividual liberty eonsi.-tcnt with public pub-lic order. It believes in the capacity of tbo people for sell government, op-! op-! poses property qualilications for the right of suffrage or of holding ollicc, favor liberal naturalization laws, insists in-sists upon equal rights to till and opposes op-poses every monopoly. It denies the right of Congress to adopt partisan legislation, leg-islation, recognizes the evil of an irredeemable irre-deemable currency, but would not return re-turn to specie payments in such a way as to disturb business or cause injury to debtors, appreciates the benefit ben-efit of railroads, but opposes combinations combi-nations to increase the cost of transportation trans-portation , and all laws giving capital advantage over labor. It demands honesty and economy in the government, condemns corruption corrup-tion everywhere, and claims from its very principles to be the party of progress. It sympathizes with labor, I favors arbitration of diiKculties with I em plovers, and urges co-operation, as1 advised by the National Labor Con-1 grcss at Cleveland. It pledges itself to redress the grievances of the farm- ing clas and obtain for them equal and exact justice, calls for the preservation pre-servation of the public lands for actual ac-tual settlers, denounces corruption and bribery in Congress and in elections, elec-tions, and condemns the back salary steal and President Grant for signing the bill. It denounces the panlon of government defaulter, calls for greater economy and the abolition abo-lition of stipertluous oiliees, denounces denoun-ces the boyonet government set up by Grant in Louisiana, holds t.io Republican Re-publican party responsible for all the evils and wrongs of which the country complains, and calls upuu all men", regardless of party ties or past differences, differ-ences, to unite to redeem the govcrn-men govcrn-men from tho flood of corruption which threatens its. ruin. Nominations were then made. Gen. Allen being nominated by acclamation acclama-tion for governor. W. B.'Nuble was nominaiLd for Lieut, Governor; II. C. Whitman for Supreme Court, long term; Chas. ticribner, short tenii": W. A. Dougherty, Attorney-General: George Hcinier, Slate Treasurer; J, K. Neweomb. Comptroller. A tele-! grain I'mm Allen ;is received accept-1 ing the nomination tor governor, audi the convention adjourned. |