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Show OHIO OEJIOCRATS. Th Sonjr ot th Old, Old ftfory, HitU YuriRKoilN. Columbus. 0., iC Tlu democratic sta e convention reassembled at 2 p.m. Durhin Ward was chosen permanent chairman and E. 8. D dii of Toledo secretary. The tollowmg ticket was nominated: For secretary )1 state, David R. Pufce; supreme judge, A. T. Hume. Tbe following platform was then adopted : The democratic party of Ohio, in convention conven-tion asa-inbled, hereby reaffirms the following clauses in the platform ol the convention of July 2Gih, 1877, indorsed by a majority of more than 22 000 last fall by the people of Ohio: We renew its pledges of devotion to tbe Union and tbe -onstuution with amendments. It declares, as essential essen-tial to the preservation ot govern ment, a faitbful adherenoe to the lollowicg principles: A strict oon etruction of the home rule supremacy, of civil over military power; a separa-tion separa-tion of church and slate; equality of all citizen before the law; liberty ot all individual action, unvexed by sumiuuary laws; absolute acquies L-ence in the lawfully exprensiid will j il itie ninj inty; opposition '.o all sub-1 sidies: the preservation of public la Dili far the use ot actual settlers, ; tud the maintenance aud protection! of tbe common school system a p?r-1 ioent to tbe usu&j now pending be-ore be-ore tne people. liisolvtd, That tbe investigation of ha frauds committed at tbe last jresidential electioa in Florida or ijouisianaouht to have been made by ibe electoral commission. Its rcfm-ii u do so was a violation of tbe p;rit ol he law under which it was orgnn-Z'd orgnn-Z'd and a gross insult to tbe people of the United States, and wbhst lh-decision, lh-decision, as made by the Forty-tourth ingress oi the Question, as to who nould he deolaieu president ol tbe United 8tales (or tbe present Dri ieutjal lerm. was in our judgment final, foal decision out; tit not to preclude n authentic investigation, aud tbe Kxposureol all frauds connected with ntt eieotiou and iha due account oility of all who "ere guilty and cou Iiaolvc4, Tb'it the commercial and industrial stagnation that has an long I prevailed tnrougbout the country and the subsequent widespread want and ,n flaring is due directly to the pernicious per-nicious financial legislation of tue epublican party, which we hereby arraign for its acid and charges. First, hit at the time when the couutrv waa eighed down with a debt created on iu basis ol a lull volume ot piper dded to both tbe precious metals as uoney, it enacted a sweeping ch-ine in the measure of value, who! y iu the intrrest ol moneyed capital, oy demonetizing silver aiM oucreetn :bt deetructiou uf Ifcgal tender pjpur, and thereby wrongfully added in efJect nunureos oi millions to cue nuraen on tbe debt and taxes upon the people. ' Second, by pursuing its merciless policy ol contracting the pper and boarJing o)d. it has increased continuously ho value of money and securities tnat i parlnke of tbe enUaucemeut of mon y and d"creaaed the value of all o'hr' properly, thus repressing instead of losteriog industry, compelling idleness instead of eusiaining trade and commerce, com-merce, and now tbis party in Ohio, puts forward in its platform ib declaration decla-ration that the financial question has oeen settled. We deny tins declara (ion and while we congratulate tbe country that the downwnrd course to bankruptcy and the ruin involved in the republican policy has been partially par-tially averted by the democratic measures passed at tbe late session of congress restoring the debt paying power lo tbe silver dolUr,(made Uw in spite of presidential veto) and Btop ping tbe further destruction ot green backs, we demand, as further ajis ol junce aB well as measures of relief, tbe repeal of the resumption act and tue lawtul liberation of the coin hoarded iu the treasury; the removal uf all restrictions to the coinage of silver aud the re-etablisn-matt of silver as a money metal the same as gold, as it was before its frauduieut demonetiztion: tbe gradual substitution ol United States legal tender paper for national bank nous, aud its permanent re betablih-Lueut betablih-Lueut ab the sole paper money ot the country, made receivable for all dues to government and of equal tender with coin, the amouut of such icsues lu be so regulated by legislation or organic law as to give people the insurance of a stability in tbe volume nf currency and a const quent stability of value. Our warmest sympathy is ex'ended to the laboring classes who have been thrown out of employment by the ruinous fiuauci-il policy and unjust legislation of the republican parly aud all pleuea of the democratic party id tbe reversal of Dial policy and a restoration of alt the rights they rt "o titled to utrf)0 iU ascendancy power. We congratulate ibe country upon tbe adoption of the conetitu tioual and pa:in. policy ot local sell government iu the states of tbe south, -o long auvocaled by the democratic party, aud which has brought peace and harmony lo thai section ot m Union. |