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Show fleualor Tburuiau's Address. Marion, O., 22. Senator Thurman opened bis Ohio campaign here this afternoon, Bpeaking to a large audience audi-ence of democrats and republicans for two hours. He discussed tbedisputed presidential election, claiming the fair, undoubted election ol Tilden, stigmatizing stigma-tizing the leturning boards' count in and the final results in those states itates were reached by illegal means; the electoral commission in refusing to hear evidence concerning want of jurisdiction in the returns of Louisiana and Florida were in error. He warned the people of the dangers of closely contested elections ualeei these proceedings pro-ceedings were unstintingly condemned. con-demned. He claimed tbat the president's presi-dent's policy is what be bad been contending con-tending for during the past ten years, but was opposed to republican pel icy, as evidenced by partisan republican speeches last year; hence tbe democ racy were rigni. ne snowea me uu- -cessity of administrative reform and introduced Sherman's speech to shew that numerous useless relations had fed upon government lor years, drawing draw-ing $2,000,000 for doing nothiog. Keform could only be Becured by a complete change in the administration administra-tion of all departments. Regarding the labor troubles, three great causes deserved notice labor-saving machinery, ma-chinery, exorbitant taxation, and depreciation de-preciation in the purchasing power of the dollar. He discussed eaoh of these causes at length. Regarding tbe currency be laid tbat however desirable a return to a lound basis lor our currency might be it could not be denied that it was a governments in debt, and that experience ex-perience showed tbat we were reaching reach-ing the specio basis as fast as a just regard to the interests of tbe country would permit and that to force resumption re-sumption was neither just or justice, lie feared that a forced resumption could not be maintained, but thought that without arbitrary measures resumption re-sumption would take place in a comparatively com-paratively short time and would be maintained. Ho explained the acts of congress demonetizing silver and advocated tbe lemonetization of tbe dollar of the fathers as an act of simple jestice as well as of good policy. |