Price Hilton, of Defiance; James C. Evans, of Delaware; James B. Luckey, of Ottawa; Richard R. Porter, of Stark; and Philip V. Herzing, of Auglaize. All were withdrawn. before the ballot was completed except Mr. Evans, who received 401 votes, and Mr. Luckey, who had 318. The nomination was made unanimous.

The Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, Leander J. Critchfield, reported the following State platform:

Resolved, 1. That the Republicans of Ohio renew their allegiance to the Republican party of the United States, and reaffirm the principles of free government as declared and defined by the grand men of 1776, and endeared to the people of our time by the sacrifices of war and the blessings of an assured Union of the States, based upon universal liberty.

2. The citizens of the several States of the Union are also citizens of the Nation, and are equal under the Constitution and laws in all rights of citizenship, and are entitled to full and equal protection in their

exercise.

3. We favor an honest and economical administration of the Government, and favor retrenchment

and reform in the public service. Personal integrity and fidelity should be required of all officials, and when found to be dishonest and corrupt they should be prosecuted and punished; and we cordially commend the vigorous prosecution of public offenders by the present National Administration.

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The National credit and honor must be sacredly maintained.

5. We recognize gold as the true standard of value, and the only steady and safe basis for a circulating medium, and declare that that policy of finance should be steadily pursued, which, without unnecessary injury to business or trade, will ultimately equalize the value of the coined and paper dollar.

6. We favor a tariff for revenue, with incidental protection to American industry.

7. We stand by our system of free common schools, supported by general taxation. There must

be no division of the school fund and no sectarian interference with the schools.

*. To the soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union, the Nation owes a debt of gratitude, and they, and the widows and orphans of those who have fallen, are justiv entitled to liberal bounties and pensions.

9 The thanks of the people are due to President

GRANT for his faithful adherence to Republican principles, and we assure him of the gratitude of the country for the distinguished services he has rendered as a soldier and as a civilian.

10. The Republican party of Ohio, having full confidence in the honesty, ability and patriotism of RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, cordially presents him to the National Republican Convention for nomination for President of the United States, and our State delegates to that Convention are instructed, and the district delegates are requested, to use their earnest efforts to secure his nomination.

After the platform was adopted Thomas C. Campbell moved that three cheers be given for the ticket this day nominated, which was agreed to and the cheers given with a will.

Calls for Governor Noyes were made from all parts of the house, and John C. Lee said as he saw there was still considerable "halloo" left in the Convention, he would suggest that "everybody give three cheers for the next President of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes," and cheer after cheer--they did not stop with three--were given, amid other demonstrations of approval.

Renewed calls being made for General Noyes he responded with a telling speech eulogistic of General Hayes and commendatory of the Republican party, but offensive in some of its points to the many Democratic spectators present.

On Wednesday, May 17th, the Prohibition party held a National Convention at Cleveland and nominated Green Clay Smith, of Kentucky, for President, and Gideon T. Stewart, of Ohio, for Vice President. The Convention was not largely attended, but attracted considerable local attention.

On the same day the Democratic State Convention met at Music Hall, Cincinnati, with John A. Shank, of Hamilton County, for Temporary and George H. Pendleton

Permanent Chairman, and nominated the following ticket: Secretary of State, William Bell, Jr., of Licking County; Judge of the Supreme Court, William E. Finck, of Perry; Member of the Board of Public Works, Horace P. Clough, of Butler. George H. Pendleton and William L. O'Brien, of Hamilton County, George W. Morgan, of Knox, and Jabez W. Fitch, of Cuyahoga, were selected as Delegates-at-large to the National Democratic Convention. Regarding resumption, currency, an income tax and the tariff, the platform declared as follows:

1. The immediate and unconditional repeal of the Republican Resumption Law.

2. The defeat of all schemes for resumption, which involve either contraction of the currency, perpetuation of bank issues or increase of the interest burden of the debt.

3. The gradual but early substitution of legal tenders for National bank notes.

4. The issue by the General Government alone of all the circulating medium, whether paper or metallic.

5. No forced inflation; no forced contraction; but a sound currency equal to the wants of trade and industry, to be regulated in volume and gradually equalized with gold by means of appropriate legislation, such as making it receivable for customs and interconvertible, at the pleasure of the holder with a bond bearing an interest not to exceed 3.65 per cent., payable in gold, so that the volume of currency shall not be determined by the pleasure or caprice of Congress or the banks.

6. A graduated income tax to meet at least the premium on gold needed to pay interest on the public debt.

7. Public policy and a sense of common justice require that the silver issued by the Government should be legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, and we demand the unconditional repeal of the so-called silver act so far as the same limits the amount for which silver currency shall be a legal tender.

8. We are in favor of a tariff for revenue only, and we denounce the Republican scheme of resumption as intended and operating through a large increase of the bonded debt, and a sudden and an

enormous contraction of the currency, to double the burden of taxation, to rob debtors of their property, paralyze productive and commercial industries, cast laborers out of employment, and fill the land with want and misery, for the wicked purpose of doubling the values of money securities and subjugating the masses of the people to the imperious sway of a money oligarchy.

The resolutions also declared that William Allen is the choice of Ohio for the Presidency," instructed the Delegates-at large, and requested the district delegates "to use all honorable means to secure his success."

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The platform adopted was the one brought in by a minority of the Committee on Resolutions and was a victory for the soft-money faction" of Governor Allen over the hard-money supporters" of Senator Thurman. Frank H. Hurd, of the Thurmanites, presented the majority report, which he and John W. Heisley, of Cuyahoga, championed in able arguments, while Thomas Ewing, of Fairfield, and George W. Morgan, of Knox, the latter making the minority report, captured the Convention with their pleas for cheaper money. The substitute platform received 386 votes to 266 for the original resolutions.

On Thursday, May 18th, the Greenbackers held a National Convention at Indianapolis and nominated Peter Cooper, of New York, for President, and Newton Booth, of California, for Vice President. Subsequently Booth declined to run and Samuel F. Cary, of Ohio, was nominated by the Executive Committee and accepted.

The American National Convention, commonly known as that of the Anti-Secret Society party, was held at Pittsburg, Thursday and Friday, June 8th and 9th. On the second day a platform of principles was adopted and James B. Walker, of Wheaton,

Illinois, and Donald Kirkpatrick, of Syracuse, New York, were respectively nominated for President and Vice President.

THE CINCINNATI NATIONAL CONVENTION.

The Sixth National Convention of the Republican party met in the Exposition Building at Cincinnati, Wednesday, June 14th, at twelve o'clock, noon. The attendance was greater than at any previous National Convention, and included the most noted Republicans of the time, who were seated either as guests of honor upon the platform or among the delegates and alternates in the main body of the hall. It was remarked that the attendance of colored men, among whom were United States Senators and ex-Senators, Representatives and ex-Representatives in Congress, State Legislators and lawmakers, was very large greater in number than ever before, and more numerous, perhaps, than at any Convention since. Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnett and P. B. S. Pinchback made the principal addresses delivered by colored men.

Ohio was represented in this Convention by the following Delegates:

At large-Benjamin F. Wade, of Jefferson; Edward F. Noyes, of Cincinnati; William H. Upson, of Akron; J. Warren Keifer, of Springfield.

Chillicothe; John A. Smith, of Hillsboro. 8. Henry W. Smith, of London; A. R. Byrkett, of Troy. 9. Thomas C. Jones, of Delaware; Hylas Sabine, of Richwood. 10. Ralph P. Buckland, of Fremont; J. B. Rothschild, of Findlay. II. Homer C. Jones, of McArthur; Samuel H. Bright, of Logan. 12. Leander J. Critchfield, of Worthington; John Groce, of Circleville. 13. Edwin L. Lybarger, of Coshocton; John L. McIlvaine, of New Philadelphia. 14. D. W. Wilson, of Belleville; Henry C. Carhart, of Galion. 15. Valentine B. Horton, of Pomeroy; Jewett Palmer, of Marietta. 16. Jonathan T. Updegraff, of Mt. Pleasant; John Lemmox, of Freedom. 17. Cornelius Aultman, of Canton; Jacob A. Ambler, of Salem. 18. Addison S. McClure, of Wooster; George T. Perkins, of Akron. 19. Henry B. Perkins, of Warren; George H. Ford, of Burton. 20. Edwin C. Cowles and Hiram Garretson, of Cleveland.

Alternate Delegates at Large-Charles H. Grosvenor, of Athens; Clark Waggoner, of Toledo; Lewis Weitzel, of Cincinnati; Samuel Craighead, of Dayton.

By Districts-1. Lawrence Spath and Moses B. Hagans, of Cincinnati, 2. Edward P. Ransom and Walker M. Yeatman, of Cincinnati. of Cincinnati. 3. Mills Gardner, of Washington C. H.; Watts McMurchy, of Batavia. 4. Charles Folkerth, of Eaton; John Little, of Xenia. 5. Jacob L'H. Long, of Ottawa; Price Hilton, of Defiance. 6. Alexander Reed, of Toledo; D. B. Ainger, of Bryan. 7. Chambers Baird, of Ripley; Smith Grimes, of West Union. 8. Milton Steen, of DeGraff; John Howell, of Springfield. 9. William G. Beatty, of Cardington; S. E. De Wolf, of Marion. 10. Frank Sawyer, of Norwalk; James A. Blair, of Tiffin. 11. Elias Nigh, of Ironton; Henry

A. Towne, of Portsmouth. 12. Andrew J. Ashbrook, of Somerset; Peter Bope, of Lancaster. 13. Elmer J. Rambo, of Dresden; William R. Shields, of New Comerstown. 14. J. C. Cook, of Nevada; Thomas B. Cunningham, of Millersburg. 15. William F. Hunter, of Woodsfield; George W. Baker, of Athens. 16. Joseph D. Taylor, of Cambridge; Wesley B. Hearn, of Cadiz. 17. Isaac H. Taylor, of Carrollton; George W. Brooke, of Ellsworth. 18. J. H. Greene, of Medina; Sidney S. Warner, of Wellington. 19. Stephen A. Northway, of Jefferson; Aaron Wilcox, of Painesville. William S. Streator and Julius C. Schenck, of Cleveland.

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The Convention was called to order by Edwin D. Morgan, of New York, Chairman of the National Committee, who introduced Rev. D. H. Muller, of Covington, Kentucky, to offer prayer. Governor Morgan then addressed the Convention at some length, closing by nominating Theodore M. Pomeroy, of New York, for Temporary Chairman, and he was made the choice of the Convention. After being escorted to the Chair and introduced Mr. Pomeroy made an excellent impression and was received with liberal applause. In the course of his address he said:

The Republican party can not continue to live by reason of its splendid achievements of the past, nor the Democratic party expect to be returned to power upon its glittering promises of reform in the future. The former has but to present men representative of its principles; the latter must discover both its principles and its men. In former days, when party ties were firmer, when the immediate pressure of impending National calamity hedged us about and compelled party fidelity, the platform carried along the man, whomsoever he might be. Party ties are looser now, and no platform is buoyant enough to float an unworthy candidate. The necessity for the continuance of the administrative policy of the Republican

party, while not so apparent in immediate results, is as commanding, respecting future consequences, as at any time in its history. We are told that it has accomplished its mission, and has no longer claim to live. Well, if so, and the time for dissolution has come, it can die triumphantly and can exclaim with the apostle of old, "I have fought a good fight-I have kept the faith." It has fulfilled many missions. It fulfilled the mission of its birth in neutralizing the disastrous effects of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, in saving freedom to the great Territories of the Northwest and in bringing California into the sisterhood of States undefiled by slavery and adorned like a bride in the glitter of her golden promises. It fulfilled the mission of its youth in accepting the

"irrepressible conflict," and it was a mission worth living to have saved a Nationality like ours-to have

freed four million slaves and to have raised them to the dignity of American citizenship, and to have reconstructed the Federal Constitution so as to place the liberties of the citizen and the credit of the Nation upon foundations strong enough to endure anything except the imbecility of a Democratic Administration.

Irving M. Bean, of Wisconsin, and Henry H. Bingham, of Pennsylvania, were elected Temporary Secretaries and E. W. Hincks, of Wisconsin, Sergeant-at-Arms, all upon motion and by yea and nay vote.

Upon the motion of George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, seconded by Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, each State delegation, in which there were no contests, was directed to announce the names of the delegates selected to serve upon the following Committees: Credentials, Permanent Organization, Rules and Order of Business,

and Resolutions. The Ohio members of the Committee designated were respectively; William H. Upson, Ralph P. Buckland, Jonathan T. Updegraff and Edwin C. Cowles.

On behalf of the National German Republican Convention, which had held a session in Cincinnati a few days previous, Abraham J. Dittenhoefer, of New York, its presiding officer, presented a series of resolutions which that body had adopted, and

asked their approval by the Republican party; after being read, upon motion, they were referred to the Committee on Resolutions. An address by the Republican Reform Club, of New York, was read by George William Curtis and took the same reference.

While the Convention awaited the report of the Committee on Credentials, and in response to calls, addresses were made by John A. Logan, of Illinois, Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, Edward F. Noyes, of Ohio, Henry Highland Garnett, of New York, William A. Howard, of Michigan, and Frederick Douglass, of the District of Columbia.

George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, presented the report of the Committee on Organization, naming Edward McPherson, of Pennsylvania, for Permanent President, and a Vice President for each State and Territory-Benjamin F. Wade was Ohio's choice; Irving M. Bean, of Wisconsin, for Secretary, with an assistant for each State and Territory-Leander J. Critchfield being the selection for Ohio. The report was adopted by unanimous vote and Messrs. William Orton, of New York, W. G. Donnan, of Iowa, and Richard C. McCormick, of Arizona, were appointed a committee to escort the new Chairman to the stage. Their appearance was the signal for enthusiastic cheering. At the conclusion of a very short address of thanks, Mr. McPherson announced that the Chair was ready to proIceed to the business of the Convention.

Following a few announcements and selections for vacancies in Committees, the Convention adjourned to 10 o'clock, Thursday morning.

On reassembling Thursday, the Convention was opened with prayer by Rev. George B. Beecher, pastor of the First Presbyterian

Church of Cincinnati. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, presented the resolutions and memorial of the Woman's Suffrage Association of the United States, which were ordered read. Then Mr. Hoar moved that Mrs. Sarah J. Spencer be allowed to address the Convention in support of the memorial presented, which was agreed to, and she spoke at some length.

The report of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business was presented by John Cessna, of Pennsylvania, and after some discussion was adopted.

Majority and minority reports of the Committee on Credentials were presented, there being contests in Alabama, Florida. and the District of Columbia.

A motion to adopt the minority report was voted down after considerable discussion-yeas 354, nays 375; and then the majority report was agreed to with but few dissenting votes.

The report of the Committee on Resolutions was presented by Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, and was as follows:

When, in the economy of Providence, this land was to be purged of human slavery, and when the strength of government of the people, by the people, for the people, was to be demonstrated, the Republican party came into power. Its deeds have passed into history, and we look back to them with pride. Incited by their memories to high aims for the good of our country and mankind, and looking to the future with unfaltering courage, hope and purpose, we, the representatives of the party, in National Convention assembled, make the following declaration of principles:

1. The United States of America is a Nation, not a league. By the combined workings of the National and State Governments,under their respective Constitutions, the rights of every citizen are secured at home and protected abroad, and the common welfare promoted.

2. The Republican party has preserved these governments to the hundredth anniversary of the Nation's birth, and they are now embodiments of the great