We denounce the oft-repeated attempts of the Democratic party, and their present determined efforts, to cripple or destroy all our agricultural interests by taking from farm products the just protection that is granted to them by the wise and beneficent legislation of the Republican party. We endorse the sentiment of the National Grange, to wit: "That all tariff laws shall protect the products of the farm as well as the products of the factory."

Free wool, now advocated by the Democratic party, would substantially destroy American sheep husbandry, deprive farmers of the market it affords for pasturage, hay and grain, and require the purchase of wool from foreign countries which take nothing from us in return but gold. Thus free wool would to that extent rob the American people of coin necessary for business and have a tendency to cause financial distress.

We demand such protection for sheep husbandry as will secure fair prices for wool, and soon thereby increase American flocks sufficiently to supply all wool and mutton needed for consumption in the United States.

We denounce the treatment of American farmers and workingmen by the Democratic Committee of the Senate, which, in the violation of every courtesy, and all legislative uses and traditions, denied them a hearing, when they desired in a proper and reasonable manner to remonstrate against destructive legislation.

We denounce the present Democratic Administration. Its blunders and failures have exceeded the worst apprehension of its bitterest opponents. We denounce its unwise and un-American management of our foreign affairs. Its Hawaiian policy has been a National disgrace.

We denounce the administration of the present Pension Bureau as a deliberate betrayal of the welfare of Union soldiers and sailors. We deplore the needless persecutions, suspensions, delays and privations to which they have been heartlessly subjected in procuring their just dues. We denounce the suspensions, without notice or hearing, of pensions once allowed,

except for fraud duly proven.

We demand the enactment of such legislation as will prevent the immigration to the United States of the vicious and criminal classes of laborers under contract, of paupers and of anarchists.

We favor bimetallism. Silver as well as gold is one of the great products of the United States. Its coinage and use as a circulating medium should be steadily maintained and constantly encouraged by the National Government; and we advocate such a policy as will by discriminating legislation, or otherwise,

most speedily restore to silver its rightful place as a money metal.

We denounce the avowed purpose of the Democratic leaders to restore the era of "Wild-cat" and "Red-dog" money by repealing the prohibitory ten per cent. tax on State bank issues. All money of whatever kind should be under National and not State control.

In view of the general good to accrue to the American people by the construction and operation of the Nicaragua Canal by the United States Government, we commend the project to our representatives in Congress.

We welcome to cordial fellowship in the Republican party at this crisis the men who have heretofore been identified with other political organizations, but now adopt and support the principles herein enunciated from patriotic considerations for the good of our distressed country. We applaud the motives which lead them to place country above party, and to seek first the welfare and prosperity of the people of the United States.

Judge Shauck's favor, and the nomination was made unanimous.

Oscar T. Corson, of Guernsey, was renominated for Commissioner of Common Schools, and Charles E. Groce, of Pickaway, was renominated for Member of the Board of Public Works, both by acclamation.

After making provisions for possible vacancies and for certifying nominations in accordance with the statutory requirements, and the adoption of the usual party emblem for the blanket ballot, the Convention adjourned sine die.

The State Executive Committee chosen this year was composed of nineteen members in addition to its officers. Charles W. F. Dick, of Akron, and John R. Malloy, of of Columbus, were again elected Chairman and Secretary, respectively, and William F. Burdell, of Columbus, Treasurer. The others were: Bellamy Storer, John A. Caldwell and Ford Stith, of Cincinnati; Jacob C. Donaldson, George W. Sinks and Walter D. Guilbert, of Columbus; Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland; Joseph E. Lowes, of Dayton; Alonzo B. Holcomb, of Paulding; John C. Tatman, of Batavia; William Duncan, of Killbuck; D. W. Williams, of Jack son; William L. Kessinger, of Athens; B. C. McElroy, of Mt. Vernon; Asa S. Bushnell, of Springfield; Charles C. Baker, of Alliance; John C. Rorick, of Wauseon; and D. C. Henderson, of Lima.

On June 25th, the American Railway Union declared a boycott against the Pullman Palace Car Company, resulting in the congestion of railway traffic in the West, and affecting directly nearly fifty thousand. miles of American railway. This event had considerable bearing upon the campaigns of

1894 and 1895, and greater influence, owing to the action of the Democratic National Convention, upon the campaign of 1896. This was due to the condemnation of the President by his own party for sending United States troops to suppress the mobs which, on July 6th, destroyed a vast amount of railroad and other properties. Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, had first been appealed to for aid in suppressing the lawless and riotous elements that, under the cover of the strike and in the guise of strikers, which they were not, were pillaging as well as wantonly destroying private property. But the Governor refused to act, and the only recourse was to the President. Before the troops were successful in restoring order several persons were killed and many others wounded, while hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property were destroyed by fire and otherwise.

The Populists and Labor parties of Ohio effected a fusion at a Convention held in Columbus, on Thursday, August 16th. The platform adopted declared the political purposes of the new organization to be identical with those of the Constitution and asserted that "the Government could not be pinned together with the bayonet." Charles R. Martin was nominated for Secretary of State and candidates named for the other offices to be filled.

The Democratic State Convention was held at Columbus, Wednesday, September 19th, with but a light attendance. There was considerable discussion over the endorsement of the President's action with regard to the silver issue and the attitude of Senator Brice on the tariff question. The principal resolutions adopted were the following:

We adhere to the declaration of the Democratic party in its National Platform, "that protection is a fraud," and while we recognize the benefit of the reduction of duties on imports, just made by Congress, we favor such further reduction as can be made, having in view the revenues necessary to be raised for the support of the Government, to the end that the injustice of purely protective duties be abolished. We congratulate the country upon the repeal of the McKinley Tariff Act and the enactment of a tariff law in its stead, under the operation of which trade and business are reviving and the country again becoming prosperous.

We dissent from the President's views, construction and treatment of the silver question, and therefore believe that silver should be restored to the position it occupied as money prior to its demonetization by the Republican party, and to that end we favor the unlimited free coinage of silver at the legal ratio of 16 to 1 and with equal legal tender power.

The latter resolution was not adopted until after a fierce debate, receiving the votes of 468 delegates, while 320 opposed it on account of its free coinage provision.

The nominees, all chosen on the first ballot or by acclamation, were: Secretary of State, Milton Turner, of Guernsey County; Judge of the Supreme Court, James D. Ermston, of Hamilton; Commissioner of Common Schools, James A. Leach, of Franklin; Member of the Board of Public Works, Harry B. Keffer, of Tuscarawas.

The Prohibitionists also held a State Convention, nominating a ticket headed by Mark G. McCaslin, of Delaware, for Secretary of State, who, by a singular coincidence, was the brother-in-law of the Republican nominee for the same office.

The Democratic party became so disgusted and disheartened by the action of the Administration on the silver question and pension matters, and by the attitude of Congress upon the tariff, that the campaign of 1894 was lifeless so far as they were concerned. They polled fewer votes by over 127,000 than were cast for Cleveland for

a private school, and at the public schools of Johnsville. In 1866 he graduated in the classical course from Otterbein University, Westerville, Ohio, and in 1867 graduated from the law school of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and entered upon the general practice of law at Dayton, Ohio. He continued in private practice until 1884, when he was elected upon the Republican ticket to the Circuit Court Judgeship of the Second Circuit. He was reelected in 1889, and in 1894 was elected as Judge of the Supreme Court of the State.