Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — HOADLEY WINS. [ARTICLE]

HOADLEY WINS.

r . fbr The Democratic State Convention convened at 10 o'clock, with toe largest crowd ever seen on a similar occasion in Columbus. Not more than half the people oeteld be accommodated in thte Opera House. The sultry weather and rain made everything disagreeable. The contest between Ward and Hoadley for Governor waged fiercely during, the morning hours. The convention was called to order by Clark Irvine. Chairman at the Central Committee. All preliminary organteationwaa dispensed with, and Hon. John McSweoaey, of Wooster, was introduced as the Permanent Chairmen, and received with much enthusiasm. r . . ■ The Committee on Resolutions not being ready to report, the convention proceeded to the nomination of Governor. There was great delay in the presentation of names. Efforts were made to proceed to haUot without the presentation of names, but, after a long wait, Senator Thurman crowded onto the stage amid the wildMt enthusiasm. He followed T. E. Powell and seconded the nomination of Gen. Durbin Ward. The names of Judge George Hoadley and Hon. George A Geddes were presented in the order given. . » _ The first ballot resulted: Hoadley, 3DO; Ward, 261; Geddes, 77; J. w -®e» v ®r, 4 Before the result of the second ballot coultibe announced, a motion to nominate Hoadley by acclamation was carried. He had in the neighborhood of 300 votes, 819 being necessary to a choice. Judge Hoadley then appeared, and accepted the nomination in a ten-minute’s address, during which he reviewed his connection with the party, and, although he had wandered at one time with tHe Republicans to fight the battles of the colored race, the Democracy was broad enough to receive him. He esteemed it a great compliment to be nominated over a more worthy candidate, and believed they could win oh a platform whose leading principles were personal liberty, self-con. rol in temperance matters, and a jucenee system. Gen. Ward was brought in and made a speech, in which he severely rebuked the party for failing to reoognize his thirty years’ services, and, not to be daunted, be announced himself publicly as a candidate for the United States Senate. The remainder of the ticket was completed as follows: lieutenant Governor John Warwick, of Stark county; Supreme Judge, short term, Martin D. FoUett, Washington county; Supreme Judge, long term, Selwin Owen, Williams county; Supreme Court Clerk, John J. Cruikshank, Miami county; Attorney, James Lawrence, Cuyahoga county; Auditor of State, Emil Keisewt iter, Franklin county; Treasurer of State, Peter Brady, Sandusky county; School Commissioner, Leroy D. Brown, of Butler county; Member of the Board of Public WoriCs, JttStt' P. Martin, of Greene county. The convention broke up amid much confusion, at 1:15 in the morning after adopting the following platform: The Democracy of Ohio, in convention assembled, hereby reaffirm the principles of the partv, as expressed in the primaries and State and ’national platforms, in regard td personal liberty, the true functions of government, and as embraced in the political creed expounded by the great founder of the Democratic, party— Thomas Jefferson. The application of these principles to our present condition demands the purification of the public service, the punishment of the robbers of the public treasury, the equalization of all public burdens, the arrest of the profligacy and extravagance that corrupt the administration of public affairs, and a total change in the policy that has so long been pursued by the Republican party—favoring individual and class interest at the expense of the laboring and wealth-producing people of the country; and we reaffirm our previous declarations for stable money, the gradual extinction of the public debt, and the payment of pensions to disabled soldiers, their widows and orphans. 2. We favor a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of government, economically administered, and so adjusted in ItsTapplicadon as to prevent unequal burdens, enqpukage ayoduc! ive industries at home, afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopolies. 3. The act of the Republican Congress reducing the tariff on wool, while at the same time increasing it on woolen goods, already highly protected, was iniquitous legislation, discriminating im-favor of monopoly and against the agricultural interests of the country, and ought to be oorrectcd; and we heartily approve the action of the Democratic members of the Ohio delegation in Congress in voting against that increase.

4. The Democratic party is, as it always has been, opposed to sumptuary legislation and unequal taxation in any form, and Is in'favor of the largest liberty of private contluct consistent with the public welfare and the rights of others, and of regulating the liquor traffic and providing against the evils resulting therefrom by a judicious and properly-graded license system. 6. The abuses of the present contract system in our State penitentiary, by which the products of the labor of convicts are brought in competition with the products of honest labor, to this great detriment of the latter, are injurious and unwise, and ought to be corrected, and the promises of the'Republican party to abolish this system are shown to be false and hypocritical by its failure to do so while It has the power. 6. The protection of the Government Is dua>to all American citizens, native and. foreign born, abroad as well as at home. 7. We reaffirm the resolutions of the Stat* Conventions of Ohio in 1880, 1881, and 1882, ano of the Democratic National Conventions of 187% 1876, and 1880, demanding a thorough yefonii and purification of the ciyil service, and charge that the Republican party has violated eveiy pledge it has heretofore given for the reform thereof, and has failed during its long admjhiistration of the Government to correct oven tlie most crying abuses; and we demand, therefore, a chance in the executive administration of the Govennnent itself asthe reform first of all necessary las made still more manifest by the recent star-route trials), thereby ousting corrupt rings, confederated to protect crime and prevent the punishment of criminals, and by so doing to make it possible again to punish fraud and theft in the public service.