Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — OHIO REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

OHIO REPUBLICANS.

Hon. Jobtt Sherman Kndoritd for. President. The Ohio Rep nhlican State Convention met at Dayton on the 19;h. Hon. J. Warren Keifer called the body to order and Hon. E. L. Lampion was made permanent chairman. He made an extended address. Hon Charles Foster, chairman of the committee on resolutions, submitted the platform, which was adopted with applause. The platform denounces the “Democratic party for its nullification of the war amendments to the Constitution whereby the Republicans of the South are practically denied a voice in the goverr - ment cf the Nation, and the power of the Democrats in that section is unlawfully augmented,” and charges “thatthe Democratic party is now in the enjoyment of power confessedly procured by the suppression of the franchise in the Southern Stateß,” Ou the tariff question it Bays: “we favor such economic legislation as will protect all American industries that can profitably be pursued by American citizens. We insist that our producers are entitled to the control of their own maikets to the extent of their ability to Bupply them. We denounce all efforts to open those markets to competition with the cheap labor and abundant capital of foreign nations as hoatile to the interests of labor and destructive to national and individual prosperity. We regard the last annual message of the Pret ideal, and the recent action of the majority of the ways and means committee, as a direct and open assault upon these industries, which will, if unresisted, result in introducing a po icy of free trade that in the near future will paralyze or destroy our own industries, reduce the compensation for labor and impoverish the Nation.” It condemns the refusal of the “Democratic majority in the House of Representatives t® permit the passage of the direct tax refunding bill;” favors pensions for disabled soldiers; unqualifiedly endorses Hon. John Sherman for President of the United States, and instructs Ohio’s delegates to use all honorable means to secure his nomination. A Secretary of State and several other State officers were nominated. Governor Foraker was elected delegate at large to Chicago convention bv acclamation.