of Fayette, presented Leo Weltz, of Clinton; Frank C. Culley named Charles A. Flickinger, of Defiance; William C. Cooper, of Knox, spoke on behalf of James Fullington, of Union; and John Riley Knox, of Darke, nominated his fellow-townsman, Martin F. Stevens. After the ballot had been taken and before the result could be determined, several counties, led by Hamilton, changed to Flickinger, and during the changing all the other candidates were withdrawn and Mr. Flickinger nominated by acclamation. The nominee responded to repeated calls by a few brief words of thanks.

Speeches were made by Governor Noyes and Judge William H. West while the Convention was waiting for the report of the Committee on Resolutions. Subsequently a committee of three, consisting of Augustus Lowenstein, of Hamilton, William C. Lyon, of Licking, and Noah H. Swayne, Jr., of Lucas, was appointed to wait upon the Committee on Resolutions, and urge it to hasten with a report. They finally returned with the regular Committee.

Thomas J. Pringle, of Clarke, read the following platform, saying it was the unanimous report of the members. After being read, on motion of Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, it was adopted as a whole without a dissenting vote, and the Convention adjourned.

The Republicans of Ohio, in State Convention assembled, adopt the following resolutions:

In the untimely death of our late beloved President, JAMES A. GARFIELD, we recognize a great National calamity, and we rejoice that his Administration during its brief existence gave assurance of its success. We tender to President CHESTER A, ARTHUR our assurance of confidence in his Administration and our approval of the moderate and patriotic course

pursued by him amid the embarrassing circumstances unavoidably attending such a National crisis.

Resolved: 1. That we fully endorse the Administration of Governor CHARLES FOSTER, and the State Administration of the Republican party during the last two years. under which the expenditures of the States were reduced over one-half a million dollars below the expenditures of the Democratic Administration of the two preceding years, and the public debt of the State was reduced nearly a million and a quarter of dollars and the remainder of the debt redeemable June 30, 1881, refunded at a rate of interest below 34 per cent. per annum.

2. We condemn the terrible outrages and persecutions inflicted upon the Jews of Russia and other sections of Europe, and while we heartily approve of the action of the Government in its efforts to ameliorate the condition of these unfortunate people, we earnestly solicit a continuance of its energetic efforts to that end.

3. We endorse and affirm the principle of protection to American industry, as adopted at the last

Republican National Convention.

4. The tax-paying people of the State demand that by specific taxation the traffic in intoxicating liquors shall be made to bear its share of the public burdens, and the Constitution in so far as it may be an obstacle in the way of the exercise by the people, through their Representatives, of practical control over the liquor traffic, to the end that evils resulting therefrom may be effectually provided against, should be amended at the earliest date allowed by law.

5. All laws upon the statute books must be respected and enforced until repealed by legislation or abrogated by legal authority.

6. In preserving the life of the Nation; in giving freedom, civil rights and suffrage to the slaves; in the reconstruction of the Union; in upholding the National honor and credit unimpaired; in the rapid payment of the public debt; and in the adoption of a series of wise public measures which have given to the country unexampled prosperity, the Republican party has a record which gives assurance of what it will do for the country in the future. Proud of this record, the Republicans of Ohio affirm it to be their purpose to continue their warfare on dishonesty and fraud at the ballot box until a free ballot and fair count are firmly secured to every locality and to every citizen.

On Wednesday, July 20th, the Democrats held a large and enthusiastic Convention at the Opera House in Columbus, which was

presided over by John F. Follett, of Hamilton County, at the preliminary session, and George H. Pendleton at the permanent session. There were numerous candidates for Secretary of State, James W. Newman, of Scioto County, receiving the nomination, on the third ballot, over John G. Reeves, of Fairfield; William Bell, Jr., of Licking; John G. Doren, of Montgomery; Allen O. Myers, of Franklin; John E. Myers, of Clermont; R. M. Everton, of Belmont; and L. C. Sawyer, of Auglaize. John W. Okey, of Franklin, was nominated by acclamation for Judge of the Supreme Court. For Member of the Board of Public Works two ballots were required. Henry Weible, of Van Wert, was nominated over R. M. Andrews, of Butler; Madison Peter, of Hamilton; David C. Coolman, of Portage; W. N. Couder, of Guernsey; G. R. Donahue, of Morgan; and M. W. Axtel, of Lorain.

The platform declarations upon the tariff, financial and temperance questions were as follows:

2. We favor a tariff levied to meet actual needs, and so adjusted in its details with the view to equality in the public burdens, as to encourage productive industries and afford labor just compensation without creating monopolies.

3. Stability in the value of money is a primary requisite to industrial and commercial prosperity. This can only be secured by maintaining both gold and silver as money, as provided by the Constitution of the United States, and subjecting the issue and regulation of paper money to established principles which will prevent fluctuations in the value of the currency.

5. The Democratic party has ever maintained and still steadfastly adheres to the doctrine of the largest liberty consistent with the public welfare, and is opposed to legislation merely sumptuary.

The Greenbackers met at the City Hall, Columbus, on the same day that the Republican State Convention was held, and nomi

nated George L. Hafer, of Miami County, for Secretary of State; L. G. Tuttle, of Lake, for Supreme Judge; and L. B. Stevens, of Lucas, for membership in the Board of Public Works.

The Prohibition State ticket, named at Cleveland, was headed by Ferdinand Schumacher, of Summit County, for Secretary of State.

The position which the Republicans of Ohio took upon the liquor and Sunday-observance questions lost the State to them, including also several candidates for Congress. Both the so-called "Liberal" element and the extreme temperance agitators voted against the party. Such was the effect of the agitation against liquor that a very large vote for an "off year," especially in the cities, was brought to the polls. The aggregate was about 8,000 votes greater than that of the gubernatorial election the previous year. The Republican strength decreased nearly 15,000 votes, while the Democrats gained over 28,000; the loss to the Republicans and gains for the Democrats were mainly in the larger villages and cities. The following was the official vote as returned to the Secretary of State:

Twenty-first District:

Martin A. Foran, Dem..
Sylvester T. Everett, Rep..

Democratic majority.

15,946 11,408

John Hardy Doyle, Judge of the Supreme Court, was born at Monday Creek, Perry County, Ohio, April 23, 1843. The family moving to Lucas County in 1846, young Doyle had the advantage of the schools in the city of Toledo, and after graduating at the high school took a course in Granville University. From 1859 to 1861 he was deputy Recorder of the County, and when the war broke out he received a commission as First Lieutenant from Governor Tod, but on account of a severe attack of illness did not enter the service. In 1864, on his twenty-first birthday, he was admitted to the bar, and in 1879 was elected Common Pleas Judge by the Republicans. He was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court in 1882, and was defeated with the other Republican candidates, but upon the resignation of Nicholas Longworth, in March, 1883, he was appointed to the vacancy by Governor Foster. At the State Convention in June following he received the Republican nomination for both the short and the full

Charles Andrew Flickinger, Member of the Board of Public Works, was born in Rhenish Bavaria, Germany, August 28, 1836. In 1844 the family came to America and settled in Defiance County, Ohio. Charles attended the public schools and on leaving school entered his father's grocery as a clerk. He engaged in business ventures of various kinds and accumulated considerable means. party and has voted for every Republican candidate for President except Fremont, who was voted for when Mr. Flickinger was but twenty years of age. In 1882 he was nominated for Member of the State Board of Public Works, but shared in the general defeat of the party that year. He was again nominated in 1884 and also in 1887, and elected both years. After his retirement from that office he removed to Toledo and in 1891 was elected as a Representative from Lucas County to the Seventieth General Assembly. He is still a resident of Toledo and not actively engaged in business.

He joined the Republican

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UT few measures that might be termed political occupied the attention of Congress in 1883. On January 20th a new commercial treaty was made with Mexico, General Ulysses S. Grant and William H. Trescott acting as Commissioners on behalf of the United States. The Senate ratified it with but little show of opposition. Previous to that--on January 16th, the Civil Service Reform Act passed each branch of Congress by large majorities. In the Senate the five negative votes were cast by Democrats, and in the House forty Democrats and seven Republicans voted against it. On March 3d, by joint resolution, Congress served notice on England of the termination of the fishery clauses of the treaty of Washington. On the same date in accordance with the promises of the Republican party and the recommendations of the President, the stamp taxes on matches, playing cards, proprietary medicines, bank checks and drafts and the taxes on surplus bank capital and deposits were abolished; in addition the tax on tobacco was reduced and the reduction of letter postage from three to two cents per half ounce was consummated. The tariff act of 1883 also became a law on March 3d, which made a material reduction in many articles. In the Senate the affirmative votes were cast by twenty-nine Republicans, one Readjuster, one Independent and one Democrat; thirty Demo

crats and one Republican voted in the negative. In the House the following voted in the affirmative-132 Republicans, seventeen Democrats, two Greenbackers and one Readjuster; voting in the negative were eleven Republicans, ninety-nine Democrats, five Greenbackers and one Readjuster. The Republican negative votes were given on account of the reductions in the wool schedule, which they claimed was a discrimination against the producers. This was the last act of the Forty-seventh Congress.

Meanwhile President Arthur's Administration had grown in favor with the Republicans and many party newspapers began discussing the propriety of a regular nomination for him in the National Convention of 1884. The movement was taken up by many politicians and before the close of the year had assumed formidable proportions.

The first election of the year in Ohio was in the Sixteenth Congressional District. Jonathan T. Updegraff, Republican member of the Forty-seventh Congress and member-elect of the Forty-eighth, died in December, 1893, and his successor was chosen at a special election in January by the following vote: Unexpired term— Joseph D. Taylor, Republican, 14, 179; Ross J. Alexander, Democrat, 12,314; full term-Taylor 14, 159, Alexander 12,322.

A conference was held by prominent Republicans of the State in the hall of the