Description: Members gathered around a table during a meeting of the Central Ohio Green Party, taken for the Columbus Free Press. The group appears to be in a church basement or similar space--a donation box labeled "TLCW Stewardship Box" is visible along the back wall and an altar is seen on a low stage to the right. The Green Party operates at local, state and national levels in support of the environmental movement and a variety of other progressive causes. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F12_05
Subjects: Political parties; Political clubs; Environmental movement; Social movements;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Keith Gowdy, Treasurer for the Central Ohio Green Party, speaks to fellow party members during a meeting in this photograph from the Columbus Free Press. The Green Party operates at local, state and national levels in support of the environmental movement and a variety of other progressive causes. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F12_04
Subjects: Political parties; Political clubs; Environmental movement; Social movements;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This sample ballot was issued by Daniel J. Ryan, Ohio Secretary of State, before the election of November 3, 1891, intended to illustrate to Ohioans "the form of a state ballot under the new election law of Ohio." An explanation is given for voting a "straight ticket" (voting for all of the candidates put forth by one political party without having to mark each one on the ballot), as well as for individual candidates or propositions. The general voting process is outlined as well. Political parties represented in this election were the Republican, Democratic, Prohibition, and People's parties. An emblem decorates the top of each column; an eagle with arrows in its talons (Republican Party), a rooster (Democratic Party), a rose (Prohibition Party) and a plow (People's Party). William McKinley was the Republican candidate for governor, and would be elected over the incumbent James Campbell by a margin of over 20,000 votes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4678_01
Subjects: Ballots; Election Day; Ohio--Politics and government; Political parties; McKinley, William, 1843-1901; Voting;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This poster encouraged people to vote for Republican political candidates in 1932. An elephant with a red G.O.P. blanket over its body is pictured pushing a truck with "U.S. & CO." on its side up a hill near farmland, where a man raises his hat and waves. A small donkey can be seen running away from the truck and elephant. The large slogan reads "It's an Elephants Job - No Time for Donkey-Business!" in blank across the upper right corner. The words "Vote the Republican Ticket!" are printed in bright red ink along the bottom of the poster. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05245
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Republican Party; Political posters
 

Description: Broadside satirizing the "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats) by listing the activities to occur at a fictitious July 4th celebration sponsored by the group at Marietta, Ohio, in 1863. Copperheads or Peace Democrats were people who opposed the Union's attempts to reunite the nation during the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, a majority of Ohioans supported the war effort and the Republican Party, although there was a sizable minority who opposed the conflict. Many of the opponents of the war were members of the "Peace" section of the Democratic Party. They and other opponents of the war often came to be called "Copperheads." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04230
Subjects: Marietta (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Political parties; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Campaign button from the 1944 U.S. presidential elections. Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as President of the United States, and Frank Lausche was running for his first term as Ohio Governor. Both were members of the Democratic Party. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05315
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Presidential elections; Governors--Election; Governors--Ohio
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Photographic portrait of Samuel Medary, ca. 1860, in formal attire. Medary was an Ohio Senator and publisher of the Ohio Statesman (1832-1857), which he used to endorse the Democratic Party's candidates and to build support for its policies. Medary bought the "Ohio Monitor," changed its name to the "Ohio Statesman," and later established "The Crisis." Samuel Medary was born on February 25, 1801, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He relocated to Ohio in 1825. He died in Columbus, Ohio, on November 7, 1864, and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04267
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Journalism; Newspaper publishing; Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This broadside, created in 1859 by the Democratic Party of Ohio, was directed to defeat William H. Gibson, the Radical Republican candidate for Congress, by reminding the public of his conviction in Ohio for embezzlement of state bonds. Gibson had participated in a cover-up of a deficiency in the Ohio Treasury, left by his predecessor, John G. Breslin. He was forced to resign as Ohio State Treasurer in 1857, and returned to Tiffin to start a law office. Gibson was Brigadier General of the Union Army’s 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War, and is remembered as a powerful orator and patriotic leader for his service in the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04279
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: Campaign literature from the Republican State Committee and Western Newspaper Union for the 1920 election. Includes information on Governor James Cox and gubernatorial candidate Harry L. Davis and senate candidate Frank B. Willis. Davis was elected governor of Ohio in 1920, and Willis was elected U.S. Senator, although Cox lost his bid for president to Warren G. Harding. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_5142
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Governors; Political elections; Political parties
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Black-and-white photographic print of Benjamin Wade, a Radical Republican who studied law and was a judge in the state of Ohio. He also served as a government director of the Union Pacific Railroad and participated in a commission debating whether or not the United States should annex Santo Domingo. He died on March 2, 1878 in Jefferson, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04308
Subjects: Political parties; Other--Federal Government; Judges--Ohio; Republican Party; Lawyers--Ohio
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Poster from a Democratic Convention meeting held in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on March 15, 1858. The meeting called for all democrats in surrounding counties to come to Mount Vernon to discuss the question of Kansas as a slave state. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04111
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Political parties
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Roxie Chambers leading Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club members in "Ohio, My Ohio," January 1952. A singer and director of the South Methodist Church choir in Columbus, Chambers also directed the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club. Attending all the G.O.P. national conventions between 1932 and 1954, Chambers later became Republican State Central Committeewoman. When Chambers died in 1954, her pallbearers included Chalmers Wylie, James Rhodes, and other Republican dignitaries. This photograph appeared in the February 11, 1952, issue of Life Magazine, illustrating a report of the Franklin County Republican pre-primary convention held the month before. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06311
Subjects: Political parties; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women in the performing arts; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Political culture--Ohio--History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)