Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — BRICE IS THE NOMINEE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRICE IS THE NOMINEE.

RESULT I ROM THE OHIO SENATORIAL CAUCUS. A Lise j Contest, Which Soon Terminated When the Legislators Began Voting— The Nominee’s Address of Thanks —A Ratification Meeting. A Columbus (O.) dispatch says: C. S. Brice took the Senatorial prize in the Democratic Legislative caucus on the second ballot. The caucus was called to order by Senator Howells, chairman of the joint caucus committee, and Senator Perry N. Adams of Tiffin was selected permanent chairman. Nominating speeches were limited to five minules

each. A roll-call showed seventy-three of the seventy-seven members present. The absentees were Representatives Brown, Count, Munson, and Smith, Messrs. Smith and Brown sent letters to the caucus announcing they would support the caucus nominee. The names of Calvin S. Brice, Charles W. Baker, John A. McMahon, - John H. Thomas, James E. Neal, Gen. Samuel F. Hunt and George I. Sency were put in nomination. The first ballot resulted: Brice, 20; Thomas, 11; McMahon, 14; Baker, 6; Hunt, 2; Neal, 2; Seney, 2; McSwceney, 4; Geddes, 2; Outhwaitc, 1. After the second call of the roll had been begun Senator Corcoran withdrew the name of. Hunt and was about to make a speech, when ho was closed out under the rules and voted for Brice. Changes were rapid after this and the second ballot resulted: Brice, 53; Thomas, 3; McMahon, 13; Baker, 14; Seney, 2; Outhwaite, 1. Monott, on behalf of Mr. Thomas, moved that tho nomination be made unanimous, which was agreed to with a whirl and much enthusiasm. Col. Brice was brought to tho caucus by a committee and the caucus converted itself into a ratification meeting. Mr. Brice being introduced said: “Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of this joint caucus: I tender to you my sincere and heartfelt acknowledgments for the greatest honor, it seems to me. to be possible to be bestowed upon a man reared in Ohio in sympathy with her people and her constitution. You will not expect mo here and now, at the conclusion of this somewhat exciting contest through which we have passed, to do more than to acknowledge to you the weight of obligations which I bear to you and which I desire here and now to acknowledge. Whether the issae be a temporary one or a protracted oje, I know I can test and determine the plase where I will stand and where the Democratic party ought to be. [Applause.] Tariff reform is now of great interest. [Applause and cheers.] But, gentlemen, with tariff reform accomplished, new issues will demand the attention of legislators, and where then will be the man whose only claim to Democracy Is that of the temporary issue of a reform of the tax schedule. I think there is no one born and brought up in northwestern Ohio who is more In sympathy with every one and with every industry than I. [Applause.] I have in ipy time, man and boy, worked with, shared In the tasks and in the struggles and fears of every kind of laboring men in our northwestern country, and I have not lost touch with any one of them, and I include the temporary struggle—which I hope will never be repeated in our time—the temporary struggle for the preservation of our union In which I took a part, and I sympathize with the soldiers of our country whose memory I wish to have preserved, not only in legislation but in the hearts of our people.” Col. Brice was followed by Baker, Hunt, McMahon, and other unsuccessful competitors. They all accepted the situation with good grace and called for a united support to the nominee. During the speaking Mrs. Brice, her sister, and a friend came in to witness her husband’s triumph. There is less bitterness shown at the conclusion of the present fight than in any that has been waged for the Senatorship in the last twelve years. The after meeting amounted to a jollification, and all signs of a bolt sedmed to have disappeared. One of the most pleasant episodes of the after meeting was the finished talk of Gen. Hunt, who gave a brief story o.f his acquaintance with Brice from boyhood. The committee appointed to bring Mr. Thomas before the caucus was unable to find him. He is probably the most thoroughly disappointed man among the candidates.

CALVIN S. BRICE.