Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1904 — OHIO A FREE LANCE [ARTICLE]

OHIO A FREE LANCE

Her Delegates to the St. Louie Convention Co Untrammeled by Instructions. DELEGATES TO VOTE AS A UNIT Alabama Democrats Not Instructed, but the Convention for Parker —lowa Prohibitionists. Columbns, 0., May 2(3. —The conservatives controlled the*Democratic state convention, as had been foreshadowed in the preliminaries. The iirst test of strength was on the report of the committee on credentials, which seated 208 conservative contestants and was signed by eighteen of the twentyone members of the committee, three members signing a minority report seating thirty-five radicals from Franklin county. The minority report was defeated by a vote of 380 to 307. Prayer was offered by Rev. E. L. Rexford. W. L. Finley, chairman of the state central committee, introduced Chairman Starr, who pleaded for harmony in his opening speech. Name* on the State Ticket. A state ticket was nominated, including the following nominees: Secretary of state, A. P. Sandies, Ottawa; supreme judge, Philip J. Renner, Cincinnati; clerk of the supreme court, Peter Mahaffey, Cambridge. Trouble Over the Delegates. The convention became disorderly and demoralized during the election of delegates-ut-large late in the afternoon and was uncontrollablefrom that time until it adjourned at 6:40 p. m. The delegatee-at-large elected after numerous ballots and much confusion are William S. Thomas, of Springfield; Edward H. Moore, of Youngstown; John A. McMahon, of Dayton; Chas. P. Salen, of Cleveland. POINTS OF THE PLATFBOM Also an Analysis of the Component Parts of the Gathering. The platform adopted refers “purely national questions” to the national convention, and devotes itself entirely to state matters, charging that the “political trust” in charge of state affairs has grown “arrogant, reckless and corrupt,” aud promising that a Democratic administration will “restore government by the people.” The Ohio delegation to St. Louis is instructed to cast its vote as a unit for the man preferred by the majority. No one is indorsed for president or vice president. A 2-cent railway fare resolution was made a part of the platform. There were three presidential elements involved. The Hearst men originally wanted instructions, but finally limited their opposition to the unit rule. The friends of Colonel James Kilbourne, of Columbus, who was the Democratic candidate for governor three years ago, wanted “indorsement.” The friends of Judge Judson Harmon, of Cincinnati, who was attorney general under Cleveland, wanted neither indorsement nor instructions, but the unit rule. The Harmon men won out. Harmon men limited their efforts to avoiding either instructions or indorsement, and making sure of the unit rule, under which Hearst will get no votes from Ohio, although he has carried at least three districts. The four delegates in Mayor Johnson’s two home districts are also “tied up,” and his former lieutenant, Charles P. Salen, is a delegate-at-large, while Mayor Johnson himself and John H. Clark, the candidate against Hanna last year, are district delegates. One of the leaders in “the combine” that brought about these results was Harlan Cleveland, of Cincinnati, a cousin of Grover Cleveland. The delegates andalternates-at-large are claimed by the conservatives, who also claim thirty of the Ohio district delegates. Their poll of the Ohio delegation to St. Louis is thirty-six conservatives (friendly to Harmon), Hearst six and Folk four.^ COLD WATER MEN IN COUNCIL Illinois Prohibitionist* Nominate Can dhlate* and Adopt a Platform. Springfield, 111., May 26. —The state Prohibition party convention here nominated presidential electors, and adopted a platform which declares in favor of the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, favors a properly framed primary election law. condemns political assessments on officeholders; favors civil service reform, equal suffrage of men and women, municipal ownership of public utiltities, a state board of control for state Institutions, state and federal aid for the improvement of public highways, and the granting by the legislature of a new charter to Chicago. The following congressional candidates were nominated by district conventions: Third, E. I. Ames, Chicago; Seventh, W. B. Olmstead. Chicago; Eleventh, Rev. J. A. Crosby, Aurora; Thirteenth, J. H. Woertendike, Freeport; Fourteenth, L. F. Gumbart, Macomb; Fifteenth,’J. H. Batten, Abingdon; Sixteenth, G. W. Warner, Mackinaw; Seventeenth, Dr. W. W. Houser. Lincoln; Eighteenth, George W. Woolsey, Danville; Nineteenth, J. O. Cunningham, Urbana; Twentieth, N. U. Rtgg, Mount Sterling; Twentyflrst, B. F. Winters, Stonington; Twen-ty-second, W. B. Minton, Greenville: Twenty-third, William P. Habborton, Mount Carmel; Twenty-fourth, W. A.

Mergan, Bone Gap; Twenty-fifth, Rev. C. F. Keyse, Dongola. Robert H. Patton of Springfield received the nomination for governor.