People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1895 — BUSHNELL IS NAMED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BUSHNELL IS NAMED.

Chosen by Ohio Republican* a* C*n<! date for Governor. Zanesville. Ohio, May 29. —Geuer Asa S. Bushnell was nominated for go-. ernor by the republican convemn.i yesterday on the sixth ballot. He is ; wealthy manufacturer of agrlcultu: implements at Springfield, a men.i* of the firm of Warder, Bushnell & C He was chairman of the republi :v committee six years ago. The convention was called to orb at 3 o'clock by Colonel Joseph C. 1 i ner, chairman of the state committee. Senator Sherman was given a rou:ing ovation when he was escorted.

the hall at 3:50 by Congressman Van Voorhis and Judge Grander. He was Introduced as temporary presiding officer of the convention and on taking the chair made a stirring speech in favor of a gold coinage and the policy of protection. - At the conclusion of the senator's speech a committee on resolutions was appointed and afterward organized, with ex-Secretary Charles Foster as chairman. The convention then adjourned to 8 p. m. On reassembling the temporary organization was made permanent. The following names were presented to the convention for the nomination for governor: J. W. Barger, J. Warren Keifer, J. H. Hoyt, George K. Nash, Robert N. Nevin, A. L. Harris, and E. W. Poe. General Bushnell’s name was not presented by any speaker. There were 827 delegates in the convention, 414 being necessary for a choice. On the sixth ballot General Bushnell was nominated, receiving 509 votes; Nash, 201; Hoyt, 111; necessary for a choice, 414. The platform reaffirms adherence to the principles of the republican party <as defined by the national convention in 1892, chief among which are: A protective tariff, fair elections, honest money, consisting of gold, silver, and paper, every dollar as good as any other dollar, and all backed by the national faith and honor. On the money question it says:

“We favor bimetallism and demand the use of both gold and silver as standard money, either in accordance with a ratio to be fixed by an international agreement, if that can be obtained, or under such restrictions and such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchasing and debt-paying .power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all times ’equal.’’ Of the national administration it /says: “We denounce the present democratic administration, whose vicious and vacillating course has brought us distress at home and humiliation abroad.” It declares against free wool and for protection of the sheep Industry, favors the construction of the Nicaragua canal, and recommends that Senator Sherman and ex-Gov. Foraker be sent by the republicans of Ohio to the United States senate. The platform concludes: “We present William McKinley to the Republicans of the nation as a candidate for the nomination for president in 1896, and we pledge him the absolute and- un swerving support of Ohio at the next national convention. "We hitVe heard with great sorrow of the-audden-and untimely death o's Hon. Walter Q. Gresham, late secretary of state, and we extend to his bereaved family our sympathy and indolence.” The convention then adjourned to 9 o’clock this morning, when the ticket was completed. When the convention reasembled at 9 o’dlock prayer was offered by Rev. R. Richards of Zanesville. Ex-Secretary Charles Foster, chairman of the committee on resolutions, presented the platform, which was adopted and cheered as read, especially the resolutions on McKinley and Foraker. General A. W. Jones of Yoiffigstown was nominated for lieu-tenant-governor by acclamation.

WILLIAM M’KINLEY, JR.