People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1895 — JAMES E. CAMPBELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JAMES E. CAMPBELL

Nominated for Governor b j the Democrat* of Ohio —The Platform. Springfield, Ohio, Aug. 22.—Ex-Gov. James E. Campbell was nominated for governor by acclamation yesterday by the Ohio democratic convention. Mr. Campbell protested and said he was depleted financially and otherwise unable to make the race. The motion to nominate, however, was put and carried

with a great whirl of enthusiasm and the chair declared Mr. Campbell the nominee for governor. The full ticket is as follows: Governor, James E. Campbell; lientenant-governor, John B. Peaslee; state auditor, James W. Knott: state treasurer, William B. Sholer; Supreme judge, William T. Mooney; at-torney-general, George A. Fairbanks; board of public works, Harry B. Keefer; clerk Supreme court. J. W. Cruikshank. It was 10:30 when the chairman of the state committee, M. A. Smalley, called the convention to order. Prayer was offered, after which Senator C. S. Brice was introduced as the presiding officer of the convention. He commended Cleveland’s policy and urged democrats to continue their fight along the lines mapped out at the white house. The majority report of the committee on resolutions was adopted, 19 to 2. Both President Cleveland and Senator Brice are indorsed. The money plank is as follows: “We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage; but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeabe value, or be adjusted by international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the payment of debts, and we demand that the paper currency shall be kept at par with and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary for the protection of farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and fluctuating currency.” This is the plank adopted in the platform of the last democratic national convention. Gen. Findlay of Crawford county introduced the following, which was passed: “We view with alarm the invasion of one of the republics of this country by Great Britain, on the plea of collection of debt, and indorse the Monroe doctrine.” With a series of resolutions of thanks the convention at 2:40 adjourned, the nominations having all been made in about half an hour.

EX-GOV. CAMPBELL.