People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — OHIO REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

OHIO REPUBLICANS.

Senator-Elect Foraker Temporary Chairman of the Gathering. Columbus, Ohio, March 10. —The republican state convention met here this afternoon. Senator-elect Foraker was named as temporary chairman by acclamation, and with equal unanimity John P. Borden, of Painsville, was elected secretary, and Howard Mannington, of Mechanicsburg, sergeant-at-arms. On taking the chair the temporary chairman made a ringing speech presenting the name of William McKinley to the country as the choice of Ohio republicans for the presidency. It haß been already decided that Governor Bushnell and Senator-Elect Forakei will be two of the four delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention, and while there is an active canvaSs for the other two places, it seems probable that Senator Sherman and General C. H. Grosvenor will be the choice of the convention. Candidates for secretary of state, supreme judge and member of the board of public works are also to be selected, but the nominations will not be reached until to-morrow, as the program calls for an adjournment until 10 o’clock Wednesday, after an address of the temporary chairman and the naming of committees. The platform will reaffirm the deliverances at Zanesville last month presenting Major McKinley to the country as Ohio’s choice for the republican nomination for the presidency, and will instruct the delegates-at-large to work unceasingly to that end.