The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-06-22
SENATORIAL CONVENTION
HOOKING COUNTY TO
THE FRONT.
And Her Candidate Leads
the Course i'm the race
for Honor.
A Winning Candidate and Declara.
tion of PRINCIPLES That Ring
with Pure Democracy.
Full Report of Proceedings.

Full Report of Proceedings.
Pursuant to call of the District
Committee the Democratic Senat-
orial Convention met in the Court
Room in Logan on Thursday last
to nominate a candidate for Sena-
tor the 9th Ohio District.
The Convention was called to
order by Thos. Wetzler, chairman
of the District committee, at II
o'clock a. m. who announced the
following
TEMPORARY OFFICERS
Chairman-Judge Tall Slough of
Fairfield County.
Secretaries-Dr. VIM. Hansen, OF
Athens; w. M. Wise of Fairfield
John a. McClelland of Hooking.
On motion of Mr.. Finly of Fair
field the following gentlemen were
appointed q committee to wait on
Judge Slough and conduct him to
the chair. Finly, of Fairfield G. S
Welch of Athens and NJ. +. Schaaf.
er of Hooking.
Mr.. Slough on taking the Chair
addressed the convention in elo-
quent terms, thanking them for
the honor conferred on him, and
advised the Convention to act
wisely in the selection of candi-
date for Senator.
In common with all the Demo.
Gratis he felt deeply,the ignominy OF
the defeat of two years ago. When
a candidate is selected, such Il one
becomes Il representative of the
party, and the Democrat who re-
fuses to support such candidate re-
pudiates his party.
The following committees were
then appointed:
CREDENTIALS
VIM Farley, of Athens county.
r. II. Baker, of Fairfield county,
A. Miller, of Hooking county.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
b. w. Calvin, of Athens county.
A. p. Flick, of Fairfield county.
John Shively, Of Hooking county
RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Il. l.. Wells, of Athens county.
NJ. a. Daugherty Fairfield county
Il. Heft of Hooking county.
RESOLUTIONS.
+. e. Scatterday, Athens county.
L. l.. Mauger, Fairfield county.
]. A. McClelland Hooking county
TO SELECT DISTRICT COMMITTEE.
WIN Souther Athens county.
Jacob Schott, Fairfield county.
Reason Barnes, Hooking county
On motion the Convention ad.
jOurned to meet at 80 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
On the reassembling Of the con-
vention the Chairman announced
as the first business in order, the
hearing of the Report of Committee
on Credentials.
The committee reported the dele
cations from each of the counties
full and no contests.
The report as presented was adj
opted. The next call was for the
report of the
CoMMITTEE ON PERMANENT OR
GANIZATION
which made the following report:
"We recommend that the tenn
porary officers be continued as Of
ficers of the permanent organiza-
ton, and that the following named
persons be made vice-presidents
thereof:
Athens-C. r. Lash; Fairfield
II. A. Martins; Hocking-John
Moriarty.
RESOLUTIONS.
The committee on resolutions
then made the following report:
Your committee on Resolutions
ask leave to present, for adoption,
the following:
Resolred 1. That we adopt and
reaffirm the principles enunciated
in the Platform adopted by the Ma
tional Democratic Convention of
1888, as well as the principles of
the Ohio Democracy as enunciated
in their platform of last year.
ResolUed 2. That we favor and
advocate "Tariff Reform" and de-
mand such reduction on articles of
common necessity, and "Raw ma
terials of manufacture as will re-
duce its revenues to such volume
as is required by an hone st and
economical administration of the
various departments of the Feder-
al Government.