The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-16
OHIO
Governor Campbell is
RenOminated.
NOT UNANIMOUSLY.
Hamilton County Delegates Are
Hostile.
A FREE SILVER PLATFORM.
A Tariff for Revenue 0nly-Graded Income
Tax-Liberal Pensions for Veterans
The Issue of McKinleyism Ac-
cepted-The Campaigns
Importance

cepUeu-l1t OdiupdisHs
Importance.
CLEVELAND, July l5.-James 4. Campbell
Is renominated by the Democrats of OhiC
for governor, and the anxiety of the party
leaders is now directed TO the absorbing
query, Twill Hamilton county support the
ticket 20 If the Cincinnati delegates in
their manifestations of relentless opposi-
ton and hostility to-day truly represented
the feeling of their people, then the con
clusion is irresistible that considerable
portion of the Democrats of Hamilton
county will not support Governor Camp
bell in the November election. 1t is almos,
proverbial in the Buckeye state that las
Hamilton county goes in the autumn cleo
ton so goes the state of Ohio" If this be
accepted as an infallible rule, the import
ance of harmoniZing the discordant ele
ments in Hamilton county may well merit
the anxiety of the Democratic leaders.
The vast music hall in which the conven-
ton was held was packed to its utmost
capacity long before the hour of meeting
arrived. The decorations, as usual, con-
sisted largely of the American colors. Sus-
decoration bearing in letters the greeting
Democrats OF Ohio, Welcome 10 Cleve-
land" Promptly at 10:30 Chairman Nor
ton, of the state central committee, called
the convention TO order, and Rev. J. w.
Campbell invoked the divine blessing upon
the convention.
THE CONVENTION OPENED.
Chairman Norton then formally opened
the convention in a brief but stirring ad-
dress. Norten denounced the Repu blican
party and the Mckinley tariff bill in he
usual terms, and asserted that everything
good under the constitution was the in
spiration of the Democratic party. He
closed with eIlogy of Hon. a. G. Thur
man, and introduced his sor, Allen w,
Thurman, as temporary chairman.
AT its conclusion Allen w. Thurman,
temporary chairman, stepped forward and
addressed the convention. Thurman, after
z few preliminary remarks, launched forth
with denunciation Of the Republican
party and its methods. He paid particular
attention to the acts of the last Congress,
the Mckinley tariff bill and the subsidy
bill and its efforts to pass the force bill.
Continuing, he said:
1.-The time is here when people will ex-
press their belief in complete and not re-
stricted reciprocity; when they will no
longer sustain any party which levies and
collects one dollar of taxes over and above
that which is required to wisely and eco
nomicaily administer the affairs of the
government; when they will give due
notice that the infant industries that have
been nursed for a hundred years, have
arrived at an age wnen they must take care
of themselves: when they will brand
protective tariff as stealing, its advocates
as beggars and demand that we must have
q tariff for revenue only.
FARMERS INTERESTS.
Il most earnestly beseech the farmers
whose interests are identical.y the same as
my own, to follow this course. The wild
schemes of government losning money
upon warehouses certificates, or upon
lands, the tsking possession of the railways
and teiegraphs by the government, internal
improvements that are demanded and
dozen other minor issues that lead, not
only to greater taxation, but to the rankest
kind of socialism, 1 say TO them set them
to one side and stick to the tariff issue I'M
I'll you get what is due you"
In closing Thurman characterized the
Mckinley lazy as class legislation Of the
most vicious tendencies, and as an IL
lustration he instanced tin which fer If
teen years has been protected by SO per
cent. duty.
The committee OF permanent organiza-
ton then reported. EX-Congressman
Leblond was elected as permanent chair
man of the convention. A committee es-
corted Lebiond to the chair. Chairman
Leblond's speech was brief and to the
point. He thanked the convention for the
honor conferred and then proceeded TO de-
nource the last Republican Congress for its
bad legislation and its attempts to pass the
force bill.
THE ROOSTER.
IN
that the convention adopt the picture OF
the victorious rooster as a device to desig-
nate the Democratic ticket, the recent bal
lot reform law requiring the selection of
some device. The motion was adopted by
reclamation
The first contest in the convention arose
over the report of the committee on creden-
tials. A dispute in the Twenty fifth ward
in Cincinnati and the Hamilton county
delegation was the subject of the wrangle
Nobody but Hamilton county delegates ap-
peared TO fully understand the points in
dispute, and Z. j. Coogan, secretary of the
convention, started to make an explana-
ton.
''Sit down; you are not a delegate. ,,
shouted q dozen Hamilton county dele
gates.
1.-The chair decides that the secretary, as
an officer of this convention, is entitled to
be beard" said the chairman.
An appeal from the decision of the chair
was ruled out Of order. Secretary Coogan
then made his statement amid many inter-
ruptions from the Hamilton county dele
gates. and was replied to by Judge Erms-
ton. of Cincinnati. Both factions used
many harsh words and the chairman finally
called the sergeant-at- arms to maintain
order by suppressing any recalcitrant dele
gates.
James E. Neal moved the previous ques-
ton. The minority report was oyerwhelm-
ingly defeated and the majority report of
the credentials committee was then
adopted.
The minority report was rejected oy
$685. nays to 30G15 yeas and the platform
as reported by the majority of the COM
mittee was adopted.
Chairman Finley, of the committee on
resolutions, presented the following major
ity report on platform:
THE PLATFORM.
The administration of Governor Camp
bell is endorsed for its honesty and econo-
NV and the last session of the general a.
sembly is commended for its economy and
reform and especially for having provided